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"Monkey: Folk Novel of China", 2002.
A review of "Monkey: Folk Novel of China" with an emphasis on how it can be considered an accurate reflection of Chinese thought.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper gives a brief summary of "Monkey: Folk Novel of China" and its main characters, both earthly and supernatural/divine. It discusses how aspects of ancient Chinese society are reflected in the novel's allegory: government, parental relations, religion, etc. It also discusses the remarkable plurality of Chinese religions and philosophies.
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"Monkey: Folk Novel", 2002.
A review of the book "Monkey: Folk Novel" by Wu Cheng which describes Chinese traditions.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This is a report on Wu Cheng En's "Monkey: Folk Novel" of China and how it portrays Chinese religious traditions. Specifically, the report describes how Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism are reflected in the novel and Chinese life at the time the book was written (between 1350 and 1425 AD). The paper concludes that all three of these religions have contributed to China's religious and cultural life.
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Monkey and "The Journey to the West", 2002.
A discussion of the character and the spirit of Monkey in the Chinese story, "The Journey to the West".
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper looks at how the story of Monkey, or Sun Wukung, and his journey west has fascinated and delighted readers for hundreds of years. "The Journey to the West" was compiled and polished by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century, but the legend existed long before that and is based on the true story of Xuan Zang (602-664), a Buddhist monk and his journey to India in search of sutras. In particular, it focuses on the character of Monkey, who is born from a rock, and eventually makes trouble for the Gods. It analyzes how the character and spirit of Monkey is extremely free and unrestrained, playful, and impetuous, and how the story of Monkey parallels the growth of man and the growth of a religion at the same time.
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"Monkey is a simple creature really (Hanabakate, 2003). The fact that he is seemingly unaffected by the little annoyances that the world offers up seems, however, too good to be true (Hanabakate, 2003). Later he goes on to say that he has no last name (Hanabakate, 2003). Lai (1994) points out: ?Monkey?s first answer makes him seem a nitwit: that monkey of a description of himself is his being himself. But when he further clarifies the situation with his second answer, he truly shows his "naturalness." He is, to use an American expression that the Taoists would applaud, "a natural." This child of nature is as nameless as nature itself?."
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Folk Medicine, 2002.
Looks at the typical approach taken in the study of folk medicine.
4,252 words (approx. 17.0 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 113.95
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This paper looks at the tendency for those who research folk medicine to define folk medicine within the framework of supernatural occurrences, instead of interpreting it within a medical context and attempting to prove its ?medical effectiveness. The paper then discusses the confusion surrounding the practice and efficacy of folk medicine and the political and medical debates this confusion has ignited. Also covered are the history and different cultural traditions of folk medicine and how some of these traditions are being incorporated into modern methods of medical treatment.
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"It is somewhat a surprise that those who study folk medicine have paid little attention to the narrative tradition of folk medicine and faith healing. Rather than interpreting folk medicine and faith healing within a medical context and attempting to prove its ?medical effectiveness,? researchers are encouraged to define folk medicine within the framework of pure dogma and supernatural occurrence. Stories of preternatural healing are told and re-told in stories that beckon the listener to contemplate the mysteries of folk healing and the study of true medical miracles. ?(Amazing) powers and healings are explained and located in the narrator?s reality, thus making narratives constructions rather than reflections of reality."
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Snow Monkeys of Japan, 2005.
This paper discusses the life of the Japanese snow monkey.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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In this paper, the writer describes the basic life history of the Japanese snow monkey. The writer discusses the physical and mental attributes of the Japanese snow monkey. The writer looks at migration pattern, diet and the social life of these snow monkeys.
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"The snow monkeys of Japan or Japanese macaques Macaca fuscata are the Northern-most nonhuman primates and are native to Japan. They live in a variety of habitats mostly forest. They have graying-brown fur and pink hands feet and bottoms. These intelligent creatures are ... "
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Folk Psychology, 2002.
Discusses how connectionism, eliminative materialism and functionalism reflect the negative aspects of folk psychology.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 115.95
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Connectionism, eliminative materialism, and even functionalism have shown the weaknesses in folk psychology. We also see the complexity of the entire phenomenon in the realm of mental representations and the computational approach. Indeed, in examining the question of whether computers can think like the brain, we crystallize and illuminate many of these complex questions. Overall, while many theories and views cast doubt on folk psychology, however, they continue to have just as many flaws in their own assumptions, and folk psychology continues to have a certain structure that underpins our basic understandings. In other words, it has its flaws, but there is yet to be anything to sufficiently and successfully replace it.
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Vassily Kandinsky: A True Folk Artist, 2004.
The history of Vassily Kandinsky and what made him a folk artist.
4,107 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper describes the folk artist that is Vassily Kandinsky; his background, what defines a folk artist, and how Kandinsky progressed from the general art of the 1900s in to a force that changed the way modern art is viewed. Examples of his art are enclosed.
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"The folk artist of the twentieth-century has been widely viewed as an artist that is not universally popular, accessible, or substantial to the progression of popular art. By the World Artist Dictionary, folk art can be defined as simply na?ve, primitive art that is done by someone who has had no artistic institutionalized training. Generally speaking, folk art is commonly thought of as figurine work, quilted blankets, beads and jewelry art; generally items that are thought of as simple traditional pieces that do not require specialized training. Russian born painter Vasily Kandinsky is an artist who transforms the notion of folk art to something that can be popular and significant. He represents the truest folk artist by his experiences as an ethnographer who traveled to the Vologda region near Siberia, his background in the Ukranian and Russian churches, and by his drive to illustrate traditional Russian lore and values while incorporating them in to the twentieth-century art movement."
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"Russian Folk Belief", 2004.
A review of the book, "Russian Folk Belief", by Linda Ivanits.
1,615 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses Linda Ivanits?s book, "Russian Folk Belief". The paper states that the book is a foundational, and possibly one-of-a-kind work, exploring concepts of Russian culture that have previously been unknown. The bedrock themes that are present within Ivanits's work are continually demonstrated within her text through real memories and experiences of Russian people. The paper describes how Ivanits clearly demonstrates how a tradition associated with eons of standards and cultural practices has evolved through more modern times into the age of Christianity. Each section of her book weaves the roots of Russian folk belief with the dominance of the Christian ethic and practice.
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"Ivanits give and initial account of the Pagan history of many supernatural beliefs and identities all of which are rich and varied and inclusive of the Russian peasant lifestyle. Ivanits then moves on to introduce the reader to the themes as they associate to the names and faces of the Christian personages. Superimposition of the personification of the saints and characters of the past in Russian Orthodoxy is proven without a doubt to be associated with the foundational personifications of historical supernatural pagan identities. "
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?The Monkey Garden?, 2002.
A review of ?The Monkey Garden? by Sandra Cisneros.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses how in the novel, "The Monkey Garden", Sandra Cisneros paints a haunting portrait of a young girl's loss of innocence in a place that had previously symbolized the imagination and freedom of childhood. It examines how, because of her traumatic introduction into adolescent sexuality, the young girl longs for death rather than face losing the innocence and safety of her monkey garden.
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"For Esperanza, the garden was "a wonderful thing to look at in the spring" (95). The images she uses to describe this wonderful thing are full of childlike wonder -- of cockscombs the "deep red fringe of theater curtains" and fruit trees that yield sweet peaches and "green apples hard as knees." The reader's early introduction into the garden is into a magical place, a veritable Garden of Eden that is stimulates all the senses with its aromas and lush beauty."
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Darwinism and the Scopes Monkey Trial, 2004.
An examination of Charles Darwin's controversial theory of human evolution and the Scopes Monkey Trial.
1,777 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses how Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has met with much controversy throughout history. The paper points out that the issue of whether an all-mighty God created the universe and people or whether people evolved from monkeys remains a heated topic. To illustrate this, the paper focuses on the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee in the Rhea County Courthouse. John Scopes, a substitute biology teacher, was accused of breaking the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of the evolution theory in all the universities and public schools of Tennessee. The paper asserts that the trial went beyond being just the trying of a man who taught evolution against the law. It became a trial of religion vs. evolution. The paper concludes that, although Scopes lost the case, he won the public's favor.
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"Dayton Tennessee was a small town and many Daytonians viewed the Scopes trial as an opportunity to put their town on the map. Under normal circumstances, the law would not have been challenged but a plan was hatched out by George Rappleyea, a staunch evolutionist and local businessman in Rhea County, who saw the trial as a way to attract money and attention to the small town, helping to raise up its failing economy. During the trial, the normally quiet yet prosperous town became, for about two hot weeks in July, a fair of lemonade and hotdog stands, banners and monkey pennants, caged apes, hawkers of religious tracts and biology texts, Holy Rollers and evangelists, and hundreds of members of the press. Dayton was, however, a very religious community, and with nine churches in town, it was apparent why the people did not want evolution taught in the classrooms. H. L. Mencken, a writer who once visited the town said it was "full of charm and even some beauty" but also complained that because of its strong religious beliefs the town had "no bootleggers, no gambling, no place to dance, and that no fancy women." During the trial however, it was said that the town "was literally drunk on religious excitement." There was seating available in the courthouse for 700, but 300 more standees crammed in to watch Dayton's most historic event take place. Rappleyea's plan was coming into play and working just as he had hoped. Attention to the town was coming from all over as the trial began."
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"The Monkey and the Monk": An Allegory, 2008.
An examination of a major theme of social criticism in the abridged novel, "The Monkey and the Monk," based off of the Chinese classic, "The Journey to the West," by Anthony Yu.
1,775 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 57.95
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The author of this paper examines a major theme in the novel, "The Monkey and the Monk": that of the extraordinarily complicated and multi-layered bureaucracy of Chinese imperial society; manifested in the novel in the form of the celestial bureaucracy of Heaven. The essay explores this aspect of the work, with a particular reference to the figure of Sun Wukong or Monkey King.
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"Clearly, this interaction of Monkey King with the Heavenly bureaucracy is depicted as a comic satire of the excessive claims of bureaucratic power. For readers of this story, it may be argued that an implied social criticism of the Chinese imperial bureaucracy would be inescapable. While the Jade Emperor would seem to be the Heavenly parallel to the Chinese Emperor, the fact that the power of even this eminent celestial being seems to be bound by records and accounts implies that the power of the earthly emperor is subject to such restrictions as well."
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"Crick, Crack Monkey", 2004.
A review of the novel, "Crick, Crack Monkey," written by Merle Hodge.
1,442 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the book, "Crick, Crack Monkey," written by Merle Hodge, describing it as a fantastic example of what is known as a picaresque novel in which an outsider experiences a life of trial, trying to assimilate and fit in, despite the challenges of existence as an outsider. The paper examines the role played by the main character of the story, Tee, illustrating the differences in her character as a child and as an adult.
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"Tee fondly remembers the way in which she used to tease and even brutalize her city cousins with the help of her brother and yet cannot honestly remember how she ever felt the courage and self value to do so. (87) Though Tee knows that this person inside her once existed she feels more and more foreign to her as she realizes the demands placed upon her cousins, as those now placed upon her and though she feels for their plight she also sees no way clear to redeem herself in their eyes or in the eyes of her forever critical aunt, cousins or teacher."
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"Souls of Black Folk", 2002.
An analysis of "Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss "Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois and uncover the major ideas put forward by Dubois - finding the black soul. He uses many ideas to categorize his meanings, while giving a clear representation of black life in America. Examples from the book will explain what he meant in writing the book and how this was achieved. By analyzing three themes in this book, we can see how Dubois covered many aspects of black thinking and helped to change the way of life for blacks in America.
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Cheng'en?s ?Monkey? and Voltaire?s ?Candide?, 2004.
This paper compares the novel, ?Monkey? by Cheng'en, a classic Chinese mythological novel first written in the 16th century, and the novel, ?Candide? by Voltaire, a satirical European novel written in the 18th century.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses that the first major similarity involves the qualities of the two main characters, Monkey and Candide, who both are rebelling from the general beliefs and rules of society. The author points out that another similarity for the two main characters is their physical journey, which represents a journey to enlightenment. The paper relates that the final major similarity in the two works is that they both make significant use of humor because the books are dealing with complex and serious issues including philosophy, suffering, and religion.
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"The seriousness of these issues makes writing about them a difficult process and one that could easily result in a book that is difficult for the reader to enjoy. In both cases, the author has chosen humor as a means of ensuring that the books remain accessible and enjoyable, even with the tough issues they deal with. In Candide, examples of suffering are used throughout to present the real problems of the world. On his travels Candide sees people being burned to death to prevent earthquakes, sees people dying in a war over a worthless piece of land, and sees a Pope acting in ways no better than common people. Without the satire and humor Voltaire incorporates into the work, the suffering depicted would be overwhelming and the book would be difficult to enjoy."
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The Monkey in "The Journey to the West", 2004.
Discusses the character and the spirit of the monkey character in the Chinese story, "The Journey to the West".
1,054 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper begins by briefly summarizing the 16th century legend about a Buddhist monk and his journey to India. The paper then goes on to analyze the character, spirit, and flaws of Monkey, the main character in the story.
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"The story of Monkey, his myth, parallels the growth of man and the growth of a religion at the same time (Hanabakate, 2003). Monkey is born from a rock and becomes par with the gods (Hanabakate, 2003). The beginning of his life is filled with one act of defiance after another as he fights his way to the top (Hanabakate, 2003)."
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