On Overgrown Paths

The arts in China and Japan are greatly influenced by the religious beliefs of each country. Both countries' beliefs are syncretic; they each have more than one religious belief blended together. The two dominant religions in China are Buddhism, which the main goal is to archive nirvana and Daoism, living in harmony with nature and the universe. Chinese artworks are known to be very precise and symmetrically balanced, well controlled and uniformed. Their arts focus on religion and Chinese…

My research centers on Jorge Luis Borges and constructs a web of influences on him and his literary oeuvre through examining his many interviews. Throughout his life, Borges consented to hundreds of interviews. Rather than undertaking exhaustive research, I gathered data from nine of Borges’ most widely available interviews, largely conducted in English and issued in prominent, English-language publications. Some interviewers transcribed the interview content in the moment or from tape…

The eightfold path begins with accepting the Four Noble truths. The Four Noble Truths are as follows: life has inevitable suffering, there is a cause to our suffering, there is an end to suffering, and the end to suffering is contained in the eightfold path. Buddhism is a religion that is primarily concerned with suffering, with yourself and with others. “These form a central focus of the religion, its practice and its philosophy. One is encouraged to explore what suffering is, the various forms…

Having spent many years going to North Devon for holidays or to visit family, I had never until about two years ago ever visited the area that is known as Croyde Bay. Situated on the road out of Braunton (which is its nearest largest village hub with lots of shops and other services), it is on the coast that faces the Atlantic Ocean. How to get here For most people who are travelling from anywhere in the country apart from Cornwall, then access to Croyde is generally through Barnstaple - the…

Attacks on routing protocols can cause legitimate traffic to flow over unsecure paths and create various types of security exposure for higher layer protocols ranging from eavesdropping to denial of service. Several routing protocols are used to exchange network topology and routing table information between routers. Commonly used intra-domain routing protocols are the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the current…

he lived in the working class town of Everett Massachusetts. My grandfather used the poem “The Road Not Taken” , a piece by Robert Frost, that tells the story of a traveler who must choose which path to take on his journey. One path, is described as worn and perfectly trimmed, white the other is overgrown and unknown. One of his biggest decisions went perfectly with the theme of the poem. Speaking on living in the town of Everett he said, “My father was a doctor. Which was rare for the town.…

on and on about her overgrown garden and insidious weeds. With no experience and, in retrospect, not the right equipment, I offered to help. Within minutes, I found myself immersed in a jungle of ambiguity and a goldmine of opportunity. Then and there I decided to use my aunt's wayward backyard as the startup of my own business. The inception of the weed removal business was planted. And so it began. Day after day, week after week, I worked meticulously to transform overgrown jungles into…

to Mother but she decided not to and to stay out in the world by herself. Frost and Maya can connect based on the fact that they both had two roads. Frost had a road that people usually took and it was pretty standard and then one that has been overgrown because rarely did anyone travel it. Maya had similar roads. She could do what almost everyone else in her situation would do and go back home to Mother to let her…

Journeys are a key part of life, but arriving at the destination is not the part that matters, the journey itself is the key influential part of life. John Steinbeck and Robert Frost reflect this idea within their texts; Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. All of these texts explore journeys and different impacts of fear and regret which has lead the audience to consider that the destination and arrival doesn't, in fact, matter…

Alexander Francis Nolan was a not simple man, an author, a self proclaimed adventurer and above all, A. F. Nolan was a liar. On a rainy afternoon in rural Alaska, Nolan went for a brisk walk down a dirt road, ill traveled and overgrown. It was Nolan’s path, no one else knew of it. he smelled the fresh rain on the leaves. Suddenly a sound grabbed his attention, a strange ringing, something he hadn't heard in these parts before. A two track opened up off of the dirt road, which Nolan decided to…