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"The Tao of Physics" ( Fritjof Capra ), 1997.
Reviews work on practical & conceptual connections between modern science & mysticism, Western & Eastern approaches to reality, focusing on the need for balance between the two.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 1 source, $ 103.95
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"The search for knowledge in the West today is based very much on the scientific method and on rational inquiry, and this is often contrasted with the way of knowing in Eastern mysticism. The two means of ascertaining knowledge are normally considered to be far apart, but in Fritjof Capra's book The Tao of Physics, parallels are found between the two approaches which show that the insights of modern physics actually offer more explanation for certain elements of mysticism. The conclusion is that as the people of the world try to educate themselves in the sciences, they would do well to educate themselves in and to practice spiritualism and mysticism as well and so to gain insight from both ways of knowing.
Different cultures produce their own particular way of structuring the world they see around them. They use religion.."
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Frank Capra, 2002.
A discussion of five films directed by Frank Capra as summarized by author Ray Carney in his book "American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra".
875 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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The paper shows that with only one exception, most of director Frank Capra?s greatest movies take place during the depression, 1929-1941, or shortly after. His films are unique in that they are some of the first to display a faith in American opportunity and values in the context of institutional reform. This paper explores five Capra files in chronological order, "It Happened One Night"(1934), "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Meet John Doe" (1941)and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) as summarized by author Ray Carney in his book "American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra". The paper shows how Carney illustrates these films' inclusion of characters that display the courage to act on their own conviction and to sway out of control groups to act in the interest of common good.
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"MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN portrays Longfellow Deeds as a personification of small-town virtue. After inheriting $20 million from a distant relative, Deeds moves from Mandrake Falls, Vermont to a mansion in New York where he is victim not only to bureaucratic pressures and social scrutiny, but is actually threatened with being made over into someone else. Under attack by shyster lawyers with motives to steal his fortune, Deeds successfully defends himself in court so that he will be declared sane enough to distribute millions of dollars to destitute farmers. Carney?s interpretation of Capra?s motivation for this work is that given the fundamental state of affairs, the marginality, and alienation of individual in a society that he is unable imaginatively to leave, he must therefore shape some sort of public expressive performance."
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"The Tao Te Ching", 2006.
An analysis of the classic Chinese text, "The Tao Te Ching".
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper analyzes the "Tao Te Ching", the Chinese text that teaches there is one undivided truth at the root of all things. "Tao Te Ching" written in China about 2,500 years and is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. The "Tao Te Ching" provides the basis for the philosophical school of Taoism, an essential pillar of Chinese thought.
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"Stylistically, the verse uses a number of figures of speech. At the beginning is a series of antithesis or contrasting constructions as well as repetition of the word "be": "Yield and overcome"; "Bend and be straight"; "Empty and be full"; "Wear out and be new"; "Have little and gain." This whole part of the verse is also a tautology, saying the same thing with different words. The words also evoke images: The bending tree or plant, the full bucket of water, the warn out clothes.
These words in the beginning of the verse are also similar to "ying" and "yang." Yin originally meant "shady, secret, dark, mysterious, cold." Yang in turn meant "clear, bright, the sun, heat," the opposite of yin. From these basic opposites, a complete system of opposites was elaborated. Yin represents everything about the world that is dark, hidden, passive, receptive, yielding, cool, soft, and feminine."
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Tao Te Ching, 2005.
An analysis of Tao Te Ching, it's teachings and philosophies, and how we can relate it to life today.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper takes a look at the ideas and philosophies of Tao Te Ching, and how these ideas and philosophies can be applied in everyday modern life. According to this paper, the concept of Tao has trickled into western ideas, such as the expression of 'going with the flow'.
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"The Tao Te Ching is a mystical treatise of philosophy and individual spirituality. The central concept is the Tao, meaning the Way, followed by Wei-wu-wei which refers to action through inaction. Actions that are in harmony with Tao (Nature) are more productive than those which oppose the Tao. Our common expression today of 'going with the flow' is the essence of Chapter 64. This idea along with other concepts can be applied to current daily situations since Lao Tze is pertinent for the modern era just as the Tao Te Ching has had an influence on Chinese thought through the ages" (Lau ix).
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Capra's American Vision, 2002.
Examination of four Frank Capra?s movies namely: "Our Daily Bread", "Meet John Doe", "State of the Union" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and how the film director used his vision of American Democracy to try and make amendments in America.
801 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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A brief look at how Frank Capra became America's greatest filmmaker, using the Depression times as a source of humor in his films, sprinkled with great optimism. It shows how he was the symbol of hope for the hopeless; he used his "fantasies of goodwill" as a source of national morale in his films. It discusses how, in many of Capra's films, he uses the theme of Americanization of liberty ? whereby he further supported his idea for freedom for America.
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""Capraesque" means a blend of optimism, humor, patriotism, and, to those who really understand his work, darkness, despair, and the need to fight for things you care about ... Capra's heroes often undergo real suffering. But humor surrounds them ... The audience, like the hero, earns its laughs, and they don't come cheap. For those with the courage to see things with humor, the victory life offers in a Capra film is laughter. --Jeanine Basinge) [Mortimer]"
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"Edge of Taos Desert", 2002.
An analysis of "Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality" by Mabel Dodge Luhan on the geography of the area.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality" by Mabel Dodge Luhan and seek to understand why this author is so entranced with this geographic site. By revealing the people that lived there in the time that the book was written, we can see why the author used this book as a sort of return to her self in the scope of the desert. The scope of this paper will be to understand why she chose to see the desert as a home, rather than a barren and lifeless place.
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Tao Qian, 2005.
A discussion of the life of Tao Qian's life in a rural setting after retiring.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper explores Tao Qian's life in the country upon retiring from official life after a career of ten years. The paper shows how he exalts an everyday village mystic's life separate from sages of the mountain and the corruption he had known as a bureaucrat. However, the reader sees that he has not just thrown over the urban in favour of the rural.
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"Tao Yuan-Ming and a Poetic Rural Life. Introduction Tao Yuan-ming or Tao Qian (365-427) was born into a family of the minor gentry. He held a number of civil service posts before leaving educated circles to return to the countryside. He was born in Juijiang, Jiangxi Province, and like so many other Chinese artists, his once notable family that had fallen into poverty. As a young man, he wished to remain in the country but needed to support his parents. He served in a number of minor official posts, and a short period of time as a country magistrate, he retired, having had enough of the infighting of the Jin court and resigned."
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Tao Te Ching and Upanishads, 2002.
A comparison of the Ultimate Reality (God) as found in the "Tao Te Ching" and the "Upanishads".
2,633 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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A primary source-based examination of the similarities and differences between the understanding and description of 'Ultimate Reality' (or God) as found in the Taoist and Hindu main theological texts, the "Tao Te Ching" and the "Upanishads". History and explanations of the differing religious traditions and the concept of 'Ultimate Reality' are supplied. Cause of creation and nature of reality are discussed. Many textual references included. Includes annotated bibliography.
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"Although composed over two thousand years ago, the Upanishads and the ?Tao Te Ching? are considered to be the mystical texts par excellence of their respective religious traditions. The content of these documents were foundational to the establishment of Hinduism and Taoism and continue to be highly referenced within these traditions today. Primarily identified for their mystical content, these texts reflect a desire on the authors? behalf to identify through direct contact a reality that transcends their own, an Ultimate Reality."
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Tao Te Ching, Buddhism, and Hinduism, 2004.
Comparison and contrast of the religions and philosophies of Tao Te Ching, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
889 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper gives a brief history and explanation of three Eastern religions known as Tao Te Ching, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In addition, the paper points out the many similarities between the three philosophies, as well as their differences.
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"The Tao Te Ching shares a great number of similarities with Buddhist and Hindu beliefs, although there are some important differences between the three religions. The Tao Te Ching and Buddhism share similar ideas of harmony with the environment, nirvana, and even reincarnation. Similarly, Hinduism and the Tao Te Ching share a common understanding of human suffering, the relief from suffering, and the nature of the divine. Nonetheless, the differences between the Tao Te Ching and Hinduism are important. Ultimately, the Tao Te Ching, Hinduism, and Buddhism provide an interesting and welcome contrast to Western philosophy and thought."
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Tao Yuan Ming, 2005.
An analysis of the retirement of Tao Yuanming as seen through his poems.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper refers to several of Stephen Owen's translations of Tao Yuanming's poems. The paper indicates that however much the poet has favoured his leaving official life for the countryside that he does have moments of wondering if his decision was correct or just seeing that the village is merely different from that of which he grew tired in an educated profession.
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"Tao Yuanming (365-427 AD) - an Idyllic Retirement in the Countryside, and More. Introduction The man remembered as Tao Qian was born to a minor gentry family, perhaps part of the Tao clan, and held a number of minor civil service posts before deciding to retire to a village. Much of his work points to the circumstances that encouraged this rejection of official life, not through any particular expectation of it, but in a spirit of glorifying the individual. He has known well what was expected of a person of his background, as an educated Chinese, who would normally prefer a life of the towns."
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The Tao, 1991.
This paper examines the fundamental aspects that comprise Tao theology: Philosophical Taoism, physical Taoism and religious Taoism.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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"There are three separate schools of Taoism, each of which emerges from a different perspective on the Tao. Philosophical Taoism, physical Taoism, and religious Taoism are the categories of modern.day Taoism.
Fundamentals of Taoism
The Tao is defined as the "way." This is a somewhat ambiguous term, because it is used to define ultimacy. Tao is seen as the underlying reality, the core of reality, or the way of ultimacy. It is perceivable, but not readily describable. One of the more popular sayings within the Tao is that those who say that they know the Tao, really do not, while those who do ... "
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The Tao, 1990.
Examines Taoist concept & significance of "The Way". Absolute v. relative Tao, will of God, transcendence of Taoist approach to reality, compared to void of Mahayana Buddhism.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 31.95
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"This study will examine the Taoist concept of the Tao. It will also explore the nature of the distinction between the absolute Tao and the relative Tao. In addition, the study will finally discuss how the idea of the Tao compares to the void of Mahayana Buddhism.
The word "Tao" is so important to the practice of Taoism that, as Thompson writes, "Translators have . . . felt it best to leave it in transliterated form. Key terms in any great tradition are inevitably distorted or even falsified by translation, and can be grasped in something like their true significance only by seeing their operation in many concepts. In studying Buddhism, for example, such words as nirvana and sunyata are rightly considered as technical terms and customarily left untranslated. This may well be the best way to treat Tao"
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?Mr. Deeds Goes to Town?, 2002.
A review of the film ?Mr. Deeds Goes to Town?(1936) directed by Frank Capra.
1,729 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines the film ?Mr. Deeds Goes to Town?(1936) directed by Frank Capra and uses it as an example of the type of film that become Capra's trademark, the funny story of an unintentional hero who tries to address the nation's social problems. It provides a filmography of Capra's career and looks at how Capra, more than most directors of his period, was in charge of the content and the look of his movies and was, in short, their auteur. Through a review of the film, it examines how Capra was a master at persuading the audience to identify with his heroes and their emotions.
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"This does not mean Capra simply made the same film several times. The focus of each movie is different: helping people most affected by the Depression, cleaning up corrupt politics, and fighting Fascism. But the messages are also delivered in a form unlike any other director's; a combination of comedy, sentiment, and idealism that was nearly unique. This approach was so much Capra's own that it was known by the name of "Capracorn" among those who were unsympathetic with sentiment--some said sentimentality--applied to political ideas and romance (Willis 45). His thematic unity is evident in comparisons of Deeds miserably refusing to defend himself at his hearing, in Jeff Smith breaking down in the Senate, and in John Doe being pelted with tomatoes by followers who have turned against him. "
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"Mr Smith Goes to Washington", 2006.
A discussion of the directoring skills of Frank Capra in his 1939 movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington".
1,751 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines the directoring history of Frank Capra, a classic movie director in the 1920s and 1930s. It looks at criticism of Capra's style, but also how his unique genre of 'feel-good' movies was widely accepted by the masses. The paper focuses on his movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington".
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"Frank Capra has been dismissed as a movie director because his films are too feel-good. The plots which he favored were, to use his phrase as quoted in Daniel D. Fineman's article on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, "'Capra-corny'" (1130). This remark shows that Capra took pleasure in his image of being a director of sentimental films. His films, however, as more than mere sentimental sappiness. One reason for this is the superb acting he coaxed from the cast of his movies. But there is another reason, as well, as to why Capra's films avoid being mere maudlin: there is an element of social criticism in them. This is particularly true for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Although the storyline certainly is sentimental, and there is the predictable happy ending of the honest David triumphing over the corrupt Goliath, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an indictment of the Goliath that was twentieth-century politics, complete with its political machines involved in graft."
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Confronting the Powerful in Film, 2007.
An analysis of two films, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" directed by Frank Capra, and "Matewan" directed by John Sayles.
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This paper reviews two films that deal with confronting the powerful to maintain one's dignity. In both "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" directed by Frank Capra, and "Matewan" directed by John Sayles, the protagonists must take on those with power. The reviewer also analyzes the differences in these two films, particularly in the ways the characters choose to overthrow the system. A brief plot summary is given for each film.
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""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" is a classic Jimmy Stewart, Frank Capra film that shows just how much political influence exists in Washington D.C. In this film, Jefferson Smith (Jimmy Stewart) is appointed as a Senator after the man holding the office dies. He is a naive and trusting, honest man who the political leaders of his state feel they can manipulate and puppet in Washington. He has no idea he has been sent to Washington to ensure the state's political bosses profit from a dam the state does not need, built on land the politicians secretly own. When he finds out, his honor and honesty will not allow him to do anything but fight them for his own ideas, which include building a boy's camp on the very same land. He even finds that his own boyhood idol, Senator Paine, is corrupt and manipulated by the political bosses back home. "
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