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Would you please response to each question separately. Each question has a resource and each response should be a minimum of 200 words.

1- Confucius / Laotze (Resource will be attached)

Do the reading from Volume A, pp. 1326-1349. Then write a summary of each philosophy in your own words.  Each of the two summaries should be a minimum of 3 paragraphs (it doesn’t have to be a full essay) using appropriate examples and quotations from the texts.

2- Augustines confessions (Resource: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm)

How does Augustine promote the valuation of inner life?

3- Beowulf (Resource: https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/beowulf/)

How does the text weave together Christian and Pagan traditions?  Discuss at least 3 examples.
And in a separate paragraph explain what is the attitude that Medieval culture displays toward human compassion?

4- The Canterbury Tales (Resource: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/index.html)

Chaucer sketches rich portraits of his characters with just a few select details.  Name at least 4 specific examples of this and the impression those examples make to suggest the broader the culture of the time.