Guarding the Pure Land of the Heart—A Comparison of Outlooks on Life in Walden and Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi is the masterpiece of Zhuangzi, and Walden is the masterpiece of Henry David Thoreau. This paper intends to study the similarities of Zhuangzi’s and Thoreau’s outlooks on life by analyzing Thoreau’s origin with Taoism and the absorption from Taoism in Walden. By making a large amount of analysis and comparison of the texts in these two works, the paper comes to such a conclusion: both Thoreau and Zhuangzi advocate to simplify people’s material life and to seek voluntary poverty; they are willing to enjoy the solitude and pursue the spiritual independence and freedom; they prefer to return to nature, live harmoniously with nature and therefore reach the realm of"unity of heaven and humanity". They pay more attention to human existence and their spiritual state. In the complicated modern society, people devote themselves to seeking a materially rich life. However, they do not attach enough importance to spiritual richness. As a result, the whole human society is facing a serious spiritual crisis in modern times. Thoreau’s and Zhuangzi’s outlooks on life can lead people to go through various difficulties of life and guard the pure land of the heart.     

Influence of Co-membership on Teacher’s Coauthoring on Student’s Narratives

This paper examines the specific research question of how co-membership in discourse style and life experience influences teacher’s coauthoring on student’s narratives in the ESL teaching and learning context in the United States. As a case study,a specific student’s classroom narratives are transcribed and analyzed. The research findings indicate that a shared discourse style and an overlap in life experience between the teacher and the student will exert positive influence on the teacher’s coauthoring on the student’s narratives. Above all,sharing the same discourse style makes it possible for the teacher to recognize the rhythm of the student’s narratives,to detect the moments when the student needs interactional support and offer help,and to quickly notice a potential ending of the student’s narrative and expand it with open-ended questions and comments. In addition,an overlap in life experience makes it possible for the teacher to go deep into the student’s narratives by contributing specific and concrete thoughts rather than responding with superficial ideas.     

The semantic comparison of elementary color words

Color has a close relationship with our life,it’s the key problem of human beings researching into the language and culture,and we can say,it’s impossible for us to live a beautiful life without the various color.Hence,it’s an eager task for us to study the color words,including its connotation,and it’s translation between the Chinese and English.     

A Good Example of Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle:The Killers

Hemingway established a well-known literary theory - iceberg principle.He said he always attempted to create his literary works according to this principle.In his opinion,if a prose writer has a pretty clear idea of what he writes about,then he can omit the things he knows,and the readers will strongly feel that what the writer has omitted seems to have been written as long as what he writes is authentic.Hemingway himself once said,"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water."Here,one eighth refers to the information given by the author,and the rest refers to the unwrit ten information that can be acquired in readers’imagination on the basis of the one eighth.The Killers is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg principle.This essay will analyse the characters in it to show how the principle was used in this short story.With no doubt the iceberg principle leaves a large space for the readers to imagine and better understand Hemingway’s works.     

A Comparative Study of Nature’s Subjectivity in Walden and Tang Poems

Thoreau’s Walden and Chinese Tang Poems both attach great importance to nature,devoting large paragraphs to the depiction of it.The significance of this phenomenon is discussed in this paper.Based on the method of close reading and comparative study,it is found that nature,portrayed by Thoreau and Tang poets share one important character,that is,nature assumes subjectivity as an individual being.     

如何随时随地和别人交谈

I never wanted to be anything but a broadcaster, a talker. And for 40 years, I＇ve been doing just that. To me, the ability to talk well is one of the great pleasures in life and can bring with it some of life＇s greatest rewards, I＇m not saying it＇s always easy. The vast majority of people would rather jump out of an airplane without a parachute than sit next to someone they＇ve never met at a dinner party. But the more you work at it, the easier it will be. To get you started, here are my five basic ingredients for learning how to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere.     

An Analysis of Long Day’s Journey into Night from the Perspective of the Cooperative Principle

Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family.     

Vacuum interrupter, high reliability component of distribution switches, circuit breakers and contactors

The use of vacuum interrupters(VIs)as the current interruption component for switches,circuit breakers,reclosers and contactors operating at distribution voltages has escalated since their introduction in the mid-1950’s.This electrical product has developed a dominating position for switching and protecting distribution circuits.VIs are even being introduced into switching products operating at transmission voltages.Among the reasons for the VI’s popularity are its compactness,its range of application,its low cost,its superb electrical and mechanical life and its ease of application.Its major advantage is its well-established reliability.In this paper we show how this reliability has been achieved by design,by mechanical life testing and by electrical performance testing.We introduce the“sealed for life”concept for the VI’s integrity.We discuss this in terms of what is meant by a practical leak rate for VIs with a life of over 30 years.We show that a simple high voltage withstand test is an easy and effective method for monitoring the long-term vacuum integrity.Finally we evaluate the need for routine inspection of this electrical product when it is used in adverse ambient environments.     

心路历程--帽子

Dear Friends, Writing columns for Overseas English is one of my greatest plea-Sures.Most of my columns are serious.This is because life is serious.Butlife is also whimsical(反复无常的,古怪的).Because it is whimsical and weneed to laugh,it is fun to write with a lighter touch.We usually write what we liketo read.This little story is an example of poking fun at ourselves.     

The Symbolist Decoding of Epiphany in Ulysses

The symbolist use of Epiphany in Ulyssess is James Joyce’s inheritance and development of Aquinas’ three aesthetic principles --"Wholeness, harmony and radiance". On the one hand, Joyce makes his readers realize the brief experience which, whether it is trivial or momentous, impinged on a person with the light of a sudden revelation of truth about life. On the other hand, he employs Aquinas’s three principles to guide the readers to understand the whole structure and connotations of the novel.     

The Gaze Theory

Gaze describes the relationship of the subject with the power and desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.The gaze can be motivated by the subject’ s desire to control the object it sees,and an object that can likewise capture and hold the subject’ s eye.The term ’ gaze’ is often defined as looking long and intently with affection at a subject.A person who determines a sense of themselves as an individual element in the world makes up the idea of the gaze.The concept of the gaze is also a central part of theories looking within modernity.     

The Old Man-the Real Winner in the Struggle Between Ego and Superego

The Old Man and the Sea was an excellent novel written by the famous American novelist Ernest Hemingway and the novel led to the Nobel Prize which he won in 1954.The novel is a simple story about a Cuban fisherman Santiago’s struggle with a marlin and sharks on the sea.In fact it has deep meaning,which implies the struggle between one’s ego and superego.Hemingway eulogizes the hero through the process of the struggle.The paper consists of three parts.The first part is the introduction to the writer and the novel.The second part analyzes the hero Santiago in details,including his struggle with the marlin and the sharks,his interest in the struggles.The third part is the conclusion that the hero Santiago’s superego controls his ego in the struggle and he is a real winner.     

The "Marrow-bone" Wisdom-Yeats’ Lyrics of Transcendence

The lyrics of transcendence by William Butler Yeats is to a greatextent a comprehensive interpretation of Yeats’ views on poet ics and life.According to Yeats,transcendence is essentially a cold,lofty wisdom with which human beings could transcend their innate limitations,incompleteness as well as the secularities of existence,therefore achieving the mastery over one’s fate.The thematic study of Yeats’ lyrics of transcendence offers an unique approach to Yeats’ philosophy in art and life.     

Birdman: The Devil from the Past

The film Birdman was a great success for its writing, direction, performances and cinematography. It tells the story of a former-famous actor’s struggle to cope with his current life. One continuous take is used to illustrate the actor’s self-search in the setting of a Broadway theater. The experimental style of the film highlights great performances and strengthens emotional tension, which makes it a great production.     

An Apple Seed

I realized I was holding an apple seed in my hand.It could become a beautiful big tree and grow thousands of apples in its lifetime.Each apple has several seeds that could grow a new tree,but why then the world isn’t filled with apple trees？It is a rule of nature that only a few of these seeds grow.And it’s quite often so with our dreams.Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they die too soon.We don’t take care of the little saplings,and we don’t protect them as we should.And then one day we wonder what happened to our dreams.     

STRUGGLE FOR A "ZERO ZONE"——Women’s Plight Situation in The Little Foxes

The little foxes, Lillian Hellman’s most popular piece of drama, is a cynical play which concerns with family greed and revenge. Analyzed from various critical perspectives, The Little Foxes is most prominently studied on her political viewpoint. Here this paper is intended to study it from the aspect of women’s position in the drama, or more concretely, in that society by the analyzing of the two main women characters: Birdie and Regina, to reveal that whichever kind of life a woman living in the early twentieth chose to live, she would never be "successful".     

Analysis on the Theme of Death in the Woods by Means of Symbols

Sherwood Anderson is an American famous short story writer.The most enduring work of his is the short story sequence Winesburg,Ohio.He is good at capturing the real sound of everyday speech in his writing and creating it in new forms and styles.And Death in the Woods is considered as one of his most distinctive stories.It depicts a miserable old woman who feeds others all her life by using symbols to enrich the simple story.This paper intends to reveal the author’s deep reflection of American’s indifferent and apathetic attitudes in the whole society by means of the symbols of the person,color and dog.     

MY HOMETOWN

My hometown is in a small village.There is a mountain behind my villageand there is a river named Fu Teng Xi infront of it.The mountain and the river arevery beautiful。 Before,people’s life was peace andgood.But people wanted to have an evenbetter life. So they set up a lot offactories and they didn’t take care of thetrees,what was more,they cut down all     

The Analysis of Symbolism in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the most earliest feminine works in American literature.This novel was regarded as one of the classical literatures after it had been obsure for decades.This work comprehensively displays the spiritual growth and the self-awareness of a common black woman.By way of analyzing the application of literary symbolism in this work,it aims to display the self struggle and self realization of the main protagonist Janie.It tries to disclose the role of ra cial culture with its symbolic legends in the novel for better interpreting people’s life choices and their emotional experiences.     

生命的断想

I've learned…That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.I've learned…That when you are in love, it shows.I've learned…That just one person saying to me, "you've made my day !"makes my day.I've learned…That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.I've learned…That being kind is more important than being right.I've learned…That you should never refuse a gift from a child.I've learned…That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.I've learned…That sometimes what a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.I've learned…That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.