Chinese thought

Have you ever gone somewhere that you wish you never had to leave? Somewhere that, upon your departure, you felt a piece of your soul being left behind without you. This amazing feeling is how I felt on my bus trip to beautiful San Francisco, California. In March 2017, I got to go for a band trip with my eccentric friends, talented music students from another school, and two dedicated music teachers. This trip introduced me to a vast new array of cultures, concepts, and ways of life that I…

Athens and Sparta are both well-known cities that associated themselves with the Greeks and Greece. To this day most people can tell you at least were Sparta and Athens was located. The issue was that these two cities were major rivals and quite different. Sparta was very militaristic city that focused heavily on gaining more land and power for their city and for Greece. They required that all men join the military and help during wars. Sparta was known more as a laid back city that did worried…

In The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga, presents a protagonist Balram Halwai who struggles to come to terms with his new identity. While working as a cook, dishcleaner and a driver, Halwai transforms himself into a master. He differentiates himself from his master through actions with consequences. Revolting against the brutality of Ashok and Pinky Madam, he is able to affirm the identity of a successful entrepreneur from a Rikshaw Puller's nameless son 'Munna'. In three years of schooling, a school…

Time Changes Life If people ask me what kind of person I was back in my Elementary school days in China, I would tell them I was one of the laziest and worst students in the school. Whenever I go to school I got into fights with others and injured them. All teachers knew me because they all stopped me from bullying other students. Two times I got injured so badly that I had go to hospital to do surgery. I have no friends because all of them were scared of me. I never listened in class, I spended…

provides that layer of understanding and the desire to protect one another. Also, fear is defined differently by people, as the white man who packed his suitcase into his car by midnight so the potential burglars don’t notice him, in the other hand, a Chinese lady honks the car to let her parents know that she arrived. The author, Louis Wirth in the article “Urbanism as a Way of Life” defines a city by three factors which are population size, density, and social heterogeneity. According to him,…

conversation between two family members. Alex: Hey, Josh, I’m having a hard time understanding what we’re talking about in philosophy class. Josh: Alright Alex, What do you need help with? Alex: Do you remember the lecture on thought and language? Josh: Ah yes, that was pretty hard. Alex: Could you explain it to me? Josh: I can try. The professor asked us a question. He said, do you need language to think, or can we think without…

“I immediately regretted opening Pandora’s Box when Mom walked in on my late-night cookie-escapade.” “Upon seeing the crowded ferry boat, I appropriately muttered that we would be needing a bigger boat..” “Yesterday, while waiting for my bus to arrive after work, the man next to me told me his whole life story. Something about a box of chocolates, life, and Jenny. He was crazy, I tell you.” Uses: Allusion may be used to further the narrative of a book by referring to metaphor or such seen in…

Taoism is a religion most commonly seen in China. Taoism does share some similarities with two religions we have discussed previously, including Buddhism and Confucianism. This religion started with a man named Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu was born around 604 B.C and was known in the Taoism religion as “the Old Boy.” People were not very certain about Lao Tzu because there were different conspiracies about different parts of his life. Some legends about Lao Tzu included people believing he was in his…

several years, Google and China have been locked in a battle over censorship. In addition to filtering its citizen’s internet searches, the Chinese government routinely restricts access to, or outright blocks, several of Google’s products. Products such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Google Translate are the most affected. These actions by the Chinese government have a direct effect on Google’s market share in China and overall revenue. In early 2010, just before the troubles…

for them, the future holds a continuation of destruction and demise that overpopulation has already wrought on the people. The Chinese economy has been hit and almost sunk by the invisible shots fired by overpopulation because of its sudden lack in resources. As the people go about living their daily live they do not notice that about “one billion people, that…