...Applying the Lessons of History to Modern Police Leadership Training _________________ A Leadership White Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Required for Graduation from the Leadership Command College _________________ By Kenneth W. Sidenblad Bee Cave Police Department Bee Cave, Texas Date Submitted (month year) ABSTRACT Law enforcement continues to move in the direction of a profession and away from being only a vocation. Police officers of today are better trained and educated than at any time in the past. This demands police leaders be up to the challenge to lead them. Law enforcement leaders must enhance their knowledge and incorporate training ideas in use by other professions. Applying lessons from academic subject material is an important part of leadership development in many professions, and should be emphasized in training future police leaders. This will enable law enforcement leaders to develop as leaders in a profession. One academic subject used in other professions to develop leaders is the study of history. History provides a wealth of material from which valuable insights and examples of leadership may be drawn from. Lessons drawn from history are used by other professions to enhance the quality of leadership within those professions. Leadership lessons from history should be incorporated into modern police leadership training. Material supporting the importance of history as leadership training was...
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...sg/2011/11/gp-book-has-no-place-in-modern-society.html?m=1 Books are symbolic of learning, and the educated. For years now, having a home library was the luxury few could afford. The lucky few who had one were immeasurably proud of it, and rightly so. Today, not only are books beginning to lose the value that they once had in the eyes of Man, their place in society has been increasingly challenged by the newborns of the digital age. New trends such as the increasing pace of life, the accelerating rate at which new information is being pedalled forth, and the ubiquity of the effects of capitalism have driven people to become more efficient. The by-product of such phenomena is that Man is taken as its slave, and only the interests of the market are considered, instead of the individual. Unfortunately, this has dealt a severe blow to the significance of the book in modern society. All indicators seem to point out that the book is unworthy of its more efficient counterparts like the personal computer or tablet. Yet, the book holds a special place in our hearts: its final trump card. We should not be too quick to oust the book out of our lives even with the proliferation of suitable alternatives, for there is still indeed worth of the hard copy even in the frenzy of modern society. Evolution seems to have taken mankind back to square one, where the modern man (like his ancestors thousands of years ago) worries about his next meal, appointment or payment. "Next" seems like the buzzword of modern society...
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...you write the History of the World? The history of the world is a very broad and extremely extensive topic to cover. There are literally endless amounts of information that one could write about for a world history coarse or textbook. Where one starts amidst the vast sea of our worlds history is a large part of where the coarse or text will go. For a coarse such as this one, based on modern world history with the emphasis on war and environmental and technical change we cannot start too far back on a timeline because otherwise we will never reach the modern history. As a starting point the middle ages works well because it gives us a slight background of the ancient worlds but is a very transitional time. Spending a short amount of time in the Middle Ages focusing mainly on the crusades and the kings of England and their reigns to get the reader or student interested. After discussing the middle ages, we would move on the exploration and colonization of the rest of the world. This is a major point and a larger amount of time should be placed here because first off there is much to cover with the Columbus discovery of north America followed by the sea route to India. Also because these are extremely important times because they are basically the start of the western world we know today. Around the same time period we have the war of the Roses followed by the Elizabethan age in Britain. Also, since it is world history and not simply western world history, there should...
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...Contemporary Confucianism REL 133 March 11, 2014 Confucianism The system of thought known as Confucianism has its roots in the teachings of the Chinese scholar Confucius, who lived over twenty-five hundred years ago. Confucius devised a set of guidelines for individual moral development and for creating a harmonious, orderly society. During the early twentieth century, Confucianism lost its dominance in the political and educational systems of China. Throughout the modern era, the moral teachings that form the heart of Confucianism have continued to shape the attitudes and behaviors of millions of people worldwide.(Coogan, 1998) The contemporary issues can be understood by examining the common characteristics of Confucianism and other eastern religions, analyzing the interactions between the modern world and Confucianism, and studying how those interactions influence Confucianism and the modern world. Common Characteristics Among Eastern Religions Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are three religions that make up the essence of traditional, Chinese culture. While all three religions have differences, the religions also share fundamental elements such as purpose, principle, and teachings that have created a strong and long lasting way of life for the Chinese culture. When comparing religions a person can deduce that all religions have a purpose and follow a specific set of rules, guidelines, and traditions. The vessel that leads each individual to their ultimate purpose...
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...Expository on Change in Communication I often try to comprehend cultural, social, political, moral and other changes that humanity has undergone throughout centuries of its existence and development. To a large extent these changes were caused by technological progress: new inventions often transformed the way of people’s lives and respectively, the norms by which societies lived. Airplanes, cars, computers, mobile communication devices, as well as other technological wonders have reformed the way we think and live. But, what is even more curious, technologies have also metamorphisized the way we communicate. Englishmen have a tradition to talk about the weather when they met an unfamiliar (or even a familiar) person. Japanese people have multiple complex ways to start a conversation politely. Many other nations also had their own rules of etiquette; these rules allowed people to enter the communication process smoothly. However, nowadays we can see that etiquette is rather often neglected in favor of the efficiency of communication. The pace of everyday life has increased dramatically compared even to the middle of the 20th century, and today people have to sacrifice courtesy in favor of productiveness and efficiency (IFResearch). Perhaps, from the viewpoint of a person from the 1950s, we would most likely look like rude and straightforward people, as we have become less concerned about our culture of communication, considering it to be archaic. The time we live in is interesting...
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...Far & Away by Ron Howard, 1992 Summary: The film takes place in Ireland in the 1890’s. The main character is a young farmer named Joseph Donnelly. Joseph is angry with his landlord Daniel Christie who had the Donnellys’ farm burned down due to the lack of rental. He goes to the Christie family’s estate with the intention of killing his landlord. Here he meets the beautiful daughter Shannon Christie. She is dissatisfied with the “old way of living” she is with her parents and longs after a modern lifestyle. With Joseph facing eviction and Shannon longing for a modern world, they run away towards America together. They start in Boston where they struggle and work hard to live and save money. Joseph works as a barehanded boxer, which brings him lots of positive attention, but when he is beaten their money is taken away and they are left homeless on the streets, while they are dreaming of owning their own land. When Shannon later gets reunited with her family they go separate ways. At last they meet again at the Oklahoma race in 1893 and conquer their own land together. Review: Far & Away is both historical and humorous and contains a lot of American values. We are given a clear picture of how “The new world” was appealing to European citizens and how the shaping of America took place. When Joseph and Shannon first arrive at Boston, they have nothing and they have no other solution than to start working their way up. This is a good example on the strong American belief...
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...How has the concept of childhood changed though history? Children have been apart of history as long as human beings have existed, however Prior to modern day notion of childhood, Children and childhood appears to be something that traditional historians have never considered, one of the many reasons that became of interest was due to the idea that childhood was a social construction. However the traditional view for a long time is that children were essentially little adults and the most famous proponent of this theory was a French historian named Philippe Aries he wrote a controversial book called the centuries of childhood. His view was that the crucial point in the construction or invention of childhood is something that happened, especially in the 18th and the early nineteenth century, however since 1985 and 1990 there have been a vast amount of theories which have criticised Aries concepts on childhood. Aries tapped into a common belief about the middle ages, which is if the Middle Ages generally was different than it must have been different in terms of children too, so they must not have loved their children and they must not have taken good care of them. Thus taking us to the centre of the argument, being that people in the middle ages and early modern Europe had a lot of children as a sort of self defence mechanism to not invest as much in their children because they knew that half of their children would die before they reached adolescents or adulthood . For...
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...| | | | | Phase 4 Individual Project Sara Smith HIST101-1303B-10 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Constantinos Scaros Colorado Technical University President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal In 1998 President Bill Clinton was questioned about several allegations that he had harassed and/or had sexual relationships with women that worked under him. He became the first President to ever be involved in questioning as a civil defendant. In the testimony both President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky denied having a sexual relationship, though there were tapes found of conversations between Lewinsky and her co-worker Linda Tripp that suggested otherwise. It seemed that everyone was on the President’s side when it came to the affair charges, even his wife Hilary Clinton. The first lady was quoted as saying that the entire thing was a “vast right-wing conspiracy to destroy her husband.” ("Lewinsky scandal,") On the 17th of August President Clinton took the stand and testified in front of the grand jury to admit his wrong. He then later went on national television to admit to the American people that not only had he been lying for months but that he had indeed had an extramarital affair during his presidency with Monica Lewinsky. In September of that year Starr Jones sent a document nearly 500 pages long to the White House giving four different reasons why the President should be impeached. These included...
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...Modern history Evaluate the effectiveness of British leadership in developing strategies and tactics to break the stalemate on the western front. Traditional historic views have always painted a picture of a pompous, out of touch and arrogant Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Military forces. Over the years revisionist historians have moved to change this perspective putting forward new arguments that show him in a more positive light. This presentation will discuss those differing views, using the battle of the Somme and Paschaendale to support my findings. Out of all the british general Sir Douglas Haig produced the most amount of controversy. Some Traditional views of Haig were that he was unaware of the demands of traditional warfare, he was out of touch of the battle front, and he led his army from his command post in Britain. It was seen that Haig thought of airplanes and tanks as only accessories to man and horse and that he deemed extreme loss of lives as a necessity of war showing a sort of disregard for a soldier’s life. Many people in history and historians themselves have not attempted to hide their distain for Haig. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was a major example of this he thought that he was egotistic and complacent to human losses. D. winter said that rank was governed by patronage rather than skill. Jay Murray Winter, a history professor at Yale said in his book the experiences of WW1, ‘the rigidity of the British plan was the...
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...HISTORY 1500 WINTER 2014 RESEARCH ESSAY TOPICS 1. Select a crusade and discuss the extent to which it accomplished its objectives. Why did it succeed or fail? Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades: A Short History; Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives; Christopher Tyerman, God’s War: A New History of the Crusades 2. How did anti-Semitism manifest itself in medieval Europe? Kenneth R. Stow, Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe; Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages; Solomon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the Thirteenth Century 3. What was the position of prostitutes in medieval society? Ruth Mazo Karras, Common Women; Leah Otis, Prostitution in Medieval Society; Margaret Wade Labarge, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life 4. Why did the French choose to follow Joan of Arc during the the Hundred Years War? Kelly DeVries, Joan of Arc: A Military Leader; Bonnie Wheeler, ed., Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc; Margaret Wade Labarge, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life 5. Discuss the significance of siege warfare during the crusades. You may narrow this question down to a single crusade if you wish. Jim Bradbury, The Medieval Siege; Randall Rogers, Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century; John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade 6. Why did the persecution...
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...trends such as the increasing pace of life, the accelerating rate at which new information is being pedalled forth, and the ubiquity of the effects of capitalism have driven people to become more efficient. The by-product of such phenomena is that Man is taken as its slave, and only the interests of the market are considered, instead of the individual. Unfortunately, this has dealt a severe blow to the significance of the book in modern society. All indicators seem to point out that the book is unworthy of its more efficient counterparts like the personal computer or tablet. Yet, the book holds a special place in our hearts: its final trump card. We should not be too quick to oust the book out of our lives even with the proliferation of suitable alternatives, for there is still indeed worth of the hard copy even in the frenzy of modern society. Evolution seems to have taken mankind back to square one, where the modern man (like his ancestors thousands of years ago) worries about his next meal, appointment or payment. "Next" seems like the buzzword of modern society, with people constantly looking for the next opportunity. As the pace of everyday life picks up, libraries appear to be caught in a time warp. With each passing day, the library grows quieter, the librarians grow more ancient, and the library air grows staler. Fiction or non-fiction, the regressive state of the ultimate bookhouse is reflective of our attitudes to the book today. We have lesser time for reading, and people...
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...Count: 774 How did guns, germs, and steel shape the history of the world? Jared Diamond’s journey to discover equality began in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. In the Prologue Diamond tells the readers about how he became intrigued when Yali, his New Guinean friend posed the question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Pg. 14) When Yali talks about cargo he is referring to technology i.e. tools, accessories, and other complicated inventions. So Diamond rephrases the question as such: “Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?” (Pg. 16) Yali’s question gets Diamond motivated to research and write this book on the history of everyone for the past 13,000 years. He attempts to peel back the layers of the past like an onion and explore the roots of power in the modern world. The question motivating the book is that: “Why did history unfold differently on different continents?” (Pg. 9) Diamond has traveled the world for the past 30 years looking for answers to eventually come up with this well thought out theory to this question; it is not because of intelligence due to racial differences but rather environmental differences. As stated before this book emphasizes on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing the causes of history as far back as possible. Modern history has been shaped by conquest, conquest of the world by Europeans...
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...Whore To Culture Life and self are irrevocably connected. One cannot become one’s self without the influence of life, and it also is true that life cannot exist without self. At the center of life is culture, culture that shapes who one is and is shaped by that one. Even if one rejects that culture, in doing so, they effectively reshape it. In this form, the interplay between the two seems flawless and uninhibited, a harmonious ebb-and-flow, a back and forth that seems as natural as the tides. Sounds great for an overview, right? But under the microscope in modern society, one may begin to see that this is not nearly the case. Companies, such as Kodak, strongly convinced that film and film-based cameras still have a place in the modern world, are falling by the wayside, in a time where the culture-accepted norm is digital. The rejection of popular culture by a construct (be it a company, a philosophy, an establishment, or an idea) can lead to a gap of disparity that only further drives that culture and construct apart. Those unwilling to heed to the call of culture, or whore themselves to it, may be in need to find a new calling. One thing in life I will never consider myself is a prolific reader, more of a casual observer. Some of my earliest memories of reading is back when I was around the age of 11, in the fifth grade, when the Scholastic Book Company would bring around their annual book bazaar, advertising and promoting reading to the masses of young readers. I remember...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING 1.1 Introduction As time passes by, technology continues to evolve. Because of technology, new things were created that sustains and lightens human work. Computers were created because of technology. Computers were the greatest things ever invented by man itself. In the modern age, computers have become a part of man’s life. Computers with the aid of modern machines made almost all the things around us. From the edited books, computers made all design, special effects in movies, and televisions etc. Along with the evolution of technology, computers continue to upgrade as well until the time that computer has now become a part of man’s everyday life that are hooked to computers. Computers can now edit documents to your PC, play mini games, search information you need using the internet, save documents to your PC and play online games. It’s like an all-in-one gadget that can do all the things you want anytime you need it. Based on the facts on Wikipedia, from 1990 to the present year, online games had a big impact to us especially teenagers. Online games have many genres, including FPS games, MMORPG, Casual games and multiplayer games. A game will become an online game if it involves in using a computer or a series of computers with one player in each computer to battle it out with other players using the Internet depending on the game genre. According to Wikipedia, an online game is a game played over some form of computer...
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...Throughout the modern world we see many different personalities of many different people. Due to this, many conflicts arise, raising the question, who usually is victorious in those conflicts? This usually ends up deciding who can survive in this world and who can’t. In a Separate Peace however it varies due to what the situation is. In John Knowles A Separate Peace, the author proves that Gene is strong enough to survive in the modern world due to his actions, his personality, and how it contrasts to Finny’s. Firstly, Finny has always been a really nice person, he has never been even slightly related to a boor while Gene has been a very quiet and conservative of his thoughts. Gene reveals his secret personality too Finny when Knowles creates the scene between both of them where they discuss their relationship between themselves and the war. Whiling they are contemplating about the war, Finny keeps...
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