Chapter 35 from Chinese Civilization presents the intense debate between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang in terms of a series of reforming policies conducted by Wang. Essentially‚ the debate is denominational: Sima‚ an advocator of Confucius‚ represents the conservatives‚ and Wang represents innovationists. Wang and Sima were in fact good friends and both were erudite central government officials‚ yet they held very different political stand. Sima highly emphasizes the conservative Confucius philosophy
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CHINESE MOURNING RITUALS In premodern China‚ the great majority of people held beliefs and observed practices related to death that they learned as members of families and villages‚ not as members of organized religions. Such beliefs and practices are often subsumed under the umbrella of "Chinese popular religion." Institutional forms of Buddhism‚ Confucianism‚ Taoism‚ and other traditions contributed many beliefs and practices to popular religion in its local variants. These traditions‚ especially
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Dr. Michelle Brown English 325 101 Ceremony Assignment 28 January 2013 Throughout Silko’s novel‚ Ceremony‚ a sense of conflict between light and darkness is clearly evident. This struggle is personified mainly through Tayo’s battle within his psyche. Tayo’s struggle with battle fatigue leads him on a quest for purification. With the help of Betonie‚ an insightful but eccentric medicine man‚ Tayo discovers the struggles apparent in the world which mirror his own mental constitution. Betonie
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Page 1 Leslie Silko’s Storyteller Response After reading the passage Storyteller by Leslie Silko‚ I have become more aware of the conceptual terms brought to us while reading and discussing in class. Cultural assimilation plays a huge part in Native American culture and still occurs today within tribes and families. Acculturation‚ similar to cultural assimilation depicts cultural interactions as happening at different levels and directions. In this response‚ I will analyze both of these
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by Islamic‚ Marji has to face the internal struggle of choosing between her family and her country. Tayo goes through a similar struggle in the novel “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko. Tayo being of mixed race‚ is constantly ridiculed and treated as an outsider by both sides of his culture‚ the whites and the Native Americans. Throughout “Ceremony” Tayo and a few other Native Americans frequently go to the bar. During one night out at the bar‚ Tayo and Emo‚ another person living on the reservation
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From Chinese Cinderella Growing up in a wealthy family in 1950s Hong Kong‚ Adeline Yen Mah should have had an enviable childhood‚ but she was rejected by her dominating stepmother and despised by her brothers and sisters. She was sent to a boarding school and left there. In this extract from her autobiography she relates one of the few occasions when she went home. Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again. Eight weeks more and it would be the end of term … in my case perhaps the end of
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Rosie Linde Art History‚ Professor Zervigon; Recitation‚ Gianna Loscerbo 1:082:106:14 Edwin Panofsky‚ “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait‚” The Burlington Magazine 64 (1934): 117-127 Arnolfini Wedding Portrait Controversy Erwin Panofsky was a prominent art historian of the twentieth century. He also was one of the foremost proponents of iconography‚ and attributed symbolic meaning to the various elements of the Arnolfini scene. He attributed the scene to be a document of the marriage
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Blood Wedding Social‚ cultural‚ historical context Federico Garcia Lorca wrote “Blood Wedding” in 1933 during the social turmoil that was taking place in Spain. His plays were viewed as controversial and opposed to traditional Spanish values and traditions. As a result of this‚ he was executed by a firing squad on 16th August 1936‚ following the outbreak of Spanish civil war. At the time that Lorca was writing “Blood Wedding” Spain had a non-pluralist society. All aspects of political and domestic
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FROM CHINESE CINDERELLA Adeline Yen Mah’s ‘Chinese Cinderella’ is the story of pain‚ rejection and triumph. Mental pain‚ contempt and cruelty were the harsh realities of her life. But the will to succeed and win recognition proved to be powerful motivating factors. The subtext is based in the years 1940-1950 and on memoirs of Adeline’s childhood. This extract is based on one of the few occasions when she went home. The title has a dreamy fairy tale like tone. It is used in an ironic manner and appropriately
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Storytelling and its Importance In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ the use of storytelling is quite prevalent. Within the framework of Ceremony there are references of the tradition of Native American storytelling along with the progression of telling a story. Storytelling within the Native American culture is oral‚ traditionally. The method of storytelling within Ceremony at the beginning lays down the framework of the entire book. Silko starts out the novel with a series of stories
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