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    experienced and renowned Yoji Yamada‚ Twilight Samurai is a film set in the 19th century‚ towards the end of the Tokugawa or Edo era. It was a time when the samurai system was beginning to wane as Japan started to advocate itself towards modernization. The Meiji reforms had started to begin‚ and the samurai class was gradually being disregarded as of a higher social status. The lifestyle and demand for the samurai was thus in a process of change‚ as the samurai began to take on other trades such as merchants

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    other than the Sprint to USA in future. In1985 Suzuki introduced the SJ413 an upgraded model of SJ 410 and designed especially for US market as further delay would increase the threat of ‘Brand Clutter’. Suzuki planned to market two versions of the Samurai in USA‚ a convertible and a hard top. There were other players who were also planning to enter the market. Hyundai Motor Company & Zavodi Crvena Zastava (yugo) were expected to enter in 1986. DECISION PROBLEM Suzuki‚ was now facing the following

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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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    Intercultural Experience Abstract I collaborated with the Reclamation Project to tutor young Burmese children in Fort Wayne‚ Indiana‚ to complete my cultural immersion project. Throughout this paper‚ I will explain where my tutoring took place and my reasoning for selecting this activity. I also will describe in detail my outlook on the Burmese population in Fort Wayne before this activity and how it changed following the completion of this activity. Finally‚ I will illustrate how this activity

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    Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Randy Pausch was a computer science professor who taught at Carnegie Mellon University. On September 18‚ 2007‚ a few months before he lost his battle with cancer‚ Pausch delivered a speech entitled Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams to an audience of around four hundred people. One can appropriately evaluate the effectiveness of Pausch’s last presentation by examining the seven key elements of communication. “Know thy self”

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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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    miles away in Japan‚ some samurai stood in intricately designed armour with crossbows and swords ran or rode on horses and fought so they would have defended their master’s land. The bright and bold colours of the horse’s skin and the Samurai’s armour danced like fire as they clashed with other Samurai. Europe’s knights and Japan’s samurai were different because they had different views on religion‚ training and combat‚ and societal structure.

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