Lessons of History and Lessons of Vietnam DaviD H. Petraeus This article was first published in the Autumn 1986 issue of Parameters. One of the few unequivocally sound lessons of history is that the lessons we should learn are usually learned imperfectly if at all. —Bernard Brodie1 Trying to use the lessons of the past correctly poses two dilemmas. One is the problem of balance: knowing how much to rely on the past as a guide and how much to ignore it. The other is the problem of selection: certain
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History of Police History of Police The role of police officers is very significant to American history. Police work toward protecting citizens’ rights and helping America become the land of the free. The United States of America is built from the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights and police play a major role in making sure American rights are met. Evolution has changed many of American history for the better; policing is part of those changes. As new issues in society arise‚ police must
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it is the concept that history is repeated. The idea behind this concept is to not only process the facts of history‚ but to think critically of ideas in light of a brighter future‚ much like the Socratic method. Thus‚ this course does not serve the purpose of merely memorizing names and dates‚ but rather studying ideas derived from original source documents‚ to see how those ideas have impacted human history. Your professor continually expressed the importance of history; in quote‚ it is the “living
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The Evolution of Refrigeration By: Nia Williams The conveniences we enjoy today in our homes are the result of the many inventions of the people before us. They saw a problem and developed a solution‚ by dedicating countless hours of research and problem solving methods the proceeding generations can lead a simpler life without the worry. This applies greatly to the invention of the refrigerator. For decades people have been practicing inconvenient refrigeration techniques to prevent food
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evidence of a secret meeting held with High ranked officials and the anti-Semitic policies that were put into place‚ Hitler’s need for more land and the planned mass emigration of Jews to Madagascar. It is one of the most talked about periods of history and still much debate as to whether the murders of thousands of innocent Jews was planned from the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power. As many people know Hitler was known to plan ahead with the goals he wanted to achieve‚ writing lists of what he
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Skateboarding History The history of skateboarding from its first appearance in the 1950’s to the present day. The first skateboards were actually more like scooters‚ with the undercarriage consisting of rollerskate wheels attached to a two by four. Once the pushbar of the scooter-like contraption was broken off‚ skateboarding was born. 1950’s It wasn’t until the 1950’s‚ when the surfing craze was in full swing‚ that people realized skateboarding could recreate the feeling of riding
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back tattoos and their uses are dated in history‚ tattoos date back thousands of years and have a variety of uses. Tattoos symbolize everything from personal experiences‚ religion‚ or simply art. There are literally thousands of designs and styles that variety from black to elaborate colorful schemes. Rather flaunted or hidden‚ sought as art or bought out of a whim‚ the tattoo has left its mark on generation after generation (Krakow‚ 1994). Throughout history tattooing has had many purposes that vary
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The History Boys Bennett’s setting is a northern grammar school and his focus is on the varied methods of training post A-level students for life. The headmaster‚ obsessed with league-tables and results‚ wants them all to be Oxbridge candidates. To this end‚ he engages a young historian‚ Irwin‚ who knows that the key to exam success lies in singularity and that "the wrong end of the stick is the right one". In the opposite camp is the gentle English master‚ Mr Hector‚ who argues that exams are
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Slavery‚ and Anne Moody’s Coming of age in Mississippi proivide excellent examples of the hardships African Americans went through for their fight for civil rights. Worse than slavery exemplifies the despair found in the almost forgotten era in black history. Written by Historian Oshlink‚ this texts acknowledges the time period known as reconstruction in the New South‚ where slavery was replaced with convict leasing and eventually the Parchman prison farm. Oshlink sets his book in Mississippi where he
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cartoons and everybody( whether they’ll admit it or not) has seen at least one musical in their lifetime and are able to sing some of the songs from it. It seems that musicals have made an impact on society but yet are still not taken seriously. The history of musicals dates back to the Greeks. It is a common known fact that the Greeks incorporated song and dance into their stage comedies and tragedies as early as the 5th Century B.C. Some used existing songs but it is known that Sophocles wrote his
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