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    The samurai is a class of highly skilled warriors‚ constantly developed in Japan after Taika reform of 646 CE. The reforms included land redistribution and heavy new taxes‚ meant to support and elaborate Chinese-style empire. Samurai is usually assigned in Japanese as bush or buke‚ were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. The samurai indicate their origins to the Heian Period expedition to conquer the native Emishi people in the Tohoku Region. At the same time‚ warriors were

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    picture scrolls told famous Japanese stories such as‚ ‘Tale of Genji’‚ or stories of Japanese heroes. Sometimes‚ artists created elegant portraits of nobles and monks. Both colourful Shinto religious paintings and monochrome ink landscapes created by Zen Buddhist monks were significant in the Muromachi

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    2008. Downloaded from: http://www.reghardware.com/2008/03/10/ft_first_mp3_player/ Tew‚ A Weisbein‚ J. (2008) “BestTech”‚ besttechie‚ March 2008. Downloaded from: http://www.besttechie.net/2008/03/01/the-ipod-success-thank-the-marketing-department/ Zen Zuckerberg. M (2004) “Facebook Homepage”‚ Facebook.com. February 2004. Downloaded from: http://www.facebook.com/ -----------------------

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    PLEASE DONT COPY WORD FROM WORD.!!!!!! Chapter 13: The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan‚ Korea‚ and Vietnam Social: 1) Japan * Emperor -> aristocracy -> nobles/ warriors -> local leaders-> peasants -> farmers * Male and female barriers * Females can’t rule or get into political businesses no matter how high up you are. * Determing rank solely by birth * Men and women in aristocratic classes are mandatory to have polite behaviors * Social status was everything and

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    Similarly to Bread Givers’ Sara Smolinsky‚ Maya Lin is the daughter of immigrants who fled to the United States in 1948 before the 1949 Communist takeover of China. On the date of October 5‚ 1959‚ she was born in Athens‚ Ohio (Biography.com Editors). Lin’s parents were intellectuals who eventually became professors at Ohio University; teaching ceramics (father) and English (mother). As a result from accompanying her parents to the university‚ she and her brother (a poet) were encouraged to be creative

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    Abstract Practicers of Buddhism have many of the same fundamental beliefs‚ but branched off into different divisions as many religions do. This branching led to the Theravadins who emulated the ascetic life of the Buddha in order to attain enlightenment while the Mahayanists‚ whose worldly commitments required that they depend on the assistance of others to achieve the same goal. While there are differences between these two practices of Buddhism‚ there are also similarities. Many

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    Religions around the world can differ in various ways. What one religion believes and practices may be the opposite of what another believes. The Eastern and Western traditions especially differ. Not only what they believe in but also how they do it can sometimes be on opposite ends of the spectrum. Hinduism and Buddhism are religions of the east. In both religions‚ you have to go deep inside yourself and worship inwards in order to find enlightenment. They believe that suffering is caused by attachment

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    ACKNOELEDGEMENT I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and deep gratitude to all those people who extended their whole hearted co-operation and have helped me in completing this project successfully. First of all‚ I would like to thank Mr. S. K Bhatia‚ Dy. Manager (HRD)‚ for giving me an opportunity to do my training in this prestigious organization. I’d also like to express my sincere gratitude towards Mr. V.K. Arora (Asstt. General Manager‚ Plant Maintenance) ‚Mr. S. Prabhakar

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    In the early years of the Meiji Japan entered the international community and began to industrialize‚ modernize and urbanize. These were hard times for Buddhism in Japan‚ as it became the subject of a critique and censorism and also a symbol of corruption or decadence in opposite to Japan’s need for scientific and technological development. As a group of modern Buddhist leaders emerged‚ they agreed that to fit the new‚ nationalistic policy of the Japanese government‚ Buddhism is in need of revitalization

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    simple definition. It can‚ however‚ be linked to a three sided pyramid. First‚ wabi‚ as a noun‚ is derived form the verb wabiru‚ which‚ in turn‚ can have several meanings. The meaning of wabi in its aesthetic sense is best defined by the author of Zen-cha Roku‚ who wrote: “Wabi means lacking things‚ having things run entirely contrary to our desires‚ being frustrated in our wishes.” This is an extension of the meaning of wabiru as being disappointed by failings in some enterprise of living a miserable

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