Another strategy of Tzu’s goes like this :”when he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him.” (Tzu 67). This means that you shouldn’t attack your enemy where they are the strongest, but wait until he’s pushed into a state of desperate concentration, which leaves him vulnerable in that spot (this would allow an easy victory as you would be fully prepared, and they would be left in a sort of wounded/disoriented state). In a way, this could be what to do and what not to do. You could avoid a large problem but then it could just become even larger and even more of an inconvenience, but it’s not meant in that way in the modified version. The modified version states that you should clean small objects or messes first in order to work your way up to the larger ones. This way, you’ll be more mentally prepared for what's up ahead, or in this case, the so-called enemy. This helps me determine what should be done first all the …show more content…
It states, “one defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant” (Tzu 85). This means that if you’re outnumbered, outgunned, or have any real disadvantage in offense, defense is the best answer. If you have the advantages, you should do everything within your power to overcome the opponent. This could also mean that you shouldn’t do stuff if you know you aren’t prepared. Say you were doing the dishes, and you realized you had no dish soap, you wouldn’t just continue you without. If Sun Tzu’s army had no weapons, they wouldn’t attack the enemy, but they would do their best to defend their land and people. If you have no cleaning supply or a replacement for something broken, you shouldn’t take care of that certain issue until you are prepared to do so. In the meantime, you should just fix or clean whatever is in your power to do. This helps my struggle of being out of some necessary supplies
as population grew, less land was available for children (this led to some people wanting t expand out west)
Night is a story about young Eliezer who had to face the ugly side of war and hatred. A topic that is commonly seen in this book people dehumanizing other people. In this case it would be the Nazis dehumanizing Jewish people.
The first chapter in the book At The Dark End of the Street is titled “They’d Kill Me If I Told.” Rosa Park’s dad James McCauley was a expert stonemason and barrel-chested builder. Louisa McCauley was Rosa Park’s grandmother, she was homestead and her husband and oldest son built homes throughout Alabama’s Black Belt. In 1912 James McCauley went to go hear his brother-in-law preach. While there, he noticed a beautiful light named Leona Edwards. She was the daughter of Rose Percival and Sylvester Edwards. Sylvester was a mistreated slave who learned to hate white people. Leona and James McCauley got married a couple months after meeting and Rosa was conceived about nine months after the wedding. In 1915, James decided to move North with all
The author starts off the chapter by writing about a man named Carl N. Karcher. He is known as the founder of the fast food restaurant called Carl’s Jr. He dropped out of school at the age of 14 and a few years later, his uncle offered him a job in a city in California called Anaheim. One of the themes is workforce because he was an employee for his uncle. He was a very good worker at his uncle's work place. He once spotted a woman who he was attracted to and he asked her out for ice cream. He soon changed his job and started to work elsewhere. Carl married the women (Margaret) a few years laters and they had their first child.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” (BAM, 2010, p.20) These words were first written down over 2,400 years ago by a Chinese general named Sun Tzu in his famous military strategy treatise known today as The Art of War. These words, in fact the entire book, are just as valid today as they were during Sun Tzu’s lifetime. He was one of the first truly visionary and ethical military leaders in the world. Despite the fact that there is not much known about Sun Tzu today other than his writings, in this essay, I intend to extract his essence from his treatise to prove he was a visionary leader. I will then continue to prove he was also an ethical leader. Finally, I will finish by detailing how his seminal work has inspired me to self-reflect on how I can be a better visionary and ethical leader in the 21st Century Air Force. So, what exactly is a ‘visionary’ leader?
The master caught Sarny trying to learn how to write on the dirt. He asked “what are you scribbling in the dirt?” She thought she will be better of lying. Therefore, she said “Nothing. Something I saw on an old feed sack. I didn’t know it was wrong to make it in the dirt.”
A popular military aphorism stated by Earnest Hemmingway was, “Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” With the ongoing troubles of the Cold War and rising tension along the 38th Parallel that split the...
“We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the other facing what we do to the enemy” (Boyden 199).
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
China’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution (GPCR) is a well-documented period in world history, but the most profound records are found vivified in the literature and films later into the 20th century, respectively. One of the most profound novels is “To Live”, authored by Yu Hua, which as a fictional narrative offers both a unique and realistic sense of the time period at the individual level. However, the provocative film adaptation directed by Zhang Yimou in 1994 was formidable enough that it was banned in Mainland China. Zhang paints a more realistic picture of how the GPCR influenced Chinese society but adds zest to Hua’s ambiguity but acceptable imperfection. Naturally, the film has many different characteristics yet still manages to overcome the challenges that implicate film adaptations.
Cedric highschool fail to provide him with an excellent education in many ways. Cedric is a student at Ballou high school in the Southeast of neighborhood of washington D.C. According to “A Hope In The Unseen” Cedric strives for high grades and hope to attend a top university. At Ballou Cedric has almost no friends. As he gets on through school and throughout the day he ask for more and more work to keep himself busy. Also more known as being on top of things that are important to him. According to chapter one it states that “ Cedric like some other math and science applied to the program and arrived a year early to Ballou”. This quote show that he really wanted to get accepted and it shows how much he is into school.
The style that James Sweet convey in his book, Domingos Alvares. African Healing and Intellectual History and of the Atlantic World, is by providing multiple perspectives of people who had an interaction with Domingo Alvarez in the Atlantic World. . Within the seven chapters, this multilayered perspectives give a to the circumstances that led to Domingos Alvares arrival in Lisbon, the accusations of witchcraft, and the banishment to Portugal. The perspectives of Ignacio Correa Barbosa and Leonor de Oliveira convey the connection the healing to exile and slavery that were pertinent terms in the Atlantic World. In Dahomey and Obscurity chapter, Sweet contextualizes the effect of Dahomian and Portuguese government's power in turning Domingos
A crime against humanity is a deliberate art, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale. One example of such is the Holocaust. People were enslaved, starved, and tortured in concentration camps such as Auschwitz. Anyone who has survived through the Holocaust have been changed drastically. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer and his father are sent to Auschwitz and have to stick together to survive. Together, they face many challenges and hardships throughout their horrific journey. Due to this, Eliezer loses faith in Judaism, becomes desensitized to death, and turns more self-preserving.
... war. This can root back to the principle that he dissented against the wish for power. Lao-tzu advises that “[w]eapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint.” (31) However, these days, governments tend to be keener in taking part in wars. Although we might claim that governments are trying to protect their country and their people, but it still contradicts with Lao-tzu’s ideals and might be seen as unnecessary in his view.
One of Sun Tzu’s 6 basic principles is deception and foreknowledge. This most likely will lie under the weak points and strong and laying plans chapter. A quote of Sun Tzu’s goes to say, “Now the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.” This basically means that you must know your enemy’s weak and strong points while keeping yours in mind as well. Failure to do so will lead to defeat because without prior knowledge we may be attacking the enemy’s strong point with your weak one. Another quote, which falls under this idea is, “It is better to outwit your enemy than rely on your strengths.” This tells us that we should not always rely on your strengths because at times all that is really needed is knowledge. Sometimes our strongest muscle is our brain and instead of using our physical energy we should try to outsmart our opponent with our intelligence and power of deception. We have to put