In this thesis, I investigate the relationship between Chinese religious concepts and martial arts films by looking at how Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist concepts appear in six movies Enter the ...Dragon, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Karate Kid, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, A Touch of Zen and Kung Fu Panda. In the beginning, I outlined that there is a long history between Chinese religions and martial arts dating back to at the very latest 7th century CE. However there is a lot of evidence to indicate that religion and martial arts joined together around 500 BCE. In this thesis, I argue that martial arts films have Chinese religious concepts present in them. To investigate this, I analyzed one religion’s concepts per two martial arts films. Through investigation, I found that wu wei, kong, dao, yin and yang, inner alchemy, ahiṃsā, sudden enlightenment, Buddha nature and mindfulness are just some of the Chinese religious concepts present in martial arts films.
Access to clean freshwater is a basic human right, yet freshwater is distributed unequally around the globe. Further, freshwater resources are sensitive to degradation by many environmental ...stressors, including climate change, inputs of nutrients and pollutants, alterations in land use, introduction of invasive species, and overfishing. Restoration and remediation methods are available for mitigating the degradation of lakes and rivers to an extent, but often at great expense and effort, highlighting the crucial importance of conservation and protection. Understanding, managing, protecting, and remediating freshwater all require extensive collaboration for limnology as a discipline to fulfill its potential. Inclusive, diverse, interdisciplinary collaborative teams are essential to integrating research disciplines, incorporating new technologies, and sparking creative solutions to safeguard our global freshwater resources and work toward a future of equitable access to clean freshwater worldwide.
