...and fought against countries such as France, Belgium and the British on the western front of Gallipoli. After years of remembering the war, it leads into the investigation, why does the public commemorate the First World War. To fully understand the impact World War 1 had on the people of Australia it is important to examine; how does Australia recall the soldiers who fought at war? What is the purpose of the war memorials and monuments? How did the ANZAC legend shape the way Australian’s fought? By discussing these topics, it becomes evident that the Australian experience of the war, including the nature and significance of the war has greatly impacted upon Australian history and culture....
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...Professor Yates English 104 16, April 2012 September 11th was a catastrophic day in America and it will be a day that will be forever remembered. The events that happened that day are almost too horrible to describe. The four plotted suicide attacks frightened many Americans, destroyed two iconic building which killed and injured thousands. That day all that I can remember was being pulled from school not really knowing what was going on, just seeing two building buildings called the “world trade center” being burnt down, all I knew was that it was something bad cause of both of my parents reaction to seeing them. Today, when I look back on it, my reaction would have been much different knowing what actually happened. The Memorial for this disaster with all the names and the remaining pieces of the world trade center really sum exactly what happened that day. The picture above was done by a student and it is of one of the memorials for the world trade center. This picture, with all the different colors really bring out the emotion that the memorial gives someone. The colors are all dark and gloomy, with the ripped flag placed waving right above the remaining piece of steal from one of the buildings. Looking at the picture puts you right in front of the memorial and the way it is done make you almost feel as if you were standing in front of it. To be actually standing at the location of this picture would probably give someone a much more emotional reaction, to feel...
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...enjoying a day off of work to come together and celebrate. But what are we really celebrating? Why is everyone so happy on such a gloomy day? How did we lose touch with what this day really means and why we as a nation recognize this across the board despite race, sex, religion or political agenda? Since when did we think that Memorial day was about our right to cook food, laugh, and get paid for not working instead of honoring the fallen heroes who gave us such a great opportunity, rather than recognize that it was a privilege. I found two poems that seem to have the same view as I do on Memorial day, as they focused on veterans and the sacrifice made by them. I believe that as a society we have lost touch with the true meaning of Memorial day, which in my opinion is a day to recognize the sacrifice made by our fallen. When I was growing up I have a very distinct memory of traveling to New Hampshire where my grandfather, a Marine, was the parade leader for the Memorial Day parade. It was a big deal to get such an honor, and even at ten years old, I knew this day was important. Now I will admit being raised in a military family with a mother and father both as Marines, a grandfather, an uncle all in the corps, with...
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...About 8,600 Australians became prisoners of the German army. Most of them experienced a life of imprisonment for more than three years. The prisoners were eventually freed by the advancing Allies. The soldiers being victims of war, they experienced hunger, disease and danger, many surviving only by the Red Cross parcels they received. Australians reached camps in Germany by three routes. Those who were captured in Greece were held in unhealthy, temporary camps in Greece before going on a long rail journey across occupied Europe. Airmen flew into captivity by parachute. Those who were taken from the Italians reached Germany by rail over the Alps. Prisoners were held in over 40 camps all over Germany, from Lithuania to the Rhine. CONSCRIPTION...
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...What does Veterans Day mean to you? Maybe you think of it as just a half day off of school, but really it is a lot more than that. Veterans day is a day to honor the people who fought for freedom. The America I believe in is everyone getting an education. Can you imagine if you could not go to school because of your culture, gender, or race? I am lucky to live where I do because everyone is welcome to go to school and get an education. The veterans fought for us to all be able to go to school. The America I believe in is brave/strong, because the military fights for us to be safe and free. In some places in the world, getting an education is rare. In Mogadishu, Somalia, 36% of girls go to school. It’s very unfair how some countries do not...
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...loved one dies, the last thing you want to do is to have to take care of paperwork and the details of the burial or cremation. That is where the funeral homes steps in to help you out in this difficult moment. I chose to visit Evergreen Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel and Cemetery which provides complete funeral services, graveside services, complete cremation services, immediate cremation services and offer personalized services as well. This beautiful building is located in south Vancouver, Washington. It is surrounded by green grass and tall trees. It has big parking lot to accommodate everybody who comes there. I liked it because of the variety services and support this business provides. I was very interested in embalming. Embalming is a process which is used to temporary prevents body from decomposition. Embalmer injects chemicals, embalming fluid, into arteries and stomach areas to keep body looking as natural as possible for funeral services. This process allows relatives to make necessary arrangements for final ceremony. In a state of Washington embalming cannot be done without permission. Also, embalming is not required by the law. If embalming is not done on the body, body has to be refrigerated. According to Evergreen Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, if the family chooses not to do embalming on deceased person, there are only two services available: immediate cremation or immediate burial. I would like my burial to be as natural as possible even if it means that my...
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...Josh Thompson History Ms. Kadlecek 7 April 2014 Remembering The word holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” and comes from the Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burnt. The Holocaust of the 20th century was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi command during World War II. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he states, “…in their early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed” (viii). The shock and horror does not lessen regardless of how many times a book or article is read or a movie watched about the Holocaust. Learning about the horrible, dark period from 1935 – 1945 is important in several ways. On one hand, it has been said we must learn about the past in order not to relive it. However, we are also told not to dwell in the past. When studying the Holocaust, both adages have truth. Chilling questions occur when learning about the Holocaust. They are questions that Elie Wiesel repeated in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel says he remembers asking his father, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (118). Millions of Jews were killed by overwork, starvation, torture, and cold blooded murder just because they were a different race and...
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...He participated in the Ryder Cup four times and that is a huge honor, but many say that he would have eventually become a Ryder Cup Team Captain. Pastors that ministered to Stewart said that he was a man that would change heaven. Of all the tributes given in Stewart’s honor it was said that Azinger gave the best tribute to Stewart. The attendance at the memorial service was amazing according to Stewart’s wife. “There were over a hundred Professional Golfers or PGA Officials. It was an amazing service to finish a tragic week,” said Tracey Stewart. In an interview played during the service that was recorded, Stewart said, “I’m going to a special place when I die. But I want to be sure my life is special while I’m...
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...The war waged by Hitler and his accomplices was a war against the Jewish people, Jewish culture and thus, Jewish memory. If the twisted philosophy of the Nazi regime was to eradicate Jewish memory, then it is our duty to remember the Jewish lives that perished and to keep Jewish memory alive. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, explains in his preface his reasons for writing the latest edition of his memoir Night: “[I] believe that [I] have a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory.” The number of Holocaust survivors is dwindling. It is imperative that we remember their stories in order to give meaning to their survival. As Wiesel writes, “[The survivor] has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory.” Wiesel has painstakingly endowed us, the next generation, with the knowledge of the moral depravity during the Holocaust as well as the importance of remembrance. Now it is up to us to apply this knowledge and to fight against future genocides. As a Jewish teenager growing up in the United States, I believe that it is essential for our generation to remember not only the Holocaust, but also the debacle of our country’s lack of support for the Jewish community in its most crucial time of need. In his book, Abandonment of the Jews, David Wyman asserts that: “The United States was willing to attempt almost nothing to save the Jews” (5). Indeed, the...
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...With the celebration of Canada’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, all the recognition of the battle at Vimy Ridge, and remembrance day right around the corner, I have been reminiscing about my own trip to Europe to Canadian battle sights in the world wars, with the Queen's York Rangers 2799 Army Cadet Corps during the Spring Break of 2017. I didn’t go because I had relatives who fought and died in the war, I was not born a Canadian, as a matter of fact I immigrated to Canada when I was two years old. I didn’t go because my friends were going, or because my parents told me it was a good opportunity, or even because I love my Country’s history. I went because it was my way of remembering those who died so that i can live. I am part of the...
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...has developed drifting away from burial, moving towards cremation. Technically there is no set routine for a death, due to the fact that personal modifications and customs can change an arrangement. This new pattern is not firmly fixed (indeed, variations, improvisations and personal customizations are marks of the new rituals) but it generally includes the following characteristics: • a memorial service instead of a funeral (i.e., a service focused on remembering the deceased, often held many days after the death, with the body or the cremated remains of the deceased not present) (Thomas) • a brief, simple, highly personalized and customized service, often involving several speakers. (as opposed to the standard church funeral liturgies presided over primarily by clergy) (Thomas) • a focus on the life of the deceased (often aided by a physical display of photos and other mementos) (Thomas) • an emphasis on joy rather than sadness, a celebration of life rather than an observance of the somber reality of death. (Thomas) • a private disposition of the body, often done before the memorial service, with an increasing preference for cremation. (Thomas) Burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy because Christians care for the bodies of humans even though they are deceased. "The dead deserve as respectful a burial as can be provided, this is a minimum," says Father Richard Rutherford of the University of Portland. Although cremation is allowed by the church, the bishops stressed...
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...University of Phoenix Material Case Study—Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation Memorial Health System is an eight-hospital integrated health care system in the Midwestern United States. The health system has two downtown flagship tertiary care hospitals, each licensed for more than 700 beds, located in the two major metropolitan areas served by the system. The remaining six hospitals are community-based facilities, ranging in size from 200 to 400 beds. These hospitals are located in the suburban and rural areas served by Memorial Health System. Four years ago, the system’s board of directors approved a multi-million-dollar initiative to install an enterprise-wide clinician provider order entry (CPOE) system intended to dramatically reduce medical errors. Today, the system is far from fully implemented, and, in fact, has been removed from all but one of the two tertiary care facilities, where it remains in pilot adopter status. At the time, the board approved the CPOE initiative, the project was championed by Fred Dryer, the CEO, and was closely supported by Joe Roberts, the chief information officer (CIO) of the health system. Even during its proposal and evaluation by the board, the project was considered controversial by some of the health system’s stakeholders. For example, many of its physicians, who are community-based independent providers, were adamantly opposed to the CPOE system. They worried that their workload would increase because CPOE systems replace...
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...It has been documented that the conditions of the ghetto were unsanitary and overcrowded. “The housing conditions were so crowded that many refugees lived in tiny concrete rooms that housed the electric meters…mold and mildew grew in food, clothes…ubiquitous insects and mosquitos added to the discomfort”, said James Ross, who was a refugee living in the ghetto. However, the squalor did not hinder the Jews from establishing their culture. Numerous yeshivot, or Jewish day schools, were established. More than 50 books and newspapers, such as The Jewish Call and Shanghai Jewish Chronicle, were distributed in both Hebrew and Yiddish. The Ohel Moshe Synagogue, which was established years earlier, still served as the primary place of worship. By 1938, the establishment of Café Louis, along with other European-style cafes, delis, and nightclubs, gave the area the sobriquet “Little Vienna”. Even numerous sports clubs, such as the Zionist Sports Club and the Maccabi Club, were established in Shanghai. This was particularly important to the Jews at that time in squashing German anti-Semitic stereotypes that Jews were weak and...
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...“But what we do with ourselves when we die isn’t just a matter of money, and funerals aren’t just about disposal of the dead. They’re rituals we perform in order to adjust to the loss of a loved one, and to place that loss within a larger framework that gives meaning to the life that’s gone.” (page 38) So why would we stop having funerals? This is basically saying that funerals are important because we are remembering the loved one who passed. One reason why Americans don’t want to have funerals anymore is because they are becoming so expensive. “A traditional American funeral costs $8,300 vs. $1,400 for cremation.” (Page 38) If the funeral business is so concerned about going out of business then why is a Traditional American funeral so expensive? This is a questions that can’t be answered by many but should be answered. It shouldn’t be about the money it should be about remembering the loved one that died. This is really important to consider because Hingston is trying to help us realize how society views funerals differently now and this could be one of the main reasons why the funeral business is dying out. Some people don’t know the true...
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...Goal: Spread awareness of the alarming rate of drug & alcohol addiction in US Veterans Total Words in this Document: Title: Treating Drug and Alcohol Addiction in Veterans with MMJ Many people have the tendency to celebrate Memorial Day with family get-togethers and grills, but forget the true meaning of the holiday - to remember our fallen heroes. Men and women who put themselves in dangerous situations and gave their lives in defense of the United States. While we commemorate and honor them, though, it’s important to also remember and honor the many veterans who lose their lives unnecessarily and prematurely to suicide. Many of these deaths stem from post-traumatic stress disorder, which experts say affects up to 20 percent of Iraq and...
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