moral reasoning”. The Good Thief tells a story of a boy named Ren who is adopted by Benjamin‚ a thief and a grave-digger‚ accompanied his drunkard companion‚ Tom. Ren finds himself experiencing many outrageous situations throughout the story and believes Ben can explain some events regarding Rens past. In The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti‚ Ren’s experience of moral development end up to be Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages two and three. Ren displays a stage two behavior‚ from this‚ he shows the reader
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‘Decree of Heaven.’ Moreover‚ Plato advocated the life of the philosopher‚ even as Confucius advocated the life of the chun-tzu. More importantly to this paper‚ Confucius and Plato both advocated an ultimate ethical ideal. Confucius’s1 ethical ideal‚ ren‚2 is central to the Analects (60 of the 499 chapters are devoted its discussion‚ and the word appears 109 times3). The term is tenuously translated as ‘humanness.’4 And Plato’s ideal‚ dikaiosune‚ is central to the Republic (it appears 248 times throughout
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Rey’s lightsaber lies in the snow and Kylo Ren attempts to summon it too him. The focus shifts from Kylo Ren to the lightsaber through the use of racking focus‚ placing Kylo Ren in the background‚ blurring him‚ with the lightsaber in the foreground‚ sharply in focus. This use of racking focus is further accentuated as the shift in focus also places the lightsaber
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The Chaozhou Han or Chaozhou people (commonly known as Teochew Nang) are Han people who are native to the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong province of China and speak the Teochew dialect. The Teochew diaspora can be found almost anywhere in the world‚ especially Southeast Asia‚ North America‚ Australasia and France. The diaspora‚ at least estimated‚ contains over 10 million people‚ which is as much as the population of Chaoshan itself. They speak a language closely related to Hokkien‚ and their
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In the Analects‚ ren could refer to one desirable quality among others (14.28) but often also the all encompassing ethical ideal (14.4). In the latter‚ broader sense‚ it is the defining characteristic of the junzi (4.5)‚ even more important than life (15.9)‚ and “the benevolent person” is sometimes interchangeable with junzi (12.4‚ 14.28). This broad sense of ren can be understood as the moralization of an earlier‚ pre-Confucian usage where the term refers to the quality that makes someone a member
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many differences in both movies like the story line‚ how it views Ren‚ and the camera angles they use. The story line within the older Footloose doesn’t give the viewers the how it all started in that small town. The 1984 version doesn’t give more information‚ just the cast states what happened with the brother and Rens’ father. Within the newer version‚ Ariel tells Ren what happen and then then it shows the party before the crash
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world through moral cultivation. All Confucians share the conviction that it is possible to transform oneself and all of society through the cultivation of virtue. This paper therefore discusses various concept and assumptions of Confucianism mainly ren‚ xiao‚ li and yi and it also touches on Daoism. Concepts of Confucianism and Daoism Confucianism can be defined as a way of achieving the full potential of human
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At the end of “Ren the Fox Fairy” the narrator says‚ “It is sad to think that a beast assuming human form should resist violation and remain chaste and faithful to her lord till death‚ while few women nowadays are equal to this...And what a pity that Zheng...simply appreciated her appearance” (Jiji 24). These words adequately summarize the relationship between Zheng and Ren. Ren‚ who abandoned her life as a spiritual animal in order to devote herself
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In Star Wars: The Force Awakens‚ John Williams’ song “The Ways of The Force” plays during the final battle scene. In this scene‚ the dark and light sides of the force face off‚ represented by the characters Kylo Ren and Rey. The music of the scene is highly effective in relaying the emotions of the fight. Through his composition of film music‚ Williams has been able to greatly influence American culture for decades. In “The Ways of The Force‚” Williams creatively incorporates references to his previous
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males The short fictions written in the Tang Dynasty emphasize the strength and the independence of the female characters‚ specifically their male-like personalities and behaviors. In Chen Xuanyou’s “The Departed Spirit‚” Shen Jiji’s “Miss Ren‚ or The Fox Lady‚” and Yuan Zhen’s “The Story of Yingying‚” the female protagonists are depicted as male characters in three ways. First‚ their external and internal intelligence make them different from conventional women. Second‚ they dominate in
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