Cesar Aira Essay

In 1745, Olaudah Equiano was born in a small village in Isseke,Nigeria. His father was one of the chiefs in the village. At age eleven Equiano and his sister were kidnapped by two men and a woman never to see his home or parents again. After being kidnapped he was hiked across part of Africa untill he arrived at the coast where he was loaded onto a slave ship. While crossing the Atlantic to Barbados onboard the slave ship he and his countrymen were subject to horrors you could hardly imagine. Equiano tells about the horrors and torture slaves face not only on the slave ship but also on plantations and many other aspects of a slave's life. Equiano experienced almost all parts of a slave's existence. He was

When a man named Tzu-Kung asks his Master “What would you say about me as a person?” the Master calls him a utensil, and upon further prompting, continues to describe him as “a sacrificial vase of jade” (5:3). Fingarette explains the paradox apparent in the sacrificial vase in that while it is beautiful and complete on the outside, the inside remains empty, as it is not for utilitarian use (75). The Master’s dualistic description of the follower Tzu-Kung shows the need for harmony and balance between the opposing aspects of everyday life. Fingarette’s Holy Vessel is a symbol of one who is in harmony with all other members of humanity. This ultimate need for a strong community which resonates throughout the Analects shines through in this final

     The madrigal is a distinctive type of secular song that originated in Italy. It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished at small Italian courts. In the piece, Cruda Amarilli, Monteverdi uses many musical devices that are typical of a madrigal. The lyrics in this song are repeated, the music accompanies the text in interesting ways, and there is a wide range of vocal notes. After listening to the piece just once you can immediately feel the unrequited love Monteverdi is displaying through his words and music. The music and instrumentation in this piece aid the voices to establish form and mood through word painting. He uses word painting and cadences to develop a theme of unrequited love.

Q 1: Perform Verify and Count Commands for all three tables and identify any exceptions.

Deep within the trees little hooded men walk along a path to meditate and pray dressed in brown robes tied with nautical rope. They dwell in silence and live a life of celibacy. This is what most of think of when we hear the word monk. Throughout the years, monks have always been people of intrigue. They live a different lifestyle than most. They live a life of seclusion far from the mores of modern society, which often makes people ponder who these people really are and why they choose to participate in such a foreign religious movement. This paper will attempt to unravel the mysteries of this peculiar movement of by researching it's origin, the true meaning of a silent lives, and how key leaders have helped to

Marc Rosenbush’s film, Zen Noir (2004), is at first glance a film thoroughly ensconced in the themes of Zen Buddhism. Set in a dark and brooding film noir atmosphere, the film depicts the story of a deeply troubled detective, at the end of his rope, who finds himself at a Zen monastery in order to solve a murder. But once there, he realizes that things are not quite what they seem to be. As the film unfolds, we find that the world Rosenbush has created for us is wildly symbolic, and it becomes clear that the monastery is a symbol of the detective’s psyche and that he was not investigating a murder, but his own fear of death and loss. If this introspective, psychological element of the film is recognized, the Buddhist themes of the film become conflated with allegories of navigating the Western psyche. It is the contention of this paper that when the psychological themes of this film are investigated, we will find that the alleged Buddhist theme of enlightenment in the film must compete with a symbolic depiction of Jungian individuation.

An ironsmith, ship steward, crewman, cook, clerk, navigator, amateur scientist, and even a hairdresser. These are all jobs that Olaudah Equiano held during his lifetime. He has been called the "most influential African writer in both Africa, America and Britain before the Civil War", and was born in Essaka, Nigeria sometime during 1745 (O'Neale, 153). His family was part of the Ibo tribe, which was located in the North Ika Ibo region of Essaka. In his earliest years, Olaudah Equiano was trained in the art of war. His daily exercises included shooting and throwing javelins. As he states in his autobiography, two men and a woman, who came over the walls while the rest of the family was away, abducted Olaudah and his sister in

abrera made his major league debut on June 20, 2003, at 20 years old; Édgar Rentería, at 19 years old, was the only Marlins player to make his debut at a younger age. Cabrera hit a walk-off home run in his first major league game, following Billy Parker in 1972 and Josh Bard in 2002 as the third player since 1900 to hit a game-winning home run in his big-league debut.

Emiliano Zapata, born on August 8, 1879, in the village of Anenecuilco, Morelos (Mexico), Emiliano Zapata was of mestizo heritage and the son of a peasant medier, (a sharecropper or owner of a small plot of land). From the age of eighteen, after the death of his father, he had to support his mother and three sisters and managed to do so very successfully. The little farm prospered enough to allow Zapata to augment the already respectable status he had in his native village. In September of 1909, the residents of Anenecuilco elected Emiliano Zapata president of the village's "defense committee," an age-old group charged with defending the community's interests. In this position, it was Zapata's duty to represent his village's

Cruz Reynoso is one of these life changing people who changed history. In the film Sowing the seeds of justice it describes Cruz Reynoso early life as child who felt the injustice and know something had to be done. Reynoso was born into a Spanish-Speaking family of migrant farmworkers in Brea, California where is family would often travel north of the United States to pick crops in order to make money. Reynoso is the third child of the elven children his mother had and he had some barriers to break with his mother at home since his mother did not understand why Reynoso and his brothers wanted to read books instead of working in the fields. At that time, many young boys that came from migrant farm families like Reynoso, would quit their education

Mustela frenata is the scientific name of the long-tailed weasel. This scientific name of this species is known to be Latin and it refers to a bridle-like mask that is typical of weasel inhabitants in the southern sections of the United States. This species is also known as the bridled weasel or big stoat and it’s populated in much of Texas, mostly in the western, southern, and eastern parts of Texas. The long-tailed weasel is known for its looks of a small head with whiskers, a long body, and its short neck and legs. Throughout this research, we will discover that long-tailed weasels are solitary animals that live, reproduce, and thrive in southern sections of Texas.

Juana Barraza began her trial for murder in spring 2008, with prosecutors claiming that she was responsible for up to 40 killings over the previous six years. While Juana admitted to killing Ana Alfaro, claiming that she murdered the elderly woman out of anger because she resembled Juana’s abusive mother, she claimed that she was innocent of all of the other charges levied against her.

In the beginning of Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno", we were introduced with the character of Captain Amasa Delano. Delano was described as person with "singularly undistrustful good nature, not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated incentives, and hardly then, to indulge in personal alarms" (35). The description of Captain Delano implies that he is a good-natured person with an open hearted mind. Even though, Delano seems like a clever and experienced captain; during the events of the story he appears as a person who is naive to his surroundings. In my research I will try to answer questions regarding why Delano was unaware of the act that Babo and the rest of the slaves were playing.

Many are disconcerted by the idea that humans and Minds can be described as systems which operate based on interpretations of symbols, much like machines, computers, and robots: things that we have created yet do not think of as being “thinking,” themselves. We, as human beings, are comforted in the notion that we are born into this world with a fully capable Mind, a soul or spirit, and are, thereafter, free to choose our fate as we will. Although it seems plausible that we are born with Mind, I cannot subscribe to such a simplistic version of thinking about our true capacity for affecting outcome.

Each of the characters in “The Monkey and the Monk,” represent an important trait or idea of buddhism, and this novel can be used as a basic representation for buddhist ideas. Either the strengths, weaknesses, or backgrounds of each character can be analyzed and applied to traditional buddhist