The Buddhist Stele Commemorating Song Shixing (宋始兴) appears to be a thin stele decorated with the head of Chi‚ the hornless dragon. The top and body of the stele are in one piece yet the base is nowhere to be found. Six dragons are carved on the top of the stele façade‚ hovering with their head facing down and holding the body of the stele in their mouths. On the uppermost part of the stele‚ a niche with gable roofs and round arch is engraved‚ inside which sits the Maitreya Buddha wearing a crown
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Character Analysis In “Two Kinds‚” the main character‚ Jing-mei‚ is portrayed as a skeptical‚ independent‚ and strong-willed young girl. These attributes are shown through her lack of faith in herself and her disobedience towards her mother. The first sign of Jing-mei’s skepticism is when she becomes impatient with the prodigy inside her. In fact‚ she imagines her inner prodigy telling herself that‚ “‘If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here‚ I’m disappearing for good”’ (Schilb & Clifford 241)
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Chi square test for independence of two attributes. Suppose N observations are considered and classified according two characteristics say A and B. We may be interested to test whether the two characteristics are independent. In such a case‚ we can use Chi square test for independence of two attributes. The example considered above testing for independence of success in the English test vis a vis immigrant status is a case fit for analysis using this test. This lesson explains how to conduct
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CHI-SQUARE AND TESTS OF CONTINGENCY TABLES Hypothesis tests may be performed on contingency tables in order to decide whether or not effects are present. Effects in a contingency table are defined as relationships between the row and column variables; that is‚ are the levels of the row variable diferentially distributed over levels of the column variables. Significance in this hypothesis test means that interpretation of the cell frequencies is warranted. Non-significance means that any differences
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My Journey into Tai Chi For the past month and a half‚ once a week I go to my Tai Chi session. I took Tai Chi is a way for me to lightly exercise during my first year in college. In the beginning I found Tai Chi to be a little difficult and at times I was unsure what exactly I was supposed to do. Prior to my weekly sessions‚ I had no knowledge of martial arts. I’ve never even heard of Tai Chi. Attending all my Tai Chi classes‚ reading Master C.K Chu’s book Why Tai Chi? Questions & Answers‚ and my
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While Jing-Mei Woo and Ralph are both the main characters in both of these novels they have characteristics in which are both very similar and very different. Both of these characters face certain struggles throughout the storyline and they must find a way to overcome them. Throughout each story line both Jing-Mei and ralph learn different lessons and they learn how to apply them to certain situations. In The Joy Luck Club the novel began with Jing-Mei’s‚ otherwise known as June‚ mother dying (Suyuan
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The stories of Rose and her mother An-Mei fit the theme of this unit by showing how immigration and becoming part of the “melting pot” is not as easy as many people think. Both mother and daughter struggled with family communication because of culture and language barriers between each person’s assimilation to the American culture. For example both tolerate each other in various ways but are able to make their situations and differences in culture work out in the end. Also even though many stereotypes
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In the story Two Kinds Jing-mei decides to not listen to her culture (her mom) but to embrace the American way. Her mom didn’t want her daughter to be poor growing up like she was. She was attempting to get her daughter to be something more than herself. Jing-mei wanted to leave her culture and wanted to make her own choices. Jing-mei refused to be changed by her mom. “I won’t let her change me‚ I promised myself.” In our own experiences
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Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [hô̤ tɕǐmɪŋ] ( listen)‚ Chữ Nôm: 胡志明)‚ born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Việt cộng during the Vietnam War until his death. Hồ led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward‚ establishing
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names for chi energy. Some people call it life energy‚ cosmic‚ God or universal energy. It is the energy that gives us life because it fuels every single process in our bodies. If you do not meditate and are not that involved spiritually‚ it is likely that you are not aware of this energy and how it operates inside you. However when you advance spiritually you can feel the movements of this life giving energy. How To Direct Chi Energy When you become aware of the movements of the chi energy
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