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    Samurai and Knights were warriors in the Middle Ages. Samurai were from Japan and Knights were from Europe. Although they didn’t have any contact with each other‚ they were very similar. To become one of these warriors‚ each person had to go through intense training. After becoming a warrior‚ they had to pledge loyalty to a lord. After pledging loyalty to a lord‚ the Knight or Samurai received money or land for their services. The Samurai of Japan and the Knights of Europe were very similar. This

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    Introduction Superhero films as a popular culture are a phenomenon that has experienced fluctuating amounts of success and change throughout its long history‚ spanning over seventy years. With origins in comic book lore‚ the mythology of superheroes emerged in 1940s films and has ultimately become a multibillion dollar empire. Over the last century‚ the heroes and mythology within superhero films drawn from various comic book universes have established an unrivalled relationship with audiences‚ who

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    The Hollywood movie Pretty Woman (1990) is about a prostitute in Hollywood‚ marrying an extremely rich businessman‚ in spite of her mutual distrust and prejudice. The movie contains the basic narrative of the Cinderella tale: through the love and help of a man of a higher social position‚ a girl of a lower social status moves up to join the man at his level. Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) in Pretty Woman comes from a small town in Georgia‚ and works as a prostitute on the streets of Hollywood to support

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    Mary Regan HUM2305 27 March 2013 Good Life Essay The common lecture given by President Machen encouraged college freshman to seek the good life in college and understand why it is a requirement to take this class. Much like Beethoven creating Ode to Joy‚ many students have graduated from the University of Florida and have accomplished or created things that changed the world. Machen ’s ideas about what the good life is and why the “What is the Good Life” course was set up exemplify the concept

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    Africa: Kevin MacDonald’s the last King of Scotland- the portrayed brutality of Africa. In this essay I will be discussing the representation of Africa in the movie called the last king of Scotland. This essay will show mention all the representations of Africa within the movie and it will show how the director Kevin MacDonald’s the director of The Last King of Scotland (2003) portrays the brutality in Africa. I will be referencing Stuart Hall Representation: Cultural Representations Signifying Practices

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    For everyone who doesn’t like going to school you would probably rather be a knight than a Samurai. Knights learned singing and dancing and they didn’t learn how to read or write. Samurai had to go to school and learn how to read and write. In this essay I will compare Samurai & Knights Religious Beliefs‚ Views on women‚ Weapons & Armor. Samurai also had to commit seppuku if they were captured which was a form of ritual suicide which knights did not. In the first paragraph I will write about

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    names. The samurai from Japan and the knights from Europe. These warriors were more different because of their armour design‚ views on death‚ and hereditary loyalty to their lords. One reason why samurai and knights were different was how their armour was made. The armour knights and samurais used were used for the same purpose‚ which was to protect themselves during combat‚ but because samurais and knights fought in different types of wars‚ their armour was designed differently. Samurai armor

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    Yamamoto‚ Tsunetomo Bushido: The Way of the Samurai Garden City Park‚ NY 2002 After reading this book it is my belief that it is important for Westerners to understand the seemingly strange concepts of Bushido‚ not only as a guide to events of the past‚ but as a primer for understanding the Japanese business mentality of today. The first thought that comes to mind when Japanese work ethic is hard working‚ no breaks‚ complete commitment to ones job. There may be a reason why Japan was able to

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    Even though samurais and knights are a bit alike‚ I think that they are more different than alike for many reasons. First of all‚ the training of samurais and knights are quite different. Samurais received received training on spiritual discipline. They also learned poetry. They studied Kendo‚ which was the art of fencing with bamboo sticks. They learned the code of the samurai‚ Zen Buddhism. At age 14‚ trainees officially became samurais. This happened in a ceremony called genpuku. The training

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    Samurai Warriors did not back down it was called an honor to die in the name of the emperor‚ want to know why? Because of a code called Bushido. The most important thing to a samurai warrior was to follow the bushido code. Bushido was important to Samurai because it was a code taught to them by their master. The Bushido code stated that all Samurai Warriors were required by their master to be loyal to the Shogun no matter what happened to them. The Bushido code stated that even though they were

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