New weapons that changed the way of the samurai A Samurai Sword symbolizes and means the Samurai’s prestige and his skills in battle. It is a measure of his stature in society. To all samurai it’s their prize possession and it is worn proudly by its master – until the teppō was introduced. The samurai considered it as dishonorable to tradition. This changed the way samurai fight and changed their view to samurai swords. The teppō is an example of a weapon that changed the way of samurai –
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DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS STUDIES Family Business Management Tutorial 4 (for week beginning 13 May 2013) Managing The Family Business I Discussion Questions 1. Why is the understanding of family conflict important to family-owned businesses? 2. Emily’s family runs a lucrative F & B business selling beef noodles. She is about to take over the running of the empire when her father retires later this year. However‚ she is worried that family conflicts may erode their very successful
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noble qualities. However‚ perhaps every culture or civilization has their own criterion to define hero. Spartan hero embodied its remarkable strength and powerful physique‚ and Chinese hero must fulfill five virtues which are sense of loyalty‚ filial piety‚ wisdom‚ etiquette‚ and justice. We actually don’t have an exact and general meaning of hero which can be subjective and various. Furthermore‚ as time goes on and the meaning of hero gradually modifies. From my point of view‚ we need hero because
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For centuries‚ mankind has struggled with the question‚ "Are we good by nature?" Do we do good deeds only out of selfish desires‚ or is there a real shred of decency somewhere in our being? Even today‚ lawyers argue whether a killer’s motives for committing atrocious crimes stem from the fact that he has a naturally incompetent tendency‚ or if outside influences‚ such as a difficult childhood‚ turned a naturally innocent person into a murderer. The Chinese philosophers‚ Mencius and Xunzi‚ explored
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leader by the name of Mao Zedong came to power based on his idea for a‚ “Great Leap Forward.” This idea was meant to bring China’s economy into the twentieth century. He had assembled a revolutionary government using traditional Chinese ideals of filial piety‚ harmony‚ and order. Mao’s cult of personality‚ party purges‚ and political policies reflect Mao’s esteem of these traditional Chinese ideals and history. However‚ the product of this revolution created a massive national shortage in vital materials
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society and proposed these ideas in 1959 and 1963 to the Heavenly Kingdom and Zeng Guofan. Yung Wing’s ideas would bring change at a rapid pace‚ but this would abandon traditional Chinese beliefs like Confucianism and its belief in a role in society‚ filial piety‚ etc. Yung’s ideas are best demonstrated in his proposals to the Taiping stating: “1. To organize an army of scientific principles… 6. to establish an education system
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a given species or variety all share similar traits. (e.g. Purebred dog.) P Generation - Designation given to the parent generation. F1 and F2 generation - First and second filial generation. First Filial Generation - offspring from the cross of the P generation. Second Filial Generation - offspring of the first filial generation. Hybrid - an organism is heterozygous for a trait. Monohybrid - a cross of two heterozygous individuals that differ in one trait. (Aa * Aa) Product Rule - the probability
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Comparison of Different Thinking Patterns between Eastern and Western Advertisements 【Key Words】 advertisement; thinking patterns; cultural differences Ⅰ Introduction With the fast development of globalization‚ economical communications become more frequently‚ which brings more inter-cultural advertisements. The purposes of the commercial advertisements are to persuade customers to buy those products and to earn great interests trough describing the products lively and specifically. English
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The Daoism and the Confucianism in Han Dynasty Yang Yu History 135: Imperial Chinese History Professor: Robert J. Culp Paper I March 4th‚ 2011 The Daoism and the Confucianism in Han Dynasty As the dominant philosophical school for around two thousand years in Chinese imperial history‚ Confucianism is always regarded as the most representative ideology of China‚ associated with numerous books‚ poems‚ artworks and stories that glorify Confucianism’s permeation into every corner of Chinese
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Words of Merida: I Hate the Tedious. Thesis Statement In accordance to the movie Brave (2012)‚ the identity of a woman in a society is defined or determined by gender stereotypes and status of the same society where she lives and because the woman is different from man‚ she should not do the things that man does. In the movie‚ Merida is expected to become a proper lady when she grows up and there are certain rules and protocols that she needs to follow in order to awaken the lady in her. Though
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