Hundred Flowers Campaign

Villers-Bretonneux, a town in France, is home to the main Australian World War One memorial, Musée Franco-Australien, Victoria School and Restaurant le Kangourou. The meaning behind its Australian atmosphere and influences are quite remarkable and displays the pure qualities of ‘Anzac Spirit’. These qualities include endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour and mateship. It is believed that, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing” (Edmund Burke,…

popularity of a candidate, but overall it is not the only factor that influences the votes that the candidate receives in primaries as well as on election day. Money has been found to have major and minor effects on presidential elections based on campaign funding, super PACs, and statistics from the 2012 election. Political scientist Michael Franz conducted a study that found advertising is not as influential on elections as it may seem to be. It…

Many young Australian men saw enlisting in the defence force and being shipped to Gallipoli as an adventure, not realising the significant impact it would have on their lives. They didn’t realise the dangers they would face or that they may never return home. In Gallipoli, Peter Weir tells the story of two young Australian men, Archie Hamilton and Frank Dunne and the conflict, hardships and mateship they endured. The young Australians were excited to experience something new. Although it was a…

INTRODUCTION/ CULTURAL DRIVERS Throughout history, communication has played a significant role in the development of cultures and more specifically effective communication. Effective communication facilitates people to understand each other, breaks down language and cultural barriers, and builds trust and respect for one another. Today people have evolved, so as the way they communicate. We can trace the first form of communication to cave paintings around 130,000 B.C.E. The theory is that the…

political campaigns reveal one’s true character as well as shape it. Primary Colors and The Ides of March both focus on candidates and campaign teams who are running for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination. Although Election is instead about high school students running for student body president and the teacher who oversees the student government and its election, it still delivers the same message. All of these films center around corruption in politics, especially in campaigns.…

operational artists during planning and execution of Operation Watchtower. Their understanding of the link among lines of operation, decisive points, operational reach, culmination, and risk directly contributed to overall success of the Guadalcanal campaign. Analysis of their actions through a lens of current doctrine benefits current practitioners by providing historical examples of operational art in action. This paper will discuss doctrinal concepts displayed during the planning and…

‘Flowers for Algernon,' written in 1958, by Daniel Keyes is a short science fiction story about a mentally disabled protagonist called Charlie Gordon. Charlie, who is a 37-year-old man, due to his eagerness to learn, receives the opportunity to increase his intelligence through an experimental surgery. Following the experimental process, Daniel Keyes uses the techniques of the juxtaposition of events such as the thematic apperception test, as well as changes his writing style’s literacy skills…

Dinner With Walter Mitty From what we’ve read in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty has an ebullient and wandering imagination. There are multiple occasions in the short story in which Mitty is distracted by a daydream that is somehow tied to what’s happening in reality, causing him to lose sight of what he’s doing at the time. Absent-mindedness can cause some trouble if one finds themselves in a daydream while driving, or perhaps in the middle of a conversation. On…

In Gary Soto’s biographical narrative he entertains his audience by telling them a story of his past and how it had shaped him as a person. To elaborate, in the narrative Soto steals an apple pie from the German Market and even though he didn’t feel guilty at the beginning it slowly consumed him and lead to him feeling guilty for the sin he had just committed.To help him Soto used the figurative language of imagery and, the sound device, onomatopoeia, in order to help the readers paint a clear…

The hippie movement was the common title Americans used to define the out casted individuals and their actions that began to take place in the early 1960s and continued on through the 1970s. The movement started as vocal opposition to the United States taking part in the Vietnam War. Soon after, this generation ultimately transformed into a liberal counterculture. A counterculture is a subculture that has values and behavioral norms that are substantially different from those of the mainstream…