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To put yourself in the shoes of others and grow your capacity for empathy, you can hardly do better than reading fiction. Multiple studies have shown that imagining stories helps activate the regions of your brain responsible for better understanding others and seeing the world from a new perspective.
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story written by Mark Twain. It was published in November 1865 in the New York Saturday Press. This story preceded the novels that made Twain famous, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For the public in the United States, it cast Twain as a master of humor and dialect.
In the story, a narrator from the East visits a mining camp during the gold rush in California. His friend sent him to find information about a Reverend Smiley. He encounters Simon Wheeler, who begins to tell him a story about a Jim Smiley. Wheeler tells a tall tale about Jim Smiley’s gambling.
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Society as in the art of speaking, working and making a living. Political systems.
The Renissance was a very rich period in time for the arts, where great paintings and poems and sculptures were made. There is not an as strong respect/ appreciation for the arts now.
One of the euphemisms in "From Emperor to Citizen" is Puppet. It refers to Pu Yi who was called Emperor, but was actually controlled by the Japanese. Another euphemism is Forbidden City, because it wasn't forbidden for those who worked and lived there.
