Sarah Kemble Knight

Have you ever thought if you wanted to be a knight or a samurai? Well if you are thinking about it now I am going to give you some information on both of the groups. The samurai lived in Japan and the knights lived in castles everywhere. Samurai and knights both lived in the Middle Ages and they both had different leaders that they listened to. The samurai and the knights both had their differences and similarities but, they always have good reasons for what they were doing. In this essay I will…

A Knight's Tale seems some what accurate with history and the movie seems to make life as a commoner less terrible than it actually was. In the movie the commoners wore dirty clothing like the men seemed to wear dirty tunics and the women wore dirty clothing that seemed to look like a dress. They ate what seemed to be mutton, bread and some other foods. The jobs that commoners had in the movie were blacksmiths, merchants and Will's father looked like he was a weaver. Women seemed to be allowed…

families would become squires. -Boys of noble birth would were eligible to become a knight -If their parents want them to become a knight they would be sent to a nobleman’s household to be a page. -Here they learn how to behave and learn how to ride a horse -When they turn 14 they become an apprentice to a knight who they serve as a squire. -Here they are taught how to handle weapons and sometimes go into battle with the knight to assist them. -Trained constantly on exercising muscles as well as…

Squire Trelawney: The New Leader of the Hispaniola Most people want a good leader but don’t know the qualities of one. The best candidate to be the leader of the Hispaniola is Squire Trelawney. The Squire has many traits that prove the evidence that he is a good leader who is the most qualified. He is honest, trustworthy, and persuasive. First, Squire Trelawney is persuasive, which will help out his crew in the future. He used his persuasion to get the Hispaniola. “I got her through my old…

I did not really understand what honor truly meant to me until I was about thirteen years old. The exact moment was when my father told me that I had to protect my mother and sister no matter what. Then he just gave me a look. A look that says “Do whatever it takes.” A look you would only understand if you were really close to someone. He only told me this because he was leaving the United States for a long period of time. For, I would have to be the “man of the house.” At thirteen years old,…

If all the classes fought to see who was the greatest, the warrior class would come away victorious. Ever since the beginning of World of Warcraft, warriors were always there. They always had their shields and swords ready for battle. All other classes feared the warriors. The warriors have many advantages. They have devastating melee damage; that all their enemies should fear. Their defense is absolutely unreasonably by how strong it is. Warriors are the tanks of World of Warcraft and…

Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater Than the Differences? When comparing two things you must really put into perspective the little things that they are made up of. Two things can seem similar but that will never mean that they are exactly the same. For example, some of the things that Knights and Samurai had in common were: they both must obeyed their code of honor and stayed loyal to their king, both got paid in land, both were willing to do anything for their ruler. But what…

The picture you just seen is a picture of war and hatred! You see knights invading a castle and taking fire at the enemy. The are fighting back at full force there are knights fighting on foot where they are defending their respectable kings. There are cannons being fired! The defending team can just barely stand their ground. You can tell that brave Knights try to climb over the curtain wall. You are probably asking yourself , what happened? There were two kings from two different…

Samurai and knights make this booming noise, fighting for their daimyos and lords. Thousands of miles apart, similar feudalistic societies arose, developing their own elite warrior classes. In Japan, samurai protected the peasants, their lords, and especially the Emperor. They went to war to defend the people selflessly. Knights were the Medieval warriors of Europe. These soldiers went to war on horseback and defended their kingdom. If engaged in battle, the Samurai would triumph over knights…

What does it truly mean to be one of noble character? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, noble is defined as possessing, characterized by, or arising from superiority of mind or character or of ideals or morals. Basically, the one who is less of a criminal than the others. In order to examine nobility in a character, they must be the lesser of the crooks than society. In Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Casper Gutman, Joel Cairo and Sam Spade virtually have…