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- 5091: Taoism
- ... to the whole human race. The Tao is one of the most ancient religious concepts of the Chinese culture. This concept has influenced many religions, such as Buddhism, and Confucianism, two major religions in the world (Hume 150). The religion Taoism preaches that if people lived naturally, did things naturally, and lived life by the Tao, they would be free of evil (Wolcott 77). This belief soon influenced many people to follow the life of wu wei, the Ying and the Yang (Smith 207). Taoism’s philosophical ideas were accepted by people all over the world and soon many people were giving offerings to Taoist temples, and believing in the purity and of the peacefulness of the Tao (Wolcott 77). Taoism was slowly, but surely, starting to rise to be one ... universe. The Yin and the Yang are always opposite of each other. If one side is either less or more than the other, the balance of the universe is corrupted and terrible things in the world will happen. These beliefs preach that an individual should always keep the balance in the universe well and adjusted and not corrupt it in any way. These concepts relate to the Tao because the ...
- 5092: No Greater Hero Comparison On
- ... that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus felt that he could escape his fate, relaying his own free will. However, his choices led him directly to his fate. In Willy's world, fate was not predetermined by the gods but by society. He was doomed to failure to reach his dreams of being a successful and well-liked salesman because he could not be accepted the way ... condemn himself. Oedipus is rejected by the people he wanted to take care as he is cast out blind and friendless. Willy's inability to face reality forces him to lie and create an illusionary world, causeing him to be cast out and friendless also. He can't take care of his family. His dreams of seeing his son become successful dims, as his son drifts aimlessly. He wants his son ... one way left..Suicide. "Funny..After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive." He lived everday trying to think that his cruel world didn't exist, but no one can live in dreams forever. Oedipus was commited to his nation. When the plague struck he stood by, seeking a way to help his people. He could have ...
- 5093: The Great Gatsby Is A Tragic H
- ... book he is recognized as an admirable character. At the end of the novel, Nick "became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-afresh, green breast of the new world" (p.182). He is describing the New World as Dutch sailors from the Old World would have seen it. This is where the American Dream is started. The Dutch sailors arrive at the New World with infinite hope. Gatsby looked upon his dream with infinite hope. Gatsby stretched his ...
- 5094: Resurrection of Jesus
- ... resurrection. Two aspects of sexual life are discussed: Union and ecstasy. Resurrection entails a transformation that includes both aspects; "The risen person in an enduring ecstasy breaks free to enjoy union with god and the world". In the future, most Christians believe that on the last day of the world, the dead will come to life and be reunited with their physical bodies. The early Christians lived their lives in the light of resurrection. They look forward to this day because it brings them closer ... fulfill the sacrament of the Eucharist. The Eucharist links them to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some believe that the resurrection of the dead is an irresponsible way to deal with the present and the world's future. However, for the Christians resurrection is important because it involves hope, transformation, and spirit which all can help renew the world. Resurrection is a powerful motive for new efforts to renew the ...
- 5095: Anderw Carnegie, The Bible, An
- ... the mental ideals that both the Bible and Thoreau wish us to possess. As far as Carnegie's view of the millionaire trustee to the poor, it has some merit. I certainly think that the world would be better off if millionaires were forced to give large amounts of money towards the betterment of society. Many philanthropical organizations rely on wealthy benefactors for their survival. These organizations do huge amounts of work and could always use extra money. If charitable donations were made obligatory of the rich, it could greatly change the face of the world. Although there will always be a gap between rich and poor, these charitable donations could go a long way towards closing the gap between the poor and the destitute and poor and the middle class. Without wealth and material possessions, our civilization would be entirely different than it is today. I, for one, like the way I live and wouldn't trade it for the world. I can't imagine a world without millionaires and a world without some poor people. I can imagine a world without the destitute, homeless, and starving, though, and a system where the rich become ...
- 5096: The Color Purple
- ... and enter into the Creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need... You took my sister Nettie away from me, I say. And she was the only person love me in the world... But Nettie and my children coming home soon, I say. And when she do, all us together gon whup your ass (p. 207). Once out of the abusive environment of Mr. ____ s house, Celie grows ... the economic competitor to a sub-human object. On the other hand, the model of personal and national identity with which the novel leaves us uses fairytale explanations of social relations to represent an alternative world. This fairy tale embraces America for providing the black nation with the right and the opportunity to own land, to participate in the free market, and to profit from it. (Alice Walker, The Color Purple) When discussing the economic alternative world illustrated in The Color Purple Celie situates herself firmly in the family's entrepreneurial tradition; she runs her business successfully. Where her father and uncles were lynched for presuming the rights of full American ...
- 5097: Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye
- ... feelings toward the life she has led through emotional imagery and metaphors as she finds herself confronted with death. The “stumbling buzz” (13) of a minute fly, is an image that symbolizes the speaker’s world collapsing around her. Often times, family and loved ones are closed off by the dying as death approaches. Visitors are no longer wanted, nor is sympathy. Perhaps this is a way of providing closure and creating a somewhat dead world before actually passing on. I feel that the speaker has come to that point of closure; then she sees a fly: “Signed away What portion of me be Assignable-and then it was There interposed ... has closed out all that was her life, and is ready to pass on, when the presence of a pesky fly seems to catch her attention. The introduction of this fly - a part of the world she has closed out - signals that her life is not quite complete. Perhaps she has not succeeded in gaining final closure. There comes a time in life when it is necessary to conclude that ...
- 5098: In Depth Analysis of Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
- ... Ode on a Grecian Urn” in an attempt to find poetical existence beyond his too-short human lifetime. As Keats tries to find some sense of permanence in an ever more apparently impermanent and fleeting world, he turns to those objects which he regards to as outside of the temporality he, as a mortal man experiences: the perpetuating, generationless song of the nightingale and the “cold Pastoral” ageless marble scenes on ... Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn,” is that this particular ode inscribes a sine wave, with five distinctive points along its length. Example: First: The poet is steeped in despair brought about by the world’s unrelenting flux. Second: Upon encountering the urn, he is filled with the hope that he has found an antidote to his despair. Third: He finds that his hope is unfounded, -- that the antidote was ... he finds that it embodies a terror far more intense than the despair from which he originally sought relief; that the placebo is in fact a poison. Last: He embraces the transient condition of the world as an antidote to the terror inherent in the urn. What was interesting about Mauro’s sine-wave theory to the ode, is that the point of origin, --the poet’s initial despair from ...
- 5099: Watergate Scandal
- ... started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He also had agents find out secret information that would harm them. Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees ... was so worried that during the Cambodia bombing he had to wiretap his own staff members. On June in 1971, The New York Times formed work that was published about the history of the Vietnam War, these were known as the Pentagon Papers. They got the information from secret government papers. The papers blamed the policies that were formed and caused the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee , gave the documents to the paper. Nixon became very angry by their publishes. Nixon tied to make Ellsberg's actions a form of treason, but he was ...
- 5100: Watergate Scandal
- ... started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He also had agents find out secret information that would harm them. Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees ... was so worried that during the Cambodia bombing he had to wiretap his own staff members. On June in 1971, The New York Times formed work that was published about the history of the Vietnam War, these were known as the Pentagon Papers. They got the information from secret government papers. The papers blamed the policies that were formed and caused the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee , gave the documents to the paper. Nixon became very angry by their publishes. Nixon tied to make Ellsberg's actions a form of treason, but he was ...
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