What did the Japanese General Mitsura Ushijima instruct his men to do?

“i now wished for the last friend,death, to relieve me.” what is equiano referring to?

What ideas, institution, and causes became the focal points of chinese and islamic resistance respectively to the west in the latter half of 19th century and the first decades of the 20th

Jackson pollock described his art style in the following quote: “new needs need new techniques.… it seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the renaissance or of any other past culture. each age finds its own technique.” what point is pollock making about the new styles of art?