...George Smith Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a United States Army general, best known for his flamboyant character and his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. Born in 1885 to a privileged family with an extensive military background, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute, and later the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He participated in the 1912 Olympic Modern Pentathlon, and was instrumental in designing the M1913 "Patton Saber". Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using motor vehicles. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw action in World War I, first commanding the U.S. tank school in France before being wounded near the end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army, serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the U.S. 2nd Armored Division at the time of the U.S. entry into World War II. Patton led U.S. troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1942, where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the Seventh Army during...
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...Patton Analysis In the film Patton, many events and important people were depicted, including the battle of the bulge, Sicily, France, General George Patton, Erwin Rommel, Omar Bradley, and Bernard Law Montgomery. General Patton was commander of the Third Army in which he led them ti victory after a crushing defeat in the Battle of Kasserines pass. Erwin Rommel was general of the German army and he was widely respected for his ability to lead. Omar Bradley was second in command to General Patton and was head of the operation in North Africa. Montgomery was general of the British army and at this time he was winning every battle he got into. All of these people were important during world war 2 because they all led an army into battle and were victorious throughout the war and because they all were highly thought of and respected. Sicily and France were both places in which Patton led the Third Army and took then from the Germans. The battle of the bulge was a German offensive in which rot hope was to split up and surround the British and American forces. The directors purpose of masking this film was to inform people of general Patton's accomplishments while he was commanding the American Army. It was to show the war through the life of George Patton and to show how Patton changed the course of the war by actually disciplining the US Army. This movie shows the theme that discipline is the key to winning a war because without discipline, no one will know what to do and...
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...Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General is about the General Patton’s role in the last months of World War II. General Patton was the commander of America’s Third Army and the most celebrated and audacious commander in World War II. He led the Third Army through many battles and victories, such as the siege on Fort Driant and the Battle of the Bulge. He was known as the most courageous and capable Allied commanders. Even Adolf Hitler admired him and compared him to his top commando, Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. With all his successes, General Patton’s downfall was his ego and tendency to speak his mind even when it was not politically correct. He would openly criticize decisions made by his commander, General...
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...change. New technology, business, and countries came about because of these wars. For the United States, six Presidents served in one way or another during World War II. One of the most famous was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded all armed forces in Europe. He commanded arguably the United States most capable combat commanders, General George S. Patton. This paper will discuss some of the events that occurred in the 1970 movie titled Patton (Scott, 1970). This critically acclaimed movie covered this great Generals exploits during World War II. I have been intrigued by General Patton...
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...In 2003, the Library of Congress selected Patton for the National Film Registry for preservation. According to Library of Congress’ webpage, the National Film Registry is: “a list of films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation.” For some, the selection to the National Film Registry is what definitively marks a film as culturally significant but can a film’s cultural significance endure through the continual passage of time? What may have been crucial to the culture of...
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...the SCAEF of the North African Theatre of Operations. For example Dr Andrew Gordon wrote “Eisenhower, and his chief of staff General Bedell Smith, had worked and won with these officers from as far back as TORCH ” Professor Samuel J Newland agrees “D-Day is the prime example of the power and synergy that can be created by a strong alliance. ” Eisenhower recognised this and he realised that for the allies to win the war they had to be a single unified front in their decisions. Newland also wrote “Roosevelt sensed early on that Eisenhower held unique abilities to work within an alliance structure. ” This is ultimately why Eisenhower was chosen to be Supreme Commander because unlike many others of the American generals at the time (such as Patton) he had the...
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...The year was 1944 and Hitler’s Nazi Germany controlled all of Europe except for the British Islands and the neutral countries of Spain Switzerland, and parts of Italy. The British had held out long enough for the United States to enter the war and now things were starting to look up. Everyone, including Hitler, knew that an invasion of Europe was imminent, what they did not know was when or where the invasion would take place. The Allied supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff had decided on a plan code named Operation Overlord. The invasion was scheduled to take place on June 5th 1944; weather would push the date back to June 6th 1944, on the beaches of Normandy. The British and Canadian forces would hit Juno, Sword, and Gold while the American forces hit Utah and Omaha. Of all the beaches one would stand out among the rest as the bloodiest, hardest, and most remembered of them all, Omaha beach also know as “bloody Omaha”(Visions from A T.C. abroad pg online). Omaha beach was the beach second from the right in the proposed landing places. (Omaha beach June 6th 1944 pg online) Omaha was the only place to land in a 20 mile stretch of land between Utah and British beaches”(The Second Front WWII ). It was a 6 miles stretch of beach that had an inward curve making it even easier to defend as positions on either end could cover more of the beach and concentrate fire towards the center. Overlooking the entire beach was a cliff one hundred feet high (Visions from A...
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...convince the Germans that the attack would take place at the Pas de Calais. This was accomplished by the creation of a fake army.One of the most famous generals of the time was General George Patton. Patton was feared and respected by the Germans and other Axis powers. He was eventually relieved of his command for slapping a soldier. Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, General Eisenhower made a deal with General Patton. He was told to take command of FUSAG (First United States Army Group), that was a fictitious army. FUSAG was based out of Dover, East Anglia and other parts of southeast England. This location made it look like the Allies would push across the English Channel straight into the Pas de Calais. In that area, the Allies built a false base for the army with tents, ammo caches, and fuel depots. They also had a parking lot filled with fake jeeps, trucks, and tanks built from plywood and cloth. Rubber vehicles could also be found in this camp. Each night, a group of Allied soldiers were assigned to pick up and move these fake vehicles around the base to make them even more realistic. Some used a custom-made rolling tool to make tire marks appear on the ground. The Germans truly believed the FUSAG army was real. German aircraft would fly across the camps to take photographs of General Patton?s First US Army Group.[footnoteRef:2] [2: Robin Neillands and Roderick De Normann, D-Day 1944 Voices From Normandy (London: This Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2002) 58-59.] Another important...
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...General George C. Marshall I selected General George C. Marshall for my leadership and management paper. Born George Catlett Marshall, December 31, 1880 in Pennsylvania, he was both a military leader and a diplomat. Regarded as one of the principal architects of America’s defeat of both Germany and Japan during World War II; I will define the ways in which he was a leader and manager. The leadership roles he had and their similarities. The obstacles he had to overcome and whether or not he was effective. How He Was a Leader and Manager General Marshall was one of a rare breed of people who are successful in all they do. While we all know people who are successful in one thing or another, seldom do we see someone who consistently are effective in such a broad range of jobs. If you look at General Marshall’s career, regardless of the challenge given him, his leadership and management was guided consistently by a set of never-changing principles. “His traits of honesty and candor gained the trust of millions of Americans and the respect of world leaders during his 50 years of selfless service” ("About George Marshall", 2009). He managed people, programs, and materials during both a time when the world was at war or during peace time. He strove to do the right thing in everything he did and quickly became a master of any situation. He earned the undying loyalty of those who either served him or served with him. Leadership Role Similarities and Differences ...
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...It has also been shown that higher levels of education can lead to lower levels of job satisfaction in studies by Clark (1997). An explanation for this is that job satisfaction can depend on the gap between outcomes and aspirations. Those who have a higher level of education may have higher aspirations and so studies have suggested that people with higher levels of education tend be less satisfied with their jobs (Nguyen, Taylor and Bradley, 2003). But can personality also influence job...
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...The 6 June 1944, early in the morning, 4266 boats and 722 warship are getting closer to the French coast in Normandy. More than 130.000 man from England, USA and Canada (mostly) and more than 10.000 airplane to protect them. Named “Overlord”, this operation stay the biggest of history, remarkable by human quality but also in technology and technique. This operation was expected since more than a year by all Europeans who, on the continent, was fighting the nazi invasion. In the beginning of the year 1944, the Soviets crossed Dniepr and invade Romania and Bulgaria. For the Germans, defeat is only month away. The opening of the “second front” have to be quick. Dwight Eisenhower and his assistant, Oman Bradley and George Patton and the British...
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...UNIVERSAL PICTURES and EMMETT / FURLA FILMS Present A MARC PLATT Production In Association with OASIS VENTURES ENTERTAINMENT LTD / ENVISION ENTERTAINMENT / HERRICK ENTERTAINMENT / BOOM! STUDIOS A BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Film PAULA PATTON BILL PAXTON JAMES MARSDEN FRED WARD and EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Executive Producers BRANDT ANDERSEN JEFFREY STOTT MOTAZ M. NABULSI JOSHUA SKURLA MARK DAMON Produced by MARC PLATT RANDALL EMMETT NORTON HERRICK ADAM SIEGEL GEORGE FURLA ROSS RICHIE ANDREW COSBY Based on the BOOM! Studios Graphic Novels by STEVEN GRANT Screenplay by BLAKE MASTERS Directed by BALTASAR KORMÁKUR –1– CAST Waitress Margie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDSEY GORT Roughneck #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HILLEL M. SHARMAN Robert “Bobby” Trench . . . . . . . . . DENZEL WASHINGTON Roughneck #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON ZELL Marcus “Stig” Stigman . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK WAHLBERG Roughneck #4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HENRY PENZI Deb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAULA PATTON CREW Earl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL PAXTON Admiral Tuwey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRED J. WARD Quince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES MARSDEN Directed by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Papi Greco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Screenplay by . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...When we look at our history we find that military success most often can be attributed to audacious leadership. Maybe there is no market for this kind of leadership today. The definition of audacious may be the key. It is defined as: 1. Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold. 2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety. Where are the individuals who lead with these qualities? Does our current system of military education promote or discourage the fearless, unrestrained and unconventional leadership required to finish the job? We all know the answer to that question. This is why we see no Pattons, Eisenhowers, Bradleys, or MacArthurs in our modern military. I fear that in today’s environment of restraint and political correctness these great warriors would have been forced out early in their...
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...Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” (US Gl. George S. Patton) 2 Management is working in the system; leadership is working on the system. 3 Managers gain authority by position, leaders gain it by influence and character. 4 Every manager should be a leader, while every leader must know management. 5 Leadership and management must go hand in hand. 6 People hate each other because they are afraid of each other; they are afraid of each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they don’t COMMUNICATE” (Martin Luther King) 7 What makes a leader? 8 There is an abundance of managers in the world but very few truly have the characteristics of a leader. 9The challenges we face today are not economic, environmental, social, or legal; they are challenges of character and leadership. 10 Management is nothing more than motivating other people. 11 Good managers increase productivity—great leaders, peak performance. 12 Inventories can be managed but people must be led. 13 Management is neither an art nor science. It is both, and the real trick is to determine the right mixture at the right time! 14. ’Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity!’ (General George S. Patton) 15. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint...
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...UCL-CLIE Pre-sessional courses 2013 UCL Pre-sessionals - Harvard Referencing System 2013 This document explains how you can reference your work according to the Harvard Referencing System (henceforth simply referred to as Harvard). While there are a number of different referencing systems used in academia worldwide, Harvard is the most common and, consequently, is the one most likely to be useful to you in your future academic studies. This is why we expect you to use Harvard for referencing on the Pre-sessional. Once you have been admitted to the university department where you will be studying for your degree, you should, however, check which system your department favours and adapt your referencing practices accordingly. This guide is only an introduction to Harvard, so if you find it does not fully cover your needs or you would like to take a more comprehensive look at Harvard, we suggest that you refer to either: Chapters 5 and 6 of The American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington DC, USA: American Psychological Association. or: The American Psychological Association (APA) website at: www.apastyle.org. What is referencing? Referencing is a method for standardising and presenting systematically the words and ideas of others in your own writing. Such ideas may include direct quotations, facts, figures, ideas and theories from both published and unpublished works. Why reference? Referencing is...
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