Band of Brothers is the late historian, Stephen E. Ambrose's real story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Paratroopers, who participated in "Operation Overlord," the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, in German occupied France, that marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi reign of terror across Europe during World War II.
Ambrose, a lifelong historian, wrote several books about World War II, and like the others, Band of Brothers leaves the reader with the unmistakable appreciation for the writer's personal admiration for the plight of the individual soldiers who, since the war, have often been referred to as "The Greatest Generation." Unlike traditional war stories that emphasize the particulars and the outcome of important battles while all but ignoring the day-to-day reality of the men in the trenches, Ambrose manages to accomplish both.

Band of Brothers follows the men of the 506th from their initial innocence and their collective goal of…...

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Likewise, Ambrose contrasts the seemingly reluctant admiration for the work ethic of the German people (p.258), with the knowledge that they were also responsible, through their fanatical support of the Nazi party, for the piles of countless innocent civilian victims of the concentration camps that Easy Company liberated on their march into Germany (p.257).

Band of Brothers left me with a much greater understanding for the personal realities of mechanized warfare. At the same time, the book detailed the historic battles of the most important single war in modern history in a way that I appreciated much more than reading about some of the same events the way they are presented in History textbooks. In the mind of this reader, that is perhaps Stephen Ambrose's greatest contribution to the study and appreciation of History. I would recommend the book very highly, especially to readers who may find traditional academic texts about World War II boring, as well as to those who sometimes wonder what the significance is of learning about wars that took place more than half a century ago.

Band of Brothers left this reader with a much greater understanding for the relevance of World War II and how different the world we know today would be but for the heroism of the millions of men who answered the call to duty to prevent the Nazis from conquering the entire Western World and from unleashing the horrors of fascism and racial extermination in the United States, which would likely have, eventually, fallen under German (and Japanese) occupation had the Allies failed to liberate Europe in 1945. I plan to read several of Stephen Ambrose's other books about World War II, and someday, I also hope to visit the author's D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose (1992) is talking about the experiences of orld ar II veterans (who are a part of the D-Day operations). It follows the creation, training and combat experiences of Easy Company. They are with the 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Infantry Division. The author is taking a biographical and historical perspective when looking at the lives of these men. His primary focus is on helping readers to understand the challenges they went through and the significance of their contributions.
To achieve these objectives Ambrose is concentrating on several different ideas to include: sacrifice, bravery, camaraderie, loyalty, the importance of these events and what they are teaching everyone. The combination of these elements is providing the reader with a greater understanding of key aspects on orld ar II. This is the point that the individual will see the sacrifices, struggles and difficulties the various characters were experiencing. hen this…...

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Works Cited

Ambrose, Stephan. Band of Brothers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Gardner, Ian. Tonight We Die As Men. New York: Osprey, 2009.

Plotz, David "The Plagiarist." Slate. Last modified 2002.  http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2002/01/the_plagiarist.html 

Stein, Conrad. World War II in Europe. Berkley Heights: Enslow Publishers, 2011.

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The book "eyond and of rothers" has been written by the commander of the army, Dick Winters. Winters and his team was referred to as the Easy Company. However, the mission that they were trying to accomplish was far from being easy. Commemorated as the and of rothers, Winters and his soldiers suffered 150% casualties while they tried to liberate the European region. The way that Winters led his army and the way they fought the war is an unparalleled example of bravery. Many historians claim that commanders like Winters are very rare and they believe that he was the best leader of the forces during the World War II. He told his story and explained his experiences of the combat in this book.

On the day of the commencement of the combat, Dick Winters landed into France and took control of the…...

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Bibliography:

Winters, Dick. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters. American LibraryAssociarion, 2008.

The west part of the Peninsula had been defended by the 243rd Static Infantry Division, which could not work to its full potential due to the outdated weapons that it possessed. It is possible that the German troops on the Cotenin Peninsula had not been properly prepared for an attack because the Nazis did not expect one. Even if they had been expecting an attack, it is certain that they did not expect one of such importance.

The 91st Air Landing Division has been positioned in the middle of the Cotenin Peninsula, between the 243rd and the 709th. The men in the 91st had apparently been better trained than those in the other two divisions, but they had been disadvantaged because they had just arrived in the area, in May, 1944. Also, the 91st only had 7500 men a few days before the Allied invasion. However, they were joined by a…...

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Works cited:

1. Hinsley, Francis Harry. (1979). "British intelligence in the Second World War: Its influence on strategy and operations." Cambridge University Press.

2. Levine, Alan J. (2007). "D-Day to Berlin: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-45." Stackpole Books.

3. Polk, David. (1991). "World War II Army Airborne Troop Carriers." Turner Publishing Company.

4. "Band of Brothers." Retrieved November 28, 2009, from the BBC Web site:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bandofbrothers/

Founding Brothers
When studying the history of the formation of the United States, one usually thinks in terms of separate events and individuals. However, the American republic was established, instead, by a series of important decisions and the joint efforts of some of the most prominent men of all time. In a matter of ten years, these critical interactions among the eight leading figures of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington formed a nation that to this day remains one of the most successful "experiments" of democratic governments. As Joseph J. Ellis, the author of Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation states:

What in retrospect has the look of a foreordained unfolding of God's will was in reality an improvisational affair ... If hindsight enhances our appreciation for the solidity and stability of the republican legacy, it also blinds us to the truly stunning…...

MASTRS OF ROCK & ROLL
TH KINGSMN: Composed of Jack ly on guitar and vocals, Mike Mitchell on guitar, Dan Gallucci on piano, Bob Norby on bass and Lynn arton on drums, the Kingsmen are best known for their hit "Louie, Louie" and essentially began the form now known as the "garage band" sound in 1963. Also, the Kingsmen were one of the earliest bands from the Northwest, being Portland, Oregon, where many bands in the years to come would call home. One of their local rivals was Paul Revere and the Raiders who established the Northwest R& B. sound so popular in the mid to late 1960's.

PAUL RVR AND TH RAIDRS: Like the Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders came out of the Northwest. Singer Mark Lindsay, along with drummer Mike Smith, created a new sound based on traditional classical music interwoven with boogie-woogie which resulted in their number…...

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ERIC CLAPTON: Best known for his involvement in the band Cream (Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on Bass and Ginger Baker on drums), Clapton was perhaps the first guitarist to successfully combine a free-from musical concept with mass appeal. He was also one of the first rock musicians to gain a large following based on his instrumental abilities and creative musicianship. Along with Jimi Hendrix, Clapton remains one the best examples of consistency as a lead guitarist in the rock field.

LED ZEPPELIN: In the mid-1960's, guitarist Jimmy Page joined the Yardbirds which soon led to the creation of Led Zeppelin, made up of Page, Robert Plant on vocals, John Paul Jones on bass and John Bonham on drums. As a band, Led Zeppelin exerted a profound and very recognizable influence on rock bands and guitar players both nationally and internationally. Page's carefully calculated guitar frenzy, engineered through the use of distortion, surrounded Plant's expressive vocals to create a tension and excitement rarely matched by Zeppelin's numerous emulators in the 1970's and beyond.

PINK FLOYD: Composed of original singer Syd Barret and later replaced by David Gilmour on guitar (along with original members Roger Waters on bass, Rick Wright on keyboards and Nick Mason on drums), Pink Floyd incorporated many new musical sounds based on the use of electronic effects and the synthesizer. Musically, the band created brand-new ways to express themselves on their various instruments and launched a very complex musical idiom based on experimentation and innovation. Their biggest hit album "Dark Side of the Moon," remained on the charts for more than twenty years and influenced a whole generation of experimental electronic composers.

Representations of War in the Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan
Hollywood's depictions and interpretations of the events that transpired on D-Day have long captured the attention of audiences worldwide. Though Hollywood depictions of the events that occurred prior, during, and after the invasion of Normandy may vary, they still aim to convey a similar message, one that assures the evil forces in the world will be overthrown and the world will be a much safer place. The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan aim to present the events that lead up to the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in an artistic and creative fashion while attempting to maintain an air of realism. The approaches taken to depict the invasion of Normandy in The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan are a positive contribution to the combat film genre. Though creative licenses were taken in each film, the manner in…...

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Bibliography

Beevor, Anthony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York: Viking Penguin, 2009.

Churchill, Ron. "Saving Private Ryan" a real life drama." UB Reporter 30, no. 2 (September

1998).

D-Day: June 6, 1944.   / (accessed May 23, 2011).http://www.army.mil/d-day 

Henry stresses that the men have a choice: they are free men and do not fight because they are compelled to do so:

That he which hath no stomach to this fight,

Let him depart; his passport shall be made

And crowns for convoy put into his purse:

We would not die in that man's company

That fears his fellowship to die with us (IV.3).

Even during Shakespeare's time, the idea of fighting for freedom was clearly a compelling rhetorical strategy. On the surface, fighting for a piece of land might not seem to be a noble quest when done purely for the purposes of enriching the crown. This is why Henry's speech is so perfectly analogous to a speech made by a CEO or another business leader: often, quite cynically, shareholders and employees will assume that decisions are made for personal profit, not to advance the common good. Although the actual cause might be dubious,…...

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References

Freiberg, Kevin & Jackie Freiberg. (2003). Guts! Doubleday.

During the speech, he claps the men's shoulders, and makes human, tactile contact with the soldiers. Even though he is a king, everyone is part of the family of soldiers, and through nobility they can lift themselves to high birth: "e few, we happy few, we band of brothers;/for he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,/This day shall gentle his condition" (4.2).
Henry says that winning honor gains a soldier inner aristocracy, a radical idea at the time when the divine right of kings was a given, and also a way to propel his men forward into action. In fact, even the dispirited men who do not really believe in the need to secure the French land, because of Henry's words about their class and status may fall in line with what he says, in deference of respect for…...

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Henry V." (1989). Directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.

Shakespeare, William. "Henry V." The Shakespeare Homepage. Retrieved 28 Apr 2008 at  http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/index.html 

Tichy, Noel M. (2007). The Leadership Engine. New York: HarperCollins.

The 101st Division has also supported humanitarian relief efforts in Rwanda and Somalia, and have been deployed as peacekeepers to Haiti and Bosnia (101st).
As part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Screaming Eagles were deployed once again to Iraq (101st). "The division was in V Corps, providing support to the 3rd Infantry Division by clearing Iraqi strong-points which that division had bypassed" (101st). Using the city of Mosul as their primary base of operations, they then went on to become part of the occupation forces in Iraq before being withdrawn in 2004 for rest and refit (101st). The existing infantry brigades, artillery brigade, and aviation brigades were transformed as part of the Army's modular transformation, with the addition of re-activating a new 4th Brigade Combat Team, called Currahee, and its subordinate units to form a 6-7 major units division, one of the Army's largest (101st).

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Works Cited

101st Airborne Division. Wikipedia. Retrieved July 08, 2006 at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division 

101st 1 Airborne Division: Air Assault. Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Retrieved July 08, 2006 at http://www.campbell.army.mil/division.htm

Lone Sentry. Retrieved July 08, 2006 at  http://www.lonesentry.com/gi_stories_booklets/101stairborne

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden. Specifically, it will contain a general book report on the book, with emphasis on the leadership qualities of the angers in Somalia. "Black Hawk Down" was first serialized in the "Philadelphia Enquirer" by the author, Mark Bowden. The book was made into a commercially successful film that chronicles one U.S. Army anger mission in Mogadishu, Somalia when a United Nations Aid mission was operating in the country. Shortly after this mission and its' loss of U.S. soldiers, the Clinton administration withdrew the United States from Somalia. The story in the film is well-known, but the book goes into much more detail, and many of the situations change from the fictional account of the film, which was dressed up for Hollywood.
From the beginning, the plan related in "Black Hawk Down," to swoop into Mogadishu and grab two of General…...

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References

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. NewYork: Penguin Books, 2002.

Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
Calais, France

Anno Domini 1544,

October the First

My dear Hugh,

It is with a heavy heart that I take up quill and inkpot to pen this sad missive, informing thee of the death of Miles thy brother during that recent battle between his majesty our most puissant sovereign King Henry the Eighth and his sworn enemy, that perifidious frog the Dauphin of France, which did of late take place in pitched battle at Boulogne-sur-Mer in the month of August, in the year of our lord 1544.

As doubtless thou hast heard at Hendon Hall, in the heat of summer His Majesty did command His Grace the Duke of Norfolk to raise the engines of siege so as to break the will of the French garrison in that wretched town, so close to the Channel which doth separate our blessed England from the continent. His grace of Norfolk did…...

Integration in the CI/HUMINT Community
An Analysis of the Benefits of Integration in the CI/HUMINT Community and Strategies for Effective Implementation

Shea Larson

The success of any counterinsurgency operation depends largely on the effectiveness and appropriateness of intelligence gathered. Human subjects are a crucial source of intelligence for counterinsurgency operations. Several years back, the U.S. Armed Forces opened up opportunities for women to occupy specific positions in counterintelligence/human intelligence (CI/HUMINT) discipline. However, women still remain underrepresented in the same, and researchers remain largely divided on whether their participation in the same ought to be increased. esearchers have raised concern that the decision to integrate women into HUMINT units could cost the country dearly in the long-term as it is likely to ruin unit cohesion and impede on overall effectiveness. Proponents of the whole idea of integration have, however, argued that the inclusion of women in HUMINT units will actually enhance the units'…...

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References

Alderman, M. I. (1993). Women in Direct Combat: What is the Price for Equality? School for Advanced Military Studies Monograph, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Al-Ali, N. & Pratt, N. (2009). What Kind of Liberation: Women and the Occupation of Iraq. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Bartone, P.T. Johnsen, B.H. Eid, J. Brun, W. & Laberg, J.C. (2002). Factors Influencing Small-Unit Cohesion in Norwegian Navy Officer Cadets. Military Psychology, 14(1), 1-22.

Beal, D.J. Cohen, R.R. Burke, M.J. & McLendon, C.L. (2003). Cohesion and Performance in Groups: A Meta-Analytic Clarification of Construct Relations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88 (6), 989-1004.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND WHAT DOES IT AIM TO STUDY?
Inspired by Kurt Lewin (1951), social psychology adopted the experimental method to study human behavior (Wood & Kroger, 1998). In this regard, Wood and Kroger (1998) report that, "Lewin's experiments in leadership style (autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire) became classics in the new experimental social psychology" (p. 267). Lewins' early work was carried on by Festinger and others who explored cognitive dissonance for the next 20 years at MIT and subsequently at the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota, making this one of the foundations of social psychology (Wood & Kroger, 1998).

Simply stated, social psychology uses the scientific method to study human social behavior (ogers, 2003). According to ogers, psychological social psychology "studies how social events and phenomena influence the ways in which individual people feel, think and act. It is concerned with the psychological processes (such as social perception and cognition) that go…...

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Hayes, D. (2004). RoutledgeFalmer guide to key debates in education. New York:

RoutledgeFalmer.

Karakashian, L.M., Walter, M.I., Christopher, A.N. & Lucas, T. (2006). Fear of negative evaluation affects helping behavior: The bystander effect revisited. North American

Journal of Psychology, 8(1), 13.

The Rangers eventually located the battery of cannons that had been moved by the Germans and destroyed them with thermite grenades and helped secure the adjacent beaches for the rest of the D-Day invasion forces.

President Ronald Reagan and the Rebirth of Patriotism

President Reagan may have been a "B movie" actor who was best known for his roles in movies such as "Bedtime for Bonzo," but he was also enormously patriotic and served his country admirably during World War II by making a series of training films and helping raise funds for the war effort. As noted above, he was also a captain in the Army Air Corps, but his poor eyesight precluded his serving in combat. Nevertheless, his moving tribute to the men of the 2nd Ranger Battalion helped fuel a rebirth of patriotism in the U.S. that Brinkley suggests continues to the present day. Indeed, President Reagan was not…...

Thesis Statement: While the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose highlights the importance of key leadership traits in wartime, it also acknowledges that effective leadership is contingent upon the collective efforts of individuals, emphasizing the significance of teamwork, loyalty, and adaptability in the face of adversity. To strengthen your thesis statement, you could focus on specific examples of leadership traits exhibited by the characters in "Band of Brothers" and how these traits contribute to the overall success of the Easy Company during wartime. Additionally, you could delve deeper into the concept of collective effort and teamwork, highlighting how individual....

Current Thesis Statement:

The leadership in the book Band of Brothers is significant.

Strengthened Thesis Statement:

The portrayal of leadership in HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers, based on Stephen Ambrose's book of the same name, elucidates the multifaceted nature of leadership and its profound impact on the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during World War II.

Explanation of Strengthening:

1. Clarity and Specificity:

The original thesis statement is vague and general, simply stating that leadership is significant. The strengthened statement clarifies that the focus is on the portrayal of leadership in a specific work (Band of Brothers) and its impact....

Henry V's leadership style and character development play a crucial role in conveying the play's theme of power and responsibility. Throughout the play, Henry demonstrates qualities of a strong and capable leader, such as decisiveness, courage, and charisma. His ability to inspire loyalty and rally his troops to victory at the Battle of Agincourt reflects his understanding of the power he holds as king.

At the same time, Henry's character development also reveals the weight of responsibility that comes with wielding power. As he ascends to the throne and faces the challenges of ruling a kingdom, Henry grapples with questions of....

Henry V's Leadership Style and Character Development: A Reflection of Power and Responsibility

In Shakespeare's "Henry V," the titular character undergoes a profound transformation that encapsulates the play's central theme of power and responsibility. Henry's leadership style and character development serve as a poignant illustration of the weighty implications that accompany wielding authority.

Initial Characterization: The Rebellious Prince

The play opens with Henry as a dissolute and irresponsible prince, spending his time carousing with companions like Falstaff. He is seen as unfit to rule and lacks the respect of his court. However, as the play progresses, Henry undergoes a sudden and dramatic transformation.

Becoming....