Why Did the Battle of the Somme go so Badly for the British Army? The Battle of the Somme took place during 1916 to take pressure off the French at Verdun and the Russians on the Eastern Front. The French were under heavy fire at Verdun and had been since February‚ and the army itself was close to cracking. The Russians had fought gallantly on the Eastern Front to try and avert the German Forces away from the Western Front. After launching many small offensives the Russians had gained very little
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How Acetylsalicylic Acid was Discovered Acetylsalicylic Acid in its earliest form was a powder for the bark and leaves of the willow tree. Hippocrates‚ who lived sometime between 460 B.C. and 377 B.C‚ founded it. This “Miracle Drug” that was able to relieve pains was later looked into with further detail by Johann Buchner. He isolated a tiny amount of bitter tasting yellow‚ need- like crystals‚ and called salicin. By 1829 French Chemist Henri Leroux had improved the extraction procedure to
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Why Was There So Little Opposition to the Nazi Regime? It is very difficult to judge the levels of opposition to the Nazi regime because of the extreme measures that were in place to suppress it. This being the case therefore‚ can we conclude that the fact that there was relatively little political resistance meant that the German population were too scared to speak out‚ as they knew what the consequences would be? Or was it perhaps that the government had taken measures to ensure that the German
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Why do College Students Drunk so Much? "Alcohol abuse on college campuses has reached a point where it is far more destructive than most people and today realize and today threatens too many of our youth." -Senator Joe Lieberman Why do college students drink so much? This timeless fad has effected this generation in high percentages since the beginning of college education. Today in America it is estimated that approximately 29% of college students are regular alcohol abusers. Another recent
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“Why Halloween at College Is So Frightening” With Halloween just recently occurring‚ I thought it was appropriate to write my rhetorical analysis on something that pertains to both the holiday and what it means for many college students in today’s American society. So‚ after looking through countless pages of different news websites and periodicals‚ I finally found one in particular that really caught my eye. It was titled “Why Halloween at College Is So Frightening” and it was written by a professor
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being Residential schools‚ which has added to many other issues and arising problems. Starting early 1800-1900’s‚ kids were taken from their families and forced to attend these schools. There were a variety of the schools across Canada. The schools were government funded‚ and run through churches‚ where priests and nuns taught; some of the teachers were hardly educated themselves. Families were told that their children must attend these schools‚ because of the Indian Act that had been implemented‚ or
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part in injustice against innocent women to portray how human life is depicted as worthless and expendable. Misto depicts through distinctive visuals that such acts of injustice against women were also inflicted by the British Empire. Their ignorance is conveyed through colloquial language‚ ‘the British were a bit thick’ to criticise their resistance in evacuating their women. The neglect of Australian nurses is also portrayed through dialogue‚ ‘Japanese destroyers had been sighted in the area’ to
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Why was Slavery so Difficult to Abolish? No rights‚ no money‚ no freedom‚ long hours of work‚ and small food portions; this is what a slave had to put up with‚ everyday‚ never halting. Slaves were separated from their loving families and homes‚ and forced to board ships that incorporated abhorrent living conditions. They were treated as lesser human beings; a single misstep would likely result in being whipped and beaten. Slaves lived with fear‚ day by day‚ hour after hour‚ and minute to minute
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Poverty and Oppressed: Why Has Poverty Been Occurring for so Long? “What I would like in the future is to do what I can to help people‚ is to help the poor so they have what they need. Everybody will have a stable house‚ everybody will be well and no child will be in need.” as stated by the eleven year-old Luisa living in poverty. How sad this makes me feel as a teenage girl‚ to know that there are billions of children all around the world suffering‚ along with their parents because of poverty
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reach an agreement on the main outline of an emergency aid plan until late March. On April 11‚ EU leaders finally approved a massive European bailout mechanism in addition to IMF loans‚ which Greece formally submitted a request for on April 23. Why did it take so long for the bailout plan to be adopted? The EU’s capacity to take swift and efficient action was sorely tested by the Greek crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel long resisted emergency loans‚ largely because of fierce German public opposition
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