In Flanders Fields

Introduction: THE ARGUMENT The works of the picaresque are abundant, especially since no one seems to know categorically what is picaresque and what is not. The term is extended to envelop any form of prose fiction which sends its hero or heroine on a journey, or has him, her engaged in the service of many masters; the protagonist or antagonist may range from a completely foolhardy person to a well educated young man or woman, who is pushed by conditions to spend time with lower classes. Such…

Poetry: There is no near simple way to define poetry. Poems can be written in too many different forms and styles, on too many subjects and emotions, and with too many different subjects and emotions, and with too many different motives to describe in a single definition. Likewise, poetry cannot be defined by the way it looks. We think that poetry is a work with short lines, rhythm, perhaps some rhyme, and a lot of white space, yet many poems do not follow this formula. Poetry is different from…

Olive Mudie-Cooke is the artist I have chosen for this research project. Olive Mudie-cooke was a women in the First world war mostly known as a British artist. She is to me an advocate for women everywhere. With aspiring love, courage and inspiration to us all. This women has done so much in her life to help others, as we can see through her watercolors and chalky drawings. To me she was a silent storyteller of her life and to others of the news I wish one day I could aspire to be half the…

Peace leadership, then, is a process that involves group participation. Social roles and individual traits and characteristics of peace leadership include those individuals connected to pacifism and peace movements, for example, and who embody learnable traits such as emotional self-control, empathy, and propensity toward reconciliation (McIntyre and Green). Skills and practices for leading peace movements include relationship building, designing public narratives to facilitate action, engaging…

perennial, other artists will issue their own renditions — covers. Eric Bogle’s“The Green Fields of France” is one such song. This is a song that has been covered by everyone from The Clancy Brothers to the Dropkick Murphys, always maintaining its serious and solemn tone. Originally written by Scottish folk singer Eric Bogle in 1975 after he visited the military cemeteries of the First World War in Flanders and Northern France the song was launched to popularity by the Irish band the Fureys in…

Wilfred Owen and John McCrae are two of the most celebrated war poets from the First World War who have written poetry that is still read to this day. War poetry deals with gruesome, heartbreaking, harsh and sometimes happy details of the war that are generally faced by soldiers first hand. War poetry is the writing of experiences, horrors, traumas of war generally experienced first-hand by soldiers who have fought wars. Apart from the themes of suffering, conflict, death and horror the poems…

Rise through Force: European Hegemony and the Military Revolution With the dawn of the second millennium (C.E.), the bulk of Europe existed as a relative backwater and there was little foreseeable evidence that this fragmented conglomerate of fiefdoms would eventually surge forth to control a better part of the known and unknown world. But surge forth it did, and by the twentieth-century the West , for better or worse, had come to dominate and influence societies around the globe. As the…

One of the longest wars in history, the Hundred Years War was a bloodthirsty period of battle between England and France. The war was not limited to England and France; Scotland, a French ally, battled against England. It was further complicated by a civil war in France from 1407 to 1435 between the Burgundians and Armagnacs, noble factions in France. The English and French both supported different sides of the civil war in Spain, which prolonged the Hundred Years War. It was actually 116 years…

Canadian Involvement: The Canadian Parliament didn't choose to go to war in 1914. The country's foreign affairs were guided in London. So when Britain's ultimatum to Germany to withdraw its army from Belgium expired on 4 August 1914, the British Empire, including Canada, was at war, allied with Serbia, Russia, and France against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. The first major battle fought by Canadian troops in the First World War took place from 22 April to 25 May 1915, outside the…

Abstract The concepts of industrial relations and employment relations have been used interchangeably to connote the relationship that exists in a work organization between the owners of the factors of production and labour. Attempts have been made to explain and label correctly both concepts but the controversy rages on. Scholars have opined that industrial relations is broader than employee relations and vice-versa. This paper attempts to clearly identify the differences (if any), the…