American Reality The Woman Warrior is a tale of a Chinese American girl-child, called Maxine, born in the United States. ... Kornemann 4 The second influential talk story, "White Tiger", is the story of a woman warrior. ... She and the woman warrior want to be accepted by their people. ... Just as the woman warrior's family had written words on her back, Maxine realizes that words are her weapons. ... The talk story "Shaman", in The Woman Warrior, is a talk story that involves ghosts. ...

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The strong characterization of The Woman Warrior demonstrates the empowerment of women. ... The dragon that The Woman Warrior encounters symbolizes the role of women in society. ... The Woman Warrior is inspired by her mother's words, "She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. I would have to grow up a warrior woman" (Kingston 34). ... When her quest is nearing its completion, The Woman Warrior becomes enlightened. ...

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There are other novels, such as "The Woman Warrior," by Maxine Hong Kingston, that include instances of infanticide, but they are not depicted in such a way that turns the reader away. "The Woman Warrior" is a novel that includes a mixture of an autobiography of Kingston's life and traditional Chinese folklore. ... Other novels, such as, once again, "The Woman Warrior," depict ghosts, but it is done in such a way that the credibility remains intact. In "The Woman Warrior," the reader knows that the belief of ghosts is realistic because of the setting and the time period. ... "The Woman Wa...

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"Vulgarity" in The Woman Warrior -----A Stylistic exploration Abstract: The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Keywords: Vulgarity postmodern readerly writerly The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Really we could find purely beautiful and utterly poetic descriptions scattered throughout the pages of The Woman Warrior. ... After we have examined through the book, we find ...

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Analysis Paper One In The Woman Warrior, the author chronicles her successful struggle to rectify her Chinese heritage and her American upbringing; the acceptance of the resulting combination turns her into a modern day warrior woman. ... Warrior Woman opens with the first talk-story, "No Name Woman", the story of the shame Kingston's aunt brought to the family by having a child while her husband was in America and obviously not the father of her child. ... She adapts the ancient legend of Mu Lan, the warrior woman to Fa Mu Lan, incorporating elements from another tale so that the swo...

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introduction ONCE WERE WARRIORS is a powerful, explosive film that captures the reality of domestic violence and alcoholism within a family home. ... Jake is from a line of slaves and he is constantly annoyed at the fact that Beth is a proud Maori woman that accepts her heritage. ... "Our people once were warriors. ... -Beth- The film is basically focused on Beth so therefore it is from a woman's point of view. ... ONCE WERE WARRIORS contains many brutal scenes which critics debated over. ...

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In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston struggles with her identity which reflects her gender and cultural ideas. ... She wants to show the responders that she is a woman warrior. ... In The Woman Warrior, Kingston uses many techniques typical of Chinese writing, suggesting some of the influences on her of her Chinese roots. ... Woman Warrior can be viewed as Kingston's inner journey of self-discovery of struggles at the margin and power gained through adversity. ... In the end, it becomes obvious that The Woman Warrior is neither a purely American book nor a purely Chinese book. ...

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Review of: The Woman Warrior When I first picked up the book and read the title, The Woman Warrior, I feared for my life that this was going to be another boring book that had been assigned because it was the only book the professor could find that was dealing with the material we cover in class. ... It amazed me to read how the little girl was taken from her home and trained for many years to become a warrior just like a man would be. ...

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East Meets West Children raised in a culture different from their parents' often present an interesting viewpoint. The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is no exception. Maxine Hong Kingston masterfully blends the mythical storytelling of Old China with her past and present exp...

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In one such scenario, her aunt is a timid woman ordered into submission by a rapist. ... Kingston also notes that the baby was probably a girl, and as such would already have been considered practically useless to society "a theme that reappears throughout The Woman Warrior. ... Analysis "No-Name Woman" is one of the more frequently anthologized sections of The Woman Warrior because it encapsulates so many of the rest of the text's themes: the ambiguity and complexity of "talk-story," the place of women in traditional Chinese society, and the difficulty of growing up as a Chines...

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Yet only "warriors" such as Achilles and Agamemnon are the heroic men. ... They are both great warriors. ... What is great about the Trojan War is that it's based because of a woman. The Greeks begin to lose the war because of a woman. ... The goddesses have a part in deciding which warriors live or die. ...

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Yet only "warriors" such as Achilles and Agamemnon are the heroic men. ... They are both great warriors. ... What is great about the Trojan War is that it's based because of a woman. The Greeks begin to lose the war because of a woman. ... The goddesses have a part in deciding which warriors live or die. ...

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Ancient History sample essay for "Assess the significance of the Warrior Pharaoh image during this period.... This is evidence to support the great importance placed on the "warrior" image by Pharaohs themselves. ... It became a "warrior Pharaoh" myth and was fuelled by the battle wounds of Seqenenre Tao II. ... Hatshepsut, the female queen, also made historians such as Breasted and Gardiner question the "warrior Pharaoh" image because she was a woman. ... So it can be seen that, although originally though impossible, Hatshepsut did maintain the "wa...

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The 13th Warrior The Anglo-Saxon's wrote an epic poem more than 1200 years ago then around 1997, a movie, The 13th Warrior was produced based on Michael's Crichton's best-selling novel Eaters of the Dead. ... Also in the second battle of Beowulf and the third battle of The 13th Warrior, the battle took place underground in caves where they had to fight an evil woman. ... Beowulf contained three battles, while The 13th Warrior contained four battles. ... While in The 13th Warrior, Buliwyf has a army of men who fight with him. ... Spears and swords were the weapon of ch...

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There was one problem, the most beautiful woman in the world was already married. The woman was Helen, a half-mortal daughter of Zeus. ... But when a friend of Achilles was killed by the great Trojan warrior Hector, Achilles returned to end the life of Hector. ... The Greek army built an enormous wooden horse that Meneleus and other warriors hid inside. ... When the people of Troy tried to flee the city the Greek warriors ambushed them. ...

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After reading The Woman Warrior, you get the impression that she worked hard to put together her book. ... "This autobiography embodies the labor of a young woman to develop a large sympathy for her mother, a woman who was able to stride across the ocean when forty years old and then bear six children. ...

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"No Name Woman": A Clash of Two Cultures Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures. ... The chapter "No Name Woman" is a perfectly illustrated example of the woman's place in traditional Chinese society, and how it differs from that in America. ... The aunt was a woman whose husband went of to work in America. ... Kingston's mother says; "To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time, was a waste enough" (6). ... In other words, she didn't have any rights to ...

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This is particularly noticeable in the way woman and ethnic minorities are portrayed in many films and treated in society. ... It compares and contrast Once Were Warriors' and Whale Rider . ... The first photographic images of Maori taken in the 1850' depicted Maori as the warrior aggressor( a good savage) rather then the warrior- hero, and women as being sexually promiscuous and available for men. ... This can be seen when comparing and contrasting Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors (1994). ... Both films are from the woman's perspective and portray very s...

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These young women could then become warrior women, instead of wives and slaves. ... Kingston recalls that her mother told her that she was to grow up into a warrior woman, instead of being a wife and slave. ...

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Warriors Don't Cry By Melba Patillo Beals Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals is a moving collection of memoirs that were taken from Melba's diary during her childhood years and through her rough times being a solider for her people as she and eight other black students endured incredible amounts of hatred and racism while integrating Central High School. ... Her transformation from innocent young woman to warrior was quite abrupt. ... Page 246 adequately describes her detachment as she says that "Only the warrior exists in me now" after suffering another pai...

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He was a great mythological warrior who saved lives and possessed many magical powers. But being a legendary god or a magical warrior does not make you a hero. ... She is a woman who knows exactly what she is doing. Taylor is a hero who performs acts of honesty, she is a woman who has her most important priorities straight and she is someone who would not mind putting others before her. ...

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Known as warriors, the Apache never intend to sit back and let strangers rob them of everything they know and own; they are determined to fight until there is an end, one way or another. ... They were very resourceful with their surroundings and belongings; however, if they became too desperate for necessities the warriors would raid other tribes. ... The men would dress up as the "Child of the Water- and the women would imitate the "White-painted woman-. ... They were fierce warriors, and never surrendered until they had put up a good fight. Michael Melody, the author of The Apache, de...

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Robert of Normandy (his father) never married the woman that he had William with. ... She did not react the way a woman would react to a beating. ... Later in life William became fat, and in 1087 he was told that King Philip of France said he looked like a pregnant woman. ... William had been a brave warrior fighting along side his men during battle, which gave them spirit to fight better and defeat his enemies on numerous occasions. ...

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Beowulf, which is translated, by Burton raffle, is about a warrior who killed monsters and saved a city. ... The women in Beowulf on the other hand, tried to be warriors, but they could not. ... "Hrothgar's gold-ringed queen, greeted the warriors; a noble woman who knew what was right." ... Even though they are both warriors they still sacrificed for their gods. "And wondering what the bravest of warriors could do. ...

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