Clan Sinclair

Clans I looked down the battle field, ashes of broken warriors and monsters covered the ground. I needed to get back to Earth Clan. I turned around to see a creature, mumbling unspoken words to me. I pulled back my bow, arrow in place, but the monster charged and I didn’t have enough time to shoot. I pulled out my sword, and swung it this way and that. The wretched creature whipped me on my hip. I gasped in pain. With one quick shot-with-an-arrow, the monster lay, dead. All in five seconds, it disappeared

Totem poles can tell stories, represent ceremonies, and much more. The totem pole is very intricate and a very special and honorary item. My totem pole is based on my family. The animals I have chosen all have a special meaning to me. The reason I am doing a family totem pole is that family always comes first to me and family is one of the greatest blessings you can have. I selected a bear at the bottom of my totem pole. This bear represents my father’s side of the family, hence the name, “Lonebear”

The Sunning God By: Caleb Chavez It was a somewhat normal day as it started the constant birds chirping, the smell of pie that the Neighbors cooked, and the taste of morning breakfast. My younger brother Bon and I were off the school that morning. We don’t go to a normal school due to the war. We went to a knight school where they taught us how to use weapons. But what we didn’t know is that day would be the worst day of our lives. While we were gone our mother had been cleaning up the house

in Writing The Jungle Upton Sinclair wrote this book for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, he tries to awaken the reader to the terrible living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of the century. Chicago has the most potent examples of these conditions. Secondly, he attempts to show the advantages of socialism in helping to remedy the problems of a society such as the one that exists in Chicago at this time. Sinclair accomplishes his objectives with

A high point of Japanese aristocratic culture, the Heian period was a time of significant intellectual and cultural growth. It is during this time that women came to have a very important role in the social and interpersonal workings of the court. Though there were still many restrictions upon them, women were able to express themselves as never before and faced a surprising degree of freedom and autonomy in a society that was defined by an immense amount of rigid formalities. One of the things I

the Yamana clans they rival the other took the side of the brother to become shogunate. In the year of 1467, a fight broke out between Yamana S. zen and Hosokawa Katsumata the twos brawl grew and the fight between the two rivals nearly destroyed Kyoto and splintered the country this is what led to the Onin war. The battle as small in comparison as it is illustrates the points spoken of before near perfectly. The heads of the families fought for power like the Hatakeyama and Shiba clans claiming their

Analysis of the Gempei War In May 1180 Prince Mochihito, the son of Retired emperor Go-Shirakawa, issued a statement urging the Minamoto to rise against the Taira. While Mochihito would be killed in June and Minamoto Yorimasa crushed at the Battle of the Uji, a fire had been set. In September Minamoto Yoritomo, who had recieved Mochihito's call from Miyoshi Yasukiyo, set about raising an army in the Province of Izu, where he had been in exile. There was an irony in the preceeding events, as

Loyalty and honor are of the highest value in the eyes of the samurai. This is a statement that many scholars and young educated persons believe to be true on the basis of assumption. Thomas Conlan challenges this preconceived notion of loyalty and honor in his book State of War by piecing together a much more difficult and situationally based definition of loyalty which differed depending on the samurai and by observing how times of war and hardship truly challenged an individual’s sense of honor

The Heian Period from about 794-1185 A.D. was an impressive era in Japanese history. Considered Japan’s Classical Age, it was a period of wealth and sophistication. Peace and prosperity, high culture, powerful clans, new ideas and relative independence of foreign influence marked this time. The move to the capital of Heian-kyō (modern day Kyoto) was motivated in large part on a desire by Emperor Kammu to reduce the substantial influence exercised by the monasteries in Heijō-kyō (modern day Nara)

“Warring State,” 1467 to 1603, was not, as aficionados assume, a world of lasting honor. Loyalties exchanged like yen coins. Ambitious warlords allowed family members to be kidnapped, and murdering young innocents was commonplace. An entire ruling clan, the Taira, was dispatched when rival children, spared rather than extinguished, grew and enacted revenge, finishing off Taira youths. My entry into Japan was accident. I rolled dice on a job teaching English in a Japanese village of 900 in the mountains