...So there I was, my second character in my first campaign after my first, a Barbarian named Fodel Bersk died ~~attempting to~~ successfully opening a portal to hell. My new character was a Sorcerer named Roderick Molmrith, who I kind of built with a more subtle play-style in mind. Something important to note, our Dm had us roll our own stats in Roll20 where he could see. We were walking back from an adventure and were met by the King who had sent us forth. We listened to him for a few minutes, and then we were paid and sent on our way. Our Bard had taken note of the King's daughter, and how she looked. We went to a nearby town and began making arrangements. That night, our Bard made it known that he wished to have a "private audience" with the princess. "Well, you *do know* that there are a lot of guards, and you most likely can't get near this time of night?" .... "What if I flew him in with the fly spell?" Says the sorcerer. "We... I mean, I don't think you can lift him.." "I have a 16 in strength" "Why?" "Well I had to put it somewhere, and the stats that actually matter for a sorcerer are already 16 and higher." Dm sighs, and agrees to let the Sorcerer fly the Bard to the Princess' window after some lucky rolls. So, I found myself sitting on the ledge next to the window while the Bard has himself a time. Afterwards, the Dm asks "okay, so you two make your way back.." "Not quite" I say "What do you do?" he asks "You said something a few sessions back about her...
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...For the past two years I’ve been the team leader for the Pink MoHawk Warriors, and the first female team leader in all the teams history, but I won’t be the last. As much as I adore robotics now, that was not the case freshman year. On the team I was on, I could not work on the robot and was instead designing pens to promote the team. Fed up, I was going to quit the team. But when I went to talk to the new coach about dropping out, I was asked if I wanted another chance. From then on, I became a team leader. As team leader for Pink, my main objective throughout the year was to teach the other girls to build a robot, and have them to compete with dozens of others. The catch was, I knew just as much as they did, which wasn’t much. Determined...
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...It is 1218, I have been growing up the with the mindset to have no fear, but war and violence in my nomadic empire. Overlooking my camp, I begin to think about how I have spent fifteen years preparing myself to become one of the warriors of an army known to be contained of fearsome fighters in Central Asia. Ever since I was young enough to remember, I have been training with horses by hunting and herding them. Now that I am of age to be a part of the military life, I was given four horses to alternate with, so each one can have a chance to rest and prepare to fight. Being a Mongolian warrior, I have attended meetings to practice different war tactics, this will make our empire more advanced in capturing any city or army that walks into our tracks. My clothing is made to handle any climate change, ropes, and lamellar armor which are light as a feather, but heavy enough to reduce breaking when going to our targeted destination. The armor has rectangular plates made from iron and leather that was imported from Sub-Sahara Africa. When I am not wearing my lamellar armor, I wear my form fitting rope, called a del. For...
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...The Warriors of ancient Japanese legend have transcended the traditional image of war-tales and myths. For Japanese culture, the men who are regarded as one of the three types of heroes in Paul Varley’s book, Warriors of Japan: As Portrayed in the War Tales, have proven to be much more than the subject of a bedtime story, but rather a national treasure in which Japanese culture and wisdom is portray through. It is the victories, and failures of these heroes that teach the world of Japanese traditions and honor. However, these men were not created for the education of the world, but rather for the centuries of Japanese people whom these figures represent. Warrior tales of Minamoto no Tametomo, Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, and Minamoto no Yoshitsune have a greater purpose than to provide entertainment to the people of Japan, these men provide a Japanese education on personality, values, morals, and Japanese customs. The three types of heroes that Varley examines in his book differ from each other slightly, but contribute greatly to the history of Japan in an exciting narrative of the honor and customs of the ancient Japanese warrior. The greatest loser-hero in Hōgen Monogatari is Minamoto no Tametomo (Varley, 56). A real life Japanese warrior, Minatomo was contributed with a number of attributes that are believed to have been not true in the effort to immortalize him as a warrior. Said to have stood two feet taller than the normal Japanese man, and endowed with...
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...status. In the Battle of Troy, the great Trojan warrior Alexandrus steps forward with “...his bow, and his sword, / and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans / to meet him in single fight” (Iliad, 3, 22, 7-9). This grandeur display of heroism was a ritual for the warrior, who dueled only through a fair fight between worthy opponents. The duels were done by a small group of heroes that would push forward the narrative, with the mass of warriors often forced to the background of the plot. While the leading heroes dueled, other warriors relied heavily on the arrow in battle just as many primitive tribes. The arrow allowed Greek warriors to both injure enemies from afar while warriors on the frontlines attacked. These similarities between primitive warfare and Homer’s epic show they are closely connected in style. Hans Van Wees in Greece & Rome, states that “...the [primitive] warriors of New Guinea...sounded like extracts from the Iliad” (8). However, Homer’s epic also includes new elements of battle unlike any studied in a tribe. The Battle of Troy reflects a primitive battle and modern day tactics. This leaves the Ancient Greek...
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...characters. Lee Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” is another text that uses the third person narrative to commentate the events in the story. Readers are able to more easily receive the details about the relationship between characters from the narrator. The following paper gives consideration to some examples from Warrior’s “Compatriots” and Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” of the third person point of view is utilised in differing ways. In “Sojourner’s Truth”, Maracle chooses to use first person and third person point of view to create a frame narration. The author starts the story with the first person point of view, and as the story going along, she brings up the idea of using third person to identify the relations between characters. The first sentence of the story states the way of narration being used by the author, it says “From inside my box, an ugly thought occurs to me” (Maracle 297). This proves that the story is being told from the perspective “I” with words like “me” and “my”. On the other hand, the use of first person point of view allows the story to have a more personal, subjective, and even intimate tone of voice. Readers can notice that the narrator of the story is dead by his own description “inside my box” (297), also “ugly thought” (297) can be considered as a foreshadowing to what the narrator is trying to refer to his relationships with other characters. While in “Compatriots”, Warrior chooses to focus on one narration — the third person point of view. The line “Lucy...
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...Vietnam’s postwar circumstance, to figure out why women warriors, so essential to Vietnam’s long history… have remained invisible to most Americans,” (page 6). Overall, this book is a great read to open the eyes of the reader to an untold story of hardships and struggles. While, Turner is respectful to the culture of Vietnams people, it is hard to fully understand the importance of this topic. Yes, it is important to understand a forget history of gender during warfare. But, the way she sets out to write her book is hard to follow at some points in the book. Through out her book, it felt as if she was trying to do too much in a short amount of pages. Turner has great oral stories for the reader to learn about, but it felt as if it was rushed. The...
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...The novel “Things Fall Apart” written by the author Chinua Achebe is a narrative about a well respected warrior named Okonkwo. Okonkwo was a warrior of the Umuofia Clan, whose cowardly father, Unoka, died in the utmost dishonor. He was in such disgrace with the village people because of his lack of providing for their every needs and unsettled debts. He showed no kind of interest in his community like he stepped up to do. For these reasons Okonkwo became a clansman, warrior, and family provider. Okonkwo figured that if he took over for his father he will conquer all visionaries of those in his tribe, including making sure his lazy son, Nwoye, will not fall into the footsteps of failure like Unoka. With that being said Okonkwo positions himself into doing things out of the ordinary which changed the village overall perspective on his character. This novel gives you a general overview on life and how bashful one can get once given higher power. It seems that Okonkwo is a stubborn, bashful, egotistic, and self centered man who wants everything his way or it does not fit at the moment. He feels as if he is the only one who has say so and if he does not agree with the matter than it will not transpire, no ifs, ands, buts about it. What bothered me the most was the fact of him beating his youngest wife, Ojiugo, during the Week of Peace. He severely beat her because of his accusations of her failing to exercise the care for a frugal person such as himself. He broke the peace of the...
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...American action- war film directed by Zack Snyder. It is based on a 1998 comic series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie takes place in ancient Greece, recounting the battle of Thermopylae, between Spartan and Persian. The story revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and Queen Gorgo (Lena Heady). The movie lasts for 117 minutes and spends 65 million dollars for the budget. The movie begins one year after the main story, the famed battle of Thermopylae, as Dilios (David Wenham) starts talking to his fellow warriors. As the character and also the storyteller, Dillios is able to frame the story with his interesting narrative technique. Dillios starts depicting the journey of a child (Leonidas) who is born under Sparta’s doctrine, from childhood until he reaches kingship. As a child, Leonidas is portrayed as someone who receives an extremely excruciating trainings. As Leonidas grows up, he learnt the skills of a warrior, the art of killing. He turns to be a brutal- merciless man, who leaves no room for lenity in his heart. Before becoming one of Spartans, Leonidas has to face several trials, the last one is to kill the monstrous wolf that lives deep within the forest. 300’s refined graphic...
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...Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, Native American artists exercised the ability to enter the contemporary art world as masters of their mediums and carriers of their dual Native and American heritage. Fritz Scholder carved his place in the art world, and the museum, achieving a balance between the desire to enter the mainstream art world and maintain traditional practices. Scholder’s role in the context of an art institution, which has driven the dissemination and selection of Native Art, entailed challenging the fields of art history, anthropology, ethnology, the museum, and history. The construction and narrative that is instilled in Native American objects involves acknowledging a past, present and future. Fallacies in interpretation were results of collecting with little regard for context that...
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...existence is debated and disputed by modern historians.[2] The sparse historical background of Arthur is gleaned from various histories, including those of Gildas, Nennius and the Annales Cambriae. Arthur's name also occurs in early poetic sources such as Y Gododdin.[3] The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).[4] However, some Welsh and Breton tales and poems relating the story of Arthur date earlier than this work; these are usually termed "pre-Galfridian" texts (from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus). In these works, Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies, or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn.[5] How much of Geoffrey's Historia (completed in 1138) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented by Geoffrey himself, is unknown. Although the themes, events and characters of the Arthurian legend varied widely from text to text, and there was no one canonical version until Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur was published in 1485, Geoffrey's version of events often served as the starting point for later stories. Geoffrey depicted Arthur as a king of Britain who defeated...
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...Geane Louise J. Mendoza BSBA-MM 4-5D JAPANESE LITERATURE I. History A. Ancient Literature (until 764)- “Nara Period” (AD 710 to 794) * Kan’ji- Logographic Chinese Characters which is first writing system used by Japanese that was introduce by Chinese. * Kana- are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji. * 3 Kana Scripts: * Man’yogana- (old syllabic) * Katakana- (modern angular) * Hiragana – (modern cursive) * IMPORTANT LITERATURES * Kojiki- ("An Account of Ancient Matters") (711-712) a historical record that also chronicles ancient Japanese mythology and folk songs. * Ō no Yasumaro (Died on August 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. * Empress Genmei (Genmei-tennō 660 – December 29, 721), also known as Empress Genmyō, was the 43rd monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession * Urashima Tarō is a Japanese legend. * Nihon Shoki - sometimes translated as “The Chronicles of Japan”, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. * Fudoki-refer to the oldest records called Kofudoki written in the Nara period. * Rikkokushi-is a general term for Japan's six national histories. * Shoku Nihongi-is an imperially commissioned Japanese history text. B. Classical literature (794–1185) “Heian period” -Golden era of art and Literature. * Kogo Shūi is a historical record of the Inbe...
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...BOOK REVIEW Title and Bibliographic Citation: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. Things fall apart is a book written by Chinua Achebe to serve the purpose of answering inaccurate stereotypes which colonial countries have about Africans. Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian born author who is widely known and recognized as the father of African literature. He was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria and recently passed away on March 21st 2013 at the age of 82 years old. He was the child of a protestant missionary and received early education in English. His upbringing was multicultural where he got to understand some of the cultural aspects of the inhabitants of Ogidi who still had some aspects of Igbo culture. Achebe was one of the founders of the Nigerian literary movement formed in the 1950’s which had a goal of identifying traditional oral culture of its indigenous people. In 1959 Chinua Achebe published the book things fall apart. The book was to serve as a response to Joseph’s Conrad book “heart of darkness” which portrayed Africa as a primordial and cultureless foil for Europe. Achebe sort out to set the record straight and clear the air from any misconceptions that Africans were a primitive, socially backward and language-less. He sorts to give room to the understanding of the African culture and give a voice to the underrepresented at a time when the continent was still suffering from colonialism. In the book Achebe...
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...The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel written by Mohsin Hamid, set in the year following 9/11, constructed through a conversation between a Pakistani named Changez and an unnamed American in a café in Lahore.. The Reluctant Fundamentalist uses a variety of narrative strategies that contribute to the novel’s atmospheric world. This essay is going to focus on the metaphorical and symbolic techniques used in the novel and analyze the connection between them. It will also elaborate how does the metaphor relate to the first-person narrative in the novel and how do these two methodologies work together to derive the deeper meaning of the author’s intension. After analyzing the use of metaphor in the book, we could see better the real meaning and power of metaphor used in literature. The book is riddled with allegory and metaphor. Take names as the most significant example in the novel. First of all, let’s talk about the name “Changez”. While several reviewers have assumed that “Changez” is too obvious a name for a character in this situation, Hamid has pointed out that it doesn’t signify “change” but is instead “the Urdu name for Genghis, as in Genghis Khan.” He elaborates: It’s the name of a warrior, and the novel plays with the notion of a parallel between war and international finance, which is Changez’ occupation. But at the same time, the name cautions against a particular reading of the novel. Genghis attacked...
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...Mortality is the timeless equalizer of all living beings. Life ends sooner for some people than for others. Lifespans shorten in the world of The Iliad, where warfare is the norm. Glory is won through battle and honor comes from dying young. The most revered members of a society are those who display the highest level of battlefield aptitude. It is in this world that Prince Hector of Troy and the great Achilles rise to fame. These two men have much in common, regardless of their allegiances. Despite being the most fearsome warrior in their respective armies, both show kindness to the people they love. Both often find themselves at odds with their conscience and principles over the war. Further, they know their participation in the battle will...
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