The Last Samurai
Essays

Paper Doctorate

Portrayal of the Asian warrior mindset in The Last Samurai and Fist of Legend

Film is a good medium for cultural and political representation. Images and dialogue shape the audience's viewpoint concerning who they are. Without question, film is a signifying system that one can analyze for…

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Paper Undergraduate

International fraud: scale, prevalence, and significance as a policy concern

The headlines of online news sources, television news shows and print sources cry foul daily about an infinite number of scams perpetrated on the citizens of countries around the world.

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Paper Doctorate

Japanese History Attribute Meiji Masculinity

¶ … Japanese history attribute Meiji masculinity to the peculiar customs of the Meiji period, its specific characteristics of the Emperor, and, in some related way, its association with the Western world.

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Research Paper Doctorate

Farewell to Manzanar: Family Systems Theory Analysis

The intact Wakatsuki family consisted of Papa George Ko, Mama Riku Sugai, Bill the eldest, Eleanor, Woodrow or Woody and Jeanne, the youngest, who co-authored "Farewell to Manzanar (2001) (Sparknotes 2005)" with her…

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Paper Doctorate

Economic History of Japan and Korea: Industrialization and Crisis

Questions about the Economic History of Japan & Korea

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Research Paper Doctorate

Samurai Health, Nutrition, and Spirituality in The Last Samurai

Nutrition, Rituals, Spirituality, And Health Care Practices of the Samurai Culture, As Depicted Within the Movie The Last Samurai

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Essay Doctorate

India, China, and Japan's Responses to Western Imperialism

European exploration the world was undertaken in the 1500's in an attempt to reach the markets of Asia. And once they reached the East, the Europeans quickly found that their technological superiority gave them a…

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Research Paper Doctorate

Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Family Supper": Culture and Suspense

The short story "A Faimily Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro is not a simple piece of literature about a family gathering for a meal. A young Japanese man has returned home to Tokyo after spending years in California with a…

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Paper Undergraduate

Religion and contemporary politics in Indonesia

Indonesian Politics and the Influence of Islam

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Paper Doctorate

Princess Mononoke Although Japanese Culture

Although Japanese culture is generally perceived, particularly within the Western world, to be a homogeneous culture who has lived under a top-down structure of government, there is instead a profound sense of identity…

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