...At dawn on August 19th, 1942, “six thousand and one hundred Allied soldiers, of whom roughly five thousand were Canadians”, landed at the French port of Dieppe in their first major test of the defense of the German-held coastline (Government). A combination of inadequate planning, insufficient fire support, and lack of communication, through air, naval, and land made for a very poor attack, and one of Canada’s worst defeats in World War Two. First of all, the Battle of Dieppe was poorly planned. It was designed to test new equipment, and gain the experience and knowledge necessary for planning a great amphibious assault that was one day necessary to defeat Germany. Also, after years of training in Britain, some Canadian politicians and generals were anxious for Canadian troops to experience battle (Government). The plan called for five separate attacks along 16 km. The principal assault was on Dieppe. “The four others were subsidiary flank attacks. The flank attacks were to be delivered simultaneously in: nautical twilight at 4:50 A.M” (Christie 9). They would have relied on surprise. The main attack would have came 30 minutes later. It all started at blue beach, where “they arrived late in their bid to take out enemy artillery and machine guns guarding the Dieppe beaches” (Canadian). From the start, the enemy pinned down the Canadians, and shot them up until the raid was over. Then at Green beach, “the part of the unit, tasked with reaching a radar station and anti-aircraft...
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...Art & the World II May 8, 2006 Formal Analysis Essay “The Harbor of Dieppe” “The Harbor of Dieppe” is one of many naturalistic paintings by Joseph Mallard William Turner. “The Harbor of Dieppe” is an oil on canvas painting by an English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner. It was painted and exhibited in 1826 however its current home is at the Frick Collection in New York. Like many other paintings of the 19th century Romanticism Movement “The Harbor of Dieppe” illustrates a painting of nature and city landscape that is captured in its true existence. In this painting Turner captures an amazing natural phenomena, which is the rising of a powerful sun that embraces together the city of Dieppe. “The Harbor of Dieppe” is an enormous painting, measuring a 68x88 (inches) rectangle. The painting represents a busy French port in the city of Dieppe. Numerous ships are docked along the shore and people represented in the painting are all busy, getting ready to accomplish all of the work that the day light brings. On the right side of the picture plain, there are hundreds of people lined up along the docks. Some can be seen trying to get their goods loaded onto the ship and others trying to get a glance at the merchandises that has arrived from around the world. The two women on the right foreground are working together to bring goods out from the ships and into the city; they seem to be unloading cooking dishes, picture frames and other valuables. Not all characters...
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...Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour, Britain now had two major powers supporting her war effort. Yet, even with two of the world’s strongest armies on their side, the war was still not going particularly well. The Germans were deep within Soviet territory and Stalin was putting tremendous pressure on the Western Allies to open up a second front to help the Red Army by forcing Germany to relocate many of their troops. This diplomatic pressure had resulted in the Allies’ plan to launch an assault on German territory, but the feasibility of their plan needed to be tested before any major operation could take place. As a result, the now infamous Dieppe Raid took place and was consequently a catastrophic failure. Due to the adoption of poor tactics, the lack of any heavy bombardment prior to the assault, and poor quality of weapons the Canadian soldiers had access to, the raid was doomed from the start. Yet, even considering the tremendous casualties that the Canadians and the British suffered, many still consider the raid integral to the future successes of the Allies in both the Operation Torch and Operation Overlord campaigns, as the costly lessons learned helped prevent any future...
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...That night, more than 1,000 British bombers unleashed a massive assault on German gun batteries on the coast. At the same time, an Allied armada headed for the Normandy beaches in Operation Neptune, an attempt to capture the port at Cherbourg. But that was not all. In order to deceive the Germans, phony operations were run; dummy parachutists and radar-jamming devices were dropped into strategically key areas so as to make German radar screens believe there was an Allied convoy already on the move. One dummy parachute drop succeeded in drawing an entire German infantry regiment away from its position just six miles from the actual Normandy landing beaches. All this effort was to scatter the German defenses and make way for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of...
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...For the reasons which have determined the existence of Sussex as a county of England, and which have given it the exact boundaries that it now possesses, we must go back to the remote geological history of the secondary ages. Its limits and its very existence as a separate shire were predetermined for it by the shape and consistence of the mud or sand which gathered at the bottom of the great Wealden lake, or filled up the hollows of the old inland cretaceous sea. Paradoxical as it sounds to say so, the Celtic kingdom of the Regni, the South Saxon principality of AElle the Bretwalda, the modern English county of Sussex, have all had their destinies moulded by the geological conformation of the rock upon which they repose. Where human annals see only the handicraft and interaction of human beings--Euskarian and Aryan, Celt and Roman, Englishman and Norman--a closer scrutiny of history may perhaps see the working of still deeper elements--chalk and clay, volcanic upheaval and glacial denudation, barren upland and forest-clad plain. The value and importance of these underlying facts in the comprehension of history has, I believe, been very generally overlooked; and I propose accordingly here to take the single county of Sussex in detail, in order to show that when the geological and geographical factors of the problem are given, all the rest follows as a matter of course. By such detailed treatment alone can one hope to establish the truth of the general principle that human history...
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...LE THEME DE L'EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS L'OEUVRE DE MAUPASSANT '- LE THEME DE L'EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS L'QETNRE DE GUY DE MAUPASSANT by Michelle Cuoq L'oeuvre littéraire de chaque grand écrivain est, selon Bachelard, baignée par un des quatre éléments traditionnels: l'eau, l'air, la terre et le feu. Cela est tout-à-fait vrai en ce qui concerne Maupassant puisque l'eau baigne à la fois son oeuvre et sa vie. L'eau, sous toutes ses formes, a inspiré cet écrivain et a occupé dans sa courte vie une place primordiale. Sa vie d'enfant, d'adulte et d'écrivain célèbre s'est déroulée entre la Manche, la Méditerranée, la Seine et diverses stations thermales et l'oeuvre de Maupassant est un reflet de l'homme, de ses complexes, de ses névr9ses et de sa philosophie de la vie. Etudier l'eau dans la vie et dans l'oeuvre de Maupassant, c'est chercher, en quelque sorte, à tendre à ce célèbre écrivain le miroir de vérité pour essayer de pénétrer, au-delà du miroir, le moi profond d'un homme w.alheureux, trop souvent méconnu et, qui sait, pour participer peutêtre à sa réhabilitation. , •• 1 '. LE THE:ME DE LI EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS LI OEUVRE DE GUY DE MAUPASSANT by Michelle Cuoq A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Ar~s Department of French Language and Literature McGill University Montreal ® March 1972 Michelle Guoq 1972 ..-' ...
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...6 août 2014 LOGISTIQUE ET ADMINISTRATION DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL François Soulet de Brugière 16 avenue de la Clairière 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq Tél mobile : +33 (0)6.0779.0699 e-mail : fsoulet@leroymerlin.fr I. Le monde et sa diversité 21 I - A : Les perceptions du monde 21 I-A-1 / La perception de l’espace 21 I-A-2 / La perception du temps 22 I-A-3 / La perception de l'argent 23 I-A-4 / La perception du rapport à l'autre 23 I-A-5 / Les espaces économiques mondiaux, 23 I - B : Territoire national, territoire douanier et territoire fiscal 41 I-B-1 / La France : 83 territoires et possessions à ce jour : 41 I-B-2 / Le territoire fiscal communautaire 41 I-B-3 / Les principaux opérateurs du commerce extérieur 43 II. Etre présents sur les marchés étrangers 43 II - A : Les différentes formes de distribution 43 II-A-1 / Les trois formes de distribution 43 II-A-2 / Le transfert de savoir-faire 43 II-A-3 / 7 Critères capitaux de sélection d’un fournisseur 44 II-A-4 / Les possibilités de représentation commerciale à l'étranger 44 II-A-5 / L’entreprise conjointe (Joint Venture – JV) 44 II-A-6 / Les zones franches (Free Trade Zone) 45 II-A-7 / Le dispositif français d'aide à l'export en matière commerciale 45 II-A-8 / Les entreprises françaises et l’export 52 II-A-9 / Une esquisse...
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...CANDIDE By VOLTAIRE INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP LITTELL A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Candide by Voltaire, Introduction by Philip Littell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Candide by Voltaire, Introduction by Philip Littell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Image courtesy Wikipedia: Voltaire at 24 years of age (c. 1718) by Nicolas de Largillière Copyright © 2007 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Voltaire CANDIDE By VOLTAIRE INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP LITTELL First Published by BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1918, by Boni & Liveright, Inc. Printed in the United States...
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...Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Canada (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Canada Vertical triband (red, white, red) with a red maple leaf in the centre A shield divided into four rectangles over a triangle. The first rectangle contains three lions passant guardant in gold on red; the second, a red lion rampant on gold; the third, a gold harp on blue; the fourth, three gold fleurs-de-lis on blue. The triangle contains three red maple leaves on a white background. A gold helmet sits on top of the shield, upon which is a crowned lion holding a red maple leaf. On the right is a lion rampant flying the Union Flag. On the left is a unicorn flying a fleurs-de-lis flag. A red ribbon around the shield says "desiderantes meliorem patriam". Below is a blue scroll inscribed "A mari usque ad mare" on a wreath of flowers. Flag Coat of arms Motto: A Mari Usque Ad Mare (Latin) "From Sea to Sea" Anthem: "O Canada" Royal anthem: "God Save the Queen"[1][2] Projection of North America with Canada in green Capital Ottawa 45°24′N 75°40′W Largest city Toronto Official language(s) English and French Recognised regional languages Chipewyan, Cree, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ[3] Demonym Canadian Government Federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy[4] - Monarch Elizabeth II - Governor General David Johnston - Prime Minister Stephen...
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...The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes- a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANCIENT P H I L O S O P H Y Julia Annas THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes ART HISTORY Dana Arnold ARTTHEORY Cynthia Freeland THE HISTORYOF ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin ATHEISM Julian Baggini AUGUSTINE HenryChadwick BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE B I B L E John Riches BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright BUDDHA Michael Carrithers BUDDHISM DamienKeown CAPITALISM James Fulcher THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe CHOICETHEORY Michael Allingham CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley COSMOLOGY Peter Coles CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Sean Murphy DADAAND SURREALISM David Hopkins DARWIN Jonathan Howard DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick DESCARTES TomSorell DRUGS Leslie Iversen TH E EARTH Martin Redfern EGYPTIAN...
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...The Philosopher’s Stone by Colin Wilson PANTHER, GRANADA PUBLISHING London Toronto Sydney New York Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1974 Reprinted 1978 ISBN 0 586 03943 0 First published in Great Britain by Arthur Barker Limited 1969 Copyright © Colin Wilson 1969 Granada Publishing Limited Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, AL2 2NF and 3 Upper James Street, London, WIR 4BP 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA 117 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 100 Skyway Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mgw 3A6 Trio City, Coventry Street, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa CML Centre, Queen & Wyndham, Auckland, New Zealand Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Pilgrim This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Scanned : Mr Blue Sky Proofed : It’s Not Raining Date : 09 February 2002 PREFATORY NOTE Bernard Shaw concluded his preface to Back to Methuselah with the hope that ‘a hundred apter and more elegant parables by younger hands will soon leave mine... far behind’. Perhaps the thought of trying to leave Shaw far behind has scared off would-be competitors. Or perhaps - what is altogether...
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