Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"
.... Medal with 14 Bronze Campaign Medals, Air Force
Longevity Award (for over 24 years), Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Hour Glass
Device (for 20 years), Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, Vietnam Cross for
Gallantry with Device, and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. All these
decorations and the time spent in the military I believe more than present his
qualifications for writing this book.
This book that he was so qualified to write I must bend to say
was rather well written. The author took time to explain everything
individually and even those things that seem quite trivial were given careful
explanation. If the .....
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Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"
.... The coaches made us do sit-ups, push-ups, and spinning drills until
sweat poured down our faces and we were sure we'd pass out. "Wanting to win and
wanting to be first, that's whatÔs important," the coaches told us. "Play fair,
but play to win," they said. They worked us harder and harder until we thought
we couldn't take it anymore and then they would yell and shout for us to keep
going and drive past all the physical pain and discomfort. "More! More!" they
screamed. "If you want to win, then you[Ôre going to have to work! You're
going to have to drive your bodies far beyond what you think you can do. You've
got to .....
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The Indian Awakening In Latin America
.... nature was passed down to their
children for generations. Much of the land they once owned was stolen from them
when the Europeans invaded.
Another aspect which was described in this book was religion and the
effects it had on the natives of Latin America. The Catholic church was forced
upon many of the Indians when the European, mainly Spanish, ideologies were
forced upon the Indians. The church claimed to want to help them to enrich thier
lives and help their communities. The new church soon forced the natives to work
for many days without any pay. The impression of the church was forcfully
imposed on them in many ways. The Eu .....
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Tavris' In Groups We Shrink
.... senseless lottery.
Another good example of the reluctance to act against the group would be
the Rodney King incident. As the officers clubbed, electrocuted, and beat
Rodney King to a bloody pulp, onlookers just looked on. Nobody did anything to
stop the senseless beating. It was obvious that the police officers were using
excessive force. Someone even shot the whole incident on videotape. Despite
the number of onlookers, to no one's surprise, not a single person tried to stop
it. Even as other fellow officers watched on, they just stood around. Again,
we ask the question of why didn't anybody do anything? What were .....
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Elie's Wiesel And Night
.... train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on Polish
territory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo. The jews had to get out and
climb into lorries. The lorries dove towards a forest. The jews were made to get
out. They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work,
the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without taste, they slaughtered their
prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present its neck. Babies were
thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets. . . Through
long days and nights, he went from one Jewish house to another, telling the
sto .....
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Marranos: A Lost People
.... 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders
as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to
escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World.
The immigration of the Marranos to the new world might have begun with
none other than Christopher Columbus. This, of course, is not definite, but
there has been research which has shown that Columbus was indeed a Marrano.
Apparently his parents were Marranos.2 Even though there are some disagreements
about this fact, there is strong evidence to support the claim that Columbus was
Jewish.
As the Marranos arrived in the New W .....
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Philip Tompkins' Organizational Communicatin Imperatives
.... that all
was not right in the military. An organization that shares a similar prestige
to that of NASA, an organization who has exemplified its leadership time and
time again by becoming a force, so powerful, that it is sometimes considered to
police the world, has fallen into a sex abuse scandal. It seems that several
women have come forward to proclaim their mistreatment from various acts ranging
from rape to verbal harassment instilled upon them by members of the military.
These women feel, had there been a genuine form of organizational communication,
the study of sending and receiving messages, they would not have fell .....
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Phoolan Devi: Perceptions Of Power
.... founded in belief and
perception.
One of the most striking characteristics of Phoolan Devi is her refusal to
accept her power-deficient positions in her relationships. From the time that
she was a child, she seems to have refused to conform to her society's
hierarchical indexing. She resisted attempts to categorize and fix her into
typical gender, class, and matrimonial positions. This is not to say that her
resistance was always successful, but I am trying to show a lack of willingness
to conform and accept her positions in her power relations. Her belief that the
status that had been prescribed to her was unjust and h .....
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Jeremy Rifkin's "The End Of Work"
.... observes that the main problem of mass global employment in both
the private and public sectors is caused by the continuing advances in
technology and it's impacts on organizations, it's structure and design and it's
direct effect on the global labour force. In particular, organizations are
using the concept of re-engineering and replacing human labour with labour
saving technologies. Rifkin gives us a better understanding of the development
of the cause of this problem by examining the three industrial revolutions. In
the first industrial revolution, Rifkin identifies steam power as the major tool
used by industr .....
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Huckleberry Finn: A Good Role Model
.... today's language, Huckleberry's reaction
to Jim's situation would reflect what Spock of Star Trek says, “The needs of the
many outweigh the needs of the few.”
An illustration of another positive side of Huck shows us that he has a
good and true heart, and the best intentions even though they may not turn out
right. For example, the widow tells Huck to pray for the dinner they are having.
Huck's interpretation is, “God thank you for the meal and if you get the chance,
please let me catch a big catfish.” The widow tells Huck that he shouldn't pray
for material things. Huck disagrees because his Sunday School teacher teaches
him t .....
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The Revolt Of Mother: The Power Of Decision
.... that was male dominated and
discouraged the wife to speak out—and partly because mother just feel into a
routine that included everything except her happiness. I felt that mother
centered her life around providing for her family but forgot to look towards her
own needs. She bakes pies, cooks dinner and it everything else except things
that made her happy. Mother discovers disturbing news when she learns that her
future house is giving way to Father's new barn. Mother would have probably let
her dream die if it were not for a conversation with her daughter. Mother
realizes that it's not just her happiness involved. This breach .....
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12 Angry Men
.... hands Eight does not think highly of Three for what he says
about killing the boy and shouts "your a sadist."(17) which is the absolute
truth about Three.
The emotional make-up of a juror can change his desicision on wther or
not to let a man live or die. When someone is asked judge someone else, shoud
not you look at al the facts to be sure beyond a shoadow of a doubt that the man
who cimmitted the crime is guilty? Yes, a juror should look at all the facts but
some do not, they just judge the person on how that person feels.
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