Zhao Tao

Rosetta was a wonderful and useful spacecraft. Results of Rosetta’s mission were very interesting and helpful to the astronomers. The scientific instruments involved in Rosetta’s mission were very supportive in collecting data. There were lots of people longing for Rosetta’s mission. Rosetta’s timeline starts off with Rosetta being launched. On March 2nd, 2004, the spacecraft Rosetta was launched from Kourou, French Guiana along with spacecraft Philae, its lander module. On March 4th, 2005, Rosetta had a planned close swing-by of Earth. In total, Rosetta had a total of three swing-bys of Earth. On July 10th, 2010, Rosetta managed to fly by and photographed asteroid 21 Lutetia. Rosetta started on orbital correction maneuvers to bring itself into orbit around 67P. On July 23rd, 2014, Rosetta was finished with its orbital corrections. On April 14th, 2015, scientists reported the comet's nucleus has no magnetic field of its own. On September 30th, 2016, the Rosetta mission was ended in an attempt to land on the comet's surface. In total, the mission lasted for 12 years, 6 months, 28 days. During the mission, there were lots of important firsts. Rosetta was the first European spacecraft to have a close encounter with asteroids while passing through the asteroid belt. But, the first spacecraft in general to do that was Pioneer 10; nevertheless, what Rosetta did is a huge accomplishment. Along with traveling through the asteroid belt, Rosetta was also the first to fly close to…

Essay 1: The Idea of Heaven in Confucianism Starting in the early period of Chinese history, “ Heaven ” had already become one of the core ideas of Chinese culture. Not only is it a physical location, but also a symbol of regulating. People believe that whatever happens on earth, Heaven will always be watching over and evaluating. In this way, people have fate. For Confucius, Heaven is more about ethical assets. If people follow the appropriate moral order, then they would be on their…

The Daodejing we read is the first book of two. This book focuses on the Way while the second book focuses on Virtue. In this first book there are thirty-seven chapters. Each chapter is its own lesson and contains a meaning separate and independent from the other chapters. The first book has some themes that each of these chapters fall under: the Dao, nothingness, non-desiring, nature as a model, wuwei-nonaction, and knowledge and value. The Daodejing has three parts to this word; Dao means Way,…

What is the meaning of Dao? How does Daoism view human nature? What is the human predicament, or problem, according to Daoist teachings, and how do we, as humans, achieve harmony with the Dao? Dao, also known as Tao, is a Chinese word meaning principle, path or route. It may loosely be defined as the code of conduct expected of human beings. Tao, therefore, emphasizes the virtues that dictate and regulate the way of life people. Among these attributes include the peaceful co-existence and…

possibility of it diminishing the progress attempting to be made by reforms when he stated that, “any social turbulence and chaos which will hamper the advancement of reform and construction and gravely impair the fundamental interests of the people. . . runs counter to the aspiration of the masses of people.” It was this type of thinking that would be echoed during the debates that occurred as to whether it would be necessary to use force against the protesters. While there were numerous…

culture is a subject society. Chinese society and politics are shaped by the communist party and elites, and the Chinese people are unable to change this. In the book, the author describes news blackouts which prohibit any covering of the specified topic. In fact, around the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, the covering of any bad news is prohibited, and the government forces political dissidents to “recuperate outside of the city”. Those who do not obey, are then forced out of the city by the…

Prior to the events of The Tiananmen Square massacre it was the site of student protests since the 1919 May Fourth Movement. A major cause for the protest at Tiananmen Square was to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang in April which led to the unrest of student protests and ideas of upheaving the current government. Hu Yaobang was sympathetic towards the student’s demonstrations for prodemocracy and his death sparked student leaders will to protest against the communist party. The students were…

to gather. The death of Hu let the students’ discontent unveil. Students marched from campuses towards Tiananmen Square and numbers continued to increase. Students gave speeches commemorating Hu and bringing up social problems. Soon there was a list of seven demands for the government, and students knelt on the steps of the Great Hall to present them to Li Peng. No leader emerged to receive the petition, and organization of the student protestors began. Zhao Ziyang was sympathetic to the…

and resist what nature is telling you (Lee). The author Jacob Lee used a quote from The Book of the Way and its Virtue by Tao Te Ching saying that, “The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name.” (Lee). The author states that when speaking of the Dao that a lot of times that is referred to in sentences that do not make sense (Lee). There are also three other concepts that go along with the concept of Daoism. The three concepts are Qi, yin…

The concept of dao (the Way) has been a fundamental component to various schools of Chinese philosophy, in particular the school of Confucianism and Daoism. Xunzi, a Confucian scholar, and the Laozi, the Daoist text otherwise known as the Daodejing), illustrate how the concept of dao integrated in all aspects of life of ancient Chinese civilians. Though they share similarities in the audience consuming their working definition of dao, there are certainly disparities in the ideologies of the Way…