...Hong Kong Page.1 The Canadian experience in Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945 remains as one of the darkest chapters in Canadian military history. It also remains one of the most remembered years for Canadians in WW2. The Canadians experience in Hong Kong is one of the most darkest and most remembered years for Canadians because of the irresponsibility of the Canadian government for blankly listening to the British. Canada sent almost 2,000 troops to Hong Kong in an impossible situation. Most of the soldiers were not properly trained and many weren't properly equipped for battle. To make it worse the soldiers were terribly organized with any enemy strategy working on them. The Canadian government knew all that and yet still sent their soldiers into Hong Kong without asking any questions or even giving it much thought. When the Canadians were ordered to defend a place that cannot be defended, they were expecting about 5,000 enemy Japanese soldiers instead their were 10 times as much with 50,000 Japanese soldiers. A defense that was suppose to last a few weeks ended in a few days. When the Canada heard about this, they sent no reinforcements. The Canadians also underestimated the Japanese thinking they were inferior fighters, can't see at night, and they were afraid of the water. The Canadians couldn't be more wrong as they were easily defeated. Japan started a few day bombing on Hong Kong eventually taking over Hong Kong. When Canada sent their soldiers on an impossible mission...
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...The thing that was observed was that coffee stained the eggs the darkest then the eggs inside of the tea and the salt and lemon juice mixture cleaned the stains of the...
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...undercurrent, similar to the surface of a frozen river. Its what's under the ice that is more interesting. Our main character, tells us in the first stanza that he has paused a moment (line 3). He has paused to take in a peaceful scene. The visual imagery of the woods filling "up with snow" (line 4) is rich. The snow is falling fast enough that it seems to be filling as he watches. How long does he pause? That depends on how fast the snow is falling. Long enough to see the "woods fill up" is what he says. The second stanza tells us that he has paused long enough that he's contemplating his horse's thoughts wondering what he thinks of standing there between the woods he is describing and a frozen lake (line 7) on an very dark evening. The darkest. (line 8) The third stanza makes us listen and asks the question, "Are we really supposed to be here?" (Line 10) We hear the horse shaking or tossing his head and correspondingly the harness bells jingle (line 9) and fade into the sound of a light wind and tiny pats of snowflakes landing. (Line 12) The fourth stanza tells us that the woods are "lovely dark and deep" (line 13) and gives us the idea that while he is enjoying his respite, he is tired and has a long way to go. (Lines 15 and 16) The poems slow tempo and soft rimes contribute to a feeling of melancholy as we watch him resume his journey. It is with a second reading that questions appear. The literal imagery is solid yet many questions could be...
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...The book New moon is a romantic fantasy novel written by Stephanie Meyer. Bella lives in rainy Forks, Washington with her dad, (Charlie.) She spent an amazing summer with her vampire boyfriend, Edward, and now it’s time to go back to school. She also just turned eighteen. This gives her the sore reminder that her human clock is ticking while Edward will always be young and handsome. To Bella’s major sorrow, Edward still refuses to turn her into a vampire. When something that could have been terrible happens to Bella, Edward moves and leaves her behind. However just as the new moon is the darkest phase of the lunar cycle, Bella is exploring the darkest part of her nature by taking on risky adventures. When Alice, (Edward’s sister) talks the rest of the Cullen’s into throwing a birthday party for Bella at their house, Bella becomes clumsy and not so carefully unwraps a birthday present and Bella gets a paper cut. Jasper is still struggling with this new diet (not feeding form human blood) he loses what little control he has and attacks Bella. Edward has to come to rescue to fight his brother Jasper off his girlfriend. The boys fight all around the house and leaves Bella there with her new wound that is gushing of blood. Edward’s dad, Carlisle is a doctor and is immune to the smell of human blood; he hurries to stitch up Bella gaping wound. While Bella says that the Jasper incident was a minor family quarrel, Edward is clearly upset and withdraws emotionally from Bella. On a...
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...Friends come with all personalities, most are nice, some are funny, some can be the ones that you never want to lose, others can be those that you wouldn’t mind losing, most can be those that pick you up when you’re down, others will leave you there to keep getting walked on. With friends, they seem to do things that help you and themselves at the same time. In the short story by Edgar Allan Poe called “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the narrator is a friend who decides to go help his childhood buddy with his disease and depression, due to old age and the last of his family died. The two main characters, one who doesn’t give his name and the other being Roderick Usher- who is sick and dying - are at the Usher house that the narrator describes...
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...Angels Among Us Melissa Sheeley ENG 125 Andrea Moak March 21, 2011 As the song from the band Alabama goes, “I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above, they come to you and me in our darkest hours to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with the light of love (Lyrics Mode, 2011).” I think the poem Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World (Clugston, 2010) written by Sherman Alexie has a lot in common with Alabama’s song I Believe There are Angels Among Us. The paper you are about to read is going to describe how they relate to each other and analyze the poem as to whether after someone passes if they are still around us. The song sung by Alabama tells of a boy walking home and gets lost in the dark in the woods as he takes a short cut home. A man takes him by the hand and helps him home safely. The boy’s mom does not see the man standing next to her son as he stands on the front steps holding hands with her son. The boy figures an angel has come down from Heaven and helped him get home safely. The song goes on to say how even in our darkest hours there is someone there telling us it is going to be okay and will get us through. The theme of the poem written by Sherman Alexie is that of a reminder of his dad not being around anymore physically but spiritually, he writes of a man going to a hotel room and finding a phone next to the toilet in the bathroom....
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...Madsen: Session 1: Journal The event that molded me into the man I am now on my walk with Christ was my divorce to my boys Mom. The darkest of days in my life when my wife told me to leave our house in front of our children will forever be ingrained in my memory. At the time of course I thought, why would God put me through this and my kids through this? I couldn’t make sense of any of it. My head was spinning and I felt like I was dying. After a month of self-abuse of alcohol to try and numb the pain and not having a place to stay, I emerged in the most unlikely of places. My car ended up miles away from where I was drinking at. I had no idea of how I even got to where I was at. When I finally came out of whatever state I was in, I realized...
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...| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Salvation Army Crest The Salvation Army Shield The Salvation Army Red Kettle A brief history of The Salvation Army.In 1865 William Booth, a young minister, left the "Methodist New Connection" in order to begin a mission in the poverty-ridden London East End. With his wife, Catherine, he "reached for the worst," rather than cultivate the comfortable middle class.In 1878, by a fortunate inspiration, the name was changed from the "Christian Mission," to "The Salvation Army." Immediately, the movement captured the public imagination. Incorporating paramilitary ranks and uniforms, the movement spread throughout the British Isles. In 1880 the first missionary, George Scott Railton, was sent to New York. With the aid of seven untutored "lassies," The Salvation Army was soon on its way along the East Coast.Work in the West beginsConditions around San Francisco's Barbary Coast begged for a religious revival. Some sincere Christians, feeling that Booth's organization was needed, asked for officers to be sent there to form their group into the first corps in the West. Aided by reinforcements from England and new converts, Major Alfred Wells and Captain Merry Stillwell founded the vibrant, innovative Army that is today's Western Territory. In ten years there were 67 corps, (Churches), spreading north to Seattle, south to San Diego and east to Montana and Utah.The west now encompasses the 13 western states...
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...Many see american presidents and immediately think about Abraham Lincoln. This is completely justified considering his outstanding achievements. To start, Abraham prevented the country from falling apart. He did this by deciding to fight the south when they misconceived his notion that he would tolerate slavery only in the states that already had it. During this war is where we see Abraham truly strive as a great leader. His faith in the fairness of his pro-Union policies kept the Union alive during the darkest days of the Civil War. He was a charismatic, persuasive, moral leader who had a strategic vision of his goal, which was to bring the nation together as one again. Abraham Lincoln's foreign policy was successful in preventing other...
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...Beauty, Life and Death Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening” is a simple and literal poem that has been interpreted and emphasized in many different ways. Frost tells a simple story that manages to get any reader to think about its scene and how profound this story can actually be. Many different opinions have been expressed as to what the poet was trying to convey in these lines; happiness, life, or maybe even death. The poem was written during the early 20th century, around the 1920s. According to an analysis done on this poem: “...Frost wrote the poem on a hot summer day...” (Gualdoni 2). Quite an interesting piece of information that questions why Frost would use a season opposite to the one he was currently writing through. The poem itself is written in iambic tetrameter so that 4 lines are grouped together in each stanza. There is a visible rhyme scheme and figures of speech that coexist within the piece. The first two lines in a stanza rhyme with each other while the third line stands to temporarily disrupt the balance, only to be followed by a fourth line with a rhyme that will match the previous two. A broad sense of imagery invites the reader to his/her imagination and calmly surrounds them in that cold winter night. In the woods with just his horse, the snow and a frozen lake, is a simple setting the poet used for this piece. The first few lines display a character that is in the middle of nowhere and mentions of an unknown person that the “woods”...
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...ugly in 1999 singers are all models that sing. In 1993 I was 15 years old. I was a teenager in the down of my adult life and when I listen to this song on the radio I always wondered what that emotion so private that they sang was. Private Emotion: The song is from the Hooters and the lyrics are as follows: Every endless night has a dawning day Every darkest sky has a shining ray And it shines on you, baby, can't you see You're the only one who can shine for me It's a private emotion That fills you tonight And a silence falls between us As the shadows steal the light and wherever you may find it Wherever it may lead Let your private emotion come to me Come to me, come to me, come to me When your soul is tired and your heart is weak Do you think of love as a one way street? Well, it runs both ways, open up your eyes Can't you see me here, how can you deny It's a private emotion That fills you tonight And a silence falls between us As the shadows steal the light And wherever you may find it Wherever it may lead Let your private emotion come to me Come to me, come to me Every endless night has a dawning day Every darkest sky has a shining ray It takes a lot to laugh as your tears go by But you can find me here till your tears run dry Well, it's a private emotion That fills you tonight And a silence falls between us As the...
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...Jennifer Castillo EN110 January 5th, 2016 Why College Education is Important to Me I sometimes feel as though I am resting on the side of a mountain, breathing the crisp air, finally able to experience peace and blissful contentment. Reaching this point was necessarily difficult; full of setbacks, disappointments, reevaluations, fickleness, and uncertainty. I’ve never been one to excel at a trade, and my confidence is not at the level necessary to begin an alternative venture. So…college is a no-brainer, especially given the fact that I’ve wanted to help others in the area of mental health since I was a freshman in high school. Having lived through the darkest of days has further fueled my passion. A college education is important to me because it lays the groundwork in my mission. Completion is the ultimate victory…and who wouldn’t want that? I experienced symptoms depression and social anxiety for as long as I could remember. I was never really social or outgoing, preferring to spend my afternoons in my room writing stories or sketching random creations. As I grew, I soon realized I wasn’t just “shy” or “quiet” ...my reaction to interaction was pretty irrational. “Socially anxious children tend to become isolated as they are unable to develop a normal network of friends. Often a socially anxious child will have one or two close friends and rely on them for all social interactions. But families relocate, kids change schools, and interests diverge, and it may become...
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...Break of Day was written by Australian author, Tony Palmer. This non-fictional book talks about Murray, a young boy who goes to war after his brother, Will, in order to find more bravery, and discover about his Uncle Jack who ran away during his time in World War 1. It’s written in Murray’s perspective and visits many flashbacks from before he came to war, about his old life back home. Palmer conveys many messages about family, bravery and death. Addressing the impact these subjects can have on someone’s life. Family can change someone’s life easily, by maybe growing up in with violent parents, you’ll grow up thinking violence is key. Murray has many changes throughout the book, the biggest being bravery. Unlike his brother who becomes more cowardly. Having someone...
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...* The Impact of Time on the Theme and Characters of the Sound and the Fury * The Interpretation of Time Lapses and the Influence It Has on the Narration in Benjamin’s Section Benjamin is 33 years old at April 7th, 1928. He is a child with a mask of adolescence and what he perceives from the world around him is totally different from normal people, because let’s say he has a gift that no normal person can have, he is an idiot. Our intentions aren’t about supporting the community of mentally handicapped people here by saying he has a gift, but to know a person, just like knowing animals, you have to get inside their heads. So we definitely don’t want to have negative badges on ourselves. Reading this section is specifically hard because we have to think like an idiot, and to achieve this matter we have to reinforce our sensory stimuli. Benjamin has no concept of time or place, he does as he pleased, and in order to extract his thoughts you should find the love of his life, who is obviously Caddy (Candace). Every single smell, place or sound can evoke his feelings toward Caddy, meaning that for example noticing a swing in the present can bring him back to the past and even thinking about the past can bring him to deeper levels of his past; or when Dilsey called Miss Quentin for the meal, he immediately remember the time with Quentin (his brother) who is in this specific part, the stimuli for his reminiscent. Although most of his memories are about Candace, he has other flashbacks...
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...many challenges. Some of them make us who we are while some tell us what we should be. Sometimes it is the opposite. There will be struggle, there will be bad days. Days which would never seem to end. Days which would go on and on, which would keep hurting us till the end. Many of us actually most would give up but the people who wont will be the ones to face the brighter side of the day. The night is darkest before dawn but how can we forget the rainbow after the rain? We understand to love, to give, to endure, to find pleasure, to please but what we do not understand is ourselves during all of this. Life can lie to us and no one will stop it, it can play all sorts of games with us without us even knowing because there is no one controlling it. But whatever happens in life happens for good. Good of all in it. Whatever decisions life takes for us is already planned by it and we must learn to accept it. We must come in terms with the fact that no matter how hard we try to fit in this imperfect world, it will never acknowledge us for who we are. We always feel like becoming everything else around us. But what we do not realize is that everyone wants to be happy in the end of the day. They just want to find someone who will love them and who will stand by them throughout. Throughout the stormy nights, throughout the lonely days, throughout all the cold...
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