Porcelain

Anna Waas Core 1 Group B History Character Project Hello, my name is Zhang Min Xu. I have long, straight, black hair. I am 5’1 and 32 years old. I have two kids. A girl named Li Na and a boy named after my father, Liang. I was born in the Guangdong province of China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with…

The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world taking the shape of a capital ‘M’. The ocean itself covers twenty-six million square miles and it acts as a link to many important continents and regions around the world. The Indian trading network was established in 800 A.D. and was a place where people used trade routes for bulk trading. The Network extended from the coast of East Africa, to Arabia, to the Persian Gulf, India, across to Burma, down through the Malacca Strait that runs…

Erin always said she liked the walk to class but every time she finally got to her seat and sat down, you could see the exhaustion all over her. People ask if she had sprinted to class and she can’t think of an excuse nor catch her breath in time to give one, so she nods her head. She smooths out her red dress and adjusts the plaid scarf she tied to her bag this morning to make it appear proper and presentable as if it were going to be displayed in the window of a high end boutique. Erin hated…

The commercial for the product “Squatty Potty” starts off with a man dressed in medieval attire, he is talking to a unicorn that is defecating colorful ice cream into cones on a conveyer belt. The man then takes the ice cream cone and licks and says “they're good at pooping, but do you know who's bad at pooping? You are.” The man goes into detail and explains that the way we poop can and is harmful to us. He explains this by showing us on the unicorn that when we sit to use the restroom we are…

Zoroastrianism is a religion that influenced the development of Christianity and Manichaeism. It believes in the role of individuals determining their own fate and emphasizes the duality of good and evil. Early Aryan influences on Persian religious traditions. Zarathustra (late 7th-early 6th centuries BCE) is the founder of Zoroastrianism. He believes that Ahura Mazda had chosen him to be a prophet. In the sixth century BCE, Zoroastrianism attracted Persian aristocrats and ruling elites. It also…

In the book “Brave New World” A. Huxley creates a civilization build by the motto “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”, resonating socialist ideas that were marching throughout the entire world in the 30 's. His inspiration might have been the famous french phrase: “Liberty, Fraternity, Equality” which sounds similar but opposes to what he creates in his famous book. By being sarcastic Huxley ironically judges the communist philosophies in his book as a repulse to the Marxism that enclosed him in…

People often judge others because of their weight, but if we look towards reality our weight does not determine our health, so why discriminate. Girls are told they have a pretty face, but they would be prettier if they would skinny. Skinny does not make people pretty, if we let social dictate how we see ourselves we are always going to be unhappy. Women want to look like the girls in the magazine, when the girl on the magazine does not even like the girl on the magazine. As women we let society…

The Disappointment of Young Love First love can make one see themselves in a different light. Either they can see all things beautiful or they’re seeing things black and white. A boy from Ireland whose coming of age is infatuated with a girl. To charm her, he wants to bring her back a present from a bazaar she wanted to attend. In “Araby” by James Joyce the protagonist learns through the experience of true love about the disappointments in life. The narrator starts the story off by describing…

In his book ‘In Praise of Shadows’, the Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki questioned how different things would be if we in the East had developed our own science. He lamented the incongruity and crudeness in the uncritical application of Western design in an oriental context. Tanizaki’s book triggered my thinking that: while time cannot be rewound, how should we use existing science and technology to pursue new possibilities and eliminate the incongruity in architecture? It is instances like…

communicate what he intends to do ‘time for you and time for me’ outlines his level of incapability to attempt and manage time. Eliot further emphasis the triviality of modern life emphasized through concrete images in ‘ the marmalade, the tea.. the porcelain highlights the futility of humanity. Responder reflects on these fragmentations that Eliot uses to demonstrate the chaotic state of modern existence through its Eliot’s context. In Eliot’s view, humanity’s psyche had been shattered by World…