Marshal Essays

  • Marshal Dylan: A Typical Law Man in Gun Smoke

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    else. In the episodes of Gun Smoke, Matt Dylan is the Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas. Through the character of Marshal Dylan the idea of the law man is portrayed. Dylan seems to act out the part of Marshall in three different circumstances. There is the way that Dylan interacts and responds to his friends. On the other hand Dylan deals with his enemies altogether differently but with the same basic principles. Finally the last way the Marshal Dylan reveals his character is through interactions with

  • Gunsmoke: Character of the Old West Marshal, Matt Dillon

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    Gunsmoke: Character of the Old West Marshal, Matt Dillon The American West. Full of opportunity and danger. Out on the prairie there was always a need for those that were willing to "serve and protect". No ordinary lawman would do though. The needs and demands that were placed on those in authority during that time called for someone extraordinary. The people in the few scattered cities here and there depended on marshals and their ability to uphold the law. Dodge City was no exception, in

  • Federal Air Marshals

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    women that risk their lives by boarding planes under a false identity to protect us have been called many things. The names range from simple, “Sky Marshal” to more complicated “Civil Aviation Security Liaison Officers.” No matter what they have been called through the years one thing has always stayed the same. The United States Federal Air Marshals have always been a group of our finest law enforcement officers that give up the luxury traditional police work to sit next to crying babies and old

  • United States Marshal Service

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    The United States Marshal Service (USMS) is a part of the Department of Justice. The United States Marshal Service occupies ninety-four United States Marshals, all appointed by the president. One Marshal is appointed to each federal court district. The headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. This is the oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement service. Although this service is often overlooked, it is critical in maintaining order in law enforcement. This service arrests approximately

  • The Marshal

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    The movie Marshal take place in year 1954, Which that black and white people still are against each other. The Marshal show how race and law work for in this case and how it changes overtime. This movie follows Thurgood Marshall and Samuel Friedman prove that this black man Joseph Spell that he is innocent. But this case shows more than truth than it seems. The beginning of the movie it show the Marshall in a case where he defends this black man because the police beat him because he did something

  • Exploring Law Enforcement: Interview with a U.S. Marshal

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    some insight of his daily duties to see if this career choice would be a good fit for me. Mr. Gaines is a Senior Inspector for the Sexual Predator Unit for the United States Marshals Service. He has an overall thirty-eight years of law enforcement experience. Mr. Gaines worked for the last twenty-five years as a U.S. Marshal. During my interview with Mr. Gaines he explained about the type of leadership style qualities needed in this line of work. He stated that persistence and adaptability are a

  • High Noon

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    Noon is a western style movie about loyalty and betrayal. Throughout the whole movie, you can see how Kane is loyal to the town and how the town betrays Kane. The film tells a story about a man who was too proud to run— a tale of a lone, stoic marshal (Will Kane) who was left desolate and abandoned by the townspeople he has sworn to protect because of a four-man gang led by Frank Miller. This is where the loyalty part comes in. Kane did not have to stay and protect the town’s people because he

  • The Makings of a Good Lawman

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    The Makings of a Good Lawman Gunsmoke is about the violence that moved throughout the west and the united states marshal Matt Dillon along with his sidekick Chester, who moved along solving the crimes and lending a hand to anyone who needed it along the way. The staring cast of Gunsmoke was William Conrad as Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc, Parley Baer as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Usually the west is describes as a time in history filled with outlaws, gun fights, ghost towns, wagon

  • Appleton Police Department

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    police department is in 1854 they only had a single lawman which was a marshal they didn’t have a jail so they shared one with a neighboring town. In 186 the city counsel voted in January to start a permanent police department, so it started out as 1 policeman and as the town grew some patrol men were added to the force. In 1884 they had 3 patrolmen besides the marshal and by 1886 as needed they got 3 more policemen. The marshal and on other guy had the day shift while the others had the night shift

  • The Importance of Misunderstanding in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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    effort to calm the crowd is used by the crowd, to forcefully name him the leading figure of an unreasonable mob. While walking down a New York street, the protagonist bears witness to the eviction of an elderly black couple from their home. While a Marshal conducts his job of ordering trusties to pile the couple's belongings on the sidewalk, a crowd gathers and watches in sympathetic disbelief. The Invisible Man becomes mixed in with the crowd and feels that the older couple is much like his own mother

  • cinco de mayo

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    the country and disposing of Juarez. The French troops--deemed among the best trained and equipped in the world--marched into the city of Puebla on May 5, 1862, expecting no resistance. The French army consisted of 6,000 men under the command of Marshal Lorencz. The French were met by an armed force of 2,000 peasants under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza. The Mexican guerilla forces successfully defended their positions and attacked and drove back the French forces. Victory, however, was

  • Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

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    pouring eastward" (401). This, the first sentence of the story, "fixes the sensation of a train ride through a kinesthetic detail, and that detail also supplies a theme that the rest of the story will develop" (Bergon 95). The Pullman train is carrying Marshal Jack Potter and his Eastern bride back to Yellow Sky. The Marshall's role in the affairs of his town has been affected and changed by his literal marriage to the East. The Marshall is only beginning to realize the effect his arrival on the town will

  • Jack Potter

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    In “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” Stephen Crane uses humor to illustrate the East coming to the old West. Crane uses three characters throughout this parody to demonstrate the change approaching the West. Jack Potter is the main character, and Crane uses his marriage to the unnamed bride to illustrate civilization coming to the old West. Potter’s character changes throughout the story, and Crane discusses how the protagonist in this story becomes a new man when he gets married. Beginning with

  • The Many Meanings of Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

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    Comes to Yellow Sky" is a tale about a town sheriff, Jack Potter, who is returning home from a trip where he has married. Jack returns shamefully with his new wife of little worldly experience. The town of Yellow Sky knows Jack as the fearless Marshal who is never afraid to stare down the barrel of a gun. Jack's return to Yellow Sky happens to be at a time when the town drunk, Scratchy Wilson, is looking for a gunfight. However, the townspeople and Scratchy are disappointed to find him married

  • Marshall Joffre's Report on the Marne

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    August-September, 1914 Marshall Joffre's Report on the Marne -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Frontiers to the Marne: The Official French Report by Marshal Joseph Joffre, concerning the events of August-September 1914 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first month of the campaign began with successes and finished with defeats for the French troops. Under what circumstances did these come about

  • Why the Towns in the West Were Often Lawless and Violent

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    Why the Towns in the West Were Often Lawless and Violent In this essay I will be explaining why the towns in the West were frequently lawless and violent. The various factors why the West was lawless are: Geographical factors, social factors and values and attitudes. To begin with one of the reasons that the west was often violent and lawless was due to geographical factors. The size of the West was vast and this contributed to this problem. This is because it was impossible for officers

  • Eminem’s Life Story: The Way He Is

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    a**hole” (“Eminem on His”). Good He is a man who revolutionizes the hip-hop and the pop culture eternally, he epitomizes cultural interbreed, he rules the rap world and creates a bizarre perception, and his name is Eminem, otherwise known as Marshal Bruce Mathers III (Eminem: Biographical”maybe introduce the source at the start of the information). He changed his name to one of the most well known rap stars in 1996. Eminem was born on October 17, 1972 in Missouri (“Eminem:mm52”). He moved to

  • The Battle of Agnicourt

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    English channel by the French, the English, led by Henry V, opted to cross at the city of Calais, and marched upstream to get there. Before arriving there, the English found out that the passage to Calais was guarded by a big army of French led by Marshal Boucicault in a path through a forest near the village of Agnicourt. Henry V did not wish to fight, for he knew he was at a disadvantage. The English had now marched for 17 days with only one day's rest and the weary, hungry army had shrunken due

  • people of 1970s

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    challenge the democratic congressman, Jerry Voorhis. As a new member of the United States congress, Nixon gained valuable experience in international affairs, as well as serving on the committee that he committed, the “European Recovery Program”…aka the Marshal plan. As the president of the United States, Nixon led us into the Vietnam War. It was said to be one of the most important issues that Nixon faced in his term of office. The war had begun in 1959 when communists tried to overthrow the government

  • Inevitability of Change in Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

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    Scratchy's devotion to the Old West. Scratchy's loyalty to his past clearly emphasizes his resistance to change and foreshadows that change will defeat him no matter how long or how hard he plays the game. Potter also plays along by acting as the town marshal who must save Yellow Sky and heroically put an end to the town "terror." Nevertheless, though Potter is attached to the Old West, he embraces the new West with his marriage. Unlike Scratchy, Potter accepts that Yellow Sky is changing and decides to