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The Ideal Warrior

in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...

Warrior in the Primal Village: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

than allow King Arthur to do this. He journeys to the Green Knight and encounters many adventures on the way. When he ultimately m...

Creative Mountain Warrior Saga

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

Lisa McGirr's Suburban Warriors

force to reckon with. During this period in history, of course, America was enjoying an economic boom that the rest of the w...

Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States and the Global Suitability of High Skills

wages and low expectations (Brown, 2001). These views are premised on human capital assumptions that there is an evolutionary proc...

Lover and Warrior Odysseus

traits he possesses that is less than admirable, one thing is clear. He exhibits loyalty and trustworthiness. He respects the gods...

Book XXII of 'The Iliad' Extracts

we see Hector awaiting his battle with Achilles and again there is a strong indication of the emotion which drives and influences ...

Mulan, Within the Context of Early Chinese Poetry

Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Indian Warrior by Diego Rivera

This paper pertains to Diego Rivera's "Indian Warrior" and the Mexican history to which the work refers. The writer discusses this...

The Warrior Culture of Beowulf

it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

War in Ancient Times

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

Tale of the Heike, An Overview

This essay pertains to the "Tale of the Heike," which is a warrior tale from medieval Japanese literature. This narrative recounts...

Chi Kong Discipline

kinds of Chi which exist in our bodies: *Gu Chi (grain Chi) - generates our bodys energy(Cohen, 1999). *Kong Chi (air in lung) - e...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

Maxine Hong Kingston: “No Name Woman”

only author struggling with this issue; the subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instanc...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Women's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'Woman Warrior'

This paper consisting of 5 pages compares the ideas contained in the film Raise the Red Lantern' to the text written by Maxine Hon...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

Personal Narrative Essays

In five pages personal narrative essays 'Once More to the Lake' by E.B. White and 'Silence' by Maxine Hong Kingston are contrasted...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Literature

In five pages this paper examines postmodernism in a comparative analysis of Tripmaster Monkey and His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Ki...

God's Second Son by Jonathan D. Spence

In 6 pages this paper examines the 19th century Chinese rebel peasant Hong Xiuquan who contended he was Jesus Christ's brother as ...

Example of an Interpretive Essay

The big red bus slowed to a stop. Wittman got off to stretch his legs for a moment. He almost bumped into the woman that he...

Hong Xiuquan, Christian Theology, and the Taiping Rebellion

The attempted overthrow of the Qing Dynasty by 'God's Chinese Son' Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Rebellion, is described in three page...

George Lucas Biography

In a paper consisting of five pages filmmaker George Lucas and his many contributions to cinema are discussed in terms of producti...

Gunmen at Columbine High School and the Media's Influence

In six pages this paper presents the argument that media in the forms of music and cinema strongly influenced the Columbine High S...