...“The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made I such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.” John Keegan, “The mask of command” The book “The mask of command” by John Keegan is one of the greatest collection about leaders separated in time and history space, and analyzing technical aspect of warfare of particular historical time related to Alexander the Great, Arthur Wellesley, U.S. Grant, and Adolph Hitler. The mask of command is a work based on facts, real events, real people, character description, styles, and places separated into four chapters and conclusion. The first chapter, “Alexander the Great and Heroic Leadership”, describe the life, personality and its achievements. Alexander, son of Philip II of Macedon would become known worldwide as founder of Hellenistic world and the most famous general of antiquity what no other could be before or since. The second chapter, “Wellington: the Anti-Hero” examine Wellington’s military career in Britain during the period of his exile in India to its peak of career the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Moreover, John Keegan talk over Wellington’s numerous rewards and later achievements as Prime Minister of Britain. The third chapter, “Grant and Unheroic Leadership” is focused on military growth of Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant starting with the period of being solder to obtaining the position...
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...Reason to speak up Courage is speaking up in tough times and being brave when it’s hard to. The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about having courage and speaking up with all of its cliffhangers. This essay is about reasons to speak up and be courageous. In the first example it shows one reason to be courageous, “The next thing I saw was the telephone. I stood in the middle of a drunken crowd and I called 911 because I needed help”(Halse Anderson, 136). In this example it shows that being courageous can help a lot of people. It can make sure that something that happened to someone doesn’t happen to anyone else. Even if people get mad and don’t understand do what is best for everyone. In all finding courage can benefit...
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...What is true courage? Is true courage when a human being is brave enough to do something? True courage is like not being afraid to represent an opinion. There are many spectacular ways to exemplify true courage. Some fellows are scared to show their true identity. Many people are terrified that people are going to judge how they look, the way they think, and also the way people dress. Some people even change their personality just so they can make people like them. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, all the in Maycomb, Maycomb County, many people are discriminating Negro people for their color. All these colored people have courage in demonstrating their true character for who they are. All the colored people are not ashamed for being colored. Three things this essay will cover is what is true courage?, how to display true courage?, and also what are some false ways people measure courage? To conclude, These are the topics this essay will cover. A persons color is like a flashlight, and some people just don't like to demonstrate their unique culture. Having the guts to admit an...
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...boiling water spilled on her leg, but she did not make a sound because she knew if she would have made a sound they would have been killed. Marian Blumenthal Lazan has the courage to speak about her experience during the Holocaust. Marian speaks all over the world at schools, churches, communities and more. Over 2 million people today has heard of Marian’s story and what she went through for 4 years...
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...Cristal Gonzalez Mrs. Patterson English III - 5B 14 May 2013 Why Try to Erase History? To Kill a Mockingbird, for various reasons is marked top and a must read before you die, because of its outstanding lessons through the eyes of a little girl. This book teaches history and life lessons better than any textbook or teacher. Society strongly believes there is no reason for banning this book, because it teaches about racism, shows courage, and gives a mental vision of how society has changed since then. It’s very difficult when people have decided your verdict by just seeing the color of your skin. People shouldn’t be judged by how they look; in the end we’re all human, nothing more nothing less. There are different types of courage shown throughout the book. It ranges from how courageous a kid could be and an adult too. Society has come a long way, and it has changed for the best. When you realize in the book how society was, you think to yourself how could people be so cruel? Although years after, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself said, “…I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…” (King). To Kill a Mockingbird, teaches racism better than any textbook, “I thought it taught things about racism and tolerance better than a history textbook,” (Oakley Ebscohost). Even though racism is a sensitive subject to some, people of today’s world need to know what kind...
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...In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the presence of courage is illustrated throughout the whole book. Courage, the ability to do something that frightens one. It takes a strong, vigorous and optimistic person to illustrate courage. In this case, the main character, Scout, displays perfect examples of courage throughout the entire novel. Scout does it while she herself does not notice. Like when stands up to an angry racist mob from lynching Tom Robinson, a “negro” accused of raping a white woman. Not everyone would have enough determination to walk up to a group of people who are about to kill someone. Before knowing why Scout stood up for Tom and have the guts to do so. The reader learns in the beginning of the story, how Atticus teaches Scout that doing the right thing doesn’t always mean going along with everyone else. Referencing of being your true self and have “pride” of yourself instead of being in “vain” (Austen)....
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...tremendous amount of stress and trigger feelings of shame when they are not successful at juggling all the responsibilities. Etiology of Shame We all experience shame. It is a universal emotion. Brown (2007) recognized after interviewing many women, that the first step to understanding shame was to define it in terms we can all understand. “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging” (Brown, 2007, p. 5). The less we understand shame and how it affects our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors the more power it exerts over our lives (Brown, 2007). Women experience shame on a variety of levels and across all parts of their lives. If women can find the courage to talk about shame and the compassion to listen,...
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...“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear,” said Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa. Nelson Mandela is saying courage is when you overcome the fear of being afraid. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about a family with the last name Finch in the 1930’s that lived in Maycomb, Alabama. The father, Atticus, is a lawyer and is put on a case with a black man named Tom Robinson that he is defending vs. a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Robinson is accused of doing wrong and is guilty. Throughout the book, lots of people are doing other than the ordinary. In moments where the characters are being tested, and when they are...
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...characters are very relevant to the novel. The role of the minor characters in the book is significant because they outline strong themes and they portray elements of human nature. Minor characters such as Dolphus Raymond, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose and Link Deas demonstrate strong themes such as courage, compassion and kindness such themes are very relevant to the novel. Link Deas is a marvelous minor character. Link displays courage in the novel. During the Tom Robinson trial Link gets up and says, “ I just want the whole lot of you to know one thing right now. That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’ trouble outa him. Not a speck.” (Lee 195) It takes a lot of courage to speak out during the trial just to support Tom Robinson. Link is also very kind. He shows kindness because “He walked her the short way, by the Ewells’.”(Lee 249) It is very kind of Link to walk Helen home and commanding Bob Ewell to stop teasing Helen. As well as showing kindness Deas is compassionate. This is correct because “ Mr. Link Deas made a job for Helen. He didn’t really need her, but he felt bad about the way things turned out.”(Lee 249) Link shows compassion by hiring Helen he knows that she will struggle without Tom’s presence. Link Deas displays courage, kindness and compassion within the novel. Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is an interesting character. Mrs. Dubose is a great example of courage. Atticus explains Jem Mrs. Dubose’s goal, “ She said she meant to break herself...
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... the Mirabal sisters all strengthen themselves against the clutches of Trujillo’s reign displaying a strong sense of courage. The sisters have their own personalities each being different in their own way but something that can be seen in all of them is how they are able to fight against the norms of society without fear of being outcasts or being killed in action. Minerva mirabal strongly displays courage in her family which affected her sisters in a positive or negative way depending on one's outlook. Her bravery motivated her sisters to stand up for what they believe and to not be so easily shot down by everyone else’s view on them. Patria Mirabal derives a lot of her courage through her faith which does help her greatly throughout the Time of the Butterflies. During the revolution bearing Raulito she states “But then again, here in that little room was the same Patria Mercedes, who wouldn’t have hurt a butterfly shouting, ‘Amen to the revolution’” (164). This statement is a turning point for Patria because it indicates the moment where she decides she is not going to be stand behind the protection of her family and friends, rather she will stand up for her beliefs fight for her loved ones. When she says this, she is relating herself to the old Patria who was meek and kind but then...
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...It is true that Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is more than just a simple story. Novels that challenge the reader’s way of thinking become distinct from others. Lee explores key ideas such as prejudice and courage and challenges readers to think about major moral issues experienced in society .The story at first seems like any other childish novel but Lee highlights key ideas making the novel evolve into something much greater. Lee shows the co-existence of Good and Evil and the moral nature of human beings in society. Readers re-evaluate their understanding of the world making the book much more significant. Ideas such as prejudice and courage are emphasized in To Kill a Mockingbird. Prejudice is the preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee isolates characters and depicts ways prejudice is used. She demonstrates the evils of prejudice and the result can be quite confronting to readers. Lee reinforces the idea that all men and women are created equal and have the same rights. To Kill a Mockingbird exposes the dangers of stereotyping and prejudice. In the novel the idea of equality is lost even in the house of god. Prejudice appears in many forms in the novel. An early form of prejudice in the novel is the children’s obsession with Boo Radley which appears all throughout the novel. Local Gossip portrays Boo as a malevolent phantom. The children run by the Radley house out of fear acting as if the...
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...My Grandfather – A Commemorative Speech Some people leave this earth without their names being immortalized in history books, but that does not mean that they are forgotten. They are remembered by their friends and family. And some special people are remembered by people they hardly knew. My grandfather was one of those people. My grandfather was a special man. What made him special? Why will he be remembered by not only friends and family but also by small acquaintances? It was because he was a very selfless and compassionate man. He put everyone before himself in every situation. This was a man who worked three jobs at a time to support his wife and six children. He struggled most of his life to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. But he did so with a positive attitude and a smile on his face. He didn’t just speak of compassion. Often he would let his children’s friends stay with them when their parents couldn’t keep them in their own home for various reasons. And though he wasn’t a rich man, he provided them with a roof over their head and food on the table, the same as he would do his own family. These children will remember the man who took them in when they had nowhere else to go. And he did not just speak of courage. He was enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Often he would treat me to stories of when he saved fellow shipmates from being thrown overboard in the middle of a typhoon. And when he pulled into the port of Nagasaki and saw the...
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...Savannah Chacon Thomas Laird English 101 4 November 2014 Tim O’Brien Tim O'Brien was in college when the Vietnam War was happening which influenced his work. His most popular work is called “The Things They Carried” which is a book compiled of short stories about his experience in the Vietnam War. There are 6 of his short stories: The Things They Carried, Love, Spin, On The Rainy River, Enemies and Friends, How To Tell a True War Story which was published in 1990. His next popular work was “Going After Cacciato” which was written in 1978. The similarities in themes is that they are both surrounded by the idea of war. In “The Things They Carried,” there are psychological burdens from the war that follow these soldiers for the rest of their lives. O’Brien uses the title, “things they carried” to imply that the “things” the characters carry in these stories are both literal and figurative. While they all carry heavy physical loads, they also all carry heavy emotional loads, full of grief, fear, and love. In the novel “Going After Cacciato,” the theme is seen as having courage and taking control. Both of these themes from these two different books relate because the theme of control is a theme that subsumes and defines courage itself; therefore, courage in war requires self-control of body, senses, and emotions. Soldiers must have a lot of self-control in order to be in war because they must follow orders without questioning. In “The Things They Carried,” The main character is...
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...Literary Analysis: Speak Imagine not having a voice to speak out for yourself, your thoughts, and your opinions. In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda tries to do what she believes is the right thing for herself, but eventually looses everything that's important to her all because she spoke out. Though her high school experience wasn't the best, the one thing that was valuable is the fact she found a voice to speak out about what happened to her. Though it may seem impossible to do, try your very hardest to find that voice, speak out for yourself. The author of “Speak”, Laurie Halse Anderson, was born on October 23rd, 1961 in Potsdam New York. She is most know for young adult and children's novels. Laurie’s...
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...In the novel Free Baseball by Sue Corbett, the theme of the book goes along with a quote. The quote is: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” There are two examples of when this is shown in the book, when Felix, the main character, sneaks into the dugout of a professional team to find out more about himself, and when he sits and listens to a horrifying story about himself from his mother. The first way that the theme of this qu0te is expressed is when Felix sneaks into the dugout of a professional team. Felix is at a baseball game that he won free tickets to and he sees that there is a Cuban player on the other team, just like his Cuban father that he has hazy memories about....
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