protection and land rights. This loyalty would become the characteristic ideal of the samurai warrior. The warrior class would rule society and politics in Japan until the Tokugawa Shogunate in the nineteenth century. A samurai was a member of the Japanese elite and his lifestyle was dictated by a series of strict moral codes and ideals. True loyalty to his lord was expected‚ if not always followed through in its ideal form. In 1703 a vendetta carried out by forty-six former vassals avenging
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The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was set up to be the poorest sickest nation in the world by mainly one man. King Leopold the second drove the DRC into having high levels of poverty and low life expectancy to help pretty much only him. He stripped them of their ivory and rubber using black slaves‚ and nobody cared because of racism. Leopold used scams‚ slaves‚ and racism to help his own country‚ he didn’t care about the country he was destroying. While using
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The Confucian Ideal Person Religions around the world have what they believe followers should become. In Christianity‚ people strive to become more like Jesus. Buddhists try to be more like the Buddha. The qualities Jesus and the Buddha possess are what followers strive to be like. These followers want to become the ideal person. Confucian followers are no different. Confucian followers have characteristics they strive to achieve to become the ideal person. To achieve these characteristics‚ the
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The Responsibilities of an Ideal Student The purpose of education is to produce ideal persons to face the responsibilities of the future. This aim can be achieved only when the students are sincere and they acquire the education in the real sense. Just copying a few questions and passing the examinationis not an education. A student can never be educated until and unless he does not put his heart and should to the cause of education. A student is a person‚ who devotes himself to the pursuits of
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say that this kallipolis may be equated to a utopia‚ an ideal society; however‚ I intend to illustrate a much divergent point of view. The justice of this city‚ made analogous to the justice of the individual‚ is specifically what precludes the kallipolis from being an ideal society. For this reason‚ the kallipolis should serve primarily as a magnified model for the constitution of the just individual‚ rather than as a blueprint for the ideal city. The center of my argument lies in Plato’s specific
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Ava Morgan My Ideal Life My ideal life would be to get a scholarship at Cambridge University‚ and graduate with a PhD. After I graduate‚ I would like to become an environmental lawyer‚ specifying in wilderness preservation. I would continue to live in England until I think of a reason not to‚ and I will make my home there. I don’t want to get married right away‚ and especially not have children right away. I still want to be young and have fun- I don’t want to have a kid to take care
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Ideals of Women in Othello What is the ideal woman? The response to this by today’s society might differ to that of Renaissance society. In the Renaissance‚ women were seen as possessions. Their duty was to marry a man and show obedience and chastity. These expectations of women are shown in the play Othello‚ by William Shakespeare. In the play‚ the two prominent women‚ Desdemona and Emilia‚ both recognize the expectations of women at the time. However‚ the two women disagree in their views on
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The freedom that is to be cultivated in the citizens of Plato ’s ideal polis‚ and in the polis itself is supposed to be a free and just place. The freedom that Plato describes is the kind of freedom to live within a republic and be able to live in accordance to their abilities. The freedom he describes allows people to do things that‚ "are apt for the accomplishment of different jobs" meaning that a person is allowed to either transcend the "class" they were born in to or to even be "demoted" from
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My Ideal Bookshelf When I first started reading I completely hated every aspect of it. It was boring‚ I couldn’t spend my time outside‚ and I thought that it was a complete waste of time. But then in 3rd or 4th grade I read my first Harry Potter and was completely blown away by how great it was. J. K. Rowling opened a completely new world to me. Suddenly reading became very interesting and I started reading more and more‚ at the same time I also started to get more and more interested in
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The ideals of a nation with peace are built around justice-regardless of race‚ gender‚ and religion. It is built around the ideals of freedom--regardless of race‚ gender‚ and religion. They are built around liberty--regardless of race‚ gender‚ and religion. If any governing powers are able to grant such ideals and implement them into society‚ it is a prosperous nation. The reason America fought for independence from the British was because of the abuse and inability to adhere to these basic principles
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