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For your asynchronous response, I would like you to write a 250-500 word response on Google Classroom. Please reflect on the sections of the Bhagavad Gita. Respond to the prompt below, relating your answer to the reading as well as your own thoughts on our contemporary times: Why do we fight wars? Why does one become a warrior? Why does one refuse to fight? Whether or not we agree that the act of war is necessary means for order and peace as presented in both the Odyssey and the Gita, we cannot deny that war has played a huge (if not the largest) role in the development of society, the establishment of nations, and our cultural narratives. Think how civilization has been built on acts of destruction, and then perpetuated epic stories, poems, and other forms of storytelling. How does this shape our understanding of the world?