Sword Book Reviews Samples For Students

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the book is dedicated to the values and identity of the Japanese samurai culture. The author talks about the bodily and spiritual Japanese culture, especially for nature and death, as it reveals the basic principles of Zen aesthetics.
Modern cultural-historical process that operating in the framework of a democratic society is focused on the formation of a strong personality, a man - "warrior" in a variety of concepts. It demonstrates the interest to the eastern military tradition and military ethics. Even now, from the perspective of a foreigner, the current generation of Japanese, regardless of age, bears the ...

Introduction

Japan is a country in South East of Asia with very vast a culture and origins. Entities such as sumo wrestlers weighing 350 pounds, fire-walking ascetics on the streets and young to very old Geishas are unique only in Japan. No matter how hard you look for such things in the western part of the globe, you will surely end up failing because no other place in the world has these kinds of things aside from Japan.
Japanland by author Karin Muller is a describing that aims to let the readers obtain a clearer and brighter picture about Japan and what the ...

“The Tale of the Heike” is an account that was written in Japan in the 13th century. It mainly tells about the struggle for power between the two clans. The stories of the book also comment on Japanese religion (Buddhism) and describe ethics and values of people of that time. But the most important point of the book is its portrayal of the Japanese culture as a culture of war. In this paper, I’m going to prove that Japan viewed itself as a war culture and that its main purpose was developing such character traits as loyalty and ...

Introduction

Lakshmi Bai was inspired by his her upbringing which was unusual. She grew up in the Peshwa’s court with boys. This was unusual for Brahman girl upbringing. Here when she was with her father she got training in martial arts and she finally became proficient in handling sword, fighting and riding. When she was fourteen years, she was with her father Moropant Tambe who acts as a Pandit in the court of Peshwa Baji Rao II and Nana Saheb in Bithoor. Here Tatya Tope trained her in the arts of war. This is where she gets her inspiration. As ...

Cartoon 1: “Fire!”

1). The key elements in this political cartoon are the torch bearing hand of the Statue of Liberty, and a fearful looking man, who is labeled “Hysteria,” and is frantically climbing a ladder with a large bucket of water in his hand. The man represents the American people and the hysterical state they were in at the time when Joe McCarthy, the former Republican U.S. Senator, was going about accusing Americans of being communists. The torch literally represents the liberty of Americans.
2). Herblock, Washington Post’s chief editorial cartoonist, is trying to persuade that America’s liberty and freedom was ...