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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"samurai"”.
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Samurai Sword Museum in Kyoto
… use the architecture language to demonstrate the Samurai Culture. Earth, Water, Fire, and Air are the elements that I want to consider. When the sword cut into the water, the water stopped for a while, and then it continued flowing, so I made a "Z" shape cut into the earth. I hope there is only a …
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Sunset Warriors: Cowboys, Samurai, and the Crisis of Masculinity
… connected to the loss of the cowboy and samurai as replicable and dependable archetypes of masculinity. I have responded to the crisis of masculinity as a social and cultural phenomenon. It is experienced and responded to by men and women, and it is reflected in and developed through the …
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Nested Monte Carlo Tree Search as Applied to Samurai Sudoku
… search algorithm is implemented for solving Samurai Sudoku, a version of Sudoku in which a standard Sudoku puzzle is placed with four other standard Sudoku puzzles overlapping on each of the corners, it performs better than a completely random brute-force algorithm. Additionally, an …
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The Captive Samurai: Japanese Prisoners Detained in the United States During World War II
<p>5,424 Japanese prisoners were captured by Allied forces during World War II and brought to the United States for internment. No scholarly account has been written of these men. This thesis will explain why there were so few, where they were interned, and the conditions of their internment.</p> …
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Allusions to Samurai Culture in the Star Wars Universe, Especially in Jedi and Sith Characters
… a deep insight into the culture of the Japanese samurai and compares it to the culture of the Jedi and Sith characters of the Star Wars universe. The main points of comparison are the principles, weapons, and outfit. This thesis also attempts to prove that George Lucas used numerous elements from …
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Engineering Education and the Spirit of Samurai at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1871-1886
… the investigation, I conclude that the spirit of samurai (former warriors) was the ethos for Westernization at the ICE. They followed ethical code for the samurai, the essence of which was lordly pride as a ruling class. They upheld their ethical standard after the Meiji Restoration. Their spirit …
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Son of Samurai, Daughter of Butterfly: fashioning Japan in the sartorial culture of the United Kingdom, 1980-2006
The thesis addresses the reception and consumption of Japanese fashion in the U.K. between 1980 and 2006 and concomitant constructions of Japanese identity in the critical discourses surrounding fashion. It examines the impacts of the sartorial traffic emanating from the Japanese fashion system, …
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The art of collaboration (four contrasting compositions) : critical commentary
… for Violin and String Ensemble. The first work, Samurai, was composed in1995 and revised early this year. The second work is The Miraculous Violin,written in 2000 for violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and 1 Solisti di Zagreb'string ensemble. The third work composed last year, Black Fire, was …
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The 47 Loyal Retainers: The Heroification of Illegality
… are venerated as great heroes who exemplify samurai loyalty and honour despite the fact that their actions went against the law and the shogun’s orders. This event is known as the Ako Incident, or chuushingura, and is still discussed today and new fictional adaptations made despite over 300 …
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Exploring Masculinities in the United States and Japan
… of masculinities in the films "The Last Samurai," "Shall We Dance?" and "Shall We Dansu?" The paper begins with a discussion of masculinities in general, including brief historical contexts, followed by an overview of masculinities studies in America and Japan, concluding with an …
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Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis of Femininities,Performances, and Representations
… class, and sexuality in the anime Bleach and Samurai Champloo. I also interrogate the implications of these performances in relation to hegemonic discourses of Japanese femininity in the U.S. as submissive, deferent, incompetent, and domestic. As I explain in this document many performances of …
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A Narrative in One Scene
… (2012), and Akira Kurosawa’s <em>The Seven Samurai</em> (1954). I chose one technique from each of the the films, synthesized them into an original scene, and described the process of creating the scene.</p>
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
… paper compares Sakamoto’s rejection of Confucian-samurai values with Nietzsche’s rejection of Christian values, and Nietzsche’s announcement of the death of God with Sakamoto’s heralding of the death of Tokugawa feudalism. Pointing out the importance that Sakamoto and Nietzsche placed on truth, …
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A vehicle of social mobility: utilitarian factors in the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the early Tokugawa period
… after Hideyoshi’s separation of peasants and samurai. With the ambition to enhance their social status, commoners found Neo-Confucian scholarship a useful vehicle for social mobility, and these utilitarian motives spread the increasing preference of Neo-Confucianism throughout Tokugawa Japan …
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE FOR THE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG HALYOMORPHA HALYS STÅL (HEMIPTERA: PENTATOMIDAE): BASIC REQUIREMENTS AND NEW KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITIONS TO SET UP THE NEW TOOL
… coevolved biocontrol agents, for instance, the Samurai wasp, Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), which is already showing promising medium and long-term results against BMSB in classical biocontrol projects. Within the frame of the least-toxic alternatives, the use of the …
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Foraging ecology and sampling of Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) and its host Halyomorpha halys (Stal) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in wild host trees
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is an invasive agricultural and nuisance pest in the United States and an increasing number of countries abroad. In the absence of other long-term solutions, biological control presents one of the most promising H. …
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Toward optimized surveillance of adventive Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) based on aspects of its foraging ecology
Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), an invasive agricultural pest from Asia, has established in much of the USA, where it has had significant, deleterious impacts on the production of various specialty crops. Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) is the …