Selina Neirok Leem: The Warrior Within By Sydney Peterson. Introduction: Pristine grains of sand become a sea of its own before it meets the ocean. Aquamarine blue waves and light blue sky that defines the color of the sky. Shining faces plastered with genuine smiles. Welcome‚ everything is welcoming that meets the eye. There is a slight breeze causing the palm tree’s fronds to sway gently. Luscious green erupts everywhere. Ubiquitous life is vibrantly flowering‚ all about them. The locals welcome
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In the “No Name Woman” section of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Kingston‚ the family punishes the aunt for adultery by acting as though she never existed and ultimately dehumanizing her to the point of a fate worse than death. This is expressed in the following quote‚ “Don’t tell anyone you had an aunt. Your father does not want to hear her name. She has never been born” (Kingston 1515). Kingston’s father went from a family of brothers and one sister‚ to a family of nothing but brothers. The family
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As an American Soldier we are instilled a code of ethics from the moment we bestow the uniform the Warrior Ethos or Army Values which we mainly refer it as. It is a code of conduct which instills basic ethics to our everyday lives which we honor and live by on a day by day basis. About a year ago I was faced with an ethical dilemma while working as a Human Resources Clerk for my organization. A higher ranking Service Member approached me in my workplace and offered me a monetary amount for the exchange
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the bones in his neck. “Yeah‚ yeah‚ excite me later. Playtime’s over ladies‚” Kian announced‚ cutting short their diatribe. The Bounty hunters recently returned from a hellhole planet in a nowhere galaxy growled. He knew the lengths it took for a warrior‚ when on leave‚ to dial-back the aggressive behavior. A trait needed to survive in the mercurial world of Immortals. If he could change the Archaean’s decision to deploy the hunters so soon‚ he would. Especially‚ to extend Phenix’s healing time. Then
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The Untold Warrior: Alex Dumas Alex Dumas is one of the least credited generals of the French army in the French revolution. What makes him further significant was his unfair odds of obtaining such a status; he was the black son of a slave woman and nobleman. Because of his conditions‚ Dumas was able to have an understanding of virtually all perspectives of the French Revolution. It is important to study the life of Dumas to become aware of racial discrimination as well as how it can be overcome
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Fa Mu Lan: Book vs. Movie The book The Woman Warrior‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ and the movie Mulan both tell the same story‚ but in very different ways. They have many similarities and differences in their plots. The main message “To thine own self be true‚” is shown a lot more in the movie compared to the book. They were the same in the overall story‚ but small details like how their family acts when they come home‚ their love life‚ and how they decided to go to war differ extravagantly. Some
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In the film ‘Once Were Warriors’ directed by Lee Tamahori is a very iconic film in New Zealand. It is very relevant to other post colonial countries. It raises issues in the New Zealand culture regarding domestic violence and the effects it has on families. This issue has effects on the youth who are in these situations in rather negative ways. Tamahori uses the character Grace as a fine example of how violence infused with alcohol kills the potential of young people and the effects it has on them
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man‚ but the biggest difference is that he has spirit. He still has a long way to go though‚ and the next step is moderating his life‚ he needs to “Follow the house rules”. His life is now going to be modeled after Socrates’s Way of The Peaceful Warrior‚ and he is going to have to follow rules for the most basic things‚ such as chastity‚ sobriety and vegetarianism. He’s willing to sacrifice and give up things he is addicted to in order to stop the chaos in his mind‚ to reach peace inside. Even the
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Xena‚ Nikita‚ and Buffy.” Rocío Gavira Domínguez. In Mary Magoulick. “Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena‚ Nikita‚ and Buffy.” Journal of Popular Culture 39 (2006). Mary Magoulick offers a gender study of the mixed messages in Xena: Warrior Princess‚ Buffy the Vampire Slayer and La Femme Nikita. She presents her study establishing that the idea holding by different feminist groups about Xena‚ Buffy and Nikita‚ is wrong. Throughout her essay Margoulick argues that the supposed messages
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Warrior Woman: A Spiritual Awakening Mary Crow Dog‚ an American Indian activist and member of the Lakota tribe in South Dakota‚ struggled with her identity because of her mixed ethnicity and her exposure to conflicting religious influences early in life. Her complex religious views resulted from her confusion over the stark contrast between the positive representation of woman in traditional Native American religion and the negative treatment and limited power of native women in modern culture
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