Samurai and Shogun Me: Hey‚ buddy I have some Critical Thinking questions. Do you mind going over them with me‚ Donkey Kong. DK: Yeah‚ sure why not! Me: Why do you think the Fujiwaras and the central government were declining? DK: Daimyos had a lot of power because of the vast amount of land they had. The government was losing money because they didn’t pay taxes. Me: Following that why did you think daimyos didn’t pay taxes? DK: Well‚ they had a lot more power than the government. Having
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"Araby" Knight The short story "Araby" by James Joyce could very well be described as a deep poem written in prose. Read casually‚ it seems all but incomprehensible‚ nothing more than a series of depressing impressions and memories thrown together in a jumble and somehow meant to depict a childhood infatuation. Like the sweet milk inside a coconut‚ the pleasure of this story comes only to the reader who is willing to put forth the intense effort necessary to comprehend it. Or like an onion
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For six centuries the medieval knight dominated the battlefield and influenced the Western world greatly. The armored‚ mounted warrior‚ born in Middle Ages‚ revolutionized warfare and became the foundation of the new political structure known as feudalism. The Church put the medieval knight to the ultimate test-the First Crusade of 1095. The Church‚ which Christianized almost all of the knights‚ gave them a very high status in society‚ one that was sought after even by kings and princes. In the end
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The movie The Last Samurai was not only a great fighting action movie but it also touched on human spirituality‚ cultural‚ lifestyle difference and the effect of Japanese culture on a western man. The movie was created in 2003 and takes place in Jap in the 1860s. An American military advisor is embraces the samurai culture that he was hired to destroy after being capture. The battle scenes in The Last Samurai are accurate to how the samurai fought back then from weapons to battle strategies.
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The 1954 movie The Seven Samurai‚ directed by Akira Kurosawa‚ and its 1960 remake The Magnificent Seven‚ directed by John Sturges have many similarities; for example‚ the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as opposed to The Seven Samurai. One of the main similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is
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As a Japanese film‚ Seven Samurai (1954) directed by Akira Kurosawa is based upon circumstance; it is interested in what surrounds the human being and how ones circumstance is powerful in the portrayal of the film over the characters lives. “Circumstance unites man: the farmers with one another‚ just so the samurai‚ just so the bandits.” (Cardullo). It is through all of these circumstances that our narrative forms and the plot moves forward. The farmers unite with one another to try and find a
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Samurai‚ warriors that fought to show respect and honor to their ancestors and community. Samurai was placed in the middle of the social pyramid this means that the samurais did not have too little or too much power. Samurai are very important in history because‚ they would take on Seppuku which is a ritual suicide and these warriors swords had a special significance. To begin with‚ the ritual suicide that the Samurai would perform is significant because‚ assuming that the Samurai were to lose in
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features of the samurai in the period from 1600 to 1868 are samurai stop fighting and Confucianism become popular and really influential in Japan. 1600 to 1868 is the Tokugawa period. In this period‚ Tokugawa brought an end to the warfare. Therefore‚ one characteristic from 1600 to 1868 was about samurai stop fighting. Specifically‚ samurai no longer needed to fight wars or were worried about how to earn a life. They transferred from warriors into civil administrators‚ and samurai could acquire a
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next under him was placed the sogun‚ the actual leader‚ which was invested by the emperor to protect Japan‚ he was followed by daymio and samurai‚ military figures that were placed in charge of administering the country‚ followed by farmers and artisans. Merchants‚ accumulated great wealth in cities like Edo‚ Osaka‚ and Kyoto. In this structure the samurai class‚ was forbidden from engaging in profitable trade or farming‚ the peasant’s role was to produce basic foodstuffs. Peasants were to give
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Elizabethan Knights During the Elizabethan era‚ 1558 to 1603‚ knights played a huge rule and were very important. Becoming a knight was not was not easy at all. They were important when protecting the land and the people. Without knights there would be no one to protect the magnificent Queen and also others. Knights were very interesting and important to the Elizabethan era and impacted the civilization in many ways. “Becoming a Knight took years of training‚ during which a young man learned how
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