Tokugawa Ieyasu's Collapse

From experience, I know that when I was a little kid I would enjoy playing with empty boxes and imagining that it was a house or a weird toy. At this point, the readers are now imagining the infant from the beginning of the poem grow into a toddler.

In The Barbie Doll, the author writes about a girl' s life. The author starts off by describing her childhood. She was given dolls and toys like any other girl and she also wore hints of lipstick. This girl was healthy and rather intelligent. Even though she had possessed many good

"When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed it mystery into my living blood." (Anaya, 1)

As my 4 year old self laid upon the Kazak carpet that coated my entire living room, I seamlessly attempted to assemble my Matryoshka doll back into its original state. While my fingers lightly stroked the wooden components of the doll, I realized how captivating the complexity of it was. While I was a child, I invariably portrayed the doll as merely a “toy” with an interesting concept behind it; however, as I emerged into my adolescent years, I understood that the Matryoshka symbolized my process of growth and adaptation as an American immigrant.

II. The doll symbolizes the clay toys the indigenous children received from their parents, reflecting their childhood; the exchange of gifts parallels my own childhood.

Reaching out a wobbly hand, Alma’s hand connected with the dolls, and just like that Alma's body had vanished. Alma was trapped in a void, deserted from the real world. Everything around her was racing until it all came to an abrupt stop. As Alma subsided back to reality, everything was identical except for one crucial change, reposed in the doll’s body was Alma! As she looked around, Alma felt hundreds of tiny eyes fixed upon her. Shocked, Alma sat motionless, not knowing of what to do. As Alma pondered, a stand had gradually risen and atop of it sat a still, anticipating doll girl awaiting her

The Tokugawa period or otherwise known as the Edo period has been recognised as an extremely significant aspect of Japanese history and left history changing effects on the country. In this essay, five primary aspects of the Edo period, which has helped produce present day Japan and had greatly impacted on the nation during this period will be addressed:

The occupations were ranked by how essential they were to Tokugawa Japan. Ieyasu created hereditary classes based on occupation. The samurai were the most essential to the shogun because the warriors protected the land of the daimyos, who were hand picked by the shogun and made sure taxes were paid for the land they owned. The peasants, making up most of the population, were farmers and fishermen. They were necessary to work the daimyos land and yield food for the nation. Artisans were less essential because they were more mobile, not owning land. Merchants, similar to artisans, did not own land and were even less valuable because Ieyasu did not view the salespeople as directly benefiting

“ideals are developmentally ingrained in children and adolescents”( Englis 1). The idea of beauty and ideal looks are engraved into people at a young age. The little girl being given a Barbie doll shows this in the poem. The idea of beauty and how a woman should act are represented in the Barbie doll. The primary take away is beauty is not everything.

The young girl was sitting in her room, brushing her favorite doll’s hair while humming a sweet melodic tune. Her doll was made of brown fabric with pieces of yellow yarn tightly stitched to the doll’s head. It had black button eyes and a pink sundress on. This doll was Haddi’s most prized possession. Haddi’s doll was given to her by her mother when she was a baby, right before her mother had passed away.

Sooner age dawned on us, and while mama played barbie doll with me, I yearned to seek the meaning of life, wanted to see things beyond plastic and porcelain eyes. I began to seclude myself, reading big words and abandoning the youth inside. I began to peel oranges, but left the pieces of skin on the cracked floors, making mama pick ‘em up as I ran

Shogun Tokugawa lemitsu recruited the highly trained Koga-ryu ninja to attack the Christian rebels who were led by Amakusa Shiro who made their final stand at Hara castle, in Hizen province. The rebels were attacked by the Ninjas because in the dead of night the ninja would climb up the castle walls and attack them in the middle of night when they cant be seen by the rebels and before sunrise would steal back down the walls and back to their encampment. Then the ninjas had a sneaking suspicion that the rebels were running low on resources so they would infiltrate the castle in the dead of night and steal the remaining resources that they owned. Soon the Christian rebels were starving in there own castle.

When Jennifer Wormser learned that I was interested in painting dollhouses, she offered to loan me her personal copy of The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. The fictional tale tells the story of a young woman who receives a miniature Dutch cabinet house from her husband as a wedding present. The story is based on the actual 17th-century Doll’s House of Petronella Oortman (c.1686- c. 1710) on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which I was fortunate to see in person during a visit to the Rijksmuseum a few years ago. It was a combination of seeing Petronella Oortman’s actual doll’s house displayed next to a painting that was made of the doll’s house by Jacob Appel in 1710, that inspired me to paint my first dollhouse interior, based on a childhood

Katherine Mansfield's "The Dolls House" seems to be a simple story about children receiving a own ideas and opinions. Even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion it is often bizarre to see how our opinions are based on those of others. This essay will outline the events that occurred in the story which are a big part in regards to the two different worlds of adults and children, and how they are separated from each other.

The woman also concludes in part five "death is the mother of beauty" (1248). This means that death clears away the withering remnants of the old and, through desire, provides the replacement in the new in a continuous cycle that is ultimately the cause of all beauty and all ugliness, all pleasure and all pain, all life; that once nature dies it leads to the rebirth of something equally beautiful. The cycle of change, the whirling wheel of ripening fruition and decay, is shown as necessary by the portrayal of stasis in the poem's sixth section. "Is there no change of death in paradise?" asks the voice. "Does ripe fruit never fall?" The image of "rivers like our own that seek for seas they never find, the same receding shores that never touch with inarticulate pang" (1249) presents death as a consummation devoutly to be wished, a return to the ultimate mother Death. This idea of death as a return, a reunion, is one of our most common religious/mystical ideas. Christianity gives us the