101st Airborne Division

One of the distinguished literary theory 's brought forth by Aristotle is the theory of the tragic hero. A comprehensive definition of this theory is a character whether in film or book who makes a judgment error that leads to the character’s own destruction. For this question I will be looking at Joe Paterno and why I consider him to be an excellent example of a tragic hero. I will break down his story as a tragic hero in parts as illustrated in the class notes. Tragic Hero Part 1: The first…

The kickoff to the college football season is exactly one week away and collegiate programs across the country are all trying to get to Glendale, AZ, site of the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. There’s a slew of intriguing matchups slated for Week 1 of the college football regular season, including TCU’s visit to Minnesota for a game with the Gophers, Arizona State’s trip to Texas for a matchup with A&M’s Aggies, Texas versus Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Alabama’s meeting at…

the 101st. The British 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Roy Urquhart and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Stanislaw Sosabowski would parachute in and seize the rail bridge of Oosterveek and the road bridge at Arnhem. Garden represented the ground forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks and his Second Army. XXX Corps was to spearhead movement north. This consisted of the Guards Armoured Division, the…

The “Screaming Eagles” is a nickname given to the 101st airborne because of the patches they wear on their shoulders depicting an eagle. The 101st was one of the most prolific and accomplished divisions of the army throughout the span of World War II. The 101st airborne played a pivotal role in the success of the Allied defeat of the Axis Powers. However, the success of the 101st came at a heavy price with over 14,000 casualties in just that division. They fought in all of the major theaters of…

else they wouldn’t be able to leave the school with all nine students. The 101st Airborne Union are from Kentucky and were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to control the crowd outside of Central High. Mayor of Little Rock, Woodrow Wilson Mann, asked President Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect the nine students as they were getting in and out of Central High during schooling hours. Even with the 101st Airborne Division, they were still getting verbally and physically abused by many white…

The 101st Airborne Matthew Haggard Little Rock- President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne to protect the little rock nine (nine black students going to Hot Springs High School during integration). The governor of Arkansas, Governor Faubus, had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to keep the nine black students from going to that school. The 101st Airborne were there to stop the Arkansas National Guard from trying to stop the students. Caption about the picture above. Even…

the blacks do not belong in the whites schools. The black students not only stopped by guards but, white mobs screaming racial slurs. “Go home nigger we don’t want you here”. “We are going to going to hang you.” 101st AIrborne Alex Cole Spencer 101st Airborne is an infantry division who works for the United States…

the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and two heavily armed Vietnamese divisions. With the heaviest portion of the battle being a 23 day siege that was sparked when the North Vietnamese Army launched a mortar attack with an ensuing siege that was meant to overwhelm the American forces ten to one. The battle lasted until the 23rd of July 1970 with the evacuation of American forces and an air raid launched by Major General (Ret.) Ben Harrison. Ripcord was built by the historic 101st with two…

Brown & NAACP Challenge Segregation in Kansas, Supreme Court Rules Segregation as Unconstitutional by Brown V. Bard Imagine having to walk a mile everyday just to go to school when there’s a school only seven blocks away. This is what third grader Linda Brown has had to do every day. This is why, when the Brown family tried to enroll their kids in a segregated school and were denied enrollment, have resorted to filing a lawsuit against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education. The district court…

Running low on supplies, the Germans have a hail-mary effort to control ours, knowing if they cannot then the war will be over. The Germans have surrounded a town of Bastogne, which contains several trapped units of the US Army, including the 101st Airborne. The poor weather conditions have prevented our Army Air Corps to fly, so we will have to rescue the units in Bastogne ourselves. The objectives of the mission are simple. 1) Rescue the army trapped in Bastogne, 2) Prevent the Germans…