Historical Background Bodhi-Dharma (菩提達摩) was an Indian Buddhist monk who came to China from India in the first quarter of the sixth century. He brought Mahayana Buddhism to China. Coming to China‚ he stayed nine years at the Shao-lin Temple (少林寺)‚ located in He-nan Province (河南省). Bodhi-Dharma is well-known in connection to a story expressed by the phrase “Wall Contemplation Nine Years (面壁九年)”. From the philosophy and practice represented by this phrase‚ the Chinese Zen Buddhism originated
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sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship‚ to take him on board as his birthday gift. “When I grow up‚” the boy said‚ “I want to go to sea with you. And I shall command ships even more beautiful and bigger than yours.” “God bless you‚ my son‚” the father answered. And since his vessel had to leave that very day‚ he took the boy with him. It was a splendid sunny day‚ and the sea was calm. Stefano‚ who had never been on a ship‚ happily wandered around on deck‚ admiring the complicated
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Othello and “O” The movie “O” by Tim Blake Nelson is based on Shakespeare’s play “Othello. They both have many differences as well as similarities. The same trap is laid for the main character in both versions and the same amount of casualties happens in both final scenes. Nelson sets his story in modern time prep school‚ and his characters are not the adults of Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare Othello is set in the 16th century while Nelsons “O” is set I the 20th century. In Othello‚ the setting
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Feminism in M. Butterfly In the 1989 drama M. Butterfly‚ the masterwork of contemporary American playwright David Henry Hwang‚ the topic of sexual politics underlies all other themes‚ and creates a tension between the genders that pervades throughout the text; moreover‚ Hwang subverts traditional thematic aspects of sexual politics by questioning the most fundamental unit of sex by considering the very nature of gender and what defines a male or a female. These elements unite and develop a penetrating
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caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (Tortora‚ Funke‚ and Case 690). M. bovis is the etiologic agent of TB in cows and rarely in humans. Both cows and humans can serve as reservoirs. Humans can also be infected with M. bovis by the consumption of unpasteurized milk. This route of transmission can lead to the development of extrapulmonary TB‚ exemplified in history by bone infections that led to hunched backs (Todar). M. bovis accounts for only 1% of TB cases in humans in the United States.
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O. Henry (1862-1910) was originally born William Sydney Porter in Greensboro‚ North Carolina. As a young man‚ he moved to Austin‚ Texas where he worked as a bank teller. He moved again to Houston‚ Texas in 1895 and became a newspaper columnist. In 1896‚ however‚ he was called back to Austin‚ where he was charged with embezzling money from the bank where he had worked. Not wanting to go to prison for his crime‚ O. Henry fled to Honduras‚ and stayed there for six months before returning to the
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collected and used for the nursery. The YES-O is authorized to sell their excess seedlings to interested public and private entities as part of its entrepreneurial activities. The proceeds shall be used in the nursery maintenance and operation such as purchase of planting supplies and materials‚ including repairs‚ maintenance and expansion. B. Planting‚ Growing and Caring for Trees Consistent with the seed bank and nursery establishment of the YES-O‚ only native‚ endemic or indigenous species
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after fleeing their home and leaving them to die during a war that raged in his home country as a child‚ adding the element of survivor guilt to his story. Trauma also plays a critical role in Joaquin’s life‚ as the trauma of losing his wife and only son‚ added to the trauma of losing his family at a young age‚ helped define the person he became in the time the novel was set. Ahmet Talzani is also not particularly effected by his actions; he doesn’t feel he is responsible for
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1. The Gift of the Magi 2. The Cop and the Anthem 3. The Making of a New Yorker 4. The Last Leaf 5. The Poet and the Peasant 6. Holding up a Train 7. Law and Order 8. One Thousand Dollars 9. Girl 10. The Dream 11. The Making of a New Yorker Besides many other things‚ Raggles was a poet. He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher‚ an artist‚ a traveller‚ a naturalist and a discoverer. But most of all he was a poet. In all
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Education: Some New Perspectives”‚ British Journal of Educational Studies Knapp M L (19780‚ Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction‚ Rinehart & Winston‚ Holt‚ New York. Mark Baldassare and Susan Feller (1975)‚ Cultural Variations in Personal Space: Theory‚ Methods and Evidence‚ Ethos‚ Vol Mehrabian A (1968)‚ “Communication Wthout Words”‚ Psychology Today‚ Vol Mehrabian A (1971)‚ Silent Messages‚ Wadsworth Publishing Company‚ California. Prabhu T (2010)‚ “Proxemics: Some Challenges and Strategies in
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