Essays on Warlord

In the research made by de Crespigny on The Battle of Bowang which is historically known as the Battle of the Bowang Slope, he shared that it was a collision between the forces of two the warlords- Cao Cao and Liu Bei in the 202 reported late in the Eastern Han Dynasty (56). Initially, one of the warlords, Liu Bei, sought protection under one of the Northern land’s warlords ,Yuan Shao, after being initially defeated by Cao Cao’s army in 200 in a battle located in Xu Province. However, Liu Bei later on abandoned Shao after he ...

Abstract

The film Heaven and Earth (1990) is a historical film about the rivalry between daimyos Kagetora and Takeda in Japan. The film shows several dramatic battles in which Kagetora and Takeda took part. At the same time, there is no true view of the causes of the rivalry and the personal aspect of the battles is overestimated. Nevertheless, the film is based on many historical facts and especially the battles, in particular the tactics applied by the warlords, were shot professionally. Thus after watching the film Heaven and Earth the perception of the rivalry between Kagetora and Takeda may ...

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, more than one hundred and sixty men prepare themselves with a mission to capture the two men. Following the starvation of Somalis, food is brought into the country but the people do not benefit from it as warlords store it and in turn, cause further starvation among the people. However, the mission on that day targets the two men, Salad Omar and Awale Mohammed, the lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The rangers manage to capture the two men ...

The advent of the Internet age has changed the face of social activism forever. No longer is social activism marked by marches or rallies; today, information is shared in the form of images or video, spread virally from one form of social media to the next. Such was the case with “Kony 2012” the video created to shed light on the actions of Joseph Kony. “Kony 2012” became a viral video, spreading across the United States and around the world faster than Invisible Children, the charity that created the film, could ever have imagined. The “Kony 2012” film was ...

The Love Suicides at Amijima is a play produced in 172, written by Chikamatsu. It is one of the finest of jôruri (puppet) plays, and is perhaps the best out of fifteen other plays written by Monzaemon of the shinjûmono (love suicide) genre. The play represents the first popular culture of Japan that flourished during the Genroku period. Chikamatsu is regonized as a colossal figure of Japanese theatre. Conflict that was common to every one of the shinjûmono and many kabuki and jôruri plays of the Edo era is splendidly portrayed in the play. In Japanese theatre, ...

The plot of the 2011 Chinese wuxia film Shaolin, in which a disgraced Chinese general (Andy Lau) learns humility and honor with the help of the art of Shaolin (and an eccentric mentor played by Jackie Chan), follows the 12-stage Joseph Campbell hero's journey fairly closely. Starting out with an arrogant, selfish and power-hungry general, after a series of unfortunate events he starts to find himself and learn to care for others, ultimately making the biggest sacrifice of all to atone for his sins. The journey of Hao Jie is less of a rags-to-riches stories than a riches-to-rags tale, as a life in rags ...

1. In Fritz Leiber's "The Winter Files," Heinie uses his imagination to picture himself in outer space, flying a rocketship. At the beginning of the story, we see Heinie, in his homemade wooden box and bowl-like helmet, making that very much real. However, as soon as Heinie says he's "going to take a trip" in his spaceship, the Man in the Black Flannel Suit enters, clearly a figure of the imagination due to his movements, and the fact that he does not have a name. He is Gott's fantasy, while flying in space is Heinie's. The fact that all the imaginative characters ...

Arguably, the China History commenced in 1912 after the Qing Dynasty. In 1890s, the Boxer rebellion appeared to be the final wheeze of the Chinese nationalism which was under control of the Qing. The Qing faced various challenges in his regime; there were a number of warlords he also had a challenge from the foreign powers. Immediately after the Boxer rebellion, there was 25 years of the warlordism which botched the democratic revolution in the control of the Sun Yat-sen, an enhancement of the Marxist Leninist elucidation. Ultimately there was a faction nationally under the Kuomintang; the movement enhances the resistance against ...

(1) Mandalas, 2-D interpretations of Buddhist sutras have been part of Japanese tradition for thousands of years. In 1061 Phoenix Hall in Uji, Byodoin, Japan was consecrated as a veneration of “The Visualization Sutra” Buddha Amitabha. This 3-D offering, an architectural piece was financed by Fujiwara no Yorimichi, a politically influential aristocrat and lover of the arts who has been credited with the unique idea and design. It was known to have been compared to Sukhdvati (the pure land of Amitabha) by guests.

Scholars have compared it to traditional temples Earlier temples were much simpler, square with pyramidal roof or rectangular ...