Justin the main character from Buddha Boy Written by Kathe Koja, is a Judgmental teenager. In the beginning all Justin cares about is fitting in and and staying out of trouble with the popular kids. Until a new kid Jinsen wears an oversized tie-dyed dragon T- shirts, shaves his head, and always seems to be happy. Justin thinks “… just strange, or one of those deep-sea plants, waving waxy fingers on the ocean floor.” (pg.7) This quote shows Justin can be really disapproving or negative about other people and he might not think much before actually meeting the person. Later In the story Justin thinks more about who the person is and the actions they do. Justin said “I think it’s nobody’s d*** business what she wears.” (pg.73) Justin Becomes
more than just a follower he becomes more caring and respectful. Some people wouldn't stand up for people like Justin did to his friends. Even when people are rude or don't even make sense they can change. We can learn that at first glance you don't have to judge or be mean you should take time to know them before you get to know them. Many people say or think that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but end up doing that by judging not just books but people, houses, even food. So are you judging before actually thinking.
The thirteenth chapter of Buddha Boy starts off with Justin, Megan, and Jakob are sitting together at The Pride of Rucher Assembly. The usual students who receive awards are announced and McManus receives the awards, Outstanding Student Athlete and Student Leadership, which Justin is annoyed by. But surprisingly Jinsen receives an award for his banner and embodying the best of the student body. When it is time to leave school, Meg lost her keys so Justin and Meg head backstage to find them. But when entering the auditorium, they see the remains of Jinsen’s banner, which is destroyed. Justin notices Jinsen is looking at the banner, his eyes slits and angry, wanting revenge, but Justin tells Jinsen don’t and grabs the remains of the poster.
The Buddha was and is an important figure in several different cultures, and his influence has spread over large areas. Across these different cultures, many forms of art portrayed him in different ways. In Japan, one of the Buddha’s titles stood out as the “Amida Buddha.” The statue that this paper will be detailing portrays “Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light” (“Amida”). The statue is located in the Dayton Art Institute’s Japanese Art Gallery 105 with the acquisition number 1935.1. Created in the thirteenth century during the Kamakura period, this statue stands out in the Dayton Art Institute as a prominent Buddha figure. It is made of wood with lacquer and gilt, and it was built to be approximately the size of a normal person.
Many people have a feeling of unfulfillment at some point in their lives. They feel that they are not living life to the fullest, and make drastic changes in order to reach that feeling of true fulfillment. This feeling is usually manifested as a “mid-life crisis,” which is when middle-aged people face a major shift of identity and self-confidence, causing them to act out and buy sports cars and have affairs with younger women in order to feel younger and more fulfilled. However, these feelings of unfulfillment can be manifested in other ways. In Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha and the movie Into the Wild, the main characters, Siddhartha and Chris McCandless, have these same feelings and make major life changes in order to reach complete happiness
Analysis of Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen The book Buddhism Plain and Simple, by Steve Hagen, caught my attention and became more interesting to me than I thought. I have always heard of the religion Buddhism, but I never knew what it was all about. I never thought that Buddhism was as huge as it is. I knew that it existed in other countries, but I never knew what exact countries. Many of the views in this book surprised me and the book taught me a lot about morals and better ways to live your life.
Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi and Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy are both coming-of-age narratives that were written through the eyes and experiences of young people who grew up in a world of apartheid. Although, it should be noted that they both have parallels in their stories as well as distinctions one should take into account the times and places in which each occurred. While Coming of Age in Mississippi occurred during a Jim Crow era in the American South, between 1944 and 1968, Kaffir Boy’s autobiographical narrative occurred in the regime of South Africa’s apartheid struggle from 1960 to 1978 in the town of Alexandra. During the late 20th century both narratives offer a framework of racism, a value and yearn for education and the struggle and will to survive. This essay will compile how both narratives experienced their areas race-relations given the time and place that they are in.
Steve Jobs once said, during a commencement speech at Stanford, “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice” (Goodreads). Every single person on earth is a unique individual with their own thoughts and actions. In life every person goes through a stage of growth and development, both mentally and physically, where they are striving to become a more complete human being not constrained by their youth. This stage usually develops during adolescence, happening in the teenage years of one’s life. It also happens that this is occurring during the time of school when children are starting to study harder material and deal with more complex social situations.
Ashvaghosha’s Buddhacarita: The Life of the Buddha serves as one of the most relevant and profound texts regarding the Buddhist religion and it’s foundations. However, unlike other popular religious texts, this one does not serve as a historical document but rather a vessel for explaining the teachings of the Buddha, serving as a guide for the followers of the Enlightened One. Ashvaghosha’s descriptions of the Buddha, his life, and his actions provide an example of the Buddha’s disciplines and truths, giving his followers a detailed and structured idea of his way of life. The Buddhacarita’s descriptions in particular focus on the teaching of pervasive suffering, it’s causes, and the paths (both right and wrong) to breaking free from it.
After the Han dynasty collapsed in 220 CE, China faced a period of political disunity, during that time Buddhism gained popularity with the Chinese people. Both foreign and Chinese monks were actively involved in establishing monasteries and lecturing on the Buddhist teachings. Many Chinese people accepted Buddhism and advocated its principles such as the philosophy and promise of afterlife over the Confucian ideals, but the truth was that Chinese people turned to Buddhism for its promises of eternal enlightenment during times of struggle. However, lots of people rejected the concept of Buddhism because it was a foreign influence, as well as a belief that it lowered the status of upper-class people. Nonetheless, many people converted to Buddhism because it allowed them to break out of the rigid hierarchy that Confucianism imposed, which is why it was common among the lower classes. Document 2, written by Zhi Dun, illustrates the reasons for the initial compatibility of Buddhism with the time period. Zhi is scholar who clearly admires Buddhism, who sees its value in correct observances in face of uncontrolled passion. Zhi Dun wrote how in times of upheaval, Buddhism presents a comforting worldview for Chinese scholars and aristocrats.
The Buddha in the Attic is written to represent the unheard experiences of many different women that married their husband through a picture. They were known during the early 1920s as the pictures brides ranging in different ages, but naive to the world outside of America. Though the picture bride system was basically the same as their fathers selling their sister to the geisha house, these women viewed being bought to be a wife by a Japanese male in America as an opportunity for freedom and hope for a better life (Otsuka, 2011, p.5) For some of these women, the choice to marry the man in the picture wasn’t an option and chose to die while on the boat instead of marry a stranger, while others accepted their fates with grace. The book continues
In life, there are many objects that define a person and who they are. The items that define me as a person are items with close memories of me, and they are the things that people can remember me by. Without objects in life, we cannot have the memories that define us as a person.
Boyhood is a cinematic time lapse over the span of 12 years documenting a boy named Mason, from the years 6 to 18 going through the struggles and triumphs of childhood and adulthood. The purpose of the movie is to illustrate how Mason travels through young adulthood and his experiences to show how it shapes him as a person. The independent movie gained much praise from audiences and critics alike. It cannot be argued, however, that it is like no other coming of age movie.
Throughout history, technological development has increased society’s need to observe one’s self within both media, and a real life setting. Nam June Paik’s “TV Buddha”, pictured below, (1974) is an example of how technology garners the attention of an individual to their self, facilitated through many forms of media, in this scenario, television. This work translates the artists intended reaction into the audience’s incidental reaction, as well as the way in which the artwork transmits its message. Contextually, the work was created in a time where new and emerging technologies were beginning, and the installation depicts a statue of Buddha, set before a camera that is designed to project his own image onto a TV screen in front of it. This gives the impression that he is silently contemplating his own image, as it infinitely appears on the TV screen, due to the presence of the camera (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/422/Nam%20June%20Paik). In a cultural aspect, the Buddha is revered as a being who “embodies flawless purity and selflessness” (Bogoda, R, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bogoda/bl139.html), a direct
Karim Amir, the 17 year old anti-hero of “The Buddha of Suburbia” (1990) is mostly loved among all other characters created by the iconoclastic novelist, playwright and screen play writer,
The Religious, Social, Economic and Political Conditions at the Time of the Buddha It was around the 6th Century BC, when the historical figure known as 'the Buddha' started a complete new way of life. Buddhism. Rejecting his luxurious upbringing, he set out as a nomadic ascetic, eventually refusing this extreme also, choosing what he named the 'middle path' to enlightenment and freedom from life's pains. In order to completely understand these teachings of the Buddha, we need to appreciate the world of immense change, upheaval and innovation that he lived and taught in.
R. K. Narayan is one of the most prominent novelists of Indian Writing in English. He has Sixteen Novels and over a half a dozen volumes of short stories besides several essays and travelogues to his credit. His novels are full of microcosmic India caught in the conventions, traditions and social changes. His characters are lively presentations of common Indians. Events reflect the real happiness of society. His heroines are replicas of common Indian women. Narayan, despite living like a pure Indian absorbed in religion and family, has successfully achieved a feat of expressing his creative urge in an alien language, that is, English and has come one of the most popular