Officer Book Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

This book is a continuation of another fine work by Edward drea on the pacific war; a very mature judgment coming from an experienced scholar. Using the main text of the book, he utilizes a new generation of some Japanese publications, which are not biased products of a retired officer. The text is not about Japanese history in battles and wars; rather it is about the IJA (imperial Japanese army) in the perspective of an institution. It analyses groups, for instance the officer corps, the army demographics (conscripts), examines the budget, and considers operational and strategic tools. Although it is narrative in structure, ...

Introduction

The Zodiac Killer: AKA the Silenced Badge is a book by Lyndon E. Lafferty that seeks to give the true identity of the Zodiac killer. The actual topic of the book is The Zodiac Killer: Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. In his book, he outlines the reasons why no officer who knew the story dared to testify. Included in the book are the specific people who were the masterminds behind the act of concealing the Zodiac despite the evidence that led to him. It is a series of a high ranking corruption and dirty political games. Lyndon E. Lafferty mentions all that were ...

Abstract

Police department is considered to be evolved throughout the world on the basis of criminals and their modern ideas of the criminal activities. We will try to look at the various aspects of the society and its connection with the police or role of the law enforcement agencies. We will try to lay the foundation of the study on the information gathered from several sources that are subjected to the researched reports and intellectual work done on the book written by Roberg. The police department is considered to be an important governmental institution and it must be organized merely ...

Book Review: Catch-22

This book, written by Joseph Heller and published in 1961, is perhaps best known for its title alone, which has become a familiar expression in the English language, meaning any “no-win” situation, originally derived from a specific set of circumstances occurring in the novel. Heller set his novel in 1943 in World War II, much of the action located on a small island called Pianosa, near to Elba on the Italian Tuscan coast in the Mediterranean Sea. (The island is real, but much smaller than this work of fiction purported it to be). The main character is Captain John Yossarian, a B-25 bombardier ...

Kim follows the story of a young Irish boy who is left in India as a child, learning the culture and becoming one of them. He makes friends with a Tibetan Lama who is elderly, and who wishes to look for the River of the Arrow in order to reach Enlightenment. The Lama takes Kim under his wing as he continues this search. They go along the Grand Trunk Road, where Kim is identified by a chaplain and taken from the Lama, being sent instead to a school. Kim and the Lama keep in touch, as he also learns about the British secret service, ...

Introduction

Juvenile delinquency has long been a sensitive topic. It often encompasses the disciplines of morality, ethics, and criminal justice and law enforcement. The same is true for other hotly debated and related topics such as the over-criminalization of youths, youth policing, and the war on drugs and how it affects the mindset and social behavior of young people. There has also been numerous works that have been published about these topics. One of those was Punished Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. Punished was a book published by Victor Rios in 2011.
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The book "The Last Days of Hitler" by Hugh Trevor-Roper was first published in 1947. The historical book was written within a year following the mysterious disappearance of Hitler in 1945. After four months without any news of his whereabouts, Trevor-Roper was hired to investigate the matter. Having spent many years investigating the Nazi Regime, he had come to be known as the expert of the Nazi Regime . The book describes leadership during the Nazi Regime and continues to demonstrate the downfall of this regime, which ended in mass suicide for Hitler and most of his confidants. Trevor-Roper manages ...

A social commentary is a piece of work that expresses opinions and expressions about a historical event, appealing to the audience’s sense of social justice. George MacDonald Fraser wrote a novel known as “Flashman “in 1969, which he identified as a reflection of his childhood memoirs.The novel entails the escapades of Flashman. The character is a fictional character that initially appeared in Tom Brown’s work “School days”. The author used his interest in being a soldier in Asia, and quitting his job as a journalist as the majormotivation for writing this novel, and the other series that ...

An Incident of Renewed Faith by Peter Nez is an exceptionally well-written short story that is a true depiction of relatable everyday humanitarian experiences. The absolute emotion and sentiments reflected in this narrative have the propensity of instantaneously grabbing the readers’ attention. The description provided by the author concerning the entire sequence of events allows the readers to understand, comprehend, and visualize the author’s perspective. Nez has been successful in presenting a dramatic and colorful explanation of the occasion whereby he had to visit the court due to a ticket issued to him. His descriptive and elaborative style ...

Rudolf Hoess, who should not be confused with Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy Fuehrer who flew to England in 1941, was a career S.S. officer whose memoirs are one of the most important primary sources about the Holocaust. No other camp commander produced an autobiography or wrote so extensively about his career, and none occupied a more important position in the machinery of extermination. Hoess introduced Zyklon-B (Cyclone-B) gas to Auschwitz in 1941, mainly because he thought it would be the most efficient method of mass killing, and his camp became the largest ‘customer’ for this cyanide gas, which had ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

First published in 1813, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a comic novel of manners. The novel describes the trials and tribulations of the upper middle class English gentry of that time in finding love (Austen, 1813). Although not well known at the time of its publication, this novel and Sense and Sensibility, published earlier, have become highly popular during the 20th century and are now routinely seen on listings of the “100 best novels” or the “100 most read novels” (Donahue, 2013). Austen’s books are known for their feminine view of the world at a time when female ...

ABSTRACT

This paper will discuss an in depth look at Corrections and the Criminal Institution. I will discuss what exactly crime is? I will also discuss how a criminal gets from being a criminal to being in a criminal Institution. This paper will discuss the repayment of victims by criminals. This paper will also discuss the sentencing of criminals. I will discuss the rights of a criminal. I will discuss the employment that is offered inside the criminal institution. This paper will also show the different types of abuse that happens inside the criminal institution. This paper will discuss the Juvenile Justice Detention Center. ...

Many veterans have written war memoirs in recent times in which they narrate their own personal combat adventures in a very straightforward manner. Although many of these soldiers-turned-authors shy away from emphasizing on the mental toll of war, we all know that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past ten years have taken a tremendous toll on the soldiers and their families. Thus, what sets Brian Castner’s amazing memoir, “The Long Walk: A Story Of War And The Life That Follows,” apart is the fact that he does not flinch when taking a look at postwar life. Brian Castner, ...

Question 1:

Progressive reformers campaigned for the operation of local government in a businesslike manner. The interests of the upper class in the society motivated this. The approach would see the local governments run using economic strategies heavily reliant on scientific methods. This would help increase efficiency in service delivery.
The strong mayor and council-manager forms of city government are structured in a manner similar to corporate entities. The head organ of the strong mayor government is the executive branch where the mayor is chief executive officer of the government. The strong mayor is apolitical appointee. On the other hand, the council manager is a professional ...

Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

“The Things They Carried” is a short fictitious narrative written by Tim O’Brien who explores the account of Jimmy Cross, an American officer and his soldiers serving in Vietnam. This powerful story is set in the Vietnam War, a battle which sounds prehistoric or ancient for most of today’s readers but which at the same time remains possibly vivid in the minds of the old generation. The narrative has been set in the postwar Vietnam and the author has illustrated this through the narrator, who revisits the country and the old battlegrounds where he fought at one time. The ...

Book Report

Chapter VII
Chapter VII of Getting the Message Through essentially deals with the history of the US Army signal Corps during World War Two and how the Corps responded to various challenges: the need to wage total war across the entire globe; the massive expansion in numbers and the increase in the number of training centres within the United Sates; the need to recruit to the corps men (and later women) of a high mental calibre; the changes in technology which altered some of the traditional roles of the Signal Corps; the challenges of working in vastly different theatres ...

Oliver L. North is a war decorated marine officer, a best-selling writer, the architect of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. copyrights, a grouped columnist, and the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel in the U.S. He was born in San Antonio; he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, and before serving as a U.S. Marine for twenty-two years. Later on, He was bestowed to the National Security Council Staff in the Reagan government, as a counter-terrorism planner from 1983-1986.Above all, he was termed an American hero by the then sitting president, President Ronald Reagan.

This chronicle is ...