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Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...
This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...
In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
also illustrating how she was not a woman who was likely insecure. As the poem moves on the narrator informs the reader even mor...
and strenuous training was required of these men with most of the training occurring on the Kanto plain which was also the most id...
century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...
The legal procedures specified that power was held by land holders. The shoguns and the samurai were included in this group. The...
Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...
those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...
This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...
they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...
people. They rely on critics to tell the public about the film. As such they will clearly keep in mind what the public is interest...
water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...
as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...
offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...
Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move each new gener...
conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...
In five pages this paper analyzes society and religion as they pertain to Musui's Story....
of its economic life. The historical cost convention can result in some difficulties, as some assets will be written off, but may ...
Since the publication of its first English translation in 1974, A Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the Amer...