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Would You Rather Choose Samurai's ! Or Knights
Which would you rather choose Samurai's! Or Knights!, In this essay, I will compare the weapons, views of women, and code of conduct from the samurai and knights.

In this first paragraph I will be focusing how I believe the samurai's armor better prepares him for battle than the knight's armor. the samurai wear a mask to strike fear into their opponents to find an opening to attack. The knight's mask prevent heavy attacks and fatal blows by cushioning the attack to lessen the impact. The samurai’s armor was less protective but it gave them more flexibility to move around and use martial arts with the armor on. While the knights armor focused more on protecting them then flexibility, so the knight's armor did limit the movements they can make. So overall the samurai's armor is more focused on flexibility to allow them to not have limits on movement whilst the knights armor is focused on protection which does limit their movements because of the weight. So that is why I think the samurai armor is better in my opinion.

Next, I will write about how I would rather choose the knights view of women rather than the samurai’s. The samurai's views of women treated them like slaves at home working and obeying their every command. The knights views of women treated women nice and showed random kinds of respect to women. So the
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The samurai's code of conduct is all about honor which there is nothing wrong about that but there are limits. There is one rule of their code of conduct that I do not want which is seppuku which is a suicidal act committed by a samurai when they get captured or they lose their loyalty to their Daimyo. The knights code of conduct is all sunshine in my opinion since they have no brutal codes of conduct. Now the knights code of conduct was to do random acts of gallantry and show respect towards women, so basically their code of conduct is all about

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