Eagle Leadership Review Rated 100% Correct!!

Eagle Leadership Review Rated 100% Correct!! SACRIFICE A sense of obligation to give something back to community and society GRATITUDE Acknowledging the role that others have played to help you succeed COURAGE An inner strength to confront wrongdoing, take risks and live life to the fullest ATTITUDE Approaching everyday with enthusiasm, confidence and a positive outlook RESPECT Being courteous to others through actions and words; to treat others the way we want to be treated APPRECIATION Being thankful for what you have, instead of complaining about what you don't LOYALTY Demonstrating a strong commitment to people or ideals; staying true to your word PREPARATION Doing All You Can Today to Ensure Success Tomorrow RESPONSIBILITY Keeping promises, meeting obligations and being accountable for your actions LEADERSHIP Providing guidance and direction to accomplish tasks; being a moral compass to others PERSEVERANCE Refusing to give up in the face of adversity - no matter how difficult the task COMPASSION Showing kindness and giving support to fellow human beings COMPOSURE Staying in control of one's emotions in order to make good logical choices in difficult situations HONESTY Telling the truth regardless of the circumstances or consequences TOLERANCE To understand and embrace people from different backgrounds and those who have different beliefs; not judging others based on superficial qualities EMPATHY Trying to understand another person's experience; to put yourself in their shoes INTEGRITY Using an internal set of ethical values as a guide to make most decisions COMPASSION A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. Edward Bulwer-Lytton SACRIFICE A life is not important except in the impact it has on others' lives. Jackie Robinson COMPOSURE Anger is only one letter short of danger. Anonymous EMPATHY Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion. Dwight MacDonald TOLERANCE I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. PERSEVERANCE I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington HONESTY I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the best of all titles-the character of an honest person. George Washington APPRECIATION If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton LEADERSHIP If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams GRATITUDE Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust PREPARATION Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca RESPONSIBILITY People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. John Steinbeck RESPECT Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood COURAGE To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson INTEGRITY To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ATTITUDE Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right. Henry Ford LOYALTY You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. Jeffrey Gitomer Mattie began writing poetry just after _________________. His older brother died Mattie earned a black belt in martial arts. True Mattie never set goals because he knew that he was going to die before he could accomplish them. False "Remember to play after every storm" was one of Mattie's favorite sayings. What do you think he meant by this? Celebrate your accomplishments even when life continues to knock you down. What airline did Captain Sully fly for? US Airways Airline travel is one of the most dangerous forms of travel. False The crash landing of Flight 1549 is commonly referred to as "Miracle on the Hudson." True When Sullenberger was a young boy his father instilled hard work as an important virtue. How did he do this? His dad expanded the house room by room, year by year, doing everything himself. He then taught Sully and his sister. Captain Sully will forever be known as the pilot at the helm of Flight 1549 but it took a lifetime of preparation to successfully land the plane. List at least two ways he prepared himself for that situation. He began flying when he was 15; he was accepted into the Air Force Academy; served seven years as a fighter pilot; spent 29 years flying commercial airliners; was assigned to study plane crashes for the Air Force and the National Transportation Safety Board; was responsible for analyzing pilot error and developing new protocol for airline safety. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in this state. Virginia What did Booker T. Washington value more than anything? Education The Tuskegee Institute became famous in the 1930s and 1940s when it trained _________. Fighter pilots List at least two ways Booker T. Washington demonstrated perseverance in his life? He was determined to get an education, no matter how hard he had to work or what he had to overcome -- like slavery, his stepfather's decisions, lack of money, and race. Students at the Tuskegee Institute were required to do more than modern day students at college. List at least two of those requirements. All students were required to take part in physical labor and participate in fundraising for the college. General Eisenhower was in charge of the following military operation: D-Day in Normandy Eisenhower went to which university? West Point After the military Eisenhower went on to have a successful career in politics. He went on to be vice president of the United States. False As a child Eisenhower had a character flaw he had to overcome. What was this flaw and how did he overcome it? He had a bad temper and after receiving advice from his mother, learned to control his emotions instead of allowing his emotions to control him. Give one example of how Dwight D. Eisenhower earned respect and give one example of how he showed respect. He earned respect as a military hero and as President of the United States. He showed respect by spending as much time as possible with the troops before the invasion of Normandy. Sherron Watkins worked for this major company when it declared bankruptcy. Enron When this company declared bankruptcy miraculously nobody lost their job. False Sherron Watkins is known as a whistle-blower. True Despite all that she did Sherron still had regrets. What was Sherron's biggest regret? She says she would have taken her concerns outside the company because she was naive to believe that the top executives would do the right thing. They say that honesty is the best policy. Give two specific examples of how Sherron displayed this trait. In eighth grade, she told her uncles about her principal/classroom teacher who wasn't doing his job and as an adult, she exposed the widespread fraud of Enron to the rest of the business world. Sonia Sotomayor was born in this borough of New York City. Bronx How many justices sit on the Supreme Court? 9 Judge Sotomayor is serving a 10-year term on the Supreme Court and will be up for re-election in 2020. False Provide two examples of how Sonia's mother inspired her to be a better person. Sonia's mother worked hard to raise the children as a single parent; she placed great emphasis on her children getting a higher education; she pushed them to become fluent in English; she struggled to afford a set of encyclopedia's so they would have research materials for school. Amelia's nickname was Lady Lindy. It stemmed from her resemblance to? Charles Lindbergh To demonstrate how safe flying was Amelia took ___________ up in her airplane. Eleanor Roosevelt On her first trip across the Atlantic Ocean in a plane she did not fly the plane. True How did Amelia keep track of and learn about women she admired? She kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields.