Just like in any field of teaching, you have various types of students, with different backgrounds, abilities, interests, and some may even have minor physical or mental handicaps. Therefore, there is not a single type of class that fits all the students. Similarly in Taiji, you need to tailor your Taiji classes to various types of students. This article discusses the different types of Taiji students, and how to tailor your Taiji classes to your students.
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Tailoring Taiji Classes to Audience
December 2015
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Some Thoughts on ISIS
December 2015
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One of the hottest topics, if not the hottest, in international affairs in 2015 is the question of ISIS, and the terrorist activities associated with ISIS. What is ISIS? How did it become such a powerful force so quickly, when most people have never heard of it as late as about three years ago? Did the U.S. play any role in the rapid ascendancy of ISIS? This article attempts to shed some light on these questions.
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Review of Fundamental Principles of Taiji
September 2015
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As we have discussed in several earlier articles, Taiji is a good health exercise for people of all ages, and also a good martial art. There are many fundamental principles of Taiji that contribute to its success as a good health exercise and a good martial art. We have discussed all of these principles in our earlier articles. Because the discussions have been scattered over several articles and they were discussed together with other topics, it is worthwhile to capture all these fundamental principles of Taiji in one article, which is the purpose of this essay.
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An Archive of Historic Cries for Justice Letters
After completing his academy award-winning classic “Schindler’s List” in 1994, film director/producer Steven Spielberg was inspired to donate and establish the “Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation” which later became the “USC (University of Southern California) Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education,” which interviews and records thousands of survivors of Holocaust and other genocides so that their testimonies will be preserved in perpetuity before their stories would be lost forever. This archive now contains over 50,000 testimonies in 39 languages from 62 countries, with the majority being Jewish Holocaust survivors, but also contains testimonies from other genocides around the world.
While the Jewish Holocaust was taking place in Europe during WWII, an atrocity of equal magnitude was also occurring in Asia at around the same time period. This was the atrocity inflicted by the Japanese military in China, Korea, and other parts of Asia during the period of 1931-1945 when Japan invaded and tried to conquer China and other parts of Asia. The atrocities were massive and inhumane and consisted of four types: the Nanking Massacre, sex slaves (euphemistically called comfort women), biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction, and slave labor. [1]
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