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Spontaneously generated energy (zifa gong) is exactly what it says. It is the practice of spontaneously generating energy inside your body for the purpose of self-repair, self-healing and self-enhancement. As a form of qigong, zifa gong is the simplest form of qigong to learn and practice. This book provides an introduction to its theory, practice and potential usefulness.
This Child’s Outline of the Golden Age of Radio is included in our Continuing Education Series to provide a useful basic study guide for children or for anyone who may be exploring this period of history for the first time.
This outline of of the Civil War and Reconstruction serves as a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be exploring this period of history for the first time. The outline collapses the complex events into a roster of key events that aid in understanding the Civil War and the Period of Reconstruction, which covers the years 1817 to 1877. The outline is simple, but comprehensive.
This particular look at the development of Hemingway's heroes from the perspective of Zen thought is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This particular short essay, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, discusses the representational roles children play in William Golding's “Lord of the Flies.”
Our Continuing Education Series hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, literary pieces, historical events and ideas. This particular short essay discusses the functional resemblance between ironic myth and romantic parody. Works discussed include Heart of Darkness, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and others.
This essay discusses the chapter “God and Religion” from Philosophy and Contemporary Issues by John Roy Burr and Milton Goldinger. From the chapter's inquiry into the existence of God, the paper addresses the construction of the debate including the scientific constraints of logic which fail to admit subjective experience and the inconsistency of the existence of evil and the existence of God.
This particular essay on the influences of the Tao on Chinese painting, poetry and music, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the concept of the Tao and how it has been the basis for creating and interpreting works of art in China. It will serve as a useful study guide for young adults or anyone who may be tackling Chinese philosophy and art for the first time.
This particular short essay on basic ideas in philosophy, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines general concepts required prior to reading philosophy. This introduction can be a useful study guide for young adults or anyone who may be tackling philosophical arguments for the first time.
This particular short essay on P.A. Stolypin's Agrarian Reforms in Russia, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the improved condition of the peasantry that arose as a result of land reforms. While Stolypin's reforms freed the peasantry from the chains of virtual slavery, World War I cut short Russia's road to progress in this area.
This essay on "Vision of a New Society in Plato and Aristotle," which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the distinct differences between an ideal society as presented by Plato and by Aristotle in their writings.
This particular short essay on Artistic Meaning in the Heraclitean Universe, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, examines the fundamental paradox in Heraclitus on the simultaneous validity of certain opposite values as applied to artistic creativity and tries to reach an conclusion on a specific question: Are artistically created objects meaningful in the Heraclitean Universe?
This Child’s Outline of the Sovereigns of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom is included in our Continuing Education Series to provide a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be reading British royal history for the first time. Prepared in a simple and comprehensive way, it helps young readers and/or those without familiarity of the basic lines of royal succession.
This particular short essay on the causes of the American Revolution, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, provides readers with an argument that economic considerations primarily drove the colonists to revolution. Our Continuing Education Series helps to provide thoughtful consideration of important historical and literary questions.
This particular short analysis of Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This Child’s Outline of Greek and Roman Mythology is included in our Continuing Education Series to provide a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be reading Greek or Roman mythology for the first time. The outline collapses the complex group of mythological characters and interactions into a quick blow-by-blow of the main characters and interactions found in the myths.
This particular short analysis of “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This particular short analysis of “Spring Snow” by Yukio Mishima is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This particular short analysis of "Alcestis" by Euripides is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This particular short analysis of Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
This particular short analysis of The Stranger by Albert Camus is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays
James Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. This particular literary analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of Agee's literary style and powerful use of language.
In 1932 Nathalie Sarraute wrote her first book, Tropisms, a series of brief sketches and memories that set the tone for her entire oeuvre. This particular literary analysis and criticism, which is part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of Sarraute's challenging early fiction and literary style.
This particular short analysis of one of Guy De Maupassant's most famous short stories is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories and essays.
Carl Gustavson's classic "A Preface to History" provides a fruitful source through which to examine a normative approach to history, debate the nature of objectivity in historical discussion, investigate historical-mindedness as a practical tool and analyze the basic forces that drive history. This paper presents shortcomings in Gustavson's approach to history.
The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchmann is a key work examining the question of what prompted the U.S. to enter World War I. This short analysis and criticism, part of our Continuing Education Series, hopes to provide readers with a general, but thoughtful, review of Barbara Tuchmann's research into how Woodrow Wilson, despite his long held stand on non-intervention, managed a shift to war.