Rock Gods: Baden

✍ Scribed by Brandy Munroe

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B084P9DTCT

✦ Synopsis

Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war. Profile : Donovan Campbell ; Saint Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare ; Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Colin Powell ; "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth ; "The Campaigns of Alexander the Great" by Alexander the Great, told by Arrian, the Roman historian ; Profile : Joshua Marcellino ; "Concord hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "This was their finest hour" by Winston Churchill ; David and Goliath : Samuel 17:1-58 ; Profile : Rick Rescorla ;Funeral Oration by Pericles ; "Before Action" by W. N. Hodgson ; "Battle is a Joyous Thing" by Jean de Brueil ; The Navy SEAL Creed ; Profile : Nathan Burckenthal ; From "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara ; Profile : Red Falvey ; "Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood" by William the Conqueror ; Profile : Alvin York ; Remarks on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day by Ronald Reagan ; From The Apology by Plato ; From "The Soldier's Faith" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ; "Of Man" by Thomas Hobbes ; "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" by Winston Churchill ; Ares : Greek God of War by Homer ; Profile : John Leone ; From Beowulf by an unknown Saxon poet, translated by Francis B. Gummere ; "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy ; "Duty, Honor, Country" by General Douglas MacArthur ; War sonnets by Rupert Brooke ; Profile : Audie Murphy -- Man at work. Profile : Terry Toussaint ; "Work" by Eliza Cook ; "The Plough Boy" by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith ; "How Do You Tackle Your Work?" by Edgar A. Guest ; The Gift of God : Ecclesiastes 3:10-15 ; From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana ; The Parable of the Talents : Matthew 25:14-30 (also in Luke 19:12-28) ; "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt ; "No Man Is Happy If He Does Not Work" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Saving time by Seneca ; Profile : Incwell ; From Works and Days by Hesiod ; From The Sea Wolf by Jack London ; Profile : Coach Ken ; A Humorist's Confession by Mark Twain ; "Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; The Spiritual Value of Work by Mark Judge ; From The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington ; From Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington ; From The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin ; Charmides by Plato ; Profile : George Gershwin ; Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ; Profile : Michel Faulkner ; Selections from Middlemarch by George Eliot ; The Four Chaplains of World War II from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Paradise Lost by John Milton ; From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely ; "Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey" ; Inaugural address at Edinburgh University by Thomas Carlyle ; On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing ; Profile : David Aikman ; Emerson on Labor by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn ; Selections from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ; Pensées by Blaise Pascal;Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war -- Man at work -- Man in play, sports, and leisure -- Man in the polis -- Man with woman and children -- Man in prayer and reflection;This book explores the life of men in various contexts: work, play, prayer, war, home, and friendship. Using essays and stories, myths and history, to bring life to the subject, Bennett defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire.