This story is about the adventures of a young woman in ancient China‚ named Mulan‚ inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale. Mulan is a lovable‚ spirited girl who doesn’t fit in with Chinese tradition because she has a bad habit of speaking her mind and following her heart‚ which gets her into a lot of trouble. Mulan’s parents sent her to the matchmaker hoping that she will find a suitable husband‚ but through several mishaps she fails miserably and is told she will never bring her family honor
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Civic Oration Speech Regine Williams 1st Block The Great Wall of China is the top ten new wonders of the world 2012. Located in China it stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east‚ to Lop Lake in the west. The whole wall is about 21‚000 km long. The main part of the wall is 2‚500 miles long and stretches through all sorts of mountains. The wall is thirty feet high and twenty-five feet thick at its base. The Huns and barbarians had no farming land and they used to entre china and killed and invade
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My Darling Amy‚ I hope this letter finds both you and the boys fit and well. I know that I said I would write every day‚ but it has just not been possible for the past couple of days‚ I hope you haven’t been worrying too much? We moved into a new position yesterday. I am now in a place called the Somme‚ It’s somewhere in the north of France. This morning I received two of your letters‚ dated the 3rd and 7th December in addition to the package you sent. Will you thank the boys for the lovely pictures
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Mulan is the ultimate epitome of a hero. Joseph Cambell who said “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” ‚ characterizes Mulan to perfection. She undergoes changes throughout struggles which shape her into the worthy hero that she is. . Mulan faces both inner and outer battles that transform her persona to being a hero. According to Joseph Cambell’s monomyth‚ Mulan meets the necessary qualities‚ as she portrays them grandly It all
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Rachel Lunn Ms. Barnes 9th Grade World History 18 November 2013 The Story of Huā Mùlán As humans‚ we gather information by the things we see‚ the things we hear and the people and places that surround us‚ but what if the things that surround us were inaccurate? We would have false knowledge and information‚ but wouldn’t know any different. If the things we watch made us believe the wrong things how would that affect our society? In some cases it could make a big difference but in other cases
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The Roman and Han Empires were the most powerful empires among the Classical Empires. Between the fifth century B.C.E. and the fifth century C.E.‚ the Roman empire of the Mediterranean and the Han Empire of China were both influential powers of the Classical Asian and Mediterranean worlds. The Han Dynasty and Roman Empire were similar in their falls because they both fell to nomadic invaders‚ and because they both fell because of a decline in economic trade. The Han and the Roman Empires were different
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protection from the Xiongnu. Did the benefits of the Great Wall outweigh the human cost. The Great Wall is DBQ of Worth it with some consequence because it increased trade‚ used for protection from Xiongnu but very harsh conditions and death.
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many traditional Chinese values. Values like filial piety and respect were disregarded in Xiongnu culture‚ from what I have observed‚ bravery was an important character trait. On page 129‚ "The young men eat the richest and best food‚ while the old get what is left over‚ since the tribe honors those who are young and strong and despises the weak and aged." Moreover‚ incest seemed to be common in the Xiongnu tribe‚ since when a father dies‚ the son marries his stepmother…" On page 134‚ Maodun gained
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Chapter 2 Summary Chapter 2 treats the period from 200 B.C. to A.D 400: the consolidations and initial expansions of Confucianism‚ Buddhism‚ and Christianity. Bentley book emphasizes the role of merchants generally‚ the role of elites in voluntary conversions‚ the syncretic nature of all results‚ and the importance of imperial peace in promoting cross-cultural encounters. Such encounters briefly declined with imperial collapses. Silk Road is a modern term referring to a historical network of
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Tacitus:Germania‚ Plutarch’s The Parallel Lives‚ and the Records of the Han Dynasty. Looking at how the Romans created a monster out of a Germanic tribe and pirates of the Mediterranean despite their relations with those groups. We also see the othering of the Xiongnu people from the Han empires‚ turn from a dislike into a fear. These documents exhibit evidence supporting
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