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    Feudal Japan

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    12/10/2011 What purpose did Samurai serve during Feudal Japan Research topic influenced by one of the two Main sources: The last Samurai Directed by Edward Zwick and Rurouni Kenshin Anime series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. My research is based on Samurais and their way of living. I want to bring out the history

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    shift in context‚ values and techniques; this will demonstrate how the composers of both the original text‚ King Lear and the transformed text Ran are able to reflect the differing values and context within them. My first two items are a crown and a Bushido scroll. I have chosen these to represent the shift in context‚ which are the attitudes and values of society at the time that the text was composed. King Lear was written in the Elizabethan era when Queen Elizabeth ruled‚ the values that were important

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    The Imperial Japanese Army had a reputation during and after World War II as being the most hated enemy the allied western forces had encountered. This partly stems from acts of brutality committed by the IJA that are both infamous and synonymous with the wars fought in Asia and the pacific‚ and partly because of their alien philosophies and attitudes which are deeply embedded in the psyche of the Japanese soldier and which were consequently demonstrated through out their involvement in World War

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    THEMED RESEARCH PAPER: VOLUNTARY SUICIDE OF THE MODERN WORLD HISTORY Voluntary Suicide of the Modern World History Throughout history‚ the world has seen and experienced different acts of violence‚ murder and terrorism. There were armies‚ groups‚ and individuals involved in these violent acts. Some of these acts were well thought out while others happened in the moment. The people perpetrating these acts were under the order of their superiors‚ religious leaders‚ and political leaders. Others

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    Dark Ages Research Paper

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    valued honor and respect ("Samurai and Bushido"). These warriors lived by the Bushido‚ which was unwritten laws‚ which was their military code ("Samurai and Bushido"). The Bushido was a good thing because it focused the warriors on their country’s needs and concerns‚ not only on their own problems. Other countries‚ without a military code‚ had huge problems with their unstructured fighters causing them major losses in battle at this time ("Samurai and Bushido"). The Dark Ages can be seen during this

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    The Feudal Ages in Japan and Europe In the past‚ feudalism has been used successfully as a political system for governing a country. Two of the largest and most well known Feudal Ages have been that of Europe (1150-1600) and Japan (800-1350). Although both civilizations were quite similar during these periods of time‚ Japan’s civilization clearly is superior in many ways. When compared‚ the role of religion‚ the weaponry and armor‚ and the warrior codes of conducts of both countries can easily

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    internal attacks. Despite European and Japanese feudalism differing in the treatment of women during 600-1450‚ they were similar in that their political structure of a hereditary caste system and following an honor code‚ such as the Japanese’s code of Bushido and the European’s code of chivalry. European and Japanese feudalism were similar in that they had a similar political structure of a hereditary caste system. The Japanese classes were the shogun (similar to a king in Europe)‚ who held all the power

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    Samurai And Knights Essay

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    armor ‚ follow a code of honor ‚ have a death poem ‚ and they protect people from danger and enemies The Samurai were a warrior culture that was unique to Japan . The Samurai also followed a code of contact known as bushido ‚ It

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    between 24 and 25 years of age and comes from an aristocratic‚ traditional samurai background. For most of his life until he was around 20 years of age‚ he trained in Kenjutsu dojos to further his way of the samurai and develop morals in the way of Bushido. When Jin was about the age of 18‚ an elite samurai who was part of the Shogunate (an organization of supreme military commanders) ordered Jin’s sensei to kill him in his sleep. As the sensei attempted to carry out the order one night‚ Jin had no

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    Musui's Story

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    cruel suicide ritual that could only occur upon avenging those who had wronged their master. Samurai lived by the code of Bushido ("Way of the warrior")‚ which was developed in the mid 1600. It emphasized duty of every samurai to respect and honor those above them on the social class. Their way was supposed to not be intellectual nor materialistic‚ but spiritual. The bushido code worked well during the time Japan was constantly at war. Nevertheless‚ when Tokugawa leyasu became shogun (1603)‚ he

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