Annapolis Autumn

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587233
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annapolis Autumn written by Bruce Fleming and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, thinking as they stand in neat ranks at the parades beloved by tourists? What are their professors actually educating them to do. In Annapolis Autumn, Bruce Fleming, professor of English for nearly two decades at the academy and a prizewinning author, captures the sights, sounds, colors, and conversations of this tradition-steeped institution. In other classes, the cadets learn how to assemble guns, control armored vehicles, man battleships, and kill other human beings. Nothing is ever less than "outstanding, sir!" In English class, however, Fleming introduces his students to nuance and subtext, to the gay poets of World War I, and to the idea that not every piece of literature is designed to be "motivational." Sharing stories from his twenty years at the academy, Fleming explores questions about teaching, the labels "liberal" and "conservative," and the ultimate purpose of higher education—issues made all the more gripping at a time when many of his students will graduate from the classroom to the battlefield.

Author : H. Michael Gelfand
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877476
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Change at Annapolis written by H. Michael Gelfand and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.

Author : Bruce Edward Fleming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415953537
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash written by Bruce Edward Fleming and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today.

Author : Alastair Finlan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136188681
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies written by Alastair Finlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. The last decade has witnessed astonishing global events, from 9/11 and military operations in Afghanistan in the same year, to the military intervention in Libya in 2011. Western military forces have been involved in all of these campaigns and have been engaged in continuous military operations for over ten years. It is therefore now apt to focus a spotlight on the military cultures of these state-based armed forces. This book examines how contemporary American and British military culture is formed, focusing explicitly on the six major military institutions. The author dedicates a chapter to each of these institutions with each one sharing a unifying analytical framework. These chapters explore the formation and sustenance of US/UK military culture under the rubric of common themes that include social origins, transformative events, leaders, approaches to war, technology and contemporary identity. To conclude, the book considers the impact of the War on Terror on the military cultures of the US and UK, as well as likely directions for the future. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, strategic studies, security studies and comparative politics.

Author : Maryland Geological Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne Arundel County written by Maryland Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Maryland Geological Survey: Anne Arundel County written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Comte De Paris
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582187975
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Autumn written by Comte De Paris and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 1861, just weeks after Bull Run, armed conflict broke out in Lexington, Missouri. Opposing forces had begun jockeying for position in the West even before the first Battle of Manassas. In Kansas and Missouri, abolitionists struggled with pro-slavery forces for control of the states. Bloody battles broke out all over the place. Forward thinking military leaders on both sides, realizing the importance of the northern Mississippi River, began campaigns to control the ports and the Western Territories

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Our Service Academies written by Bruce Fleming and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it’s too late. Saving Our Service Academies covers one man’s unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and thoughtfulness in officers-to-be, to show young men how to be adults with other men and women, and to show young women how to deal with the men. Bruce Fleming has spent over thirty years teaching midshipmen and future officers at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. This position was both a dream job and a nightmare for the enthusiastic, athletic, young Fleming. He found, in the thousands of midshipmen he taught, mentored, and exercised with for three decades, a heartbreaking waste of potential, as promising officers-to-be lapsed into apathy and cynicism because of the dispiriting reality behind the gleaming facade of the Naval Academy. What happened to duty, honor, and country at Annapolis? These values have disappeared in the wake of changes in the world, such as the rise of ROTC and the increase in expense of civilian colleges (the service academies are free to the students), and in the attempt to use the service academies as experiments in trendy social engineering. A staunch advocate for military strength, Fleming shows how the smoke and mirrors of service academies produce officers who are taught to say “SIR, YES SIR” rather than to have the guts to say things their commanding officer doesn’t want to hear. Is that why the US hasn’t won a war since World War II? By writing op-eds about the waste, fraud, and abuse of government (and taxpayer) money, Fleming put a target on his back that the USNA administration used to fire him in 2018, despite being a tenured civilian professor. He was reinstated by a federal judge in 2019. The service academies are government programs that no longer fill the needs for which they were created, and so like all government programs, can be re-examined. Indeed, as Fleming argues, they teach blind obedience in officers rather than informed and respectful questioning, and so sap our military strength rather than increasing it. They need to be re-imagined not as stand-alone undergraduate institutions that wall off future officers in an increasingly untenable isolation from the country they are to defend, but either be combined with the officer commissioning sources that currently produce over 80 percent of our new officers, or re-purposed to post-civilian college training institutions.

Author : Nova Scotia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book The Statutes of Nova Scotia written by Nova Scotia and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1102 pages
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