During the 19th and early 20th century‚ western Europe was the dominant force in the world. Western influence spread like a wildfire‚ filled with ideas of industrialization‚ western cultures‚ practices‚ and political structures‚ and brilliant technology. Merchants‚ diplomats‚ and many others travelled around the world to share their influence and knowledge. The West’s neighbors‚ Russia and China‚ and also Japan soon felt the presence of the West trickling further into their countries than it previously
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Russia. In 1917‚ the first professional and publicly displayed works began to appear. Animators such as Ōten Shimokawa and Seitarou Kitayama produced numerous works‚ with the oldest surviving film being Kouchi’s Namakura Gatana‚ a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target only to suffer defeat. In the 1960s‚ Manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation techniques to reduce costs and to limit the number of frames in productions. He intended
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It took New Mexico more than half a century to shed its territorial status and become a state. New Mexico’s citizens first attempted to gain statehood in 1850‚ when local officials drafted a state constitution which was overwhelmingly approved by voters. A legislature and executive officials were elected. That same summer‚ however‚ this statehood plan was nullified when Congress passed the Compromise Bill of 1850 which granted New Mexico territorial status. Other attempts to develop and implement
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In 1853‚ Western imperialism was at its height. It was spreading to several countries. British colonized India‚ the dutch colonized Indonesia‚ the United States colonized the philippines‚ and the french colonized vietnam. In 1929‚ the crash of the stock market brought a worldwide depression‚ known as the Great Depression. The depression caused instability in many countries. International commerce declined and tax revenues‚ profits‚ and personal income decreased. The great depression especially impacted
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many different aspects that affected warfare at this time‚ besides just military tactics‚ such as social structure‚ government set up‚ and innovations and technology that were emerging. The author attempts to break down many myths there are about samurai warfare at this time which is important for historians‚ as well as the rest of the population in understanding this time period in Japan. Thomas Donald Conlan‚ the author of State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan‚ argues that
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Individualism is a principal concept where one can have the liberty of expressing themselves without the hinder of any over collective cultural rule or government control. Throughout the ages the Japanese always have some kind of reform and control towards its people. The concept of Individualism may not have seemed to exist in the minds of the Japanese until the 19th century. So what makes this principle of individualism so interesting? What did the Japanese derive from this concept? And when did
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Hawke (Goodnight Robicheaux)‚ Lee Byung-Hun (Billy Rocks)‚ Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Vasquez)‚ Vincent D’Onofrio (Jack Horne)‚ Harley Bennett (Emma Cullen)‚ Martin Sensmeier (Red Harvest)‚ and Luke Grimes (Teddy). This is the second remake of The Seven Samurai from 1954‚ with the first The Magnificent Seven made in 1960. The movie opens in an old town next to a mining camp which is being terrorized by a wealthy man named Bartholomew Bogue. In the opening scene‚ the townspeople are gathered in a church
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and the first shogun of the Tokunawa shogunate. He was able to seize power in Japan in 1600 after the battle of Sekigahara between Tokugawa and the other daimyos that were against him. Although Tokunawa was essentially the ruler at that time with his headquarters in Edo (present-day Tokyo)‚ it wasn’t until 1603 that the imperial court named him shogun. Tokugawa established a national hegemony in which the daimyos were required to pay allegiance in order to continue
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other. Everyone has their own degree of honour which took years for them to gain. It is so important that people sometimes go into unclean ways just to restore it. In medieval Japan‚ samurais‚ who were soldiers from the upper rank‚ commit a ritual called “Seppuku” which is a kind of suicide that is done when a samurai had somehow tarnished his honour and brought shame to his family; even in the present‚ we still have our own ways of restoring our honour. But sometimes we treasured our honour so much;
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other basic systems at the time. There is an emperor‚ high officials‚ lower officials‚ and the normal people. Meanwhile Japan’s governmental system was mixed up. There was the emperor‚ shoguns‚ daimyos‚ samurais‚ merchants and peasants. The peasants accounted for most of the population. Samurais were the "Japanese soldiers". Daimyos were sort of like governors or mayors. The shogun was actually the ruler. The emperor was just like a figure head; he had no political status‚ but was in high
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