Category: hst267
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Week 6 Blog
This week we finished our discussions on Buddhism by talking about the Buddha of pure land or Amida Buddha. The pure land of the Buddha is, in fact, another realm one can enter upon their death. In this realm, the Amida Buddha will instruct a person reborn in their land how to attain enlightenment. In…
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Show and Tell-2 (2/27/23)
Relationship between Buddhism and the State Prezi: https://prezi.com/view/Ef6wKU0PDcJoQtLdO6JO/
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Week 5 Blog
This week we went to the Trexler Library and learned about an application called Zotero. Zotero is a plug-in for a computer that allows a person, and more importantly, any people in a group to create and share citations. This application was shown to us as a way to more efficiently cite sources when we…
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Week 4 Blog
This week we learned about Buddhism and how it’s spread into Japan has not only influenced Japan’s Buddhist beliefs but also how it changed Japan itself. To start off, Buddhism revolves around the four noble truths: The Truth of suffering, The Truth of arising, The Truth of cessation, and The Truth of path. These truths…
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Show and Tell – 1
Prezi link: https://prezi.com/view/9PnepJbjgavIuNRq02p1/
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Week 3 Blog
Option 1 Exploration pack This week we learned about some ways the Japanese people centralized their government and eventually formed their state. The process took place between the sixth and seventh centuries. This period is marked with the transition between the Kofun period (250 CE – 600 CE) and a period from 552 CE and…
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Why I changed the WordPress theme on my site
I changed my theme from the standard “Twenty Twenty-Three” theme to the Mega Medical theme. I decided to use the Mega Medical theme because I thought it better represents me. I am on the medical track and love anything related to biology and the environment. It just so happens that I also have a great…
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Week 2 Blog
By HIMIKO: Himiko, Shaman Queen of Wa Today we learned more about how to effectively use the Muhlenberg library website to look up research articles and books instead of having to pay for them online or find things we never thought to be finding before. This portion of the class period; however, was only a…
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Week 1 Blog
By Jake Azrolan Pre-industrial Japan and their entire culture and way of living has been shaped by the topography and geography of Japan. Japan sits on 4 tectonic plates. These plates cause natural disasters to occur like earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. Additionally, due to the tectonic plates, the mountainous regions of Japan, which make up…
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A cats mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.
This cat’s mindset speaks with me because I am always striving to learn more, and once I learn something new I can never look at the world the same way again (see below). A mind stretched by new experiencescan never go back to its old dimensions. (cheezburger)
