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Also, the fact that she retells the stories shows the significance they had for her. From Hong Kingston’s recollection of the Fa Mu Lan legend of a warrior woman which her mother told her, tradition is seen as an important influence upon her character. “…After I grew up, I heard the chant of Fa Mu Lan, the girl who took her father’s place in battle. Instantly I remembered that as a

On the 10th of July 1985, the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior was anchored at Marsden wharf in Auckland New Zealand. Ready to confront French nuclear testing in the Moruroa atoll. In an attempt to counteract the protests and campaigning of the flagship that represented New Zealand 's movement against nuclear testing in the Pacific, France bombed and sunk the Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior. The bombing simply done to prolong threats against France’s nuclear testing in the pacific, and

Introduction The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was a significant event in the history of New Zealand. It was the first ever act of terrorism in New Zealand. On July the 10th 1985 two French spies planted 2 bombs on Greenpeace’s the Rainbow Warrior. At 11:38pm the first bomb went off blasting a hole about the size of a car. Then at 11:45pm the second bomb went off. Photographer Fernando Pereira drowned when the vessel sunk as after the first blast went off he went a tried to retrieve his camera equipment

Film: Once were warriors. The tough, muscular characters in Lee Tamahori's ferocious "Once Were Warriors" are primed for fighting. And they need no battlefield: their hostilities are played out in the bedroom, in front of the children or in crowded bars. In his visceral first feature, Mr. Tamahori offers social realism with a savage kick, depicting Maori New Zealanders whose ties to their own history have been destroyed. Left floundering in an inhospitable urban world, they have lost touch with their

rapidly as he could. With cold precision, he stabbed them like a machine gun firing a nonstop clip. Over and over his kitana brought barbarian and Amazon peace. Drachneg charged Xena’s position. If he couldn’t have anything else, he’d have the Warrior Princess’ head on his mantle for this catastrophe. He raised his sword to cleave her head from her

century occurred in the sports world on July 7th, 2016, when Kevin Durant, an NBA superstar, signed with the Golden State Warriors. This move shocked a lot of people in the sports world, and he also received a numerous amount of criticism. A majority of the criticism came because he left a well-rounded team in the Oklahoma City Thunder to join an NBA powerhouse in the Golden State Warriors. Durant was very comfortable making his decision, even though he knew that he would be slandered heavily for the choice

One reason that Wilt Chamberlain should be called the GOAT is because of his dominance while he was on the court. One way that he showed his dominance is that he never seemed to be overmatched on defense. According to an encyclopedia entry on him, “He had exceptional body control for a big man, and although he was formidable on defense, he never fouled out of a game” (Chamberlain, Wilt). That is crazy to think about. First off, he played 1,045 games in his NBA career (Sachare 28). It is hard

intelligence, modern interpretations of this myth, as in Wonder Woman, demonstrate the social influences regarding beauty standards in contemporary culture and the expectations of women. The Greek myth of the powerful

because of superficial features and other factors, brought on by cultural misunderstandings and stereotypes. Judith Ortiz Cofer, a Latin woman, shares her observations of stereotypes in her article, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María”. Judith Ortiz Cofer claims that films and T.V. shows portray Hispanic women as the "Hot Tamale” woman or “sexual firebrand” (Ortiz Cofer, par. 6). And Ortiz Cofer asserts that advertisers use words like “sizzling” and “smoldering” to describe

happens that most of the time this rage is affected, initiated, and inspired by a woman. The first woman to come into importance in the Iliad is Helen. She is mentioned in book II as the cause of the war (203 - 207). In book III she becomes the main subject. A duel is arranged between Paris, the warrior who kidnapped Menelaus’ wife, and Menelaus and