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The tao of

The Tao of phineas and ferb
THe Tao of  Kung fu panda
The Tao of Monsters Inc.

paradoxes

In English class we are viewing the Tao and its paradoxes. A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself within the statement. During class the teacher showed us multiple examples of visual paradoxes, and for homework he gave us the job to look for our own images. A visual paradox is like the one on top it is an image that shows something impossible or irrealist. Usually it is an optical illusion. The 3 images below are great examples of visual paradoxes: the peel of the heads, the stair in the middle of a path, and the cube.

This image I liked it a lot because it was a paradox in multiple ways. As I see the images it is a peeled head. The first paradox is that it is impossible to peel a head. The second paradox is that the peel doesn't have a beginning or an end; it keeps going around and around. Also it is the head of a man on one side and of a woman on the other so it is impossible. Also the peel is crossed on the forehead of both heads, which is impossible, unless it is a Mobius band.

This 3d animated image is a very funny paradox it has multiple of them. First the path by which this guy is walking is leveled it is parallel to the ground. But suddenly there is a stair that doesn’t lead anywhere but to the beginning of the path, physically this is impossible. I find it clever of the author to place the canal around this so that you can know that the path is really parallel to the floor.

This image is one of the most famous visual paradoxes. It is a cube made only by its edges. But the trick here is that one of the edges is overlapping another. As you can see in the image it is physically impossible. Even though it is a 3d drawing it is physically impossible.

The 3 images on top are great examples of visual paradoxes: the peel of the heads, the stair in the middle of a path, and the cube.

reading blog confucian analects

In English class we had to read Confucius analects. From the Analect we chose we had to write a reading blog about it and give our opinion, for this excercise I will relate an Analect to an image. I chose analect 5.12 that the main idea said: "What I do not wish men to do to me; I also wish not to do to men." What this analect is talking about is about morals. Confucius analects embrace Goodness, gentleman and superior scholar, rites and rituals, government and learning. The analects are words left by Confucius and his disciples.
First of all this analect is the basis of the golden rule. The golden rule states: “One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself." I have heard this rule my whole life due that CNG embraces it. I decided to do a visual image reading blog, because the image was very clear in my head. I imagined people who you would expect to hate each other being together in harmony and coexistence because they would treat everyone around them well. So I looked in Google for an image and i found this one. This image I believe is very artistic in the way it represents co-existence because there are two guys from different races holding hands one black and the other white. But the thing that is special is that it isn’t showing favor to one side by putting co-existence twice so that in the point of view of both they can read co-existence.
This image is from the artist Lemel Yossi it was first presented in a mexican gallery. The analects have had a daily influence on china I they were written back in 475 B.C with Confucius to make a better society and world. His teachings did not have such an important influence in society during his lifetime, but after his death his teachings strengthened Chinese society.

 

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Article opinion: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger

The taliban rule in the region of Mingora is very storng. On october 9, 2012 a protestant against the taliban movement in this region was shot. She was a 14 year old girl who wanted to recieve education, so she wrote a Blog to BBC Urdu anonymously, if not she would have been killed immediately.

Her blog told about her daily life like her fears of being killed by talibans or how her school was closed by talibans. At first the principal anounced the winter vacations but didn't announce a reopening day so Malaya was afraid that the talibans would close her school. Malala´s father was an outspoken educator who was threatened by the Taliban. She resived exile from the Swat valley. She started to advocate publicly and defend womens education in 2009.

I believe it was very brave what Malala did upon everything she kept writing and defending womens education. At first anonymously but when her name became public she didnt stop defending the womens eduction. She has won various peace pizes and nominations, she also has a documentary about her.

It is a really great thing that she survived the shots because there are few people that no matter the risks or the situation will always give their opinion among events. Her story has inspired me to fight for what I believe is right.

Opinionon article: Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan activist, 14, shot in Swat

After reading Persepolis by Marjane Setrap I was very impacted about the situation going in the Middle East. Reading this article made me realize that the situation hasn’t gotten any better for some countries. The article is about this activist girl whose name is Malala. Malala is a girl that lives in Mingora( a town in Pakistan), she received 2 shots one in the head and one in the neck. She got the 2 shots because she was campaigning for education. When she was 9 years old education was cancelled due to Taliban rule in the region. And at age 11 she started writing her Blog.

Her campaign was a blog writing for BBC Urdu, at first it was with a pseudonym, but when she strated winning awards and nominations her name came to the air.  In her blog she talks about her daily life and the Taliban movement in her region.

Malala had a lot of courage and determination to create a blog like that, and especially with the Taliban’s so close to her. I believe she did the right thing fighting for women equality. Women inequality is one of the biggest problems in the world most of it is caused by religion, to reach women equality is one of the milenium goals. I was shocked when I read this story, about the baldness of the girl and the cruelty of the taliban.