Heritage Guide

VII. Endnotes

• 1 J. J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998), 7.
• 2 Socrates (479-399 BCE) always questioned himself and others -- much to his interlocutors irritation -- as to how they knew what claimed to know.
• 3 "Eaton's Chief Sees Economies Converging." Wall Street Journal, 22 June 2000, B5
• 4 M. Sinetar, Developing a 21st-Century Mind (New York: 1991), passim.
• 5 A. Zuckerman, "Wireless or Bust," Continental (January 2002): 53
• 6 C. Achebe, Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (New York: 1990), 146.
• 7 Apologia does not mean apology; it refers to a speech given in one's defense.
• 8 During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate (regime) the Confucian class system was rearranged and strictly adhered to: the hierarchy began with warriors at the top, then peasants and artisans, in that order, and ended with merchants at the bottom. It was also during this time that Japan closed itself to foreigners, and eliminated foreign trade except for one Dutch port. Christianity was outlawed. The measures of the Tokugawa shogunate, however, did ensure stability for over two centuries.
• 9 Chang's grandparents had survived the six-week frenzy of violence in Nanking (Nanjing).
• 10 B. Lamb, Booknotes, January 11, 1998, <http://www.booknotes.org/transcripts/50445.htm>.
• 11 D. Orr, "Like, Whatever…an epidemic of inarticulacy could, uh, well, suck," Utne Reader (2000), 28.
• 12 Orr, 28-29.