Yin and yang

consider appropriate thinking and behaviour within a certain group of people. In simple terms it is one’s way of life of how and why they do the things they do. At the center of every culture are its values. They are basically a cultures standard of yin and yang. Communication would obviously play a significant role in culture, from addressing someone of higher status to eating etiquettes. As…

Within the reigns of medicine, there are many different pathways that are constantly being explored. Treatment plans are rarely the same for any two people, which makes certain studies of medical practices superior to others during individual times. Depending on the context and situation, either allopathic or traditional Chinese medical practices could be used. From these base categories further specifications can be made. It is becoming more and more popular to see patients want to try to…

John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a depiction of an inescapable transition where the society is transformed from an old and wild social order to a modern and organized one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society in the past and how it died as a result of modernization. The western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from a lawless social order embodied by the gunslingers into a modern society governed by law and order (Ebert). The inevitable…

In 2012 a short story “The Third Dumpster,” Gish Jen expresses a fictional but all too real situation of a decision that separates two cultures and two generations. A Chinese American family, ever-aging parents, and two grown sons, Goodwin and Morehouse, face a significant decision of accommodating their parents with their living situation. The title has many connotations: it implies that by the time the “third” generation comes; the culture will be tossed away (dumped) and be uprooted forever…

The major Confucian ideas incorporate humankind or sympathy like the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, reliability and that of dutiful devotion. It presented the rule of basically regarding others as you might want to be dealt with and the idea of Yin and Yang which is also known as the two restricting powers that are for all time in clash with one another, prompting never-ending inconsistency and change.This idea presents itself with the thought of meritocracy, and of accommodating contrary…

Diego Rivera was well-known for paintings that portrayed Mexican life, society and the history of Mexican People. No matter what, Rivera did not shift his art and that shaped him to be somewhat controversial artist. Rivera was a communist who fought for communist ideal. He is an ideal of socially dedicated artist. His art describes such issues as Mexican labor, and American worker and Revolutionary figures. Rivera experienced the work of great masters such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and…

Religion is one of the most universal concepts found in human societies. It is an ancient concept that has remained in society till this day. Religion is a community of followers who believe in divine beings, or explanations of why things are a certain way. Though each religion is diverse they all have a sole persistence, which is to accentuate the importance of being virtuous and of living a moral lifestyle. Religion can be defined using characteristics, its role in society, and the lifestyle.…

to an arrangement of normal laws. So God—the universe– does not be able to pick. God is more similar to a characteristic machine. Truth be told, I, as a rule, allude to God as It and never as Him, unless I go with the word with Her to pass on the yin-yang part of the universe. In any case, to me, it is an exceptionally divine machine with rules and physical laws, which everything needs to comply. For instance, for each activity, there is an equivalent and inverse response or the pi of any circle…

death and eternal life. The direction west is associated with Yin, which is the dark female qi. The Queen Mother has the authority to grant or withhold individual immortality, as well as govern over the relationships between the gods and humans. The home of the Queen Mother is that of a garden on the sacred Kunlun Mountain. The consort to the Queen Mother is The Eastern King, Mu Gong. The Eastern King is her opposite, the yang qi to her yin qi. Even though the Eastern King is her consort he was…

The title Through Black Spruce signifies the passageway between the two different environments of Moosonee and the outside world. Moosonee is a ‘pure’ place, compared to the outside world but is being tainted from the negative influences of the outside world. The characters of Marius and Danny primarily introduce these influences as they smuggle drugs through the black spruce into Moosonee and sell it to the youth. Gordon, a “city Indian” proves that the outside world is not completely corrupt…