The Legend of Kuan-yin and the Thousand Arms There are statues of her in just about every Chinese restaurant. The thousand arms reaching out from a serene figure seated in a pose of meditation may distract you from the other features Kuan-yin has in excess of‚ eleven heads and one thousand eyes. What are the origins of this thousand armed goddess in Chinese Buddhism? What was the evolution of this figure that she bacame the most important and best loved deity in the Chinese world? The origins
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When we think of ten thousand hours our first thought is probably like whoa‚ that is a lot of time. Right? Ten thousand hours‚ to put it in an easier perspective is equivalent to around four hundred and seventeen days which is a lot of time to do one thing and that is 24/7. Now imagine putting in ten thousand hours into one field of work. An average work day for someone who is a teenager to young adult is around 5 hours because they still have to go to school as well. If he or she worked five hours
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from the Taliban’s rule made actions‚ such as‚ Rasheed’s abuse be legal in societies eyes. Furthermore‚ the relationship of Laila and Mariam is built through the developments of their home cities and how war affected their lives. The setting of A Thousand Splendid Suns allows aspects of society to be applied to the homes of Afghanistan families. When the novel introduces the Taliban’s arrival many people believe they will settle the peace and end corruption in the
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In the film‚ A Thousand Clowns‚ Murray is “not a person”. He is an “experience”‚ as pointed out by Albert. Albert is a social worker who deems Murray an unsuitable guardian for his nephew Nick. You see‚ Murray is a man who doesn’t like to fit in with the crowd. Rather than donning a suit and tie‚ Murray would rather be visiting the Statue of Liberty or yelling at his neighbors. Murray collects eagles which isn’t a coincidence. In the beginning of the movie‚ we see Murray negotiating with a man
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During the course of this novel‚ there are various messages; the most important one being that one must never lose hope. Khaled Hosseini shows us that with hope you can overcome any situation. Laila had thought she had lost Tariq‚ yet she still had hope for a better life. At the end of the story she and Tariq reunite with their daughter and her son and she was able to get away from the cruelty and abuse that Rasheed inflicted on her. The characters in the novel have to remind themselves to have
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person who discovers their identity and their place in the world could be interpreted differently depending on the story. The Odyssey is about the man Odysseus‚ the king of Ithaca‚ who wanders for years trying to get home after the Trojan War. Yet The Thousand and One Nights revolves around the opposite‚ two brothers‚ each with their kingdom to run‚ both find out their wives are cheating on them‚ and it focuses on the story of how they work to remove the remorse they feel toward their lives. In a way‚
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of wanting to belong can be felt. Following these characters through their hardships and destitutions‚ their burdens and wishes become illuminated. Khaled Hosseini integrates the theme of belonging into A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini weaves the theme of belonging through Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Mariam wants nothing more than to have a true family to belong to. However‚ even her own mother adds to her shame by calling her a harami‚ and reminding her that she was unwanted even from
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Analyse how an extended written text was structured to develop an important idea. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the significant idea or theme that is portrayed throughout the novel is that sexism has devastating effects by negatively impacting the quality of life lived by “inferior” genders and causes oppression which crushes hope in some individuals and for other individuals‚ it creates a need to defy and escape this oppression. This is shown to us through the
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characters in both novels would be Mullah Faizullah and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. Both of these characters are similar in the sense that these characters act as a voice of reason and a source of guidance and comfort for the heroines of each novel. In A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Mullah Faizullah‚ Mariam’s Koran teacher‚ provides guidance to Mariam in her times of doubt and trouble by references the Koran and the power of Allah‚ and comforts her after the suicide of her mother by trying to persuade her that
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Isn’t it surprising to know that almost every single story ever written follows the same exact cycle? This pattern is exactly what Joseph Campbell explains in his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces. He shows how every myth follows the story of a hero who embarks on an epic journey: “With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him‚ the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the ’threshold guardian’” (Campbell 60). Threshold guardians are usually shown to be lesser evils
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