A Defining Moment for Canada - The Battle for Vimy Ridge
During the development of a county, its nationality is fortified by many important events. These events are the Defining Moments. These defining moments are what develop a country in to what it is. Canada is a country that has been shaped by many defining moments, but one of the most important m....

adolf hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. The town is near to the Austro-German border, and his father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children by Alois, but they both died in their infa....

Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. Alexander, born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia, was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. Aristotle was ....

Alexander the Great and Conquests
Alexander the Great and Conquests Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedonia born approximately on July 20th in 356 BC. His mother was Olympias, a young princess from Epirus. Alexander was a remarkable person who loved to recite Homeric poetry. At age fourteen his father sent him ....

ancient rome- battle of actium
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle of the Roman Civil War between Mark Antony and Octavian . It was fought on September 2, 31 BC, near the Roman colony of Actium in Greece (near the modern-day city of Preveza), on the Ionian Sea. Octavian's fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Anton....

Animal Farm
One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animalsinspired by his philosophy of Animalism....

Animal farm" by George Orwell
How animalism is made into a totalitarian ideology. An analysis of the book "Animal farm" by George Orwell. The story about Animal Farm starts with all the animals listening to a speech made by the respected pig, Old Major. He tells them about a dream he had, and then about how bad conditions an....

Annette Von Drost-Hulshoff
From the extracts of Annette's sister Jenny's diaries, which in many cases are the main source of research on the writer, it is clear that the Droste, was born as a premature baby on the Hülshoff, on 10 January of 1797. On 24th May 1848, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff dies eventually to the sea castl....

Australians In Vietnam
The Vietnam War was not like any other as there was no battlefront as such, instead fighting was sneakier and guerrilla warfare wasnt uncommon. The enemy, members of the Vietcong, the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese Army, could not be recognised as they blended in with the ci....

Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville seems to be the less interesting war of the United States during the Civil War. The Civil War paved the road to American way of governing and thinking, and yet the actual war nearly ruined the whole country. The War started out as a pursuit for freedom, and ended up a ....

Battle of Gettysburg
During the days between July 1st through July 4th of 1863 was what some consider the turning point of the war. This battle was called the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg is a town in southern Pennsylvania. This battle actually happened by accident. The Confederate Army was m....

Battle of Gettysburg
The American Civil War was fought over cultural, social, and economical beliefs that divided the nation. The war set father against son, brother against brother, and American against American. The Civil War was a violent, devastating war that claimed the lives of over 620,000 men on both sides....

Battle of Midway
During World War II, the Pacific Campaign was highly contested. It seemed that whoever controlled the seas of Southeast Asia controlled the balance of power in the area. In an effort to fully gain control of the Pacific, the Japanese and American naval forces met on the high seas in early June of 1....

Battle Of New Orleans
"The Battle of New Orleans" A clean and maintained area cared for by groundskeepers with occasional visitors and battle reenactments is what now remains at the once bloody and violent battleground located in Chalmette, LA. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and....

Battle of saratoga
The battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777 was a decisive American victory resulting in the surrender of an entire British army invading Saratoga New York from Canada during the American Revolution (the battle of Saratoga). The battle of Saratoga was actually two battles (The Battle of Fre....

Battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was an important fight because it was one that could have turned World War II around for the Germans. The Battle of the Bulge took place on December 16 1944. The Germans mobilized the last chance they had to win the war. The Germans wanted to cut the American forces in to two....

Battle of the Bulge - A World War 2 Battle
The World War Two was a very severe war. There were many battles that were fought during it. One of the biggest land battles was Battle of the Bulge. (http://helios.) The battle took place on December 16, 1944 under cover a very dense fog which was very difficult for the army to see. (Danzer e....

Battle of Thermopylae
Work Cited The Greek and Persian Wars 506-323." Gentlemans Military Interest Club. 2005 Hooker, Richard. SPARTA. World Civilizations. 1996. Sack....

Battle Royal
How is the battle Royal the reigning motif of Invisible Man? Battle Royal is a scene about a black boy that is mentally awakened when he overhears his grandfather say keep this nigger boy running, to his father at his deathbed. The Narrator, before he realizes who he truly is, is....

Battles of civil war
?Essay ?Discuss the key battles of the Civil War, explaining why a particular battle was considered important. ? There were many battles of the Civil War but the Key Battles not only determined the conditions of the War but also the outcome. The war began with the Confederate attack of Fort Sum....

Canada and the Great War
When Britain declared war on Germany Canada was automatically at war. The invasion of Belgium in 1914 forged a unity among Canadians, with the first contingent sent to Europe being composed of 33000 volunteers. Canada entered the war with one division; by 1916 it had four divisions on the front lin....

Canada's world war one contribution: the warfront
On August 4, 1914, Britain and all its colonies entered what would become the First World War. Canadas entry into the war was supported by all parties of the House of Commons and the peoples response was mostly positive as well. Though Canadas war effort was originally meant to serve Britain, ....

Canadian Unity
Canadian Unity Throughout the 20th century, Canada has taken on different roles and experienced different events. Some of these events however, have either helped foster or hindered the idea of Canadian Unity. In this essay, I will talk about these events. These events include the Canadians that ....

Changing Psychological Contract & its Impact on Human Capital Management
Psychological contract is defined as the perception of the two parties, employee and employer, of what their mutual obligations are towards each other. (Rousseau, 1994) These perceived obligations are often imprecise whereby they may be inferred from current or past actions, as well as statement....

Civil War
With the election of the anti-slavery Republican candidate for President, Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states decided they had to take drastic action in order to protect their own interests. On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession fro....

Crusades
The Crusades, Battle of Hattin, 1187 In late June, Saladin, the King of Syria, brought together a huge army and crossed the Jordan River to wage war against the land of Juda. The Latin states were coming together to face Saladin. Raymond III of Tripoli did not agree with what was going on within ....

Declaring Independence
On May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. The Congress dealt with the military crisis the colonies were in with England. It organized forces around Boston into the Continental Army and appointed George Washington to commander-in-chief. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the....

Defining Moments in Canadian History
In 1867 Canada became a country as the result of the act of Confederation but continued to be dependent to the British Empire especially when it came to the defence of Canada. Over the last century Canada's involvement in two world wars put enormous strains on its society or that this, at the same t....

Discuss a play which has changed how you view yourself and the world.
Reading about war has changed my way of thinking about life and has made me realise that peace is the most important thing for survival and development. Although, nowadays, this theme has been a living reality and most importantly, a living hell, War literature and especially modern literature, e....

Does Haig deserve his reputation as the butcher of the Somme?
Field Marshall Haig was a celebrated Cavalry Commander in The Boer War 15 years earlier. This was a great triumph for him and won him the place of Field Marshall in World War 1 during the stalemate on the Western Front in 1915. These fights on the Plains of Africa were nothing like what would happen....

Dr. Martin Luther King JR.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great leader in the American civil rights movement, using his faith and studies to initiate a movement based on non-violent resistance. While his predecessors and contemporaries espoused more confrontational approaches, Dr. King preached that love for the white ma....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poetry is a writing that formulates a concrentratedimaginative awarenessof experience in language chosen and arrange to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rythm:something likened to poetry especially in beauty of expression.There are many different kinds of poetry and ma....

Explain Why The Battle of the somme did not achieve its objectives.
The Battle of the Somme, from 1st July 1916 to 18th November 1916 is one of the most significant events in the First World War. It is known for being a terrible battle with enormous losses for all countries involved. The Battle of the Somme was fought in the area around the River Somme in northern F....

Falstaff + Hotspur = Prince Hal: Their Actions on the Battlefield
Sir John Falstaff has a number of functions in 1 Henry IV, the most obvious as a clownish figure providing comic relief. His many lies and exaggerations entertain because of the wit and cleverness he employs to save himself from paying debts and answering for crimes. He in many ways represents an ....

first sacking of Rome
What brought Rome to the brink of destruction? During the beginning of Rome's history, there marked a tragic event which could've led to the ending of the Roman Empire before it even began. This event was the Sacking of Rome, conducted by the Senones, a single tribe of Gaul. How this forc....

French and English Relations
The Battle of the Plain of Abrahams that occurred between the English and French had all started the opposition between the two ethnicities in Canada. The victor of the war, which is the English single-handedly dominated the French-Canadians and force them into absorbing and practicing the English w....

Hemingways' writing
Hemingways writing, like the iceberg he famously refers to, is cold, distant and ultimately lacks all feeling. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Hemingways style is journalistic and mostly factual, that is why many critics and readers bel....

How Tragic is Beowulf?
The Germanic hero is invariably a tragic hero (Swanton). How tragic is Beowulf? Being the seminal work that it is, many of the standards by which a modern audience might coin a Germanic hero, are set within Beowulf itself. One of the ways in which the poet achieves this is through the u....

hundred years' war
Hundred Years' War 1. Historical Background and Causes of the Hundred Years' War Beginning in 1337 and ending in 1453, the Hundred Years' War is often considered as a war between England and France, but it was rather a French civil war in reality. At that time, many countries had their lands ....

Influnce on christianity in europe
Christianity may not have been what it is today without people of high authority that believed in the Christian faith. Of the many influences there are contributing to the evolution of Christianity three man of command are prominent in the expansion of the Christian doctrine in Europe. Flavius V....

Is there a place for direct democracy in the contemporary political world?
Direct Democracy is a political system in which policy decisions are made by the electorate itself and not by elected officials. This particular model of democracy has been known to have been in use since as early as the 5th Century BC in Athenian Democracy and is still widely used today in all par....

James Longstreet and the Battle of Fredericksburg
James Longstreet: An Untarnished Legacy There is no doubt that James Longstreet had a significant influence on the strategy and tactics that emerged during the Civil War, but after the war, many regarded Longstreets strategies and tactics as the reason why the war was lost, thus creating ....

Joseph Stalin and The Battle of Stalingrad
Joseph Stalin and the Battle of Stalingrad The book, 1000 Years, 1000 People, by Brent Bowers ranks the top 1000 people who had the greatest influence on the millennium. Joseph Stalin is ranked number 82. Amongst philosophers, artists, inventors, and teachers the title under Stalin simply read....

Journal Of Crazy Horse
Journal Of Crazy Horse Spring of 1866 - This morning Red Cloud headed off to Fort Laramie where he was expected to convene the U.S. government in a great peace conference. Not only was Red Cloud the only one there, but other chiefs from the Sioux and Cheyenne. Set up by the man named William T....

JRR Tolkein and the Concepts of Place and Identity
Everyones identity is linked to places that carry a special meaning to them which is dependent upon many aspects of their lives and experiences. Places such as these contain elements that one loves or hates, have a connection with a certain experience or element of ones life. The Lord of the Ri....

Killer Angels
The dictionary defines the word noble as dignified, decent, righteous, and splendid. In the quote by Churchill he describes the civil war as being the noblest of conflicts, but the only noble thing about it was the fight against slavery. The war was not just fought over slavery, but also regionalis....

Les Miserable-The battle field at night
In Les Miserable, Victor Hugo uses the stylistic devices of pacing, shift and syntax to create a fast pace in his chapter entitled The Battle Field at Night. Death To The Soul And Beyond Victor Hugo uses pacing in his paragraph by using anaphora, and sentence length. Anaphora is used in the f....

Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies was written by Wilson Golding and was first published in 1959. It is a novel about a group of kids who were traveling in a plane that crashed on a desert island. It is an adventure story.William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England. His father was a s....

Oliver Perry
The United States and Great Britain did not have an amicable relationship after the Revolutionary War ended. In fact, both countries had a strong dislike for each other. These tensions would continue to rise in the early 1800s with the British occupying Canada and many forts along the American ....

Orientalism: Origins and Consequences
From a constructivist standpoint, there is no greater social power than the collectivity of people. Whether connected by their race, gender, religion, or culture, the power these collective units wield far surpasses any military weapon. But, what if one were to tell you that all societal perception....

Philadelphia Campaign
The Philadelphia Campaign (1777-1778) In the winter of 1777-1778, American fortunes were at an all time low. The British had defeated George Washington and the Continental Army in both Brandywine and Germantown, captured the capital of Philadelphia, and drove General Washington's soldiers back ....

Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution was a battle fought in 1835 and 1836 between the residents of Texas and Mexico. The question that we look at today is was the Texas Revolution an inevitable one or not. In my view the Revolution was definitely inevitable due to many major problems faced throughout Texas History.....

The Battle of Ambos Nogales
Table of Contents A. Plan of Investigation1 B. Summary of Evidence.....1-4 C. Evaluation of Sources..4-5 D. Analysis....

The Battle Of The Bulge
On the 16th of December 1944 the Germans lunched its last great counter offensive of World War II. The Battle Of The Bulge was meant to be Hitlers last stand in order to break apart and defeat the Allied forces. Hitler thought that he had enough troops to launch a surprise attack on the Wester....

The Causes of World War I
The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wi....

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
General James Longstreet In the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara he talks about the Battle of Gettysburg between the Confederate forces and the Union forces. The novel had been made of letters, journal entries, and memoirs of the men who were there. He talked about what the war had been l....

The Poetry of Cavafy
The poems of Cavafy are organized into three genres; philosophical poems, historical poems and erotic poems. This method of categorizing was created by Cavafy himself, and his work was found perfectly filed in this manner and ready for publication upon his death. This allowed his work to become almo....

The Power Within
In Our Time is a collection of stories that involve ..., relationships between men and women, bonding between members of the same sex, love, development and adaptation, maturity, and responsibility that captures the spirit of the First World War (Spark Notes). Hemingway has a unique way of bein....

The Regulators of North Carolina
The history of colonial North Carolina is bombarded with frequent strife and turmoil. The people of North Carolina, because of a lack in supervision from the British monarchy, learned to possess an independent spirit. The colony remained isolated from the rest of the country because of several ....

The role of marshal J. Pisudski in the Battle of Warsaw
A Plan of the investigation The topic of this essay is the role of J. Pilsudski in the Warsaw Battle , basing on two sources: Pisma zbioroweof J. Pilsudski and Osiemnasta decyduj¹ca bitwa w dziejach wiata (The 18th greatest battle in the history of the world) of DAbernon. The meth....

The War of 1812
The War of 1812 has often been called the Revolutionary War Part II. And in many ways, it was just that: It was a war between America and Great Britain. It was caused in part by disagreements over shipping and trade on the high seas. It involved fighting in America and in Canada. It ended in an Amer....

Turkic Union Not a Dream Anymore
With the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Turkeys vital NATO role to block communist expansion in the Middle East also came to an end. Yet, the death of this old alliance has given birth to new opportunities for fresh unions and relationships. Furthermore, since the end of the Cold War, the g....

Turning Point in the Civil War
Nathan Bedford Forrest said at one time, War means fighting, and fighting means killing. Altogether nearly 45,000 men lost their lives at the Battle of Gettysburg alone. The North and the South have been fighting a bloody battle for about two years before Gettysburg. Going into this battle, the ....

Us War
War in the Pacific- Island Hopping Most of WWII was fought in Europe, however, towards the end of the war, the Pacific became an important place for battles to occur and resolve conflicts. The U.S. fought many battles in order to eventually obtain their goal of getting to the mainland of Japan. ....

VIMY RIDGE AS A DEFINING MOMENT IN CANADA¡¦S HISTORY
World War I was a war that changed Canada in this century from a colony to a dignified nation taking its own place in the world. It was a first ¡§adventure¡¨ for Canadians, as no one ever experienced the aspect of total war. At some point Canadian soldiers lost their enthusiasm to fight disc....

Vimy Ridge Battles Report
The Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917 The First World War is known for its destruction, massive slaughters, and countless offensive failures. Few battles were clear successes while most became large-scale chaos and butchery, killing thousands upon thousands of men. This destructive power called the....

W.Sumith Wickramasinghe
Sumith Wickramasinghe was born on the island of Ceylon as it was known in 1935. His illustrious parents were Wickremarachige Subatheris and Somawathie Wickramasinghe - both his parents were Headteachers in two different village schools - Sumith's mother was Principal of Ambaraluwa Maha Vidyalaya in ....

War of 1812
In history, there were many wars. Among them there where, the American Revolution, the very first war of this country, and the world wars, both started in Europe. There were also the crusades, or the holy wars during the middle ages, and the war that just recently ended in Iraq. But perhaps the m....

What qualifies the Seven Yearsï¿½ War as a global conflict?
The Seven Year War began on May 15, 1756. The Seven year War also has been referred to as Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War. This long war has many names do to the fact is was fought on several different battle plains and countries. The battle conflicts took place in Europe, North America....

Why did Caesar win the Battle of Pharsalus?
A Plan of Investigation For my assessment, I plan to examine The Commentarii de Bello Civile (Commentaries on the Civil War) written by Gaius Julius Caesar and Plutarchs Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, together with writings of the other ancient historians, that relate to Caesars ci....

Why did William win The Battle of Hastings?
The Battle of Hastings took place on October 14th 1066. It was between Harold Godwin and William the Duke of Normandy. The battle was being fought to decide the crown of England, the victor would rule. Each army had approximately 7000 men, Harold had mostly foot soldiers while Wil....

William the Conqueor
First England Then the World William the Conqueror lived an extraordinary life; over several years he overcame hardships many have only dreamt of, at the same time he fought battles against great opponents that would change the overall composition of England before dying and passing down his legacy....

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, (1874-1965), British leader. English on his father's side, American on his mother's, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill embodied and expressed the double vitality and the national qualities of both peoples. His names testify to the richness of his hist....

World War 2
War is one of the most tragic things in our world today. It is even sadder that usually it comes around at least once in our lifetime. In the 20th century alone we have already had two huge wars. These wars were call the World Wars simply because they involved most of the big countries of the wor....

world war 2
War is one of the most tragic things in our world today. It is even sadder that usually it comes around at least once in our lifetime. In the 20th century alone we have already had two huge wars. These wars were call the World Wars simply because they involved most of the big countries of the w....

World War II (Effects of the War)
World War 2 was huge and involved a lot of countries. There were thousands of battlefronts and war sites. The two main battlefronts were the battlefront between Britain and Germany and the battlefront between the Japanese and the Americans. These battlefronts were split up into smaller battlefronts ....

X Marks The Spot - Buried Sea Treasure
X Marks the Spot In 1915, the United States sold 483 coins to people worth fifty dollars each. Today those coins sell for sixty-five thousand dollars per-coin (Heritage Galleries and Auctions). What if a rich guy were to drop one of those coins into the ocean while sailing on his yacht 80 years ag....

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