...What poem do I think is the best poem in the world? The answer to that would be the poem In Flanders Field by Dr. John McCrae. I have known this poem for most of my life growing up. We would always learn about it in school around Remembrance Day. As Canadians, this poem is very important because it was written in the First World War by a Canadian lieutenant who was inspired to write it after the death of his friend. It reminds us about how we are free and what people did so that we could live in a free country. In Canada, In Flanders Field is one of the nation’s best-known literary works. In this analysis, we will look at the different figures of speech, symbols, and the meters. In Flanders Field is written in the format of a French randeau. It is a lyric poem and consists of three stanzas with a total of 15 lines. One of the main literary devices that is in this poem is alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of a constant sound. In this poem, there is repetition in lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12. Some examples are: Flanders Fields, loved and were loved and now we lie, the larks still bravely singing fly. The author uses alliteration for different reasons. Alliteration creates rhythm in poetry. It sounds better and makes the poem flow. Also to make you remember. People remember alliteration phrases so easily. In line 13, there is an assonance in the poem. An assonance is a repetition of a vowel sound followed by a different consonant sound. The one in...
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...reminds Canadians the First and Second World Wars which had a deep influence on Canada in such ways that the wars gave Canadians a stronger sense of nation and that they promotes women to fight and gain their political rights, and as it is also characterized as peace that the soldiers risked their life to gain and Canada has always been a peace-keeper in the world stage. (Red Poppy Field, by Irina Sztukowski, 2012) Poppy is a kind of plant that can grow up to 4 feet tall and that often blooms in late spring to early summer. (Simon, Chadwick, and Craker, Herbs: An indexed bibliography). Its recognition as a symbol of remembrance of war originated from the poem “In Flanders Fields” by the Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. In the poem, he wrote “In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders...
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...In Flanders fields by John McCrae and The Soldiers War at Home by Anonymous explore war in two very different but similar ways. In Flanders fields the poem was written on the battlefield the John McCrae is talking as in he is one of the dead soldiers who died in Flanders field in France. The poem talks about passing on the duty to the new living soldiers and the dead wouldn’t be able to rest in peace unless the new soldiers do them proud. Underlying factors of this poem is explaining the nature continues no matter the situation with the birds continuing like normal and the sun setting ordinarily. An example of this is “The larks, still bravely singing , fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below.”. In The Soldiers War at Home it explores the...
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...general construction & entrepreneurial firm with a strong corporate culture T-Palm identity • Industry: Construction • Foundation: 1965 by Toussaint Palm • Headquarters: Polleur-Theux • Management: T-PALM Management • Revenue*:€ 65 337 490 • Number of employees: 550 • EBIT*: € 90 254 • Number of constructions per year on average: 202 • Total number of constructions: +15 000 • Activities in: Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels and Luxembourg T-PALM GROUP T-PALM SA T-PALM ELBO SA T-PALM international Luxembourg SA *Numbers of T-Palm SA for 2014 2 « Imagine your house, we will do the rest », T-Palm Values Reliability Reliability Involvement Family Teamwork Atmosphere Ecology Creativity Golden Triangle Integrity Responsibility 3 « Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten », Gucci family Positioning map Segment coverage Given the large number of competitors, T-PALM is differentiating from his competitors by a large segment coverage. - Increase the public sector offer and his presence on the Flanders market - Present on the construction substitutes market segment: Renovation Real estate * Positioned according to the importance each company put in delivering the value / quality or in proposing lower price to customer. 4 New entrants Sustainable certification Moderate customer loyalty Capital requirement Knowledge and expérience Economies of scales Innovation Suppliers power ...
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...http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/res5e_ch10_s1-0007.html The above is the Website I used to help me a little bit with understanding Citations. (I attempted utilizing Chicago Style.) Some of the paragraphs in my report have been reworded and rephrased to my satisfaction, and others have not. These are the ones with Citation. Please enjoy; this is something I am extremely proud of: I LOVE ART! CANADIAN ART DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: John McCrae Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae MD, Born the 30th of November, 1872 in Guelph Ontario, was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during WWI, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. McCrae is best known for his world renounced poem, In Flanders Fields, which he supposedly began to draft for on the evening of the May 2nd, 1915, in the second week of fighting during the Second Battle of Ypres. During 1915 John McCrae sent this poem to The Spectator magazine. It was not published and was returned to him. It was, however,...
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...The Victorian Age Angela Anderson Troy University Victorian Family Life The term ‘Victorian’ describes everything what is connected with period of the reign of Victoria Regina (1837-1901). Queen Victoria acceded to the throne in 1837 at the age of eighteen. She reigned for 63 years until 1901. The Victorian Age in the history of England is the period of transformation and developments in approximately each sphere. Although this period was a time of unprecedented changes, the fabric of society remained invariable throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. The British people at that time were traditionally puritan and straight-laced. They adhered to the codes of conduct and took care of their moral appearance. Despite the fact that the working class predominated quantitatively, the Victorian age was the time of the middle class prosperity. Significant part of the working class representatives struggled to meet some unspoken social demands to deserve the right to be called middle class. A family as a social unit was regarded a foundation stone of the Victorian society. Men and women played different social roles and fulfilled different functions as family members. There was no equality between sexes and social classes; and it could be traced in all spheres (education, availability of work and salary rank). In general, the Victorian Age is a period of striking social contrasts and...
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...The battle at the Somme was fought in the western front of France it was a war of attrition. The various strengths and weaknesses of this battle and Lloyd George’s criticism of Douglas Haig’s role in this war. The Battle of the Somme was planned as a joint French and British operation. The idea originally came from the French Commander-in-Chief, Joseph Joffre and was accepted by General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) commander, despite his preference for a large attack in Flanders. Although Joffre was concerned with territorial gain, it was also an attempt to destroy German manpower. The principal attack would be led by General Sir Henry Rawlinson’s forces. He preferred the gradual approach. Nevertheless, Chief Field Commander Haig demanded a daring strike, quickly taking Bapuame then swinging north to flank the German line. Lieutenant General Sir Hubert...
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...Hathaway Jones, Fred Westen is planning to expand to China market. He needs someone with the skill sets needed to make it a successful. Fred’s old friend’s daughter Mimi Brewster wants to be part of the move, she believes with her Chinese background and her experience in the field, she would be the right candidate for the job. However, the vice president of human resources, Virginia Flanders found some compromising posting on the internet when she goggled to search information about Mimi Brewster that can jeopardize their plans in china. Fred does not know if hiring Mimi Brewster is the right step to take or not. He believes Mimi is the right person to be on board with them. He thinks internet posting of more than eight years ago is not something to really take serious and at the same time fears that the china plan might fail because of Mimi’s posting on the internet. We Goggled You Problem The CEO of Hathaway Jones, Fred Westen is under pressure to or not to hire an applicant, Mimi Brewster for the new branch to be opened in china due to her compromising posting on the internet found by Virginia Flanders, the vice president of human resources. Assumptions * Virginia Flanders does not want Fred to hire Mimi because of the internet posting. * Mimi Brewster did not think her past internet posting will be against her getting hired. * China’s project can be affected negatively by Mimi’s internet posting. * Fred Westen has no genuine believe...
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...resources to achieve a competitive advantage, others see them as valued assets and a source of competitive advantage (Guest, 1999). The way personnel were managed can be seen as the most significant reason to gain a competitive advantage over others (Salaman, Storey and Billsberry, 2005). In the 19th century and large parts of the 20th century labour was seen as abundant and economists classified it as the main variable costs (Salaman, Storey and Billsberry, 2005). People where hired and fired very quickly and pay was give on a performance related basis. Organizations and their managers did not want to invest in their personnel and their skill development. According to Kirkaldy and Flanders (1965), the decades before SHRM existed managing labour were based on productivity bargaining (Kirkaldy and Flanders, 1965). This period can also be described as the traditional HRM era. This all changed in the 1980’s when several big organizations started to think of new concepts and aspirations to create a competitive advantage over their rivals. British Airways for example demanded their staff to take the ‘commitment approach” instead of just complying. The airline had to make a bald move due to the enormous competition in the airline industry. The airline invested heavily in staff and development training to change the companies’ culture. In the same way Jaguar, a famous British car manufacturer, changed their SHRM perspective. Managers changed the company language such as customary practises...
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...Belgium Trade Manual: Canada The following document is a report on the current economic, political, cultural, and industry specific (Food) environment in the country of Belgium. This particular manual was specifically compiled for the Sweets Corporation of Toronto, Canada for June of 2011. C o n s u l a t e o f B e l g i u m -‐ T o r o n t o 2 B l o o r S t r e e t W e s t , S u i t e 2 0 0 6 , B o x 8 8 T o r o n t o , O N , M 4 W 3 E 2 Table of Contents Section 1 – Background Information ....................................................................................................... 3 1.1 - Geography ................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 - People .......................................................................................................................
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...The exercises below should be answered by referring to the map (“Europe in 1714”) on p. 189 of the text. Using the map on p.189 for reference, locate and identify: Bohemia, Palatinate, East Prussia, Brandenburg, Austrian Netherlands, Utrecht, Hungary. How did the War of the Spanish Succession alter the map of Europe? Who gained the most from the war? Who lost the most? The War of the Spanish Succession altered the map of Europe in the way that prior to the war the Habsburg ruled Spain. The map shows us that in 1714, at the end of the war, the Bourbon family now controlled it because King Charles II willed his kingdom to Louis XIV’s grandson, Philip V of Spain. However, the Bourbon family ruling over Spain did not mean they controlled Flanders and Italy because they had to forfeit these two in the war and . The nation I believed gained the most from this war was England because as it states on page...
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...technologies for example seed drill, crop rotations & livestock breeding (Thomas, 2005) and the parliamentary enclosure of land (see McCloskey, 1972). These developments were promoted by key innovators such as Jethro Tull, Charles Townshend, Robert Bakewell and Thomas William Coke for example; Tull is known to have brought significant improvements on the plough, thus contributing to economizing on expensive inputs like men and horses (Griffin, 2010). He is also traditionally credited with the invention of the seeder. Exploiting rationally the system of enclosures, Bakewell, sometimes considered as one of the fathers of modern zootechnics, made great advance in the field of drainage and adopted the systematic selective breeding of livestock. Townshend popularized the four-field rotation system which was already in application in Flanders, and studied its effects on various crops like wheat, turnips, barley and clover. In agreement with the standard view, Overton (2011) wrote: “it is difficult to avoid the overwhelming mass of evidence from a wide variety of sources that points to the period after 1750 as witnessing an agricultural revolution”. But a number of revisionist historians (see e.g. Havinden, 1961; Jones, 1965; Kerridge, 1967, Crafts, 1985a; Allen, 1992; Clark, 1998a, 1998b, 2002b) criticized the standard view; some were arguing that the major agricultural changes and much productivity growth took place earlier; supporting the thought, the industrial revolution is then viewed as...
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...Revolution was when the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and took authority of Great Britain and created the United States of America. The last Royal Governor of Massachusetts was Thomas Gage. He was the Commander in Chief of the British Forces in America. Thomas Gage was born in Firle Sussex England,1721 and died April 2, 1787 in Portland Place. He was a British General who took part in the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, etc. He successfully commanded all of the British Forces for 10 years (1763 - 1774). Then later failed as the Military Governor of Massachusetts from 1774 to 1775 during the Revolutionary War, also known as the American Revolution. Thomas entered the Army in 1741 and had fought in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession from 1740 to 1748. Later though was recalled to go back to England for the Jacobite Rebellion which lasted...
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...Daniel Defoe I chose to write about and present the great writer Daniel Defoe. My interest for Defoe comes from his well-known novel, Robinson Crusoe which is a book read by most people and even has a TV-program inspired by the book. My curiosity for the background of the novel was the main reason why I chose to work with Defoe. Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was born in London somewhere between 1659 and 1661 and was the son of the butcher, James Foe. In his early years Defoe had a great desire to travel. In order to satisfy this desire he has to devote 35 years of his life to a business in socks. He travelled a lot and took part of many great adventures. But then his life turned, a difficult bankruptcy led him to start writing. At the same time he changed his name to Defoe. In 1697 he released An Essay upon Projects, a work that showed Defoe's practical orientation and his belief that Englishmen living conditions could be improved by such as better roads, health care and child care. Defoe became involved in political debate and got the opportunity to show his great talent as a journalist, satirist and poet. During the years 1704-13 Defoe worked as an editor of the political magazine The Review and practically continued the remaining of his life in journalism. When Defoe was around 60 years old he began to write the work that made him into a portal figure in the realist novel's history. In 1719-22 he published Robinson Crusoe, a fictional story inspired by reports of the...
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...time when an isolationist nation involved itself in world affairs and began the rise to the economic and military power that America is today. After keeping out of the conflict that had been ravaging Europe for nearly three years, President Woodrow Wilson took America to war only months after winning an election on the slogan "He Kept us Out of War." Claiming that American intervention was needed to “make the world safe for democracy,” Wilson sent over two million men to Europe, of who over 100,000 would never return. World War I marked the end of the old order in Europe. The United States was not a nation ready for war in 1914. With a small army and a pitiful navy, the U.S. was no match for either side in the great conflagration in Flanders' Fields. As the war continued, however, German use of submarines to sink neutral shipping—including, most famously, the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 with the death of almost 1,200 people, 128 of them Americans—brought American public opinion to the Allied side. Constant British propaganda efforts, culminating in the Zimmermann Telegram of February 1917, coupled with the German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare and drew America into the war. Wilson quickly developed an ideological goal of freedom and democracy, and committed the people of the United States to fight for these principles. When America entered the war in April 1917, nearly three years of horrific slaughter had bled white the nations of Europe. Daily life in miserable...
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