Warriors

The book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Force by Radley Balko argues that the police department are using more military like equipment for the same crime that have always been around; that can be settled with normal police equipment and tactics. We will learn that in today’s society too many police departments are increasing their police equipment that is involving into a war like mentality. The author continues on and talks about the war on drugs, and their…

images of Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, and maybe even Westworld, which was the first movie to ever use computer generated images (also known as CGI). Not to take away from any of those movies, but in this case I would like to talk about The 13th Warrior. That being the title of the movie, the novel was originally titled, Eaters of the Dead, published March 1976. This is one of the reasons I chose this story marking it’s 41st anniversary. The movie was released in August 1999 and honestly it…

Samuel Bowles’ opinion piece titled Warriors, Levelers and the Role of Conflict in Human Social Evolution (2012) discusses the role of conflict in human history. His outlook is that intra-group conflict catalyzed major societal developments. The developments that Bowles focuses on are “democracy, the rule of law, and a propensity to help others and to abhor injustice” (p. 876). The formation of democracy, Bowles contends, was dependent on the culmination of a single national entity that…

For my final composition project I chose to put together a piece titled The Warrior. I was inspired by dystopian societies and the survival method, every man for themselves and the idea that no one can be trusted. I have always enjoyed dystopian novels and fictional tales of these broken societies which inspired the plot for this score. I wanted my use of movement, group interactions, time, space, energy, framing devices, performance mode, and overall structure to reflect a horrific society in…

In the first chapter of her book The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Amongst Ghosts, Kingston narrates the story of a ghost who appears to be her father’s sister (the no name woman) who drowned herself in shame and was soon forgotten, even by her own beloved brother. The author claims that the…

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston develops the image of The Warrior as a protector, in order to illustrate a connection between being a Warrior in battle, and being a Warrior fighting to protect the Chinese traditions in a place away from home. While Kingston is in America, she feels as if everyone else there who is not a part of her culture is looking from outside a window at them. She feels like the American culture does not accept others, and you must assimilate into their culture in order to…

In Amy Tan’s essay, Mother Tongue, Tan discusses her struggles growing up as an Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different…

Outline: Introduction Body: 1. Wong and Kingston wrote about two different situations in their past reflecting their own cultural background a- In “The struggle to be an all American girl”, Wong shows her disdain of being obliged to attend the Chinese school, and her desire to be an all American girl. b- In “Catfish in the bathtub”, Kingston is only interested in the traditional food of the Chinese culture. 2. The mentality of the author’s mothers are relatively the same a- Both mothers obliged…

The finality of Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir, The Woman Warrior, concludes with the chapter titled, “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe.” In this chapter, Kingston retells the story of her frustrations with her mother and the silent girl growing up and concludes with a story about the mythical poetess Ts’ai Yen. Combining both her mother’s talk-story about Kingston’s grandmother, who believed her family could succumb to no harm so long as they continued to attend plays, and the story of Ts’ai Yen…

Pride “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”-Peaceful Warrior. In the movie, Peaceful warrior, Dan Millman struggles with completing a dangerous move that no one before him has done. His way of life outside of school which includes partying and drinking all night, does not help either! He relies on his ego to get him through every challenge he faces, Dan thinks he is strong and can do anything he wants, but he cannot rely on himself like the way he…