Abstract
This paper reviews one of Marquez's many short stories, "No One Writes to the Colonel". The paper, using examples from the text, reviews the main themes, characters and statements in the story. The author also puts allusions and hints from the story into historical context.

From the Paper
"Throughout the story, we see the colonel steadfastly sticking with a routine. He goes to check his mail every Friday and takes the rooster for trials at a local pit. The rooster is cheered like an icon or idol would be and everyone expects him to win the big upcoming fight. Colonel believes that in the absence of his pension which he knows he will receive one day, there best chance of survival lies with the rooster winning the fight. His wife however remains skeptical and shouts "and meanwhile what do we eat?" (181). to this, the colonel calmly replies "Shit" (181). "

Tags:literature, war, character, history

Abstract
This paper discusses how the movie "Glory", shows an exponential amount of different types of leadership styles. The paper relates that the movie showed varying levels of leadership that were both great and poor. In particular, the paper examines the leadership capabilities of the character of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and how they could be described perfectly using the seven relationship-oriented attitudes and behavior, found in the Andrew J. Dubrin textbook, and a leader's responsibilities, found in the Harvard Business Review.

Outline:
Relationship-Oriented Attitudes and Behaviors
Leaders Responsibilities
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The third attitude and behavior is creating a type of inspiration and or visibility. This would mean helping people realize what they are working towards and give them a clearer vision of that goal (Dubrin, 106). Colonel Shaw did this by combining it with satisfaction of higher-level needs. This means helping people reach their personal growth (Dubrin, 107). Colonel Shaw started by training his troops in a very tough but logical kind of setting. He wanted to train his men properly, like any other troops. Most of the regiment felt like they were going to be treated less like troops, and more like workers, but Colonel Shaw proved them wrong. This gave them a sense of belonging, which in turn helped them realize what each one was fighting for (Dubrin, 107). Some were fighting for the north, and some for themselves or people in their family. Colonel Shaw had to inspire his troops on many different levels. (Dubrin, 107).
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Tags:relationship, dubrin, heifetz

Abstract
The following paper focuses on how Hawthorne develops symbolic significance for the house, the portrait of Colonel Pyncheon, and the old family deed in order to legitimize his ending. This paper uses text analysis to identify key issues raised by Hawthorne, and then questions how these issues are resolved.

From the Paper
"The ending of Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables seems like a concession to most readers' desire for a happy ending. Hawthorne seems to abandon his morbid threats of an inescapable family curse, the radicalism of Holgrave, and his disdain for Hepzibah's notions of aristocracy in order to bestow his "good" characters with the traditional fairy tale reward money and marriage. Hawthorne states his moral in the preface of his novel, expressing a desire to expose "the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief". This idea of a moral curse is continuously emphasized throughout the narrative, but then apparently becomes mollified by the resolution. Have Hawthorne's characters truly succeeded in escaping their curse? Or does Hawthorne's ending put an optimistic light over a much darker message? "

Tags:desire, happy, ending, abandon, morbid, threats, inescapable, family, curse, radicalism, disdain

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that although prejudice against Irish-Americans was still rife in 19th century America, during the Civil War, Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish-born immigrant, bravely fought for the preservation of the union and his adopted country. The writer looks at Guiney's life concentrating on the view of him as a great Irishman in America. The writer maintains that Guiney is a shining example of how individuals have been able to put aside the racism and ethnocentrism of their society, and still honor the core principles of the American experiment in democracy.

From the Paper
"Guiney was born in 1835 and immigrated to America from Ireland when was a boy. His family struggled to find acceptance in Maine, and were financially destitute at times because Guiney's father could not find work because of his Irish heritage. The young Guiney's studies at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts were cut short because of poverty, but Guiney was still able to be admitted to the bar in 1856 because of his own hard work and personal study, not unlike Abraham Lincoln, the president whom he would come to admire later in life. Guiney practiced law in Boston but joined the Union army in a regiment dominated by Irishmen."

Tags:Ireland, patriotism, prejudice, soldier

Abstract
This paper considers Judge Pyncheon as the main character of Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables," particularly in relation to the novel's main theme. The paper discusses the novel's ensemble cast of characters.

From the Paper
"Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance "The House of the Seven Gables" is unlike most works of literature in that it truly features an ensemble cast of characters who all play a significant role in the plot and the articulation of Hawthorne's main theme. Indeed one could make an argument for any one of the characters as the driving force behind Hawthorne's narrative."

Tags:hawthorne, seven gables, judge pyncheon, antagonist, colonel pyncheon, curse, theme

Abstract
The paper provides a review of Hughes' early life and explores the literature on Sam Hughes and his career. The paper addresses Hughes' arrogance and attitudes, the dismissal of Hughes from his position during World War I, the disastrous Ross rifle that he insisted on promoting, his failure with other weapons and his insistence on average citizens being trained in the military. The paper notes his successes in attracting men to join the military but shows how every publication and historical record of Sam Hughes highlights his errors and faults.

Outline:
Introduction to Sam Hughes
The Literature That Best Describes Sam Hughes & His Career
Conclusion

From the Paper
"If Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hughes, also known as Sir Samuel Hughes and Sam Hughes, is one of the true scoundrels in Canadian history, why are scholars and historians continually bringing his name up and reviewing his life? If Sam Hughes is truly an embarrassment to the dignity of Canada, and a black mark on the otherwise sterling reputation of Canadian political and military history, why then do authors who bring old issues back to life write books and article about him? Could it be that no matter that Hughes engaged in skullduggery, brash arrogance, illegal activities and that from time to time he used questionable judgment, his name still reflects derring-do in a memorable way because of his political and military accomplishments?"

Tags:Ross, rifle, battlefront, British, South, Africa, WWI

From the Paper
"Death pervades Mansfield's short stories. Her own illness of pleurisy/consumption and the harsh effects of World War I focused her thinking and reactions. As social commentator, she continued to remain an active participant in the European intelligencia. Like many of her contemporaries, however, Mansfield felt cut off from the harshness of death and war (x-xi).


The Daughters of The Late Colonel and The Garden Party depict characters in society facing the real world consequences of death. Through Josephine and Constantia in Daughters, Mansfield emphasizes how illness and death pervades not only the dead but the living as well. Death cuts the daughters off from an adult, mature life; trapped in their service to the memory of their overbearing father that leaves them ill-equipped and unprepared to live life on their own. In The Garden Party..."

Abstract
The paper investigates if "Karain" by Joseph Conrad and "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" by Katherine Mansfield fall into the category of timelessness. The paper identifies the elements of relevance in both works and posits that Mansfield's work is more symbolic in terms of oppression, while Conrad's contains more concrete elements of connection to the modern reader. The paper therefore concludes that both authors have the potential to be truly timeless.

Outline:
"Karain" by Joseph Conrad
"The Daughters of the Late Colonel" by Katherine Mansfield

From the Paper
"Some pieces of literature are simply timeless. Among these might be counted the works of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare. Although their settings are in a different time, populated with characters of different dispositions and status in life than contemporary people, they nonetheless include universal themes that appeal to readers even today. Poverty and love are but two of the general themes that might be found often in the works of these two authors. These themes provide the basis for connection and identification. Some authors do not achieve this sense of universal and timeless appeal. The question is, do "Karain" by Joseph Conrad and "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" by Katherine Mansfield fall into the category of timelessness? Perhaps the fact that these stories are still widely read answers the question. Specifically, I believe that there is a good balance between the specific, time-centered paradigm and the universal in order to provide readers with a fulfilling experience."

Tags:universality, relevance

Abstract
In this article the writer studies the character of Colonel Joshua Chamberlain as portrayed in the movie "Gettysburg". The writer describes Chamberlain as an unlikely, scholarly and militarily untrained college professor-turned-soldier, who exhibits strong traits of authoritative leadership. The writer maintains that Chamberlain possesses excellent traits of leadership in war and that as the movie "Gettysburg" depicts, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain's leadership style was an authoritative one. The writer concludes that Chamberlain's personality, as Jeff Daniels plays him in "Gettysburg", is both reflective and more contemplative than those of any of the other principal military figures depicted in the movie. Further the writer notes that Chamberlain is also a man of action when he has to be and a very brilliant and successful one.

From the Paper
"It was Colonel Joshua Chamberlain's particular leadership genius at Round Top, in fact that, historically speaking, as well as within in the movie Gettysburg, arguably turned not only the Battle of Gettysburg, but the Civil War itself into a victory for the North, rather than for the South as it probably otherwise would have been. Chamberlain's most remarkable instance of leadership, nerve, and heroism, in the Battle of Gettysburg, and as shown within the movie Gettysburg, took place at Little Round Top. Chamberlain and his men had been sent there, by Colonel Strong Vincent, to defend Little Round Top's southern slope. But from there, nothing at all went as planned, and Chamberlain had to thing fast, and with enormous resourcefulness."

Tags:authoritative, traits, led, command

Abstract
This essay examines the binary opposition evident in the characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, "The House of the Seven Gables". The paper explains that Hawthorn'es message, that posterity would benefit more from a strong set of plebeian values and ideals than from patrician inherited gold, was conveyed through his structured use of binary opposition in his characters.

From the Paper
"With the Revolutionary War only sixty-eight years removed, aristocratic thinking is being challenged by the new democratic mind-set. During this turbulent, yet exciting, growth spurt in American history, Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables (1851). His masterful use of binary characters subtlety argues for the wholesomeness of plebeian democratic values rather than keeping the patrician aristocratic power structure. Hawthorne creates several characters that are in binary opposition to one another. Among other themes, these characters represent the theme of the rise of the plebeian over the ashes of the patrician."

Tags:colonel, pyncheon, matthew, maule, puritan, aristocrat, persecution, hanging, witchcraft, salem, witch, trials, property, land, stream, running