Case Study: Brittany Ferries Brittany Ferries is a French-owned car ferry operator‚ running ships across the Western Channel between south-west Britain and ports in Brittany and Normandy. The company also operates between Ireland and Brittany‚ running ferries from Roscoff to Cork. Brittany Ferries was formed as a result of Britain joining the Common Market in 1972. The local farming co-operatives in Brittany joined with the Finistere Chambre du Commerce to create the company‚ mainly with the aim
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Brooklyn is more about loss than gain? How accurate is this statement? Brooklyn is neither more nor less about loss than it is about gain. Rather they are both two of the crucial ideas within the novel experienced by characters other than just Eilis. These two key ideas which are evident throughout play an important role in aiding the growth and development of characters throughout the novel‚ particularly Eilis. The examples of apparent loss experienced include the losses for family and loss
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The first resident of what is today the town if Harpers Ferry was a man named Peter Stevens‚ who bought a small plot of land and built a modest cabin there in 1932. However‚ in 1947‚ a man named Robert Harper was instructed to build a Quaker church on the Opequon River‚ which is about 16 miles to the West of Harpers Ferry. He never got to the Opequon‚ he didn’t end up building the church because on his way there‚ he was smitten by the view of a majestic valley with a picturesque river edging it
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sent an army in China and that created a big scandal in France. He was called the Tankinois because the news of the retreat shook his government and forced him to quit. The French won allowing France to conquer the Gulf of Tonkin in China. Jules Ferry was a proponent of colonization. Why? The inferior race be civilized by the superior class (ethnocentrism). It is not racism by nature. It is a strange imperialism He has a genuine feeling that France had a duty to dominate/ lead the rest the world
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What works of art did you find most compelling? Why? Answer: In chapter one‚ there was only one piece of art that really got my attention. That piece of art was “Basket Ferry” by Ando or Utagawa Hiroshige on page 19. I love art that has a realistic but simplistic style. In “Basket Ferry” you can understand what is going on in the picture and it is very beautiful. However‚ the artist does not go in-depth with designing specific features of the picture. This gives it a very calm and simplistic style
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“BROOKLYN BRIDGE” The Brooklyn Bridge’s construction is one of the great achievements in United States history and helped pave the way for New York City’s rapid expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was an undertaking that required extraordinary effort‚ sacrifice and ingenuity by its designers as well as its builders to complete. Its completion was a feat of engineering that was unmatched in its time: it was the longest suspension bridge – the first to use steel-wire – and dominated the New
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------------------------------------------------- Brooklyn Bridge This essay introduces the Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge is located in America over the East river; the nearest city to the bridge is New York and Manhattan‚ Brooklyn. After 60 years of political‚ financial and technical discussions to start the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge it was approved. The Bill to start construction was signed in 1869 by the New York Bridge company president‚ Ulysses S Grant. The cost of the original
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Crossing The short story “Crossing”‚ written by Mark Slouka‚ begins as a straightforward account of a man who takes his son to a remote area where he remembers similar experiences with his own father. He carries their packs across a shallow but fast moving river‚ and then goes back and carries his son across. They spend one night exploring the area‚ but the next day when he recrosses the river‚ he knows that the current is a bit stronger than the day before. When he takes the boy back across‚ he
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Crossing Crossing is a short story written by Mark Slouka in 2009. The story is concerned with the relationship between a father and his son. Some fathers like to take their sons out camping to create a closer bond and that is exactly what the father wishes to obtain‚ but most fathers would never dream of taking their sons out on dangerous trips. However this is the case in Mark Slouka’s short story. By the use of a description of the nature versus man Slouka presents the struggle of the father.
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Crossing Nothing is stronger than a bond between a child and a parent. In all cultures the parent educates the child with skills and values and these remain with the child all his or her life. The reason why a parent has such impact on its child is because of trust. A relationship build on trust is the strongest and every parent wants to have such a relationship. This is the kind of relationship the main character in the short story Crossing (2009) by Mark Slouka is trying to build with his son.
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