TJ Gong

Walking With Him Until I Am Not

Object Association

Imagery is frequently employed in the book of Psalms in Hebrew Bible. Psalmists, writers of the psalms, use various animals and objects to express how they have felt about God himself, his presence, his strength or his help. For instance, David in Psalm 23 points out clearly that God is his shepherd and he his sheep; in other places, he mentions that God is his light that gives him directions out of darkness. By the same token, in Min’s Footprints on the Flag she thought of a national flag as a symbol of country citizens should honor and respect out of patriotism.

Think about objects that have symbolic value within our culture or your personal viewpoints and write a narrative in which you relate an experience you had with one (provided by the book).

22 responses to “Object Association”

  1. Chelsea 蔣 Avatar
    Chelsea 蔣

    I think “a Plum Blossom” as the symbolic value within our culture. A Plum Blossom is elegant and beautiful. It only blossom in the winter. More colder, more flowers. It’s like someone’s personalities; face the difficulty,and make more efforts to reach the goal.
    I have the “Plum Blossom” personality, and I like to do everything best and perfect even it’s difficult.

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  2. Annie Liu Avatar
    Annie Liu

    Just like our Taiwan’s shape, we call it “sweet potato. ”
    It can also present our taiwanese personality.We are known as diligent and hardworking. Sweet potato it can survive anywhere,no matter how difficult the environment is.We mepathor it for ourselves, because we are truely face the everything. We won’t escape from it. We are proud of it,and could also say it loudly.

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  3. Patty Tsai Avatar
    Patty Tsai

    “Sweet potato”represents to Taiwan. Besides its shape seems like our country Taiwan, the sweet potato spirit are industriousness and stamina. It grows beneath the ground from its seed to a ripe sweet potato, it does takes a long time to grow. Likewise, we describe citizens in Taiwan are diligent and work very hard.

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  4. Emily(Lin) Avatar
    Emily(Lin)

    In my opinion, I think the “flourishing flowers” is the best way to replesent to our Taiwan’s culture. The reason why I said that is our culture contains many different kind of fetures including the aborigine, the provincial, the hakka, and so on. Therefore, I think our Taiwan’s culture is like the flourishing flowers which is very abundant and beautiful.

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  5. Janice Tzeng Avatar
    Janice Tzeng

    I think “sweet potato” is proer to stand for Taiwan’s culture. We all know that sweet potato grow up very well no matter how awful the environment is. Taiwanese are just like sweet potato. They face the difficult problems but they never evade. They always find the best way and try their best solve problems, then get better.

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  6. Vita Chiu Avatar
    Vita Chiu

    I love the way of saying that we are like Plum Blossoms, because Plum blossoms are resolute. Even though in winter, they are notafraid of cold, but like cold and can be more beautiful. Symbolize that we don’t afraid paintstaking! We can overcome everything and more setback more courage!

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  7. Sarah Gu Avatar
    Sarah Gu

    “Cattle” represents to Taiwan traditional people. It usually works for farmer in farm, and work hard in silence. Just like traditional people, they are also work hard to live, and doing everything by themselves. When I go to country, seeing cattle, I will encourage myself. Encourageing me to learn the spirit of cattle.

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  8. Miranda Avatar
    Miranda

    In my opinion, the Taiwan’s fruits can represent our spirit and culture. We have many different kinds of fruits in Taiwan which also means we have different races and cultures. The farmers keep improve the quality of our fruits which means Taiwanese always hard-working and try their best to achieve better outcome. After our hard-working, we can enjoy the achievement which sweet as Taiwan’s fruits.

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  9. Vicky Liu Avatar
    Vicky Liu

    To me, I think that crossroads represents the hard time we meet in our life. In our life, we always have to choose, either this one or that one. We always stand in front of the crossroads and hesitating which way is the right one. You will never know which way will lead you to the heaven, so you have to try again and again.

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  10. Fiona Huang Avatar
    Fiona Huang

    I think ancient people in Taiwan have the same spirit with “cattle.” They are humble. They always work very hard even they don’t want to do. They accept their fate even though they want to change. But I respect them very much, because they do everything by themselves.

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  11. Amanda Chi Avatar
    Amanda Chi

    Farmer must can represent as Taiwan’s first impression. Taiwan is a country started from agriculture. in order to live and supporting a family, farmer works day and night without any complain. That’s also why people always thought that Taiwanese are humble, simple and hardworking. Agriculture also is our important culture part.

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  12. RAN LIU Avatar
    RAN LIU

    i think the Plum Blossoms is the symble of Taiwan. Because it is full of power, even in winter it still bloom lots of beautiful white flowers. Taiwanese just like the plum blossoms, no matter we encounter what problems, we will try every posible ways to solve it and never give up.

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  13. Ivy Huang Avatar
    Ivy Huang

    According to my textbook in junior, a symbolic animal of Taiwan is cattle. A cattle always did more efforts and was hardheaded. The spirit of cattle was liked Taiwanese. In early times, Taiwanese workd hareder and enjoyed harvests. Because we believed that “no pain no gain.” Therefore, cattle became our symbol until now.

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  14. Veronica Jiang Avatar
    Veronica Jiang

    I think the “Sweet potato” can represent Taiwan. Not only because the shape of it , but also the Taiwanese spirits.We know that sweet potato grows up well no matter how difficult the environment is. Just like Taiwanese spirit.Though we face so many difficulties, we still have to overcome it ! We cannot escape from it.

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  15. Nicole Chen Avatar
    Nicole Chen

    I think our culture is like the rice- the staple of our daily life. It is so usual and common that we sometimes would neglect the true significance or how necessary it is to us. Though we consider there is nothing special for our culture, until we get deeper observation or appreciation that we could find its high value just like the late coming sweetness we chew rice for quite a long time.

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  16. Sophia Wu Avatar
    Sophia Wu

    Except sweet potato, I think “cattle” can be used to describe Taiwanese, too. In the past, people in Taiwan were working very hard without complaint, just like the cattle. No matter what the weather was, they just plug away at their work.

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  17. Heidi Tuan Avatar
    Heidi Tuan

    I think the symbolic of cattle is the best way to describe early Taiwanese, painstaking and enduring. We should learn from the cattle, because it seems some of us forget what we should remember.

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  18. Jill Avatar
    Jill

    I think the “Sweet potato”can represents Taiwan. It’s not only expressing the shape of Taiwan, but also the spirit of Taiwaness people. The characteristic of sweet potato is staunch. It’s also means Taiwaness people are very resolute.

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  19. Vicky Chang Avatar
    Vicky Chang

    In the early Taiwan, farmers’ best helper were cattles, I think both of them have the same spirits-diligent and hard-working. So I think the cattles can represent we Taiwanese.

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  20. James Pan Avatar
    James Pan

    Light bulb refers to a flash of intuition, As people encountered obstacles or problems usually miss their way such as they were blind with the messy situation . Yet, through the dark to the bright, light bulbs present the switch, the second that people figure out solutions to solve problems.

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  21. Belinda Liao Avatar
    Belinda Liao

    i think ” sweet potato” can repensent Taiwan. Because all the people in Taiwan work hard and never ask for any feedback. This kind of spirit is similar with sweet potato, staunch and strong.

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  22. mika Lin Avatar
    mika Lin

    Taiwan spirit is “cattle.” The impression that cattle gives us are diligent and hard-working. Even though they are tired and exhausted, they are still working, helping farmers to complete husbandry. I think ancient Taiwanese are full of this kind of characteristics-diligence.

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