d um its Please find below the FIRST GRADED WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT in this course. Remember, there will be FIVE short written assignments in the course, and your top FOUR (4) grades on those assignments will be counted towards your final grade in the course This written assignment will be worth 5% of your final grade. Steps: 1. Please choose ONE of the following attached readings a. Feng Guifen on Self-Strengthening . Feng Guifen (Feng Kuei-fen) on "The Manufacture of Foreign Weapons" (c. 1860) In this text, Feng, a leading self-strengthening advocate makes his argument for the importance of adopting Western military technology. The first 3 paragraphs are an introduction to the text, and the rest is the text itself. b. The Land System of the Taipings The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom" (1853). This document reflects the social, religious, and agricultural policies of the Taiping rebels 2. After reading the text, write a 150-200 word summary of it. Your answer should be formatted as a 1-2 paragraph response, and should integrate the answers to these questions. You should not answer each question separately. In writing your summary of the text, try to consider the following questions: Who? who wrote the text? How do they relate to the information and ideas being discussed? What was their role in society at the time? When? When was it written? What else was going on at the time? Or, what kind of social situation were they living in? What? What is the text about? In a sentence, what would you say the main argument of the text is? What evidence/claims do they use to justify their argument? Is there any new or surprising information? . . Why? Why do you think they are making this argument? Does it benefit them in some way? Why do they think it is important? How? How does the text add to your understanding of the events/ideas presented in the course? REMEMBER: You do not need to answer all of the sub-questions above. This is simply the kind of information you will want to consider when summarizing the text. Assessment: Total: 5 points 1. Accurate identification of the GRADE Comments INDEX