Frustrated Ambition

Author : Richard Bruce Meixsel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806160771

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Frustrated Ambition by Richard Bruce Meixsel Pdf

Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition is the first in-depth biography of this forgotten figure, whose career paralleled the early-twentieth-century history of the Philippine military. As independence seemed increasingly likely for the Philippines in the 1930s, Lim positioned himself to take a leading role in developing armed forces for a sovereign nation. But as Lim maneuvered behind the scenes, Manuel L. Quezon, soon to be the commonwealth president, revealed that he had invited General Douglas MacArthur to serve as military adviser to the Philippines. Frustrated Ambition corrects the conventional historical narrative of events thereafter—one that emphasizes the failure of the nascent Philippine military under MacArthur and inflates the general’s heroic role in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor. Richard Bruce Meixsel restores Lim as the then-recognized leader of the opposition to MacArthur’s mission, and shows how Lim took the Philippine Army in a more tenable direction as MacArthur’s military system foundered. World War II brought Lim to the fore. While MacArthur directed his troops from Corregidor, Lim commanded a division on Bataan that may have suffered more combat losses at the battle of Abucay than did all American units on Bataan during the entire campaign. When the U.S. high command turned its efforts to evacuating the Philippine Islands, Lim began to prepare for the ensuing underground struggle against the Japanese—a fight that cost him his life. By recounting Vicente Lim’s career, Frustrated Ambition illuminates forgotten episodes in Philippine history, offers new perspectives on military affairs during the American occupation, and recovers the story of Filipino soldiers whose service changed the course of their country’s military history.

Author : Disappointed ambition
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600071949

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Disappointed ambition; or, Wedded and single, by the authoress of 'The world and the cloister'. by Disappointed ambition Pdf

Author : Fred Moody
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429978201

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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition by Fred Moody Pdf

Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities. In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a city of instant millionaires and brand name shopping, skyscrapers and sports franchises-- the place everyone wanted to visit, topping lists of America's "most desirable" cities. But with such wealth came consequences: overdevelopment, paralyzing traffic, racial and class divisions, and a street population of teenagers discarded by the new culture, whose rage and disaffection fueled the rise of bands such as Nirvana. Striving to reach its ambitions, Seattle seemed to be losing the struggle for its soul. And when it hosted the 1999 World Trade Organization convention, the city's conflicted personalities clashed, as violent riots by residents and a coalition of protestors left the downtown decimated and the nation transfixed by the spectacle of globalization gone wrong. In Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, Fred Moody uses his own background as a native son, along with wide-ranging encounters with others, to trace the growing pains of the city he loves. Profiling Bill Gates and never-quite-champion football coach Chuck Knox, a pair of ambitious entrepreneurs and a homeless sculptor once profiled in the New Yorker, grunge music superstars and the preyed-upon children of the documentary "Streetwise," Moody offers a dramatic, entertaining, and insightful portrait of the city that defined economic and technological change in the America of the 1990s

Author : Agnes M. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000615145

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Disappointed Ambition; Or Wedded and Single; a Tale of the Day ... by Agnes M. Stewart Pdf

Author : Eckart Goebel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501383854

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Ambition by Eckart Goebel Pdf

We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Renaissance Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250130594

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Tao: The Pathless Path by Osho Pdf

In Tao: The Pathless Path, Osho, one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, comments on five parables from the Leih Tzu, bringing a fresh and contemporary interpretation to the ancient wisdom of Tao. Leih Tzu was a well-known Taoist master in the fourth century B.C., and his sly critiques of a Confucius provide abundant opportunities for the reader to explore the contrasts between the rational and irrational, the male and female, the structured and the spontaneous. “Who Is Really Happy” uses the discovery of a human skull on the roadside to probe into the question of immortality and how misery arises out of the existence of the ego. “A Man Who Knows How to Console Himself” looks beneath the apparent cheerfulness of a wandering monk and asks if there is really a happiness that endures through life’s ups and downs. “No Regrets” is a parable about the difference between the knowledge that is gathered from the outside and the “knowing” that arises from within. “No Rest for the Living” uses a dialogue between a despondent seeker and his master to reveal the limits of philosophy and the crippling consequences of living for the sake of some future goal. “Best Be Still, Best Be Empty” discusses the difference between the path of the will, the via affirmitiva of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, versus the path of the mystic, the via negativa of Buddha and Lao Tzu. Tao: The Pathless Path also features a Q&A section that addresses how Taoist understanding applies to everyday life in concrete, practical terms. Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people—along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha—who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.

Author : David C. Docherty
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774841856

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Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa by David C. Docherty Pdf

In Mr Smith Goes to Ottawa, the author compares the 34th (1988-93) and the 35th (1993-97) Parliaments. The former, the second consecutive Conservative-led majority government, could not appear more different from the Liberal one which followed. Over two-thirds of its members were rookies. More significantly, over one-third represented two new political parties - the Bloc Quebecois and the Reform party. Yet, for all this change, Docherty shows that the new agendas of the 35th Parliament have not translated into changes in the legislative behaviour or socialization of new members. Unlike Jimmy Stewart in Washington, the majority of the men and women who go to Ottawa end up accepting a limited policy role.

Author : David Kurnick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691153162

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Empty Houses by David Kurnick Pdf

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and exploring what has until now seemed an anomaly--the frustrated theatrical ambitions of major novelists. Offering new interpretations of the careers of William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Henry James, James Joyce, and James Baldwin--writers known for mapping ever-narrower interior geographies--this book argues that the genre's inward-looking tendency has been misunderstood. Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, David Kurnick reinterprets the novel as a record of dissatisfaction with inwardness and an injunction to rethink human identity in radically collective and social terms. Exploring neglected texts in order to reread canonical ones, Kurnick shows that the theatrical ambitions of major novelists had crucial formal and ideological effects on their masterworks. Investigating a key stretch of each of these novelistic careers, he establishes the theatrical genealogy of some of the signal techniques of narrative interiority. In the process he illustrates how the novel is marked by a hunger for palpable collectivity, and argues that the genre's discontents have been a shaping force in its evolution. A groundbreaking rereading of the novel, Empty Houses provides new ways to consider the novelistic imagination.

Author : Said S. Samatar
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0932415709

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In the Shadow of Conquest by Said S. Samatar Pdf

Author : Richard A. Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416689

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Deadly Clerics by Richard A. Nielsen Pdf

Explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization to explain why some Muslim clerics turn to militant jihadism.

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026187543

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The Story of Goethe's Life by George Henry Lewes Pdf

Author : Ian St John
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783085309

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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli by Ian St John Pdf

This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age – Gladstone and Disraeli. Following the parallel careers of both men, it focuses upon a series of contentious questions, ranging from why Disraeli opposed Corn Law repeal in 1846 and Gladstone abandoned his High Tory politics for Peelism, to whether Disraeli was ever an Imperialist and why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish Home Rule. By juxtaposing the contrasting interpretations advocated by historians, it brings home to students how history is a continually evolving subject in which every generation poses new questions, or reformulates answers to old ones – encouraging those studying the subject to realise that history is an ongoing dialogue to which they are called upon to contribute.

Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015017968481

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory by Mary G. Dietz Pdf

The eight essays in this volume celebrated the 400th birthday of the English political thinker - Thomas Hobbes.

Author : Bruce A. Kimball
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807889962

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The Inception of Modern Professional Education by Bruce A. Kimball Pdf

Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence. Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement should determine one's merit in professional life. Despite fierce opposition from students, faculty, alumni, and legal professionals, he designed and instituted a formal system of innovative policies based on meritocracy. This system's components included the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the sequenced curriculum and its extension to three years, the hurdle of annual examinations for continuation and graduation, the independent career track for professional faculty, the transformation of the professional library into a scholarly resource, the inductive pedagogy of teaching from cases, the organization of alumni to support the school, and a new, highly successful financial strategy. Langdell's model was subsequently adopted by leading law schools, medical schools, business schools, and the schools of other professions. By the time of his retirement as dean at Harvard, Langdell's reforms had shaped the future model for professional education throughout the United States.

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : PRNC:32101069190997

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The Life of Goethe by George Henry Lewes Pdf