Warriors

12:00 the time on her alarm clock reads as she sits up upon the bed awaiting something. Her face gave off this excited but anxious look that I have seen before in most girls her age. For the many years I have walked this earth and have tormented women like her. The native ones who would do anything to please the people she cares about. The sight was all too familiar with the scent of dirt and salt that fills the lungs to the single candle like that ignites the room. All was familiar except the…

Zai's cheerful good-humour and repartee had Kyle grinning like an idiot all the way back to the highway, and beyond. It was a treat to see her emerging from her shell and becoming a woman, proud of her femininity and attractiveness again. At least that's how Kyle perceived it; that he was seeing a different side to Azairah D'Amici, and possibly one that had been displayed to very few others. That her charm, wit and sensuality contrasted against the murder she'd so viciously perpetrated in the…

The samurai and knights had many similarities and many differences. The two shared a common idea of feudal order, manners, and loyalty. Samurais and knights also agreed that training is vital to becoming an important figure. They also agreed training was important before battle. Their disagreement in battle was that that the two did not agree on the idea of gender roles in battle. Differences that arose while training children to become leaders included how long to train them. Despite their…

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” (Millman) This quote can be interpreted in many different ways. When applied to Peaceful warrior one can deduce that it could mean when people chase dreams it is not the destination or the goal that beings us the most joy but it is the path that we take to get to that goal that makes us the happiest and that benefits us. When one applies this quote to the theme of “The value of purpose and dreams” it could be determined that it the…

particular, the transformation of a person from an ordinary citizen to a warrior, has many unique and diverse celebrations and responses. Cultures around the world acknowledge this transformation through celebratory traditions often including dancing, drinking and feasting as well as conditioning exercises such as engaging in abstinence.* Through various cultures it is apparent that a person's transformation from citizen to warrior is both glorified, encouraged and acts a distraction from the…

the memoir, envisionments of various reoccurring, paradoxical female figures: primarily Brave Orchid, The No Name Woman, and Fa Mu Lan, serve as “talk-story” teachings that are all fundamental in Kingston’s development to becoming an actual “woman warrior”.…

By reading the novel, the audience enters the mythical world of Kingston’s Chinese heritage as it crashes into the pragmatic and concrete world of the author’s American formative years. The Woman Warrior displays the various ways in which language and cultural norms create expectations and establish limitations upon immigrants, naturalized citizens, and even mythological characters. Their lives, told through talk stories, reflects not only the innate…

Yagan was an indigenous Australian warrior from the noongar people who lived in the South west region of Western Australia. Which is Perth now. He was the son of Midgeroroo. He was born on 1795 in western Australia and died on the 11 July 1833 in Belhus. He was buried on Everton Cemetery, Liverpool. The relationship between Yagan who was part of aboriginals and British people was very complicated. Yagan was 35 years old in 1829 when British settlers landed in the area and established the Swan…

The memoirs Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen and The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston reflect on experiences in the authors’ lives that have impacted their transition into womanhood. Kaysen has borderline personality disorder and recounts her struggle with mental illness during the time she spends at a mental institution when she was 18 years old. Kingston is Chinese-American and she reflects on her battles with her cultural identity in her…

The term “Asian” was originally used to define and label everyone that was not white, and by definition, the term generalizes people of vastly different backgrounds, histories, languages, and religions all into one incorrect misappropriately defined category. The term Asian itself is referred to as a race, yet a race is associated with biology. If people are of the same race, the may share the same ancestry or have similar physical characteristics, whereas the term ethnicity is used to refer to…