WORLD WAR 1 World War 1 began in August of 1914. ... They called for a good "massive strike" against France to defeat it quickly. This strategy forced France and Britain out of the war. ... Germany developed the "Schlieffen Plan", which called for German forces to invade France through the neutral country of Belgium. ... In march of 1917 Germany proposed the Zimmerman Note to Mexico, which stated that Germany would help Mexico " reconquer the lost territory in new Mexico, Texas and Arizona" in return for a Mexican/ German Alliance. ...

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What existed were two hostile systems of alliance, and this, in reality, was the reason for World War 1. ... So it came to be that a note was sent to the Serb government from Austria-Hungary. ... At the same time as the part of the French/Russian alliance, France began preparing her forces. ... Soon afterwards Germany declared war on them, and passed a note to the neutral Belgians, insisting that German forces should be allowed through Belgium to attack France. ... They were all partly to blame for the beginning of World War 1. ...

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Alfred was now a French soldier. On October 1, 1882, Alfred was named lieutenant of the Thirty- first Artillery Regiment. ... A note on the hydraulic brake of the 120 cannon and on the manner in which it functioned in maneuvers; 1. A note on covering troops; 1. A note on Madagascar; At this point, Dreyfus was arrested on account of treason. ...

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The unification in Germany in 1871 was the result of their Prussian victory over France. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The other alliance was the Triple Entente, which consisted of Great Britain, Russia, and France. ... Germany then declared war on Russia's ally, France. ... From 1914-1916 the United States had $3 billion trade with Great Britain and France, while the U.S. only had $1 million trade with the members of the Triple Alliance. ...

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The unification in Germany in 1871 was the result of their Prussian victory over France. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The other alliance was the Triple Entente, which consisted of Great Britain, Russia, and France. ... Germany then declared war on Russia's ally, France. ... From 1914-1916 the United States had $3 billion trade with Great Britain and France, while the U.S. only had $1 million trade with the members of the Triple Alliance. ...

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The unification in Germany in 1871 was the result of their Prussian victory over France. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The other alliance was the Triple Entente, which consisted of Great Britain, Russia, and France. ... Germany then declared war on Russia's ally, France. ... From 1914-1916 the United States had $3 billion trade with Great Britain and France, while the U.S. only had $1 million trade with the members of the Triple Alliance. ...

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France runs under a system known as the National Health Insurance Program (NHI). ... France spends $3,696 per capita, where as the US spends $7,538 per capita. The US spends more than double on health care than France. ... French NHI provides a great deal of patient choice, similar to Medicare. ... For example, "Patients are exempted from both [coinsurance and direct payment] when (1) expenditures exceed approximately $100, (2) hospital stays exceed 30 days, (3) patients suffer from serious, debilitating, or chronic illness, or (4) patient income is below a minimum ceiling, thereby quali...

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These twelve countries are Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. ... • January 1, 2002, Euro bank notes and coins are released into public circulation • March 1, 2002, The Euro becomes the sole legal tender in the Euro countries • (Grabbe, 2002) To help make the transition the twelve Euro nations agreed on specific exchange rates between their currencies and the Euro. ... These coins minted in France had to be redesigned with ridges to make them more distinctive. ... A number of newly- forged notes...

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This essay will discuss a number performance issues that arise from bars 1-24 of the work's first movement, with references to Jacqueline du Pré's and Daniel Barenboim's 1970 recording. ... For Beethoven, therefore, the cellist's phrase could be shaped from note to note using fluctuations of tone colour, and Czerny's remark that the sonata must be "distinguished more by beauty of tone and performance, than by excessive rapidity" lends further support to this point. ... As early as 1756, Leopold Mozart had advised its use on "a closing note or any other susta...

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Ireland, although it is a young independent State, enacted legislation aimed at combatting violence against the State a long time ago, while France was among the last of the European States to avail itself of anti-terrorist legislation opening the way for the creation of specialized courts. The Republic of Ireland's Special Criminal Court owes its existence to a law enacted in 1939, although the "Cour d'assises spécialisée", or Specialized Court of Assizes, has only existed in France since 1986. ... The setting up of special courts is a response to this state of emerge...

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b iii) A short-term cause of World War 1 was the Franco Prussian War. ... The loss built up anti-German sentiment in France, and sent France into a search for a motive to declare war on Germany, which happened at the start of World War 1. ... On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later, on France. ... That is how World War 1 began. ... (Note: When Germany was unified in 1871, Europe was already on guard and motivated herself for war.) ...

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Neutrality to war When World War 1 broke out in 1914, the United States attempted to remain neutral and was a strong advocate the neutral rights of nations. ... America has to make sure that it was still able to collect loans from Britain and be able to help out the French government by also giving them loans. ... For a neutral nation to have so much economic influence over belligerent nations was a clearly biased in favor of Britain and France (document 1 & 2). ... Though the note was simply a contingency plan if U.S. were to enter the war, nevertheless it would pose a direct threat to the...

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Upon declaration of war on August 1, 1914, by the Germans, a chain reaction of events began influencing most of Europe to enter the war. ... We also had sentimental ties with France dating from the Franco-American Alliance of 1778 and the 1876 gift of the Statue of Liberty. ... In 1916, the Germans sunk the Sussex, a French passenger liner, which injured several Americans. ... As America became increasingly less neutral, the British government intercepted a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmerman, sent to the Mexican government on March 1, 1917. ... The note was turned over...

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The first instance of oppression happens in the first paragraph, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times- This paragraph shows that in France and England, the aristocrats rule and has oppressed the people for so long that many are starving. ... The next sign of oppression that we see in Book 1, Chapter 5 when we read that the peasants are so hungry and thirsty that the drink the wine that was spilled on the dirty dusty street. ... This was the note that was left on the Marquis after he was killed. ...

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Huguenots were French Protestants, who fled France as they were being persecuted for their religious believes. ... The city was developed by the Prussian soldier king' Frederick William 1, who brought the focus back to the military spending 80% of all tax revenue on it, and in 1709, he made Berlin the capital. ... As there was a large French influence in the city, which can still be seen today, several buildings around the city built in the French style of that time still remain.As Berlin was made the capital, and was influential at this time, map 2 clearly shows that a Pentagon fortress...

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Feminism 1 The word feminism is a noun that as a few different meanings. ... The source notes that it could also mean "a feminine, or a woman's word or expression- (Oxford English Dictionary 246). ... In addition to the Etymological Dictionary, the reference book called Origins, by Eric Partridge, states that the word "feminism, -ist, -ize, come, perhaps with French encouragement, from femin, and femina- ( Partridge 207). In essence, the information the word comes from the French language and is based on the root word feminine and has not changed its meaning. 3 The wo...

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This essay will compare Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, with his Symphony No. 8 in F major, op. 93. ... It is interspersed with syncopated motifs using diminished harmony (Example 3 Track 1 05:30-05:44). ... Around the time that he began these symphonies, Vienna had been under siege by Napoleon's army, the second time that the French occupied the Austrian capital, which was a time of hardship. ... The second movement, Allegretto scherzando, as its name suggest, has a humorous note. ... In Symphony no. 1 Beethoven writes a slow introduction to the usual fast first mo...

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The French Army called on Commander Henry as the leader who would take charge of spying on German diplomats in France. ... In the French Intelligence Office arrived a document that alarmed French army that was credited to the German embassy. ... The Bordereau included the following: • A note on the hydraulic brake of the 120 cannon and on the manner in which it functioned in maneuvers • A note on covering troops • A note on change in artillery formations • A note on Madagascar • Project of Firing Manual for Field Artillery (D. ... The secret dossier was ...

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This led France to declare war on Germany, who in turn, crossed through Belgium to invade France, breaking Belgium's neutrality and bringing Britain into the war against Germany. ... With the sinking of the Lusitania, President Wilson only threatened Germany at first, but in 1917, the attacks resumed and the US discovered the Zimmerman Note, in which Mexico was promised the support of reclaiming the American Southwest if the supported the Germans. ...

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An over-riding vamp signals the beginning of "Work Song", but after one or two repetitions, it is suddenly and forcefully undercut by two jarring bass notes (listening to the score, it sounds like it's a sharp and a natural right next to one another), thus establishing – even out of context of the show – that the scene is a prison where the inmates are little more than slaves. ... When "One Day More", the big Act One finale, splits into five separate parts, Valjean – the character around whose story the show revolves – anchors the Act One final...

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He was fascinated with the flying exploits of French ace Rene Fonck, who had shot down 75 German planes in the war (WGHB, 1997). ... The President of France pinned the Legion of Honor upon the lapel of his borrowed suit and thousands of messages poured in upon him. ... On March 1, 1932, twenty-month-old baby Charlie was kidnapped at about 9:00 P.M. from his nursery on the second floor of Lindbergh's house near Hopewell, New Jersey. ... The note was found as indicated. ... Two years later, they moved again, this time to a tiny island off the northwest coast of France. ...

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The British continued to be imperialists until the beginning of World War 1, in 1914, because they feared that they might lose their empire. ... He took notes of all his accounts and opinions of what went on. ... The French had retained control of the land in the Versailles Treaty and in 1869 the great French engineer Lesseps built the Suez canal as a money making scheme for France to grant passage for traders interested in an easier route to the east. ... The British took advantage of this and bought the canal away from the French establishing the feud between France and England over contro...

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Depict for us in your vivid style or in your fervent paintings the titanic struggle of the people against their oppressors; inflame young hearts with the beautiful breath of revolution which inspired our anarchism"1. ... Indeed, Marinetti's close links to French avant-garde artists is illustrated in his choice of a French, rather than Italian, newspaper for the launch of his Futurist movement, on February 20 1909 he published the first Futurist Manifesto in Paris paper 'Le Figaro' , a move indicative of a partial ideological and artistic overlap between the two movements. ... ...

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Identifications 1. ... Jean Paul Sartre - (1905-1980); French existentialist; believed that humans simply exist and did not believe in God, reason, and progress 3. existentialism - philosophy that basically said God did not exist and human existence as unexplainable; came of age in France during the years immediately followed World War II; terrible conditions of the war reinforced the existential view of life 4. ... Gabriel Marcel - (1887-1973); French existential Christian thinker; found in the Catholic church and answer to what he called the postwar "broken world"; Catholicism provided ...

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