Warrior

Nobody want’s to be caught because they know what will happen, but everybody continues to do it. People say that being a Spartan warrior is an excellent career in the future but I didn't even want to be here in the first place. You see all the people here getting trained to be fit to “uphold the honor for the future of Sparta” or “produce great children to be the future warriors of Sparta” or whatever other reasons they can come up with…

Shadow Warriors starts off on the seventh of October, 1985, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is the day a large cruise ship was hijacked in the Mediterranean with Americans on board. Though, as the book proceeds, it goes all the way back to the Vietnam War in the 1950’s to the 1990’s while talking about how the Special Forces started from the small core units in the military. This book is most written from the view point of General Carl Stiner (Ret.), who helped write this book. He was very…

of a warrior and grows up to save her village; and feels dissatisfied with her achievements due to the unattainable greatness she strives for. While Kingston is growing up, her mother tells her stories of the past, and paint a picture of the warriors that walked before her. Growing up, she looked up to the legendary heroine, the woman warrior, who saved her village; bringing greatness to herself, and pride to her family. From a young age, she knows that she “would have to grow up a warrior…

Yuchin is the unrealistic character of The Bane of the Internet, a short story written by Ha Jin. This story has an almost humorous tone as two sisters, one who lives in China and the other in New York, communicate with each other. This character and her older sister wrote and sent each other letters via the postal service as their main means of communication until they discovered email. The name of the older sister is unknown but this story is told through her point of view. The narrator is…

In the criticism, “Questioning Race and Gender Definitions”, Malini Schueller draws light to the expectations of Chinese women and how they are to be quiet and passive in nature. According to Schueller, “The initial story establishes the denial of expression women are condemned to in patriarchy and the cultural stranglehold the narrator must fight in order to express herself” (423). It is this cultural expectation that Kingston rebels against by telling her version of the unnamed woman.…

Beowulf Essay Beowulf is a long story about Beowulf who is a warrior of his people and his many intense battles with enemies. There are plenty of elements that make this an epic poem. There are many instances where the poem shows characteristics needed for an epic. There are great battles between heroic figures and large villains. Beowulf appears to the land of Herot. Herot is an enemy of Beowulf but he is there to help Herot in a time of need. There is a great monster killing the…

The Field Museum in downtown Chicago. We went to various exhibits, in addition to the Terracotta Warriors exhibit, we also saw many others including the Cyrus Tang Hall of China and we watched the movie The Mysteries of China. These exhibits were both interesting and very helpful to help get a full understanding of Chinese history. What did you learn? Since I had already seen the terracotta warriors before I was not as interested in them but i was more interested in the tomb the tomb where…

terracotta warriors. The Terracotta Warriors demonstrate the relationship between the ancient world and the modern world by connecting the past to the present. The Terracotta Warriors were created in an assembly-line style production by large groups of people, similar to the production style in China today. The Terracotta…

individuals who survived had to have been strong warriors. A community could only survive with the collective skills of its warriors. And, as great warriors were valued among the members of this civilization, strong warriors were seen as the best candidates to be kings. The kings in Beowulf are all known to be renowned rulers for their times, being generous and successful in catering to their kingdom's people. The exception to this is Beowulf, a powerful warrior who takes on the role of king.…

The last two chapter of “The woman warrior” are interesting and conflicting each other at the same time. They are conflicting each other because Kingston wasn’t involved in the main events where the stories all about her mother Brave Orchid and her aunt Moon Orchid but the last chapter most of it was about Kingston’s own stories and thoughts. It is interesting because Kingston in “At the Western Palace” where she wasn’t part of the major clashes of this chapter, but at the same time she was part…