... , it meant the world to Canada. It is considered by many to be Canada's Declaration of Independence. The Statute officially announced that Canada is now a self-governing and independent country apart from Great Britain. It also allowed Canada to make laws without Britain's permission and change already existing ones. New laws that Britain makes will no longer affect Canada unless chosen ... 1944, 156,000 American, British and also Canadian soldiersxiv landed on five beaches along the coast of the Normandy region located in France. The beaches have a total length of 50 miles and are heavi...

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... harsh winter. The Canadian solders first entered action in early February 1915. They reached France and were briefly introduced and trained in trench warfare. After this training, they surprisingly took 4 miles of land from the Germans. Here on April 22 the Germans sought to break the stalemate by introducing a new weapon, poison gas. Following an intensive artillery bombardment, they released 160 ... British troops in deadly jeopardy. Fortunately the Germans had planned only a limited offensive and, without adequate reserves, were unable to exploit the gap the gas created. After advanc...

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... were in the Marine Corp. By the end of the war the Doughboys had controlled and commanded 83 miles of the 392 mile long western front while Belgian Army controlled 25 miles, the British controlled 70 miles and the French were in control of 214 miles worth. Life wasn't easy for the American solder during World War 1. The average soldier on the front line ... ...

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... with what was going on in the world. Along with the song came a poster (See We Can Do It!) of an attractive woman in overalls. The song began with these lyrics: While other girls attend a favorite cocktail bar, Sipping dry martinis, munching caviar; There's a girl who's really putting them to shame " Rosie is her name. All the day long, whether ... ...

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... with the Germans, trenches became extremely popular and started to spread from the Swiss border to Belgium totaling about 25,000 miles. For three years, this line of trenches that became known as the Western Front never moved more than about 5 miles between the sides. The Germans were the first to use trenches. General Falkenhayn wanted to hold off the British and ... ...

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... event of war with Russia, the Schlieffen Plan, expecting French support for Russia, called on Germany to launch a devastating and fast-paced attack on France. Schlieffen reasoned that France, with miles of railroad and a large army, could mobilize and attack within days, thus requiring Germany to eliminate them or face a two- front war. Since Russia lacked a modern transportation system, its slow ... began in March 1918 and was known as the Ludendorff offensive. After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany secretly amassed thousands upon thousands of troops behind its lines approximately ...

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... the Second Battle of Ypres. At this stage of the war the famed Ypres Salient, held by the British, Canadians and French, ran for some 10 miles and bulged into German occupied territory for five miles. A combination of French territorials and Algerian troops held the line to the left, with the British and Canadians tending the centre and line to their right ... ...

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... in WW1, the Australian forces in WW2 and future engagements, and local Australian heroes, did and still do display the attributes of Bravery, Prowess, and Mateship, that uniformly sets them apart from other country's seminal heroes. The ANZAC spirit is based on the actions of, and events involving Australian forces fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula from the legendary first landings at ... , proved themselves as a fighting force, and demonstrated the virtues associated with the ANZAC spirit, Bravery, Mateship, and Prowess. Courage under adverse circumstances, and intense fire was someth...

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... financial panic three years later. (AFL-CIO American Federationalist, 1) The National Labor Union in 1866 managed to establish an eight-hour workday in 1868 for federal employees. However, it fell apart once their leader had died in 1873 and an economic depression swept across the nation. (1) The first large national labor organization to become popular was the Noble and Holy Order ... equal work, no child labor under the age of fourteen, and government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones. However, the Knights of Labor was a relatively weak organization, and eventually fel...

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... savings. People lost their jobs and starvation become even more apparent. The government had no power and so the Great Depression had started. As the German government started to break apart and lose its stability, the German people were tired of the politics, of the suffering, and especially tired of being weak. In these desperate times, they had to turn to ... communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minister. When Tito died in 1980, the federation he ruled fell apart. A new Serbian leader named...

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... ." The fear of the fire that these men, including Robert Ross, experience is that of helplessness. Having to stand their ground shooting aimlessly as their friends "were blown apart where they stood - blown apart by the combustion." The fire transformed the young men mentally and emotionally from the young men they already were into helpless children. The fear is not only in ... ...

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... this new and for a while unprosperous nation left a thorn in England's side. This led to England's support on two occasions", attempts to break apart the newly formed nation. There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. Well after the establishment of the United States a feeling of disgust towards this rebellious daughter nation still held true after ... ...

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... colour and the colours that are used are natural colurs like green, brown that you would expect with war. The speed of the motion is normal (24 frames per second) apart from after the mother is shot where we go into slow motion of the family running away. The general camera angle is at a medium angle, we never really change and ... generally instantaneous changes from one shot to another; abrubt shifts. This is because war is an abrupt , shifting event. However the rythym of the editing is flowing and smooth and apart from Sarajevo during the winter Olympics it is slow paced. SOUND The ...

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... as far away as Cambodia - surely this shows a world system? Again, no. There was no interaction except for this small amount of trade, and the two civilizations were too far apart for there to be any military, never mind political, contact. As for the "barbarian" tribes that occupied much of the world, the only meaningful exchange with these was warfare. The ... After the Roman Empire fell, Europe split into dozens of smaller states, which slowly went about crafting an operable Inter-European political system. Between 1618 and 1648 Europe was torn apart by a horrific war known as the th...

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... savings. People lost their jobs and starvation become even more apparent. The government had no power and so the Great Depression had started. As the German government started to break apart and lose its stability, the German people were tired of the politics, of the suffering, and especially tired of being weak. In these desperate times, they had to turn to ... communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minister. When Tito died in 1980, the federation he ruled fell apart. A new Serbian leader named...

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... us about the poor conditions at war, the suffering that the Anzac's went through at war and helps us to get a clearer picture of Jim Martin. It makes us feel apart of it as we now have a better understanding of what soldiers endured in the hard times of war. Hill uses tone in the novel to convey to us all the ... to inform the audience of how poor the conditions were at Gallipoli and it also helps us to get a clearer picture of Jim Martin and other characters that were all apart of the novel. His use of tone informs the audience of how different people felt at different times of the sto...

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... . Japan's attack consisted of six carriers, a light cruiser, eleven destroyers and two heavy cruisers. They attacked from a remote naval base on the island of Etorofu and rendezvoused on December 7, 200 miles north of Pearl Harbor. At 0630 Nagumo launched over one-hundred-eighty-three aircraft from the naval base. By 0755 the attack had already begun. The Japanese pilots were tasked ... ...

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... In May, the remaining Armenian population was deported. They transported the Armenians by train and foot to concentration camps throughout the Syrian Desert. The death marches spanned over one hundred miles and took months to arrive at the camps. It is reported that about 75 percent of the Armenians on these marches, mostly women and children, died before they could arrive ... ...

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... their product worked successfully with minimal friendly casualties. A person feels less emotionally attached to this thought of "I am about to kill another person," but since I am thousands of miles away and not pulling the trigger then there is nothing I can do. Well, nothing they can do except develop these weapons of destruction. To figure out how an attitude such ... ...

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... where to start digging. Over coffee this morning we turned to Dr. Flynn regarding possible locations. She told me after examining some old maps, that the best location would be 6 miles south east of our current location. A simple trip considering the three provided hover vehicles. She said that there, along side a narrow strip of shore, lied an embankment that supposedly housed ... ...

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... and doctors were arrested and executed. The Armenians who were serving in the Turkish army were executed. Men of the towns and villages were summed up and shot some few miles away from their homes. Women and children were moved out of their cities and towns and directed to deserts to leave to die. Hundreds of thousands died of starvation and ... ...

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... of whom is unknown, had been landed at Kinsale. No names have so far been received. This culminating crime of the German war on peaceful merchant shipping was perpetrated a few miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, the bluff landmark so familiar to Atlantic travelers, to the south-west of Queenstown Harbour. The weather at the time was beautifully fine." Notice ... ...

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... badly I don't want you anyhow."" (Hudson 36) Regardless how it happened in March 1918 Rickenbacker was assigned to Major John Huffer's 94th Aero Squadron, stationed at Villeneuve-les-Vertus, twenty miles behind the front. Once Rickenbacker got to the 94th Aero Squadron his problems and desires to see action continued. The 94th was well equipped with the French made Nieuport 28 ... ...

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... superior to those of the British E class. According to Horton and Middleton, the speed of the British and German subs were equal; however the U-boats had a range of about 1000 miles further than the E class. The U-boats had torpedo tubes 19.7 inches in diameter, larger than the 18 inches the E class were equipped with; they were also more powerful and accurate ... ...

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... appeasement. The first option - that of inaction - seemed no longer viable. Unlike the USA, the stretch of water between them and the belligerent powers was not hundreds, but tens of miles wide. Baldwin (who really establish appeasement into the Conservative consensus) summed up the way in which the Great War, and the development of new technology, especially aircraft (which was a particular ... ...

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