Haiku

In Modern day Confucian society, gender roles revolve around their cultural society where someone’s identity is a part of their group’s identity. In the 19th and 20th centuries the traditional role of women gave emphasis to the deep rooted nature of inequality in the gender roles and relationships in Japan. Gender roles are defined by culture more than physical differences between men and women.(Kincade.,2013) Seventeen Syllables illustrated through the relationship between the mother, “Tome,”…

The Samurai learned poetry and learned how to dance and do other traditional stuff. The samurai learned a type of poetry called Haiku. It was what you had to do if you were a samurai. The Knights had to go to a school at the age of 7, that taught them how to be a knight and how to win battles. It was really rare to see a knight that writes and reads. They were too busy learning how…

home to live in the castle. When you were a squire you were becoming a real knight. You would learn how to fight and think. Samurai wrote poetry, also they had a strong feel for discipline and effort. One of the poems the samurai wrote was called Haiku. Haiku was a famous poem with 17 syllables and three lines. Clearly, now that we know about the education knights and samurai had we can see that the knight and samurai did not have the education that we have in the 21 century. In…

In Physics Book 1.1, Aristotle highlights the progression of knowledge, saying: “What are first obvious and certain to us are rather confused, and from these, the elements and principles become known later by dividing them." All knowledge progresses from a broad scope towards more precise knowledge. This progression is visible when a child is learning. When a child sees a tree, he cannot differentiate one tree from another. Gradually, the child begins to tell the difference between species. Over…

Classical Period DBQ Have you ever wondered why buildings look the way they do today? Most of them were modeled after the architecture of ancient Greece. Also, several inventions from the ancient eastern hemisphere, we still use today, such as architecture, transportation, and the calendar. Many things from ancient Eastern Hemisphere influence our lives today. To start off, multifarious Greek architecture influenced buildings today. For example, countless buildings in our country’s capital…

After reading over the poem multiple times, the emotions that begin to arise are ones of peace. The words are soft and calming, “petal by petal the flower of our heart” (line 3) Though the poem evokes some feelings of sadness, I feel at peace as I read over the poem. Memories of nostalgic memories of being with old friends that I had lost. Something about the poem reminds me of the process of moving on, and focusing on the future ahead of us, “Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into…

The subject of this poem is death by suicide and depression, the tone is very dark and gloomy. Personally, I don't have any experiences with suicide. However, I have experienced mild depression. That was my muse for this poem, not close the level of the speaker but the common depression that everyone experiences. The name of the poem is “Antarctica” because that is what I can related depression too, I remember feeling very cold when I had depression as well as lonely. It's a metaphor for the…

Hook: In more ways than one, the ways of ancient cities and countries are specific to one place, but they also connect and intertwine together. Preview: The culture and developments in Japan’s Golden Age also overlap with that of China in early times. The two civilizations both had similar types of government, literature, language, and religion, though they still had aspects of their worlds that were uniquely their own. These countries are geographically close to one another, but when going…

arachnophobia I like to dance I mainly dance in my bedroom with the music very loud I love my girlfriend Kayla Bidinger I want to see the world, the inside of the White House, and Hollywood I live in Davison and I go to Davison High School Ruff Haiku 2 Haiku Trees Five syllables here Seven more syllables there Are you happy now? Trees whisper To each other At sunset “Autumn” 2 Tanka ”Gone” Leaves changing colors Pumpkin pie, apple…

every handsome man that has the pleasure of meeting her. She is accustomed to having men under her control by just flirting with them. Yet one man seems to have her under his spell, and she hasn't even met him yet. The many banquets of flowers with a haiku written on aged parchment paper are all she has to connect herself to him. She is familiar to one-night stands but after meeting her secret admirer will that all change? Can someone be completely different than they first appear?…