Essays on History of Asia

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A Samurai's Escapade The Story of Music, a Katsu Kokichi Autobiography

2 pages / 862 words

Musui’s Story is the autobiography of Katsu Kokichi, a low-ranking samurai who lived from 1802 to 1850, during the Tokugawa Period. He was from Edo, modern day Tokyo, and spent most his life there, except for excursions across the country. Musui’s Story is an interesting...

Samurai

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How Samurai Affected The History of Japan

1 page / 525 words

Japan’s first capital city, Nara, was directly modeled after the Tang capital city, Chang’an. Out of the total Japanese population of about 5-6 million residents, Nara constituted for some 20,000 of them. Within that time period (710-784 C.E.), land was nationalized in the name of...

Samurai

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A Triumph Over Adversity in The Sanurai's Garden

2 pages / 760 words

Sachi’s Stages of Grief In The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, Stephen, the main character, contracts tuberculosis and recovers in a remote area, which is his enemy’s country, before World War 2 starts. Sachi goes through several stages of grief in the book. Through the...

Samurai

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Enola Gay

3 pages / 1543 words

The Enola Gay is a specially built plane, that held the very first atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was named Little Boy. Despite its name, the Little Boy, made a lot of damage to Japanese land. The Enola Gay is a modified B-29 Super Fortress...

Hiroshima

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The History of Manhattan Project: How American Nuclear Bombs Were Made

5 pages / 2260 words

The Manhattan Project was the secret name for the United States project prior to World War II in order to design and build a nuclear weapon. With the breakthrough of fission in 1939, scientists figured out that nuclear and radioactive materials could be used to...

Atomic Bomb Hiroshima World War II

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Development and Historical Context of Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan

3 pages / 1591 words

Before international contact and trade was established between Asia and Europe; specifically Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate employed an incredibly rigid social order. Initially, Japanese subjects were trapped into the status that they were born into with no mobility, but as the Tokugawa period drew to...

Tokugawa Shogunate

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The Great Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan

1 page / 484 words

Genghis Khan, Mongol Emperor from 1167 to 1227, birth name Temujin, succeeded his father Yekusia, the chief of the Mongol tribe. Genghis Khan became famous for his well-organized army, twice the size of any other empire in history, with dictatorship abilities that were so powerful...

Genghis Khan Mongolia

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The Controversy and Justification Around The Use of Nuclear Weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

3 pages / 1197 words

An Avoidable Catastrophe In the discussion of the United States’ dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one controversial issue has been the justification for using the nuclear weapon. On the one hand, Spence Tucker argues that the atomic...

Controversial Issue Hiroshima Nuclear Weapon

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Discovering The Controversial Figure of Genghis Khan

3 pages / 1483 words

The name “Genghis Khan” often conjures up images of brutality, barbarism, and warmongering. His image struck fear into the people of the steppe and even today, almost 800 years after his death, is one of the most famous things to come out of Mongolia. However,...

Genghis Khan

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Genghis Khan and Macbeth: How The Tyranny Develops

2 pages / 838 words

In spite of William Shakespeare’s lifetime existing after the reign of Genghis Khan, the infamous Genghis Khan and Shakespeare’s Macbeth remain similar in their acts of tyranny. Both tyrants valued their pride and idealized sense of self-worth over the bloodshed of innocent victims that happened...

Genghis Khan Macbeth

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The Influence of Genghis Khan on The Modern World

2 pages / 1100 words

“Genghis Khan was the most cold and calculating leader in the history of the Modern World. His rule and the rule of his kin were a time of oppression, vengeance, and expansion without regard for those who lived in the lands of the Mongols.” When...

Genghis Khan

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The History of Thailand

5 pages / 2261 words

The history of Thailand is believed to have began during the Stone Age. In the cliffs, rock paintings were discovered dating back to 3,000 years ago. Numerous settlements were built throughout Thailand during 2000 B.C. At these settlements, the people practiced their several ways of...

Developing Country Global Change in Asia

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Defense of The Us Behind The Japan’s Atomic Bombing

2 pages / 842 words

Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan Was the U.S justified for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan? This the question that has been controversial throughout history. The Pacific War started on December 7, 1941, and ended on October 24, 1945. The United States was the first...

Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

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A Discussion of Whether The Us Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Justified

5 pages / 2450 words

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Hiroshima. To this day, this has been a controversial military strategy. Those who believe that the U.S. was justified in using the atomic bomb argue that more lives were...

Hiroshima

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Discussion of Whether The Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima Was Justified

1 page / 414 words

Although there are many theories on the incentive of the decision to drop an atomic bomb in Japan, of which mainly revolve around traditionalist and revisionist accounts of intending to urge Japan to surrender in order not to increase american casualties, or to consolidate America’s...

Hiroshima

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The China-pakistan Economic Corridor

5 pages / 2687 words

Pakistan’s Geographic Position Pakistan is a country with deserts, wetlands, plains, coastal belt, forested mountain, snow-covered peaks and coastal belt. On the Eastern border of the country lies India, the northeastern border of the country is shared by China, the country is bordered by Afghanistan...

China Global Change in Asia Pakistan