TASK DEFINITION: Given a text passage, come up with an appropriate title for it. The title should accurately represent what the main focus of the passage is. The title of a passage may be present in the first few sentences of the passage and/or be referred to multiple times in the passage. The title should be 1-5 words long.
PROBLEM: The First Battle of Bull Run ( the name used by Union forces ) , also known as the Battle of First Manassas ( the name used by Confederate forces ) , was fought on July 21 , 1861 in Prince William County , Virginia , just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west - southwest of Washington , D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War . The Union 's forces were slow in positioning themselves , allowing Confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail . Each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops in their first battle . It was a Confederate victory , followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces .

SOLUTION: First Battle of Bull Run

PROBLEM: The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills , in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military , corporate , and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities .

SOLUTION: The Power Elite

PROBLEM: The modern petty officer dates back to the Age of Sail . Petty officers rank between naval officers ( both commissioned and warrant ) and most enlisted sailors . These were men with some claim to officer rank , sufficient to distinguish them from ordinary ratings , without raising them so high as the sea officers . Several were warrant officers , in the literal sense of being appointed by warrant , and like the warrant sea officers , their superiors , they were usually among the specialists of the ship 's company . The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the title derives from the Anglo - Norman and Middle French '' petit '' , meaning '' of small size , small , little '' .

SOLUTION:
Petty officer