feminist message and is contrary to the common theme of a damsel in distress being saved by a knight in shining armor. The main character of the story is Mulan‚ after whom the movie is named. Mulan is the only child in an honored family in China. When the Huns invade China‚ Mulan’s old father has to go fight‚ but he’s too old to withstand an actual encounter with the enemies. After Mulan spills tea on a matchmaker and the matchmaker decides that Mulan isn’t fit to get married‚ Mulan decides to prove herself
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able to do so. The Roman and Han empires were similar in their falls because of they both fell to nomadic invaders. Nomads attacked the empires to try and conquer them. The Romans were attacked by Germanic tribes and Han China was attacked by the Huns. Because both empires borders were so large‚ they were unable to fully protect their borders making it easy for their invaders to defeat them. The Han and the Roman Empires failing due to nomadic invaders is similar to the fall of the Gupta because
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NO FLY ZONE A senator of capitol hill‚ and decorated war hero‚ gives the order to shoot down a private plane. This has been the third violation over the Capitol within a month "This has got to stop! I’ve had it with these crazies making a circus of this place... Well here’s the price of the ticket. Shoot the damn thing down... an example has got to be made” To his horror and regret‚ it is piloted by his precocious grandson. A child of 12‚ who has taken the plane up‚ with intent of surprising
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Whereas Han China from 206 B.C.E. to 220 B.C.E. and the imperial Rome from 31 B.C.E. to 476 C.E. had shared similarities on the territorial boundaries issues‚ the two empires had different political over the huge amount of land. Known as most powerful empires in history‚ Han China and Rome utilized idiosyncractic policy to maintain the sovereignty. However‚ the two states both suffered from the border disputes. To begin with‚ the political systems in Han China and Imperial Rome were different‚ contributing
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shop. The narrator in the text tells us that Charlie does not love his father (p. 92‚ l. 17-19). As I see it‚ he hates his father because he cannot lean on him. He seems to be gone most of the time (p. 92‚ l. 19) Maybe he could be working for “The Huns”. The father: Charlie’s father owns a tobacco shop underneath their house. Even though he does not
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The decline of the Roman and Han empires was caused by a number of events such as social unrest‚ problems with the government‚ and a decline in military which made them vulnerable to any number of events that could occur. The Han dynasty over time regrew into various forms‚ while the downfall of the Roman Empire was never followed by the regrowth of the Roman civilization. The Roman Empire and Han China were once thriving civilizations‚ one reason for the collapse of both was social unrest
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textiles. In 180 A.D.‚ over cultivated land in the Roman Empire caused famine and disease to quickly spread across Rome. Economically weak and lacking a source of strong central power‚ the ancient civilization was continuously being attacked by the Huns‚ Vandals‚ and Germans
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last letter to you. In the war lot of people dead especially when you try to get though the fence and in to no man’s land it really hard I nearly got shot at while trying to get though no man’s land. No man land is the land between the Tommy and the Hun the land is full body‚ crater‚ decomposing body‚ there was lot of smoke in the background the sky was grey and no life apart from the rat and there are lot of crater so if I were you I wouldn’t become a Tommy. Being a Tommy is not so much fun because
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Jessica Chan Patterson AP World History 11 Oct. 2012 Compare and Contrast: Techniques of Imperial Administration I. The Han (of China) and the Gupta (of India) were both empires that used various techniques of imperial administration to make their empires succeed. Although the Han Empire and Gupta Empire share their receiving of rewards for temporarily succeeding‚ antagonisms among their states‚ and their failure‚ they differ in their state-level government‚ types of adequate military resources
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who wanted all of the money and power they could get their hands on. “Stopping one threat was not enough‚ for another would emerge; if that new threat was pushed back‚ another popped up elsewhere”(Santosuosso). The invasions of the Germanic and the Huns weakened the Roman army since they weren’t very strong to begin with. The Germanic Tribes kept on fighting no matter how many times they were undaunted by defeats and hoping to lay hands on the rich spoils of the empire were continuous‚ but with low
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