Similarly to Bread Givers’ Sara Smolinsky‚ Maya Lin is the daughter of immigrants who fled to the United States in 1948 before the 1949 Communist takeover of China. On the date of October 5‚ 1959‚ she was born in Athens‚ Ohio (Biography.com Editors). Lin’s parents were intellectuals who eventually became professors at Ohio University; teaching ceramics (father) and English (mother). As a result from accompanying her parents to the university‚ she and her brother (a poet) were encouraged to be creative
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Abstract Practicers of Buddhism have many of the same fundamental beliefs‚ but branched off into different divisions as many religions do. This branching led to the Theravadins who emulated the ascetic life of the Buddha in order to attain enlightenment while the Mahayanists‚ whose worldly commitments required that they depend on the assistance of others to achieve the same goal. While there are differences between these two practices of Buddhism‚ there are also similarities. Many
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Religions around the world can differ in various ways. What one religion believes and practices may be the opposite of what another believes. The Eastern and Western traditions especially differ. Not only what they believe in but also how they do it can sometimes be on opposite ends of the spectrum. Hinduism and Buddhism are religions of the east. In both religions‚ you have to go deep inside yourself and worship inwards in order to find enlightenment. They believe that suffering is caused by attachment
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ACKNOELEDGEMENT I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and deep gratitude to all those people who extended their whole hearted co-operation and have helped me in completing this project successfully. First of all‚ I would like to thank Mr. S. K Bhatia‚ Dy. Manager (HRD)‚ for giving me an opportunity to do my training in this prestigious organization. I’d also like to express my sincere gratitude towards Mr. V.K. Arora (Asstt. General Manager‚ Plant Maintenance) ‚Mr. S. Prabhakar
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In the early years of the Meiji Japan entered the international community and began to industrialize‚ modernize and urbanize. These were hard times for Buddhism in Japan‚ as it became the subject of a critique and censorism and also a symbol of corruption or decadence in opposite to Japan’s need for scientific and technological development. As a group of modern Buddhist leaders emerged‚ they agreed that to fit the new‚ nationalistic policy of the Japanese government‚ Buddhism is in need of revitalization
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simple definition. It can‚ however‚ be linked to a three sided pyramid. First‚ wabi‚ as a noun‚ is derived form the verb wabiru‚ which‚ in turn‚ can have several meanings. The meaning of wabi in its aesthetic sense is best defined by the author of Zen-cha Roku‚ who wrote: “Wabi means lacking things‚ having things run entirely contrary to our desires‚ being frustrated in our wishes.” This is an extension of the meaning of wabiru as being disappointed by failings in some enterprise of living a miserable
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communist‚ but the beat culture believed if you didn’t conform you were hip and not brainwashed (Thomas). The beat generation wrote books‚ songs‚ and poetry as a form of expression. Beatniks participated in non-American religion‚ and commonly practiced Zen Buddhism (Thomas). Beatniks were the hipsters of their generation‚ and when the 60’s rolled around they formed into hippies who drastically impacted society. Hippies were individuals with a mindset much different than society’s‚ they did not conform
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Johannes Kieding Honors English 200-CC1 Professor Dunning Fall 2008 Research paper Due: 12/18/08 Purity’s Shadow I am large. I contain multitudes. -Walt Whitman I wished the two girls to have some sign on their person as a warning to every young man that no evil eye might be cast upon them. What mark should the girls bear so as to sterilize the sinner’s eye? This question kept me awake for the night. -Gandhi As the green Earth darkens when turning away from the sun‚ so too the human soul forms
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lion in inventory due to inflow of cheaper alternatives. April 1999‚ Creative launched the NOMAD line of MP3 players which was later reintroduced as the MuVo and ZEN series of MP3 players. Creative dominated the MP3 player market until the entry of Apple Inc. with their iPod. 20012005 – Creative applied for U.S. Patent. ZEN Patent was awarded to Creative for the invention of user interface for portable media players. This opened the way
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Joshua Davis 11-15-13 Arth102 Japanese Images Arts all over the world are appreciated not only in their beauty but also in their significance to history since most arts‚ if not all‚ tells the story of a nation in the period by which they were made. Through these arts historians can compare the civilization of nations‚ they can tell which of them developed first and they can tell which nations interacted with each other .The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Chinese
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