Dylan Keiser 5-7-13 U.S. History P.4 D-Day The event that I reenacted was the D-Day invasion. After the German conquest of France in 1940‚ the opening of a second front in western Europe was a major aim of Allied strategy during World War II. On June 6‚ 1944‚ under the code name Operation Overlord‚ US‚ British and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy‚ France‚ on the English Channel coast east of Cherbourg and west of Le Havre. Under overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The Longest Day" was a mammoth project dramatizing D-day‚ the Allied invasion of France. It was nearly three hours in length and with an enormous ensemble cast‚ all playing supporting roles. The production was very conscientious about realism‚ the actors were always of the same nationality as their characters‚ and spoke in their native languages‚ leading to a lot of subtitles translating French and German dialogue. Although the movie was historically correct‚ it was also meant to be a blockbuster
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that depend on one another may become out of sync. For example‚ plants could bloom earlier than their pollinating insects become active. Natural calamities and disaster would occur at lesser frequencies and with more destructive power.Hurricanes and other storms are likely to become stronger. Severe heat waves would lead to death of millions of people all around the world. While the idea of swimming in a warmer ocean is pleasant to most human beings‚ increasing ocean temperatures could
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Bastille Day: French Independence Day "Bastille Day‚ on the Fourteenth of July‚ is the French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the French Revolution" (www.hightowertrail.com). Bastille Day is a national‚ symbolic‚ historical French holiday and is celebrated every July 14. To celebrate Bastille Day‚ also known as La Fete de la Bastille‚ French citizens remember the storming of the Bastille which was the first major event of the French revolution. Bastille was not just a prison
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slightly problem but I manage to deal with it. First of all‚ I would like to say a high present’s gratitude to God for my sole being and made me able to learn new things everyday‚ and without His will‚ I wouldn’t do what I am doing today and getting chance to learn. I also would like to thank my lecturer because give me chance to become chef of the day. I also would like to say thank you to all my friends because they gave me 100% co-operation when they were working with me. Otherwise‚ they also gave
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Teachers’ Day or Gift-giving Day? Nowadays‚ when it comes to Teachers’ Day‚ people differ greatly in their attitudes towards the problem of giving gifts to teachers. Some maintain that giving presents to teachers is a sound way to express gratitude and respect of students and parents. Others‚ on the contrary‚ hold the point that presents make the significance of Teachers’ Day distorted. Someone even claims that Teachers’ Day has totally become Gift-giving Day. Although it seems a little extravagant
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school‚ millions of mothers have nagged their children to chow down on a piece of toast or even a single apple before rushing out the door. Their response to the moaning and shrugging: “Don’t forget that breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” But are these mothers’ actions based on the correct evidence? Or could this notion be merely a long withstanding myth? It appears that every decade brings new theories on what is healthy and what is the contrary. New trends seem to continuously emerge
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acting like there would be no consequences‚ when I came up with the idea. How anymore naive could I possibly be? I’ve been in the show business for a while‚ and I wasn’t even sure if I had fully gotten used to it yet. How dumb was it to think‚ that Rachel would get used to it immediately? This was Rachel’s first real time out in public after literally hiding with me for 11 months. I should have known that the paparazzi would go crazy for the first pictures of us. Any gossip magazine would pay a huge amount
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day gives an eloquent treatment of the issue of how a stoic English butler’s unemotional reaction to the emotional world around him is damaging and painful‚ and how he resolves to make the best of the “remains of the day”—the remainder of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture—that of the stiff upper lip‚ no show of emotion‚ and repression of personal opinion—and the no-holds-barred
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The Day Just Like Any Other Day It was a beautiful afternoon. The spring breeze was crisp and the bright green leaves swayed gently in the treetops. The sun hung high in the sky warming my face as I waited for the bus to take my brother and me home from school. Every blade of grass and newly bloomed flower was indicative of new life; the changing of seasons. We boarded the bus with all of the other kids just like we had so many times before. Everything about this day seemed so much like any other
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