Ning Lao Tai-tai started her life as the youngest child of three, the fifth child bore, in the village of P’englai. The village of P’englai sat on the Yellow sea, on the peninsula of Shantung, it sat facing Korea.…
The story represent the relationship between the daughter and mother and the relationship between the traditinal practices of chinese and the modern world. The mother really what her daughter to succeed in her undetermined talent.…
The first major theme is that people should never stop moving forward. In other words, this means that no matter what life throws at someone, people need to find the strength to pick them selves up. “These thoughts were going through my mind as I continued to run, not feeling my numb foot, not even realizing that I was still running, that I still owned a body that galloped down the road among thousands of others.”…
“Chinese peasants responded positively toward Buddha’s message, but aristocrats and those with a vested interest in the status quo rejected Buddhism.” This thesis shows the student understands the socio-economic differences within Chinese society (peasants vs. upper class).…
We are part of this universe, just like a leaf is part of the three; nature molds’ us to be our best every day. However, allowing nature to do its job in each of our lives is a challenge but not impossible. The challenge is to be nonactive, and act in accordance with nature. Therefore, we need to make actions without being attach to the outcome. On the other hand, we shouldn't compete or fight; instead, we should handle our affairs with serenity and kindness to all. This in the long run, is how we achieve to life in a wu wei way. ‘The way’ is there we just need to follow our soul, which is located inside of us. All in all, Tao will guides us; it connects us to succeed in ways that words can't…
Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, is an inspirational story of a young boy fighting for his life as a castaway with the company of a Bengal tiger. Through his religious beliefs and perseverance he is able to survive, but with great difficulty. In an allegorical sense, this story is brilliant. Pi recreates his story using animals to metaphorically represent the humans who were in his treacherous, archetypal journey because it appeals to everyone more than the frank and straightforward story. Attraction to this allegory proves the deeper point that life is meaningless without believing in the beauty and art of the quest at hand.…
In American Shaolin, Matt, the main character has a defining characteristic of being idealistic. To be idealistic one has to be merely honest. The concept of idealism is to act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form. This idealism is rapidly seen in first chapter of book one, Matt develops a list of things wrong with him, he annotates the following, “Things that are wrong with Matt: 1.Ignorant 2.Cowardly 3.Still a boy/not a man 4.Unattractive to the opposite sex 5.Spiritually confused (14).” Matt wrote the list at age fifteen, which was back when he was a bully’s favorite target.…
With over seven billion people living around the world today the forest that inhabits millions of different species of animals is being torn down for human settlement each day. Earth's rainforests are home to over 50 percent of the world's species and nearly 80,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day (Scientific American). Although there are thousands of animals species that are endangered, the tiger is one of the most important species that comes to mind.…
Many people face pain and hardships throughout life and learn to accept reality using courage and strength. In the “Long Way Home” an excerpt from Miracle in the Andes, Nando Parrado faces many hardships. In the beginning of the novel Nando is heartbroken due to the fact that his plane has crashed in the Andes Mountains, and that many people including his best friends, and his mother, and sister have died. His thoughts haunt him, telling him to survive, and not “waste tears”, as they will be needed for his survival. Nando remembers his father and his heart fills with joy; he imagines how is father must be feeling, after hearing the news of the crash. He quietly whispers to his father “I am alive”. Nando describes the mountains being very strong and powerful, and lacking warmth. Nando vows to his father that he will ‘come home”, no matter how long it takes, and how worse the conditions become. Nando faces many difficulties as the story progresses, but his promise to his father gives him courage and strength to keep on going instead of giving up. “We all knew our fight for survival would be uglier and more harrowing than we had imagines, but we had made the declaration to the mountain that we would not surrender. In a small, sad way, I had taken a first step back toward my father.” Throughout the excerpt conditions worsen, many more of Nando’s friends die, and the food becomes scarce. With courage and strength, Nando decides that he must climb the mountain to save himself and reach home to his father. He takes a few friends with him for the journey. Along the way, he faces many hardships, but his determination and courage help him reach his goal. One day, Nando realizes that their pilot was wrong, and gave them incorrect information of “passing Curico”. As soon as he learns that his hopes shatter. In his thoughts he begins to think and realize that death has an opposite, which is love. As soon as he realizes this his fear of death “lifts”. “My fears lifted, and I…
Another story really inspires me is the cave analogy in the book. Life is a process of learning and reaching the truth. We each begin our lives deep within the cave, with our head and legs bound, and education is the struggle to move as far out of the cave as possible. Not everyone can make it all the way out, which is why some people are producers, some warriors, and some…
There is a plot describing the young daughter buy food materials with her mother in Chinatown, and among the food materials are duck foot, turtle and frogs. Moreover, there is a hand-written sign informing the tourists, “ within this store, is all for good, not for pet” (Tan 91). The misunderstanding of food culture is only the tip of the iceberg of foreigners’ misunderstanding of China and Chinese values. The sharp cultural conflicts between the East and the West confuse the young girls as well as disappoint thousands of immigrants who share the same origin with her.…
The reason why Tang Seng put himself out of the way to get scriptures is that he believes Buddhism is boundless and it can save all sufferings. In his journey, Guan Yin always appears in the most dangerous time. The Monkey King, the Pig, and Sha Seng are also affected by the Goddess of mercy. They put a magnificent career in Buddhism, and eventually become immortal. Their fates in the end also claim the triumph of Buddhism.…
Armed with razor like teeth and retractile claws in addition to their keen senses, tigers are silent assassins on top of the food chain. The magnificent striped panthera tigris, originally from Eastern Asia, once ranged an enormous span of the earth's surface. Over the past century, it is estimated that the tigers habitat and numbers have been depleted by up to 95%. Having been greatly limited as a result of many factors, mainly human impacts, the tiger has been driven out from over 30 countries that it originally occupied. Within the past 60 years already three of the original eight subspecies of tigers have sadly become extinct. In his best selling book from 1944 "Man Eaters of the Kumanon", Jim Corbett wrote, "The tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage."…
The main character would be Dick Prosser. He would be considered a rounded character because he does not take on the role of the classic house servant in the South. While being religious, he also is very talented in many aspects, such as shooting and sports. Docile but violent He would also be considered dynamic because he is a traditional religious man in the beginning of the story, and then he turns into a radical religious murderer, killing people on the basis to start the Judgment Day. He is important to the story because he move the plot along, while also representing evil within man. The three boys in the story would be stock characters who remain static throughout the story, because they are naturally curious. This is shown when they go into Dick’s room to find the rifle. They are static because they didn’t change through the story. They are important to the story because they help narrate the story and help explain the meaning similarities between the Tyger poem and Dick.…
The storyline revolves around a 16-year-old Indian boy "Pi" Patel, who survives from a shipwreck in which he loss his family, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. This tiger is not a real animal but another Pi. While Pi himself represents the morality, the belief, and the strong desire of living; the tiger represents his fear of death and his instinct of surviving in the nature. Their friendship in the journey implies that the belief gives human beings the peace in mind and the instinct let human beings survive.…