PSD_Analysis
PSD Analysis
CHY4U
Unit 1
Position/Bias Can Be Implied By…
worldview attitudes
Writer/Speaker
/Creator’s assumptions
Motivations values
Or Explicitly Stated By…
Writer/Speaker/Creator’s stated purpose choice of words tone of voice
Position/Bias Is Shaped By
START HERE Experiences Worldview
Position/Bias in PSD
Experiences Shape Bias/Position:
Las Casas
Encomienda: Kingsborough Codex, Wikipedia,
Sept. 30, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda (Oct. 1,
2013).
Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/In-
Defense-Indians-Bartolome-
Preachers/dp/0875805566 (Oct. 1, 2013).
Luther
• Christian Humanism
• His personal struggle to find
God
• His trip to Rome in 1510 where he saw Church corruption
Creation of Adam;
Sistine
Chapel ceiling painted
1508-
1512
1522 Latin copy of 95
Theses
Wikipedia Commons,
File:95Thesen.jpg, 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:95Thes en.jpg
(Oct. 1, 2013).
Jennie Cohen, 7 Things You May Not Know About the Sistine Chapel,
History in the Headlines, Nov. 1, 2012, http://www.history.com/news/7things-you-may-not-know-about-the-sistine-chapel (Oct. 1, 2013).
Missionaries: Experiences at Home and Abroad
• Ricci studied geography, cartography, astronomy, mathematics with scholars at the
Roman College, including Clavius who specialized in
Euclidian geometry
• Ricci in China
1602 map of the world made by Ricci shows
China at the centre
Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica Collection at Boston
College,Translation of Euclidean Geometry into Chinese, 2013, http://ricci.bc.edu/knowledge/translation-euclidean-geometrychinese (Oct. 1, 2013).
On this rare map, China is the center of the world,
Minnesota Public Radio News, Jan. 12, 2010, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/12/bl acktulip-map (Oct. 1, 2013).
Peter the Great
• Russia’s position in the world
• Europe’s view of Russia
• Peter’s upbringing and travels
• Westernization
The cabin of Peter, first home in the new city of St. Petersburg, combines
Dutch and Russian elements
Dutch yachts sailing by
Peter,
1697
Royal Museums Greenwich, Peter the Great, Review of
Dutch Yachts Before Peter the Great, 1697, Abraham Storck,
2000, http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/sea-andships/facts/explorers-and-leaders/peter-the-great (Oct. 1,
2013).
Saint-Petersburg.com, The Cabin of Peter the Great, 2013, http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/cabin/ (Oct. 1, 2013).
Closure of Japan
• Tokugawa centralized feudalism
• Popularity of
Christianity
• Dutch only Europeans left: on Dejima island in
Nagasaki Bay
Emperor (figurehead only)
Shogun (ruler = tries to control lords)
Daimyo (lords = landowners)
Samurai (fighters)
Peasants, Artisans, Merchants
Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History:
Connections to Today (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2001), 327.
Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitica
Collection at Boston College, Nagasaki, 2013, http://ricci.bc.edu/places/nagasaki (Oct. 1, 2013).
Test – PSD Application
Question
• Empires of the Non-west:
– Place the two documents on the spectrum below.
– Contextualize the documents as a way of explaining how context can lead to position/bias of the author.
– Justify the positions of the two authors. Use a quote from each document to support your placements.
•
Peter the Great and Closed Country Edict on Westernization
• ____________________________________________________________________
• 1 -
•
Fearful of western influence
510 –
Totally open to western influence as superior
