Chinese thought

1 : Introduction 1.1 General Background Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian novel, set in a world where the ownership of books is illegal, and firemen burn books instead of putting fires out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman. He decides to investigate the loyalty some in their society have for books by reading some he kept in secret. He is then discovered by his captain who reports him, and is chased by the government until he escapes in a river. In the end, he washes up…

1min for thousand people it might take 1000 minutes. They were thinking for this for sixteen hours and sounded as ungrateful for them. They slowly started complaining about the people who care them and forward their best wishes through prayer. They thought that there is no necessity to message or email them just closing their eyes and felt that remembering the good…

The reason that there are no physical limits to human beings is because we will never collectively reach a point as a species where our brain no longer functions. Not in terms of survival, but in terms of thought, creation, and conception. Humans will always come up with new ideas, and new ways to do things. Our brain’s capacity for learning is endless, and that is because it is one of our natural gifts to be able to think, learn and adapt. Humans have never…

4.2 Etiquette, Courtesy and Behavior A good man does not argue. He who argues is not a good man. – Lao Tzu, Father of Taoism, a sixth century B.C. Chinese philosopher. Life is short. But there is always time enough for a simple courtesy, a small talk or a little etiquette. Etiquette is a nice little art. One can forgive you for the murder but not for your impoliteness. A man is known by the way he behaves, with people especially with people at perceived lower rank than he is. It is a common…

In general opinion, knowledge production is mainly through two ways, namely, passive observation and active experiment, which are varied but supplementary. Therefore when dealing with passive observation, the ways of knowing are used to understand the surrounding as well as to give explanation of the relationship with others e.g., sensory and emotional perception, imagination when new knowledge comes to us. However, evidence, reasoning and consideration on reality are indispensible for a proof.…

big aquarium inside it. There’s a lot of people in Dubai, and their famous BurjKhalifa is really tall that it reaches the clouds. When the time comes that we are going back to the Philippines, it was really sad when we go and leave our parents, I thought I’m not going to cry because there’s a lot of times that we said goodbye to our parents. But when you are in that situation where you are the one who’s going to go back and you leaved them, it was really painful because we are going to miss each…

fights the yin side ,Richard Parker, and must subdue it to. Pi must live his life knowing what his yin did to survive. Pi must fight to keep his yin and yang balanced to stay alive. The yin yang or the real name "taijitu" is an ancient symbol from Chinese Taoism. The symbol represents everything having an opposite power of even strength that complement each other. There cannot be one side without the other. They must coexist and have constant tension at all times. One can never overcome the…

it was! She was doing exactly what black people in her words would do! My patience was officially worn out as I was about to throw one hundred rebuttals at her pathetic white face or white everything. However, just before my words blurting out, I thought about the fact that she was homeless. The image of injecting heroin, dealing weapons in the broken garage and the sound of drunken shrieks appeared in my mind. I was terrified by the potential trouble she might bring. As much as I wanted to…

“I was considering always in my room of the lodging house and besides, felt that it is vain to try. Because reading a lot of books doesn’t indulge my appetite actually, then, I gave it up. At the same time, gradually I couldn’t catch the meaning even myself that what I read the books so much for.” Souseki Natsume wrote this in his essay ‘My individualism’, which retrospect the prehistory of shaping ‘A theory of literature’ and it was the description when he was studying abroad in England in…

described as displaying them, Carl Luce and Mr. Antolini. Salinger purposefully connects the three males through their attraction to older women, which is possibly a means for the men and boy to conceal their true sexual desires. Carl Luce is dating a Chinese woman who is "in her late thirties" (Salinger, 145) while Antolini is married to a woman who was "about sixty years older" (Salinger, 181) than him. Holden himself is attracted to Mrs. Morrow, as seen through his personal observations of…