Tian Essays

  • Power In R. K. Narayan's The Ramayana

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    Corruption has been a theme throughout history with people in power. These people try to work this system to gain more power; others make the most out of the power they have. History repeats itself in the system of kingship depicted in The Ramayana, an epic by Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (R.K. Narayan). Some characters seek to possess the most power possible in their lifetimes, while others are content with the power they have and focus on their duty. In the epic, the people who are

  • What Happened Under The Shang And Zhou's Rule Of Heaven?

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    The Rule of Heaven While many cultures in the Neolithic Age developed in the Middle East such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley since 8000 B.C., the Chinese civilization evolved rapidly in under the Shang and Zhou dynasties. As any civilization in that period, providing safety and economic wealth were the main duties for any ruler; however, the Chinese early political system was little different than other civilizations. For instance, in Egypt, the pharaoh was viewed as a living God and

  • Informative Speech On Elaine Tian

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    Today, I am going to speak with you about Studio Joo and it’s creator, Elaine Tian. In 2014, Elaine won the Madeline Sadin Award for ceramics which was presented by the Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. “What I do now is the opposite of my former life as a graphic designer, where mistakes aren’t accepted,” says Tian, who moved to New York City in 2001 after completing her BFA in Australia. Studio Joo is where form and function meet. I was first drawn to her work because it closely resembles

  • Crash Emily Tian Analysis

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    redundant. The author goes on a tangent about a notorious “her”, before jarringly switching back to the scene of the action. Because the submission is so short, it leaves the reader feeling confused and disoriented. To the First Reader: Dear Emily Tian, thank you for your commentary on submission 10557 (“Crash”). I was really impressed by how varied your comments were - they ranged from suggestions on punctuation to figurative language to deleting/modifying certain lines if you believed they were

  • Confucian Cosmology

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    emphasizes the unity of earth and tian, or heaven, into a single system. Tian is all-encompassing and, unlike Judeo-Christian conceptions of heaven, is not a place governed by God, but a natural and self-inducing cycle of generation and destruction. Tian is neither static nor finite. So, despite the predictable patterns that tian produces, such as the “four seasons” and the birth and growth of “myriad things,” tian itself cannot be truly known (17.19). Following “the way of tian” means rowing with the cosmological

  • A Cultural Analysis Of Disney's Mulan

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    “precious treasures of world culture” they don’t just copy it, they use it and distort certain components to adapt it to the culture it intended to reach through adapting strategies such as addiction, omission, specification, explication and alteration. (Tian and Xiong) The two authors go into depth in comparing the ballad to the film in terms of characters and plot. They state that the film adds characters such as Li Shang, Grandmother Fa, and several other while some details in the plot were also added

  • Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

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    something with your life”. This is ironic in a sense because Huu, is not allowing G.B. to achieve his dream of being an artist because Huu, himself wanted to become an artist as well, but his father Huu Nghiep would not allow him too. Just like in Hunger, Tian and his father had a falling out, just like Tri and Nghiep had and both of them are making the same mistake and their children are paying for it. Tri and Nghiep had a strain relationship because Nghiep was a soldier for Vietnam, later a war hero, against

  • Mozi Vs Mencius

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    prescribes such legitimacy within the Tian, which for Mencius includes aspects of fate, nature, and deity. He believed that through Tian, deeds and actions popular to society would be revealed (5A5). Moreover, the rule of a moral king is compared to the rule of Tian. Mencius attributes certain values such as “Benevolence in relation to father and son, righteousness in relation to ruler and minister, […] the sage in relation to the Way of Heaven” (7B24) to Tian. As a result, Mencius sees a ruler to

  • Gunpowder's Delicate Role In Early Modern Society

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    Gunpowder played an enormous role in the early modern day society. It is said that is one of the most influential inventions ever developed. Gunpowder is “a propellant in firearms, rockets, fireworks, and as a blasting powder in quarrying, mining, and road building.” It consists of potassium, nitrate, common charcoal, and sulfur. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese in the 9th century. It soon evolved into many things such as weapons and firecrackers. The creation of gunpowder was not in China’s

  • Comparing Dao In Confucianism And Daoism

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    Comparing the Dao in Confucianism to the Dao in Daoism, similarities or differences Dao in Confucianism represents the entire normative human order. The Dao in Daoism antedates Tian and acts as the basis of the natural order. While in Confucian Dao they hold the ideal political-social-ethical order ordained by tian for the people. Confucianism encourages their perfectibility through self-effort the teaching of ethics and good movement. The primacy of the Confucian Dao requires superior human beings

  • The Zhou Dynasty: The Fall Of The Shang Dynasty

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    worship of Tian ("heaven"), and they created the Mandate of Heaven. According to this idea, there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and this ruler reigned as the "Son of Heaven" with the approval of the gods. If a king ruled unfairly he could lose this approval, which would result in his downfall. Overthrow, natural disasters, and famine were taken as a sign that the ruler had lost the Mandate of Heaven. The Chinese Character for "Tian" The Chinese character for "Tian," meaning

  • Analysis Of The Short Story Folding Beijing, By Hao Jingong

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    “Money can’t buy happiness.” “Money isn’t everything, its just paper.” Anyone who has ever grown up without money and lamented about it has heard these kinds of phrases many times. In looking around our culture and society today it would be hard to say those statements are true. While everyone has problems, rich and poor alike, having money gives you access to more solutions to those problems. The short story “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingang shows that while money may not be able to buy happiness

  • Celebrity Brand Congruence

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    affiliations can influence consumers’ emotional feelings and consumption behavior (Russell & Stern, 2006; Tian & Hoffner, 2010). Stronger the attachment to and identification of the celebrity, stronger the consumers’ desire to follow the lifestyle of and decision made by the protagonists. This is because the character is viewed as an important referent other (Su, Huang, Brodowsky, & Kim, 2011; Tian & Hoffner, 2010). In addition, identification and empathy with the celebrities (characters) provides a

  • Weight And Truth In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

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    Weight and Truth, two terms with definitions that appear as simple and concrete ideas. Simply put, Weight is the measure of how heavy something is. Truth is a fact about an event or idea. However, in the Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a fictional novel about a squad of American soldiers in the Vietnam War narrated by a character who takes the author’s name, O’Brien uses his own definitions of Weight and Truth. The men carry physical and mental burdens both during and after the war. The men

  • Lady Macbeth And Curley's Wife Analysis

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    The play written by William Shakespeare “Macbeth” is about a tragedy that took place in Scotland. The play shows that when an individual seeks political power for his own selfish sake, he is bound to go through physical and psychological effects of it. The character that will be in focus from this play will be Lady Macbeth, wife of Macbeth (the main character). Lady Macbeth was the type of person who wanted power and would want nothing less than that. She had tried every trick in her power to attain

  • Tattoo Hypothesis Statement

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    Background and Hypothesis statement Since the Tattoo Show Convention of 2007 held in Beijing, the practice of getting tattoos has slowly started being accepted in China. As a result more Chinese have begun getting these indelible marks on their bodies. During the Convention, a photographer claimed that in certain areas of China

  • Christianity Vs Chinese Religion Essay

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    Religion is the pure devotion to something that is hard to understand, grasp, and unknown to be true. For some, the thought of looking past the unknown to something that is bigger than themselves is just not their cup of tea. For others, the thought of something unexplainable, grand, and the all knowing is something that they need to help guide them through life. Whatever you chose is completely and utterly your decision and no one should be able to tell you otherwise. People find comfort when turning

  • Meli Marine Case Study Summary

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    Introduction Meli Marine Company is a Singapore company founded in 1974. After a couple of years’ management by Edwin Chang, this company was conversion to outside management by David Tian in late 1991 and focus on Inter-Asia shipping lanes. During the period of reshaping by Tian, this company had favorable development and becoming a leading company in inter-Asia market. Currently, the executives of Meli consider whether Meli Marine expand the new lane and enter into the Asia-North America market

  • Essay On Daoism

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    communities worship the founder of the doctrine, Laozi. Daoism, along with Confucianism, branches out of an ancient religion from China that took shape no longer than 1500 B.C.E. (Brood). Daoism does share some central ideas with Confucianism such as, Tian, Dao, and De, while they share these ideas, their interpretations are quite different. Daodejing, is known also as the Laozi and The Scripture of the Way and Its Potent

  • Bus 540 Organizational Behavior Paper

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    So, the betterment of organization depends upon the structure of the organization. Structure in one sense is the arrangement of duties use for the work to be done (Tran & Tian, 2013). That means it is the structure is the arrangement of the worked to be performed in order to achieve a certain goal/objective. This structure can be vertical flowing from the top to bottom or can flow in same level. In the video of IDEO, we