Abstract This paper argues that the phenomenon of "total war", the total mobilization of the human, economic, and material resources of belligerent nations for the total destruction of the enemy, was born on the Western Front in World War I with the convergence of science, technology, and ambitious war plans. Discusses the war plans of the Germans, British, and French, the industrial mobilization in the combative nations, and the different forms of warfare developed and implemented.
From the Paper "No single event shaped the 20th century as The Great War. The blazing guns of August in 1914 created a new world order and a new standard by which modern wars were fought, phrased by German General Erich Ludendorff in 1935 as der totale kreig, or total war. This phenomenon was the unlimited warfare waged as a result of the total mobilization of the human, economic and material resources of belligerent nations. In many ways the totality of WWI was born as synthesis of the independent developments in technology and industry, military organization and planning, and the breakdown of diplomacy that had evolved over time and wars, aligning themselves by 1914 to produce a war of attrition that would leave its mark on the remainder of the new century."
Abstract This paper explains that Theodore Dreiser's novel, "An American Tragedy," describes the life and eventual downfall of a young and ambitious Clyde Griffiths, as well as events in Dreiser's own life. The author points out that, throughout the novel, the reader learns of Clyde's unusual childhood, as well as the other events leading up to his misdeeds. The paper summarizes that Dreiser depicts a crime motivated by the pursuit of the American dream, which, in the end, reveals itself to be only an illusion.
From the Paper "Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Theodore Dreiser grew up poor in an extremely religious family, causing his fascination with the wealthy in his town. His adolescence was very similar to that of Clyde Griffiths, the novel's main character. Dreiser's father was "a fervent Catholic" who, like Asa and Elvira Griffiths, "never stopped preaching rectitude and self-control to his children, but his guidance was of little practical help." Escaping his rigid conservative family life, Dreiser moved to Chicago eventually landing his first job as a reporter for the Chicago Globe. He continued working as a reporter for varying newspapers, and published his first novel Sister Carrie."
Tags:ambitious, character, childhood, murder, society
Abstract This paper explains that "A Hope in the Unseen" by Ron Suskind is the story of Cedric Jennings, a student at an inner-city factory Ballou Senior High in Washington, D.C., and his ambitious move from Ballou to the Ivy League. The author makes it quite clear that academic success among inner city kids is so rare that, when it happens, the others resent it, which makes teens like Cedric true outsiders, as if somehow he is betraying the rest of his peers. This paper states that what needs to be answered is whether Cedric is truly exceptional, whether his story is one in a million or whether, given the chance, there are many more like him, anxious to prove themselves not by the color of their skin but by their persistence and determination to pull themselves up and make a life for themselves.
From the Paper "One aspect of Cedric's fear is made quite clear: he has never been around white kids a lot. When he tells his teacher, Mr. Taylor, that he is going to Brown, Taylor is less than enthusiastic. "I'm not sure I would have selected an Ivy League school...You're going to be up there with a lot of very smart white kids, and if you're not sure of who you are, you could get eaten up alive....It's not just at the Ivies. It can happen at any of the good colleges where a young black man who hasn't spent a lot of time with whites, suddenly finds himself among almost all whites. You can feel lost." One wonders whether his teacher is really preparing him for potential problems, or whether (as a Holy Cross graduate and not an Ivy Leaguer) he is slightly resentful of a possibility that he was not permitted to exercise."
Abstract The paper examines the life of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator who was the last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. While today she is known almost entirely as that queen who committed suicide by allowing herself to be stung by an asp and for her great beauty, such a description does her little justice. The paper shows that she was far more than the 'femme fatale' into which she has been transmuted over the centuries by popular culture and misogyny but rather a proud and ambitious queen whose political failure in the end was in part due to her over-ambitiousness but also due in even greater measure to overwhelming historical forces.
From the Paper "Cleopatra was born into an age in which women had few powers other than the ones that they could gain through men. Her use of her body to attract men was simply a rational strategy on her part. Moreover, she (like other monarchs) was not simply interested in physical pleasure: She also was intent on giving birth to heirs that would help cement relations between Egypt and Rome and that would ensure her dynastic succession."
Abstract This essay explores the idea that ambition can be a fatal flaw. Mary Shelly's classic novel, "Frankenstein", is used to depict this concept. Both the monster and the creator are proven to be fatally ambitious to acquire knowledge.
This paper delves into the psychological reasons why and how Lady Macbeth changed so drastically throughout the play of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
Abstract A paper which focuses on the psychological aspects of dreams and psychoanalysis in order to make sense of Lady Macbeth's actions. The author of this paper examines how Lady Macbeth turns from a single-minded, ambitious, unforgiving murderer to a guilty, sleepwalking, absent-minded mess. The author delves into instances from the text that suggest what Lady Macbeth was going through at the time and shows how, psychologically, Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis would be suited best to find the reasoning behind Lady Macbeth's metamorphosis.
From the Paper "In order to make any headway into this subject, an overview of Freud's psychoanalytical theory is needed. Psychoanalysis is a theory that derives on the idea that the unconscious mind is driven by the sexual urges and primal instinct of man (Quigley 2). One of the most significant points in this theory is the idea that our inborn desires are governed by three separate entities designated as the Id, the Ego, and the Superego (Quigley 3). The Id is the part of the unconscious mind that contains the sexual, instinctive urges of man (Quigley 3). The Superego is the unconscious purveyor of the internalized rules of society; better known as the cautious part of the mind (Quigley 3). The Ego, on the other hand, is the medium between the Id and the Superego; the Ego takes the primal urge under advisement, brings the Superego into the equation, and comes to an eventual compromise between the two (Quigley 3)."
Abstract The paper analyzes the tragic play, "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. The paper explores several aspects of the play including: The images and symbols used in "Macbeth"; gender contradictions in Act V; interpretation of the phantasmagoric aspects; male anxiety about maternal issues and why "Macbeth" is more than just a story about a heartless, ambitious murderer.
From the Paper "Male anxiety about maternal issues is addressed in the play. Macbeth mentions maternity in some form in many of his speeches. An example is where he describes sleep saying, "the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's birth" (II,ii). This is relevant as a reference to the power of women, a maternal force that Macbeth does not have. It is relevant that the witches and Lady Macbeth both lead Macbeth into murder and then madness. These references to birth can be seen a reference to wanting to avoid the power of women, but being unable to. It is also relevant that Lady Macbeth and the witches both take on maternal roles with Macbeth. In many ways they treat him as a child, especially by uses his weaknesses to trick him."
Abstract This paper discusses William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", about the tyranny of an ambitious nobleman who is informed of his future. It analyzes how Macbeth is the definate protagonist of this play by the percentage of the dialogue of the major characters. It examines the three witches' influence on Macbeth's actions and Lady Macbeth's avarice that drills the Scottish Lord into treason and kinghood. It evaluates the role of fate in the tragedy, as well as the state of Macbeth's conscience and possibilites in Shakespeare's ambiguity.
From the Paper "Because the "weird sisters" (Macbeth, I, iii, 32) ambiguously inform Macbeth of his future, they give him a disadvantage. Alas, he no longer has a clean bias for his major decisions, therefore making him less responsible for his decisions. Indeed, he shares responsibility with the fact that he knows his future. Nevertheless he ultimately has to recompense for his atrocious judgments regarding others? lives. Macbeth learns of his future from the witches. He knows that he shall become the Thane of Cawdor: one step above his present status in Scottish hierarchy."
Abstract This paper examines the historic theories of Polybius and the different way in which his ideas were accepted and rejected by those around him. Polybius was considered to be the first advocate of universal history and is considered to be the original founder of this kind of thinking. It explains how Polybius heavily criticized those historians around him and in the past, particularly Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. He was ambitious and enthusiastic to point out the faults of all of his predecessors and peers. He accused them often romancing their work by providing false information and padding the account with rhetoric. Furthermore, Polybius looked down on them for their acceptance of fate or destiny.
From the Paper "Polybius readily accepted the notion of universal history, and often criticized those historians who took a narrow look at our past. Universal history grasps a hold of the big picture, appreciating all aspects together. Instead of simply looking at political or military history individually, Polybius wanted to explore their relationship with one another. He investigated how every aspect of society influenced one another. For example, the tugs and pulls of political events would heavily shape the incidents occurring in the military, economic, or social worlds. Polybius was an original founder of this kind of thinking, and as a proponent, made great leaps forward in the acceptance of universal history. Consequently, today we take this idea for granted, assuming that is the way it has always been. Yet, it is due to Polybius? forward thinking and tireless efforts."
Tags: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, universal, theory
Abstract This paper reviews the lives and achievements of three Pre-Socratics philosophers. The paper first describes Xenophanes, an Ionian from Colophon, (560- 478 BC), who was a Greek poet and rhapsode, religious thinker and precursor of Eleaticism, which stressed unity rather than diversity and held that the particularity of material things is more apparent than real. The paper explains that the most ambitious response to the Eleatic challenge was the atomic theory, invented by Leucippus. The author continues that Democritus (c. 460 - c. 370 B.C.) expanded Leucippus? original atomic theory examining its applications and supporting it with a subtle epistemology.
From the Paper "Along with the principles of atomism, the Democritean epistemology was materialist in nature. In Fragment 11 of Democritus? extant writings, he distinguishes between two modes of cognition; the "bastard" knowledge derived from the senses, and the "legitimate" knowledge based on reasoning which, in turn, has as its foundation the reals of Atoms and the Void. In Fragment 9, Democritus speaks of the objects of sensation as existing merely ?by convention.? According to him, we cannot trust the knowledge obtained via our senses, although he acknowledges that the mind begins the reasoning process from the data received from sense perception (Fr. 125). Democritus believed that critical reflection of sensory evidence is our best means of approaching the truth; yet since thought itself, like sensation, involves physical interactions between atoms, it also is subject to distortion; hence, even "legitimate" knowledge rests on opinion (Fr. 7)."
Abstract This paper examines the life of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1475-1530) who was the Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII. It provides a brief outline of his life from his childhood, education, rise in the church and finally to his position under the King. It looks at how Wolsey was treated as a trusted and capable, if ambitious, man who carried out the King's will but often did so in ways that he devised himself and not infrequently, developed strategies of his own that were sanctioned by the King. It analyzes whether Wolsey's eventual disgrace and fall and Henry's willingness to treat him as a scapegoat merit the term pawn and how Wolsey's status as his own man, rather than a pawn of the King, must be judged in terms of what he wished to accomplish rather than by current standards.
From the Paper "Wolsey was the son of a prosperous grazier and his brilliance secured him a place at Magdalene College Oxford. He was ordained in 1498 and began his relatively slow climb to eminence by serving various influential men until, in 1507, he became chaplain to Henry VII and, in 1509, was appointed almoner and counselor to Henry VIII. From that point on Wolsey's rise proceeded at great speed--in both the ecclesiastical and secular realms. In 1514 he was appointed archbishop of York and in 1515 he was elevated to cardinal and to Lord Chancellor. Wolsey always coveted the position of archbishop of Canterbury, who was usually the effective head of the English church since the only other archbishopric in England, York, took in only the impoverished northern reaches. Gaining the cardinal's hat helped him achieve greater prominence in the church but it was not until, in 1518, Wolsey achieved the unusual status of papal legate (legatus a latere), or papal viceroy, that the cardinal became "as supreme over the English Church as Henry's favor made him over the English state" (Bindoff 83)."
Abstract This paper examines how today, jobs for ambitious and spiritually aware individuals do not only mean receiving a satisfying paycheck. Through a literature review, it looks at how job satisfaction is determined by various other factors and why today all the community colleges worldwide face the challenge of motivating their administrative staff, boosting their morale and maintaining high levels of job satisfaction among their administrative staff including managerial and executive members. It shows how the constant lack of interest in the job results in an alarming decrease in the degree of job satisfaction and ineffective leadership which directly affects the production level. It analyzes some ways of increasing job satisfaction of the administrative staff, the role of the community college chairperson and the attitude of the faculty and the CAOs in the community college environment which affects the job satisfaction of the administrative staff.
From the Paper "On the same account, Coats (2000) investigated the impact of departmental chairperson's interpersonal comportment on the directly proportionate leadership effectiveness and the related job satisfaction of the administrative staff. Research indicated that successful community college chairpersons believed in establishing and maintaining cordial relationships with their admin staff as a means to accomplish challenging working milieu and highly contented and motivated workforce (Coats, 2000, p. 773- 783). Another study indicated that the job satisfaction of the presidents that is the top management determines the job satisfaction of the administrative staff in the community college ambience. Thereupon, uninterrupted communication lines must be present and justified needs of the community college presidents must be promptly answered in order to have a successful, motivated environment (Evans, G., Jr., & Honeyman, D., 1998, p. 47- 48)."
Abstract This paper discusses the story of an ambitious young man, Duddy Kravitz, who is determined to become a success. The author points out that Duddy takes on his father for a role model, because, like his father, he engages in dishonesty as a tactic to rise to the top. The paper concludes that, because of this, his achievements become the ingredients of his self-destruction.
Abstract This paper is on political and military responses employed by North Vietnam to Counter American air superiority during the Vietnam War. After two years of the most intensive bombardment in military history, with its liberated areas in ruins, its ranks decimated, its surviving cadres worn down by the tensions and hardships of protracted struggle, the NLF brought off the most ambitious campaign in the history of the war.
Abstract This paper analyzes the Duke of Buckingham in Shakespeare's "Richard III".The Duke was a clever, power-hungry and ambitious opportunist who supported the most dominant people in the country. When Richard was trying to be king of England, the Duke of Buckingham supported his evil schemes to punish the innocent in order to seize power. Later, the Duke of Bucking showed intelligence, wisdom and compassion when he refused to support the killing of more innocent soul during Richard's reign.
