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Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Samurais, 2 Books

This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

Japanese Culture and Samurai

and strenuous training was required of these men with most of the training occurring on the Kanto plain which was also the most id...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

Comparison of the Samurai in 1600 and in 1800

The legal procedures specified that power was held by land holders. The shoguns and the samurai were included in this group. The...

Japanese Bushido Code of Ethics and the Samurai During the Meiji Restoration

characterize the government and society of the period. In the bakuhan, the shogun had national command and the daimyo had regional...

A Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Since the publication of its first English translation in 1974, A Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the Amer...

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

Warren, Reeve and Fess's Accounting

all businesses accounting methods the same across the board. Although there are some differences between GAAP and International Ac...

Review of Anthony Horowitz's Point Blank

a book by its cover. The boys, when sent to Point Blanc, are bonafide, out of control, juvenile delinquents who suddenly become mo...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

ANALYSIS: PRINCIPALS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

but hopefully an understanding of the issues he raises and attempts to address throughout the book. Overview While well de...

Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles

many different organizations, all the while also illustrating and supporting the truth that so many of the African Americans suppo...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...

People in Crisis by Lee Ann Hoff

in the wings for his cue may be experiencing the stress we call "stage fright," but if he can channel that stress into his perform...

1491 by Charles Mann

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve w...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...