Taijitu Essays

  • Sylvia Plath Duality

    835 Words  | 2 Pages

    Sylvia Plath wants to travel back in time and walk through a journey of what life was like before today’s generation by describing how men and women lived and how each of them were treated. Plath is extremely descriptive with the specific words she picks and her descriptive appearances. Women were looked at as people who offered “red silk flares of pedaled blood”, and men offered “sun’s blade”. When you look at what is thought to be two different women, but in a different universe, can most likely

  • The Yin Yang School

    1759 Words  | 4 Pages

    The Yin Yang School There is a tree that I know. It is a tall tree, and has been in existence for many years. The tree was there before the building that stands next to it. When the building was built, the tree was left standing and has adapted itself around the intrusion of the building. When I look at it though, I see more than most people do. I have spent many years with this tree and know every knot on it, and every branch that it has. When I sit back and look at it from a distance,

  • Analysis Of Paralogical Thinking By Tim Freke

    994 Words  | 2 Pages

    The prose “Paralogical Thinking” by Tim Freke introduces reality as being fundamentally paralogical and paradoxical. In this text, Tim Freke analyses the different perceptions of reality. The text talks about the meaning of paralogical thinking and how it is different from the logical thinking. Tim Freke defines paralogical thinking as the “both/and” thinking and logical thinking as the “either/or” thinking. The “either/or” logical thinking refers to the fact that there is only one solution and can

  • Jeet Kune Do

    732 Words  | 2 Pages

    art competitions of the day "dry land swimming". He believed that combat was spontaneous, and that a martial artist cannot predict it, only react to it, and that a good martial artist should "be like water" and move fluidly without hesitation. The Taijitu represents the concepts of yin and yang. The Chinese characters indicate: "Using no way as way" & "Having no limitation as limitation". The arrows represent the endless interaction between yang and yin.[1] RULES/ RULESET POPULAR CULTURE REFERENCES

  • The Gwangmu Reform (光武改革): The Grandiose Plan for Transformation

    2176 Words  | 5 Pages

    When people think of successful reforms or revolutions in Korean history, they rarely think of the end of the Chosun Dynasty as the likely part of history. Instead of the collapse of a Confucian Dynasty during the end of the 19th century, a reformation of an empire began, the Gwangmu Reform. Gwangmu reform formally began shortly after the proclamation of the Korean Empire (大韓帝國) in 1897. The reform lasted eight years until the Eulsa treaty (乙巳條約) with Japan in 1905; however, the practical start was