Katana

The samurai are some of the most well known and recognizable figures found in history. But how did they come to be and what was their life like? The samurai warriors developed from the three major clans battling for land and power in Japan. They became their own class just before the start of the 10th century and were known by two names, one of them was samurai and the other bushi. No matter what name they went by, total loyalty was given to whomever they served and in return, the samurai…

It was 10:30 pm on a Tuesday evening and I was sound asleep. Soon thereafter my alarm clock rang and I awoke to the sound of Chewbacca singing the national anthem. I opened my eyes and realized that I had to be at work in an hour and a half. The room was littered with darkness and I couldn't see a thing. I stretched my and yawned, however, it wasn't much of a yawn, but rather a roar. The roar shattered the windows and made the wooden beams buckle in the surrounding walls. At the time I wondered…

Culture is beliefs, traditions, arts, in a certain group of individuals. When thinking about Japanese culture, individuals automatically think about samurai in their armor carrying their katanas, anime/ manga, sushi, tea, sumo wrestlers, and young Japanese women in beautiful face paint in their kimonos formerly known as geishas.Japan only has one beautiful culture while America has multiple cultures; which helped sculpt what is known as Western…

Finding Nemo: Overview “Finding Nemo” is an American computer-animated film written and directed by Andrew Stanton. It was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 30, 2003. The production was done at the Pixar Animation Studio in Emeryville California with a crew of not more than 180 people starting from January 2000. The total production cost of the movie is 94 Million USD. It has a runtime of one hour and forty four minutes. The story of the movie is…

The Devil’s Backbone (2001) Devil's Backbone (2001) - source: Sony Pictures Classics The Devil's Backbone (2001) - source: Sony Pictures Classics Del Toro's next film is The Devil's Backbone, a dense and politically charged ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War, features one of the most haunting opening sequences in modern cinema: Fade in. The camera moves toward a darkened doorway. "What is a ghost?" a voice asks. "A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?" We enter the…

The textbooks were not what they seemed. Their titles were “Assassinations of the ages”, “Spying 101”, and “To get away with murder.” The open desk drawer revealed a pair of matching katanas along with other cds jammed in. The pictures on the left side of the clothes line were in black and white revealing the same girl on the right only with a family while on the right it seemed to show a change of date only by a few months only with…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…

Marine? Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail manga/anime and One Piece. manga/anime Ch.3. Wave towards Darkness It has been a few days since the fight with the Black Cat Pirates and their Captain Kuro. As well getting the Merry Go a caravel class ship design by Merry and given by Kaya as a gift for saving her life from Kuro. Currently they were somewhere North of Syrup Village. Luffy the Captain of the crew with short, messy black hair with a two stitches scar underneath his left eye. Currently he…

The Dark Night trilogy set the gold standard for the characters Batman, and the Joker. Every casual movie goer or critic would tell you that the most recent portrayal of each of these characters isn’t as good as the Dark Night Trilogy characters. With the flop of Man of Steel, and Batman vs. Super Man, Warner Brothers, the company making DC films, wanted to take a lot of control away from directors, and unfortunately the first movie to take such directions was 2016’s “Suicide Squad” by David…

"Raiden...what is this?" "Sorry little Rei-chan, I didn 't want to do this. But for the sake of our future, please come with me." "What?" "He means that from the beginning he was never on your side." The old fake Zen said, smirking. "You guys didn 't know that he was never part of your family! He’s part of the secret organization that is against the Kanzaki family" He laughed, a very nasty and ugly laugh. Was he talking about Cocytus? It wasn 't much of a secret, and calling them an…