Closing and the opening of Japan

I will attach 2 sources you need to use Here are some guidelines Write a two-page essay summarizing and comparing any two of our primary source documents. Your essay should be analytical; that is, it should include not only a brief summary of each source¡¦s main points or arguments, but also a comparison that tells the reader something about the times, or the authors¡¦ purposes and rhetorical strategies, or problems they faced and how they were approaching them, and so on. It is not necessary to go through each and every part of a source in detail; feel free to provide a very brief overview and then focus on particular parts or aspects that make for interesting comparison. Your essay should: --have a title, preferably one that points to the main issue(s) or foreshadows your conclusion(s). Examples: ¡§The Changing Meanings of ¡¥Civilization¡¦ in Nineteenth-century East Asia,¡¨ ¡§Nationalism and Imperialism in Prewar Japan,¡¨ ¡§Korean Women¡¦s Struggles for Equality.¡¨ --contain an introduction that identifies your sources and states or foreshadows your thesis (argument). Examples of thesis statements: ¡§Hideyoshi¡¦s letter to a Portuguese viceroy and the Qianlong emperor¡¦s edicts to George III demonstrate that before 1800 East Asian rulers had little regard for Europeans.¡¨ ¡§Although Japan¡¦s political system was becoming more democratic by the 1920s, ruling elites were still bent on controlling the thoughts and actions of common people.¡¨ --clearly indicate the author (if known) and title of each source, and briefly note what kind of document it is (e.g., the script for a puppet show about a famous incident in Tokugawa Japan, proclamations by the Taiping rebels in nineteenth-century China, a Korean reformer¡¦s essay on the meaning of civilization). Assume that the reader has never heard of them. --have a main body containing your summaries and analyses. --quote or otherwise draw on specific passages, citing page numbers in parentheses. The essay should not be a string of quotations (that would reduce their effect), but a few key (and short) quotations can be very effective in driving your points home. --have a brief conclusion. This can be a short paragraph (two or three sentences) summarizing or otherwise closing your argument.