Abstract
The paper looks at how Ambrose is able to bring about the extensive listings of artifacts, equipment, and daily interactions that occurred to make up a realistic account of the travels of Lewis and Clark. The paper discusses how this provides a way for the reader to become truly enmeshed in how these historical icons survived and by what means they dealt with harsh natural or internal disasters they encountered.

Tags:ambrose, history, lewis

Abstract
This paper provides a review of Stephen Ambrose's novel, "Band of Brothers", explaining that it is a battle-by-battle explanation of one of America's best fighting forces in World War II. The paper states that the novel covers the entire history of E company, 2nd battalion, 506th PIR (parachute infantry regiment), 101st Airborne Division, including the battalion's training at Fort Toccoa, Georgia, and their contributions in the D-Day Normandy invasion, Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands, and the detain of Hitler's Eagle Nest. The story follows a group of real soldiers throughout the war. Through widespread hours of interviews, interpretation of diaries and journals, and studying historical videos, the paper concludes, Ambrose is able to give a precise, exact account of these heroic men in action.

Outline:
About the Author
Beginning of the Novel
England War
Market Garden
The Battle of Bastogne
Eagles Nest
Conclusion
References

From the Paper
"Bastogne was next up on the list of tests for Easy Company Battalion. The importance of Bastogne was of a minute rural community in Belgium that had strategic value to the Germans. During the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans required roads for their tanks to travel on. Seven roads were leading in and seven roads were leading out of the village of Bastogne. The 101st was transported into Bastogne to set up a defensive boundary with orders to preserve Bastogne to the last man. Because of the German's revelation and intense attack, the men of the 101st would be enclosed and disconnect for the next one and a half month. The story of the Battle of the Bulge informs of General Patton and his resistant divisions coming to the rescue of the surrounded 101st. To this day, no member of the 101st has ever approved that they wanted to be saved. The Battle of Bulge was a last-ditch effort for the Germans to win the combat. The Germans had been defeated at Bastogne, after which the 101st was on the offensive."

Tags:World, War, II, battle, conflict

Abstract
This literary study compares and contrasts the various aspects of war that are depicted in "Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. In similar ways, Whitman's work is an elegiac poem that honors the death of Abraham Lincoln, which Bierce's short story also exemplifies in his tale of the execution of Peyton Farquhar. However, both stories reflect contrasting sides of the Civil War conflict in how they remember and honor those that fought for both sides. In essence, both of these wartime literary works depict death, but have profoundly different points of view in relation to the ideological duality of the Civil War.

Tags:bierce, whitman, civil

Abstract
This paper discusses how the stories William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" compare in so many ways. It looks at similarities such as the setting of war, the theme of death and the the love that the characters of Emily and Peyton have for their families.

From the Paper
"Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a story of a man who breaks the law and dies. The story describes why the man was hanged, the life after death and his life before death. The irony in this story is great in the fact that that the entire story is a description of the man's "great escape." In reality they are describing what has happened in his afterlife after he is hanged. The story proceeds to tell about how he was freed from the rope that was supposed to kill him and how he gets away. He swims with all of his strength until he can reach the point where it is safe to get out and be free of the bullets. The author depicts beautiful scenery that ironically seems heavenly with "the fragrance of their blooms," and "the wind made in their branches the music of Aeolian harps," when describing the sounds this man hears. "

Tags:Peyton, death, war

Abstract
This paper illustrates the works of author Ambrose Bierce, novelist of the Civil War, poet and sharp-tongued columnist for a San Francisco newspaper. The paper exemplifies Bierce's work by analyzing "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", written in 1898, that includes a historical setting with science fiction elements: A Southern planter, Peyton Farquhar, is about to be hanged by Union soldiers for acting as a spy. The author feels that Bierce's death bears some resemblance to the stories: He marched off to the Mexican Civil War and was never heard of again nor does anyone know what happened to him.

From the Paper
"In spite of the horror he saw on the Civil War battlefields, apparently Bierce felt that in the long run, it was good and honorable to fight in just wars. In spite of the seriousness of Bierce's wounds from the civil war, he lived into his seventies. Always an adventurer, he departed at that late age to join the Mexican Civil War in 1913. He wrote to his daughter, "If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican wall and shot to rags, please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico- -ah, that is euthanasia!" "

Tags:poet, columnist, farquhar, civil, war

Abstract
This paper describes the arguments and quotes relevant passages of the debate between St. Ambrose and a Roman Senator Symmachus about the purpose and aim of Christianity for the Roman Empire. While the former argues for ascendency of the religion, the latter is for tolerance. It presents a very interesting facet of the early development of Christianity as it developed from relative obscurity to become a dominant force shaping historical developments in the Roman Empire and the Western World.

From the Paper
Superficially, the debate between Saint Ambrose and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus centers on reinstating an altar to the Roman goddess Victory in the Senate building, and public funding of the pagan cults - issues the under the discretionary power of the emperor Valentinian. In reality, however, the focus of the debate centers on Christian toleration of state pagan religions, and emperor's responsibilities as a member of the Christian Church. Arguing from a position of relative weakness, Symmachus pleads for toleration and preservation of the ancestral institutions and laws hitherto advantageous to the emperor and the country; Ambrose, on the other hand, affirms the absolute truth of Christianity (an invariant position against toleration in the religious sphere) and compels the emperor to actively oppose paganism (a position which has varied through time in respect to the relationship between Church and State).

Tags:antiquity, christ, christian, classics, debate, discussion, italy, merits, origin, religion, rome, saint, senators, sentors

Abstract
This is a detailed examination of Stephen Ambrose, and Douglas Brinkley's book "Rise to Globalism" that deals with American foreign policy from 1938 through the Clinton administration. The author looks at the different styles of both authors, and the topics they they cover independently in the book and contrast their evaluation of U.S. foreign policy, with three other books that have been written by different historians on the same subject, in order to garner whether or not the information they are presented is accurate.

From the Paper
"According to Brinkley, economically the U.S. changed from being self-sufficient to being dependent on other countries for economic success, especially the oil producing nations. In 1973 all of the United States was gripped in an oil crisis causing numerous economic problems and long lines as people waited to get what gas they could. And all of this was not produced by some sort of actual shortage of oiling the earth, but an angry OPEC, which was a group of middle eastern oil tycoons. OPEC put an embargo on the U.S. and thus our global reliance on other countries oil sent us reeling. Before our global expansion no other country had this much control over the U.S. and it s economy."

Tags:ambose, contra, fdr, iran, kennedy, nixon, vietnam, wwii, president, administration, isolationist, cold, war, policies, korea, soviet, japan, opec, truman, clinton, economic, world, affairs

Abstract
This paper looks at the writer Ambrose Bierce. It provides a brief biography and looks at his various works. Critical opinions of Bierce are discussed, as well as the themes and literary devices Bierce uses in specific pieces.

From the Paper
"Although Ambrose Bierce deserves a significant place in the American heritage, literary histories have done little to honor him properly. His stories have had little influence on modern American society (Mencken 264). Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Ohio (Starett 42). He was the son of a farmer and a descendant of a seventeenth-century New England family. Bierce served in the Union Army during the Civil War and he based his war stories upon his experiences. In 1868 Bierce published his first poems and prose in the Californian. On July 11, 1914 he was presumed dead after he disappeared during the battle of Ojinaga (Grenander 13-16)."

Tags:creek, owl

Abstract
The greatest bishop of the West in the 4th century AD was probably St. Ambrose of Milan. During most of Ambrose's episcopate, Milan was the capital of the Western Empire, and he was the friend and counselor to three very different emperors, Gratian, the boy Valentian, and Theodosius. This paper examines what Ambrose's confrontations with these Roman rulers tell us about relations between church and empire in the West in the late 4th century.

From the Paper
"One of Symmachus" main appeals was to judge things on the amount of time they were enforced "long period gives authority to religious customs" and "to avoid precedents which were soon abolished" (Symmachus). Ambrose, on the other hand, views passage of time in terms of progress "all things have made progress toward what is better" (Ambrose) and change as advantageous "there is no shame in passing to better things" (Ambrose). Thus the two men are shown to have come from diametrically opposed positions; Ambrose seeks worldly substantiation of progress, an idea permeable through Christianity, whereas Symmachus desires a small step back, and thereafter maintenance of status quo, a characteristic of state-sponsored pagan religions."

Tags:Maximus, Symmachus, Christian, pagan

From the Paper
"Stephen E. Ambrose, in Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, argues that the foreign policy of the United States since before World War II and into the 1990s has been based on largely irrational factors, rather than on any coherent vision of global reality or this nation's proper place in that reality. Changes in presidents from Truman through Bush had minimal effect on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to the number one goal of that policy---the containment of Soviet Communism. Containment as a policy became so increasingly entrenched through the Truman and succeeding administrations that it carried the strength of an addiction for the leadership of the country. The very basis of U.S. foreign policy in this period was the ideology of the Cold War which saw the world controlled by two forces---the U.S. and its evil enemy.."