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Book West Point Oration

Download or read book West Point Oration written by George Brinton McClellan and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excellent Sheep

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  • Author : William Deresiewicz
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 1476702713
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.

Book Speech   appropriations for the West Point Military Academy    May 11  1846

Download or read book Speech appropriations for the West Point Military Academy May 11 1846 written by William Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Faulkner at West Point

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  • Author : William Faulkner
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781578064458
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Faulkner at West Point written by William Faulkner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic and a commemoration of William Faulkner's visit to West Point forty years ago

Book Mark Twain and West Point

Download or read book Mark Twain and West Point written by Philip W. Leon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain visited West Point at least ten times, delighting the cadets with stories, jokes, and speeches. Fascinated with West Point, Mark Twain mingled with cadets in the barracks, visited classrooms, and observed cavalry and artillery drills and parades. He formed lasting friendships with many cadets, faculty, and Superintendents. Philip W. Leon discusses each visit and traces the influence of West Point on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and other writings. A special chapter explores Mark Twain's response to some incidents of cadet hazing. Presenting archival material such as diaries, memoirs, official records, contemporary newspaper accounts, and previously unpublished correspondence, Leon illuminates the close ties of America's favorite storyteller and its premier military academy.

Book The West Point Centennial

Download or read book The West Point Centennial written by Henry C. Dane and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West Point Academy

Download or read book West Point Academy written by David W. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Duty  Honor  Country

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  • Author : Douglas MacArthur
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-01
  • ISBN : 1789125375
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book Duty Honor Country written by Douglas MacArthur and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, first published in 1962, consists of two distinguished speeches given by the General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur. The first address took place on April 19, 1951 and was held before a joint meeting of the two houses of United States Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—and took place in the Hall of the House of Representatives. This meeting followed on just one week from MacArthur’s removal from command by President Harry S. Truman. The second address was held on May 12, 1921 and was given to The Members of the Association of Graduates, U.S.M.A., The Corps of Cadets, and Distinguished Guests. It was given on the occasion of MacArthur’s acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to the nation, which had gone to Eisenhower the year before. The event was held at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Book An oration on the duties and requirements of an American officer delivered before the Dialectic Society of the United States  Military Academy at West Point  June 5th 1852

Download or read book An oration on the duties and requirements of an American officer delivered before the Dialectic Society of the United States Military Academy at West Point June 5th 1852 written by M. C. M. HAMMOND and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophy

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  • Author : Ayn Rand
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1984-11-01
  • ISBN : 1101137703
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Philosophy written by Ayn Rand and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.

Book Make Your Bed

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  • Author : Admiral William H. McRaven
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 1455570230
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Make Your Bed written by Admiral William H. McRaven and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes

Book Oration

Download or read book Oration written by Peter Smith Michie and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Oration on the Duties and the Requirements of an American Officer

Download or read book An Oration on the Duties and the Requirements of an American Officer written by M. C. M. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oration on the Duties and the Requirements of an American Officer: Delivered Before the Dialectic Society of the United States Military Academy; West Point, N. Y., June 5, 1852 It was remarked by one of the wise men of modern times, that the "duties of life are more than life itself." This was not the speech of a devotee or a martyr, looking to the rewards of another world, nor of the canting hypocrite, who ever assumes in speech, as the safest disguise, the approved maxims of experience. It was the profound thought of Francis Bacon, a lawyer, a statesman; a man of high religious sentiment, although not a moralist in his own example; and one of the fathers of philosophy, whose grasping and pervading genius penetrated all departments of human inquiry, and whose works, while they established, are illustrative of, an era in history. The citation is not made to serve as the text of a sermon, which, to youth in general, and more particularly to the military of this Institution, whose attendance is enforced by regulation, would be more wearisome than a "thrice told tale;" nor, indeed, to exact a careless or indefinite assent to its abstract truth. But it is employed for practical application, on the present occasion and to the present audience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Oration

Download or read book Oration written by Leslie Chase and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colored Cadet at West Point

Download or read book The Colored Cadet at West Point written by Henry Ossian Flipper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The following pages were written by request. They claim to give an accurate and impartial narrative of my four years' life while a cadet at West Point, as well as a general idea of the institution there. They are almost an exact transcription of notes taken at various times during those four years."