Colin MacIntyre

Prior to reading these four chapters of It Worked for Me, I knew very little about the life of Colin Powell. I knew his name and heard it often throughout Black History Month, but reading an excerpt of this memoir granted me access to rather admirable part of his character. Colin Powell is a true leader with a great deal of understanding between both military experience and his reign as Secretary of State. This book shares what he has learned during his time of power and teaches its readers his best

Colin Powell’s career choices reflected his personal standards for living. What were those influential standards? He dedicated himself to becoming one of the best military representatives in U.S. history. His constant diligence and determination helped him to reach highest lifetime achievements. The choices he made for himself lead to his superior success in life. As the first African American Chief Of Staff, his career pathway was an open road. All these choices made him what he is today: Colin

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership” Colin Powell Colin Powell was born April 5, 1937 in New York City. The son of Jamaican parents, Powell grew up in Harlem and south Bronx of New York. He attended City College of New York. Upon graduation he entered the Army serving in Vietnam and then attended

The Relentless Machine Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman, Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine, rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path, leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever. Wars are often glorified in

Analysis of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel which primarily focuses on conquering obstacles, virtue, self-awareness and happiness. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the two of the largest themes being marriage and class, amongst others, as well as the structure of the novel to highlight the thematic link between the two extracts and character creation. The structure of the book is a novel as it has multiple chapters which rules out any other

In today’s society, education is something that could definitely be improved for children. Teachers could improve the kind of guidance and structure that they provide for their children. Maria Montessori and Colin Powell have devoted their lives trying to help reform education to be more beneficial for children. While Montessori and Powell both have an amazing passion for their purpose, they both have differing opinions of how this should happen. To begin, It is clear to readers that both Montessori

about Colin Powell and his leaked emails talking about both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Colin Powell is an American statesman who is part of the republican

In the masterpiece that is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen there are many important and substantial ideas that reflect the virtues and the consequences of following or not following them. Jane Austen’s work has been applauded in it authentic feeling and the realistic way she captured emotions and character development. Austin depicts an important truth that can sometimes be overlooked in her book and that is people need to continually better themselves. These theme are most evident in the characters

After twelve years of wait, the third instalment of the “Bridget Jones” (2001 – 2004) film series has been finally released. When Working Title Films announced its intention of making another film back in 2009, several problems arrived with such announcement. In fact, the director of “Bridesmaids” and most recently “Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” was reportedly going to be the director of the film. However, creative differences arise with Working Title and he exited the project. Production was

In Pride and Prejudice Author Jane Austen claims that marriage should be between a man and women who love each other equally. Austen's disgust of Marriage and decorum in British culture is written through the eyes of main the main character in Pride and Prejudice, Miss Elizabeth Bennett. It is sad to think that marriage could be bought or in Elizabeth Bennett’s case not afforded. Marriage shouldn’t be the only measure of worth for women. Someone should not feel “repugnance” for a marriage due to