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    Social organization and stratification on the islands of Luzon and Visayas were actually different from each other. Tagalogs were described as more traders than warriors. The social order in the Visayan region were composed of the Tumao class (where the nobility of pure royalty descent; includes tha datu and their families)‚ the Timawa (the warrior class who render military services to the datu in hunts and land wars)‚ and lastly the Oripun class (the commoners and slaves). On the other side‚ social order

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    Many a great warriors emerged throughout the course of human history‚ Spartans‚ Vikings‚ and Apache warriors. Throughout all of human history these warriors had glorious and heroic tales‚ however there was one that stood out vastly from the others: The Samurai. Samurai are noble warriors whom emerged during the Edo period of Japan‚ they first began as a hired guard for the rich‚ landholding nobles. The word “samurai” means “the one who serves” in the Japanese language‚ as more noble families appeared

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    Doon. Doon. Do-doon. Doom. Doon. Do-doon. It was dusk in the Ottawa tribe’s encampment. A steady drum was coming from the surrounding forest. A woma There had not been a meeting of the tribes in many generations.# “I will take you to him‚” a young warrior by the name of Chaytan#‚ newly turned‚ stands to lead the two messengers. The messengers confer‚ and nod towards D to show the way. D pulls a branch from the woman’s yet to be extinguished fire‚ and leads the toward the center of the clearing. “This

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    In the story of Beowulf there is a transition from a great young warrior to an even nobler king. Beowulf‚ a Danish Prince‚ fights and earns enough respect to obtain a great reputation as a notable leader. There are two sides to Beowulf - the warrior and the leader. In the beginning‚ he fights alone for one purpose‚ but by the end of the story he rallies troops to help him fight. Beowulf‚ being the mighty warrior he is‚ hears about Grendel and sails to Hrothgar’s town to help defeat Grendel

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    Athens. He believed in his people and through this speech he was able to get the people to be proud to be Athenians. Athenians were very proud of their city and its customs. They had a great deal of respect for the warrior class and believed they were top members of their society. Warriors were classified as heroes. The funeral oration was to respect the ones who had died in battle or after battle to build this city into what it had become and praise them for being so dedicated to defending their country

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    require and create invisible webs from promises and assurances that on the surface of it they sound satisfying. After that when “the fly” catches in them they take everything they can. Moreover if you consider them similar to warriors‚ Paulo Coelho’s belief that “ A good warrior pays attention to every step of his opponent.” supports the fact that using someone else’s tendency to be defeated is leading method in the political art. Politicians use nation’s qualities and abilities in order to gain their

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    talking about how the Old English translation of Beowulf has actually caused a lot of misunderstanding because of everyone’s contemporary perceptions of the way it was in the past. She then goes on to talk about the warrior culture‚ which she refers it to being the things or traditions warriors would do such as ceremonies and burials. Webster then transitions to describing the different things about Heorot in the book Beowulf and it’s structure. After that‚ Webster covers the importance of weapons and

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    there to represent the country. The shogun was the person who not only make and pass laws‚ but controlled finances and the daimyos. The daimyos were lords that controlled samurai‚ which were warrior protectors for wealthy land owners. Samurai followed a code of behavior called the Bushido‚ or the “way of the warrior”. The Bushido stated that samurai were to be brave‚ loyal and honorable. The wouldn’t complain when they received physical hardship‚ they did not fear death. If a samurai was defeated or

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    Anglo-Saxon period. * Paraphrase lines 264-279. : Beowulf talks about battling the monster with his bare hand & he states that it’s all in gods hand. * What does Beowulf ask of Hrothgar? : Shelter of warriors & his peoples loved friend. * What values and beliefs of warrior culture does Beowulf’s attitude reflect towards death? : He believes it’s control by god & that if it is his time then he will be called upon. * How does the “renaming’s” of Grendel in line 325 emphasize

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    their codes of conduct The first topic that i will be comparing and contrasting is the code of conduct. The code of conduct for the samurai was called the code of bushido. This code was highly based on honor so much so that if you were a warrior and committed a crime you would have to commit a ritual suicide called seppuku. Seppuku was when you would disembowel yourself and have your head cut off. Weirdly this was considered a honorable death. The knights code of chivalry was very different

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