The Vimy Ridge Memorial is a significant artifact commemorating Canada’s most celebrated military victory (the Battle of Vimy Ridge) that exemplifies Canada’s development as a nation. In France‚ at the dawn of April 9‚ 1917‚ the Canadian troops (35‚000 men) attacked the Ridge. It took three days of heavy combat and injured /or killed more than 10‚000 Canadian men. The British attack to the south was met with defeat; the only troops to emerge victorious were the Canadians (www.histori.ca). Although
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Vimy Ridge The Canadian Corps staff officers produced a tactical analysis of the french army’s experiences in the Verdun battles and created a new tactical plan of attack. The plan divided the Canadian Corps advance into four coloured objective lines. The attack would be made on a front of 7‚000 yards (6‚400 m)‚ the centre being opposite the village of Vimy‚ which lay to the east side of the ridge. The Black Line‚ the first objective‚ involved the seizure of the German forward defensive line
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CASE FOR USE WITH OROS QUICK® ABC SOFTWARE Blue Ridge Manufacturing Company BACKGROUND: Blue Ridge Manufacturing is one of a dozen companies that produces and sells towels for the U.S. "sports towel" market. A "sports towel" is a towel that has the promotion of an event or a logo printed on it. They’re called sports towels because their most popular use is for distribution in connection with major sporting events such as the Super Bowl‚ NCAA Final Four‚ Augusta National Golf Tournament
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Origins and Characteristics of Mid-Oceanic Ridges Matthew Olson ABSRACT The theory of seafloor spreading emerged with the discoveries of Harry Hammond Hess. Ocean basins are expanding laterally away from a mid-oceanic ridge. Radioactive decay in Earth’s mantle causes convection cycles‚ which drive plate tectonics. Hot mantle rises and undergoes decompression melt due to change in pressure. New oceanic crust is created in a characteristic sequence. Studies of Ophiolites show a sequence
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MEMORANDUM To: Manager of Snowy Ridge Ski Resort From: Kate Smith‚ Chief Accountant for Recreational Properties‚ Inc. Date: October 27‚ 2010 RE: Fair Value Assessment The subsequent valuations are consistent with the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards no. 157‚ defined as “the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.” Snowy Ridge Ski Resort was acquired on June‚
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cities‚ casinos bring in money‚ but most tribes struggle to bring in money. “According to True Sioux Hope Foundation‚ Pine Ridge has a 90 percent unemployment rate and a 70 percent high school dropout rate” (Elder). Pine Ridge is one of the poorest reservations in America with a low life expectancy rate. Suicide has also become a major problem. The White House is working with Pine Ridge to create a better environment and help with jobs (Elders). Population by the 1900’s of the Indians was 250‚000 (US History
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develop Canada’s identity as a country separate from Britain. It wasn’t long before Canadian soldiers became known as a force to be reckoned with‚ as they were strategic‚ hardworking and great team-workers. The volunteer soldiers that went to war to represent Canada were known as the C.E.F. (Canadian Expeditionary force)‚ and they were an indispensable factor in the victory of World War one. The book “Canadians at war; A
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Battle of Vimy Ridge – World War 1 A defining moment for Canada in World War 1 was the battle of Vimy Ridge‚ which took place on April 9‚ 1917. This was the first battle that Canadians planned and executed. It was fought without any help from the British or the French and was strategically led in its entirety by Canadian soldiers under the command of Sir Arthur Currie. It is arguable that this was the point at which Canada proved itself as capable of being a nation on its own and began to gain
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Peter Fazio talked to Cypress/GR Houston I‚ LP about buying retail property‚ with the main tenant being a Garden Ridge store. Fazio and his agents conducted a background investigation‚ while doing so he found information that concerned that Garden Ridge was in poor financial health but after being certainty by Cypress that Garden Ridge had a positive outlook. Fazio went ahead and sent a letter to Cypress and sent a letter to Cypress that he is willing got buy the property for $7.67 million “based
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were many events that led up to the removal of the Eastern Cherokee in the early-to-mid 19th century. However‚ it all really begins in 1830. Major Ridge was discussing treaties regarding selling land to the U.S. Government. The Cherokee believed that lived in their own sanctuary‚ their paradise‚ and that their ancestors had always lived here. Major Ridge felt if he could die to preserve his people land’s he would gladly do so. The Cherokee picked the wrong side during the American Revolution which
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