1st Assignment Select one of the following themes in preparation for this assignment: · The purpose of human life · Free will, destiny, and religious expression · Striving for perfection · Love Write a 350- to 700-word paper that examines your selected theme as it relates to ancient Greece, Rome, China, and India. Address the following in your paper: · Describe your selected theme in 1 or 2 sentences. · Determine how the themes from ancient Greece, Rome, China, and India are reflected in cultural and world development. · Show specific examples from the textbook or other University Library source--do not rely on a broad overview. Discuss how your examples relate to the development in the humanities: for example, how the basic human need for shelter led to architecture. · Compare and contrast your selected theme with modern attitudes. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. 2nd Assignment Provide names, titles, and dates, brief descriptions of important events and salient effects, inventions and innovations, and creations and developments in the humanities as found in art, music, architecture, literature, and philosophy Write N/A if there are no examples in a category for a specific civilization, culture, or religion. Use a list format of complete sentences rather than paragraphs. Do not copy and paste from outside resources. Using outside sources, complete the following matrix. Be sure to address the following: Provide names, titles, dates, brief descriptions of important events, and other details, as necessary. Note the details of key political, socioeconomic, technological, artistic, musical, architectural, philosophical, and literary developments for each civilization listed in the table, which were evidenced in the humanities. Properly cite the sources you use in completing this matrix. Civilization Politics Society and Economics Technology Art Music Architecture Philosophy Literature Buddhism Early Middle Ages High Middle Ages Late Middle Ages Ancient Greece Ancient Roman China India Judaism Early Christian Islam Use a list format of complete sentences rather than paragraphs. Do not copy and paste from outside resources. The following are two examples of the level of detail and documentation expected for this assignment: Ancient Egyptian politics: The union of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer in 3150 B.C.E. is commemorated in a 2-foot high slate known as the palette of Narmer (Sayre, 2013, pp. 32–33). Ancient Greek architecture: Minoan society: The three-story palace at Knossos was a labyrinthine masonry structure with dozens of rooms and corridors built around a central courtyard (Sayre, 2013, pp. 43–44). Include a reference page if you are using sources other than the textbook. A, 1. Answer in one or two typed pages. 2. Important is quality of reasoning, data gathered and the concreteness of your conclusion. 3. ...

1. 1st Assignment
Select one of the following themes in preparation for this
assignment:
· The purpose of human life
· Free will, destiny, and religious expression
· Striving for perfection
· Love
Write a 350- to 700-word paper that examines your selected
theme as it relates to ancient Greece, Rome, China, and India.
Address the following in your paper:
· Describe your selected theme in 1 or 2 sentences.
· Determine how the themes from ancient Greece, Rome, China,
and India are reflected in cultural and world development.
· Show specific examples from the textbook or other University
Library source--do not rely on a broad overview. Discuss how
your examples relate to the development in the humanities: for
example, how the basic human need for shelter led to
architecture.
· Compare and contrast your selected theme with modern
attitudes.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
2nd Assignment
Provide names, titles, and dates, brief descriptions of important
events and salient effects, inventions and innovations, and
creations and developments in the humanities as found in art,
music, architecture, literature, and philosophy
Write N/A if there are no examples in a category for a specific
civilization, culture, or religion.
Use a list format of complete sentences rather than paragraphs.
Do not copy and paste from outside resources.

2. Using outside sources, complete the following matrix. Be sure
to address the following:
Provide names, titles, dates, brief descriptions of important
events, and other details, as necessary.
Note the details of key political, socioeconomic, technological,
artistic, musical, architectural, philosophical, and literary
developments for each civilization listed in the table, which
were evidenced in the humanities.
Properly cite the sources you use in completing this matrix.
Civilization
Politics
Society and Economics
Technology
Art
Music
Architecture
Philosophy
Literature
Buddhism

3. Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
Ancient Greece

4. Ancient Roman
China
India
Judaism

5. Early Christian
Islam
Use a list format of complete sentences rather than paragraphs.
Do not copy and paste from outside resources. The following
are two examples of the level of detail and documentation
expected for this assignment:
Ancient Egyptian politics: The union of Upper and Lower Egypt
by Narmer in 3150 B.C.E. is commemorated in a 2-foot high
slate known as the palette of Narmer (Sayre, 2013, pp. 32–33).
Ancient Greek architecture: Minoan society: The three-story
palace at Knossos was a labyrinthine masonry structure with
dozens of rooms and corridors built around a central courtyard
(Sayre, 2013, pp. 43–44).

6. Include a reference page if you are using sources other than the
textbook.
A,
1. Answer in one or two typed pages.
2. Important is quality of reasoning, data gathered and the
concreteness of your conclusion.
3. Cite all sources including data sources.
There are 26 students in a Pre-K class.
Each of these students is either four or five years old, and 25 of
these students have the letter A somewhere in their first name.
Is this a statistical oddity?
.
B,
The following five problems are from the Society of
Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Exam P
Sample Question web page.
Solution
s with explanations that are too terse are on the web. Half a
point will be awarded for the correct answer. Up to one and a
half points will be awarded for the quality of your explanation.