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MILITARY HIGH SCHOOLS IN AMERICA.
Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who have nowhere else to go. Their depiction in popular media has reinforced the impression that th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek :
Left Coast Press, Inc.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Ethics of Admission; Chapter 1 The Numbers Game; Chapter 2 Families; Part Ii From Boys to Gentlemen; Chapter 3 The Man and His Gentlemen; Chapter 4 New Lives for Old; Chapter 5 Onward and Usually Upward; Chapter 6 A Sense of Worth; Chapter 7 Old Rusty Nails and Puppy Dogs' Tails . . .; Part Iii Watchman, What of the Night?; Chapter 8 Downward toward Disaster; Chapter 9 Man to Man; Chapter 10 Crooked Timber; Chapter 11 Tradition into Tragedy; Chapter 12 Broken Windows; Part Iv Monastery or Magic Kingdom.
- Chapter 13 Traditional Values vs. Modern MayhemChapter 14 Survival of the Military School; Chapter 15 Suicidal Reinvention; Chapter 16 Cadet Nomenclature; Chapter 17 The Academic Component; Chapter 18 The Curriculum; Chapter 19 The Military Component; Chapter 20 The Athletic Component; Chapter 21 Sanctuary; Part V The Change is Forever; Chapter 22 The Change is Forever; Notes; Appendix: School Sources Used; References; Index; About the Author; Plates are located following page.