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    The Donkey and the Dog

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    A Short Story : The Donkey and The Dog This Short Story The Donkey and The Dog is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. A washer man had a donkey and a dog. Both the donkey and the dog helped his master in many ways. One night‚ few thieves broke in the house of that washer man. The dog heard them and started barking. The washer man got up and so did the neighbors. “What is that? A dog. Let us run‚” said the thieves. They feared some dangerous consequences

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    The 1960’s was also an unsettling decade of “a period of social change‚ of the questioning of traditional values and mores” therefore with these two factors combined it would guarantee that the revival of first world war arguments and they way that it was perceived. It would be carried out like this in such a way that the modern day perception of not only World War One‚ but also the reputation of the generals. The 1960’s was an era that was during the peak of the cold war. There was continuous

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    Interpretation that Haig was a Butcher: Source B2 was written by P. Smith a private in the 1st Border Regiment during the Somme describes the battle from how he saw it during the battle. He described it as “pure bloody murder” on the battlefield and he goes on to say in the source how Haig should have been “hung‚ drawn and quartered for what he did at the Somme”. He also goes on later to see how “The cream of British manhood was shattered in less than 6 hours”. Source B2 is reliable because of

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    Silver Donkey

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    The Silver Donkey‚ a tale of a young English soldier who fled the chaos of the first world war to be founded by two French sister‚ Marcelle and Coco. Lieutenant Shepard is temporarily blind and has walked away from the war as he found it too hard to bear. The two sisters hide and feed the soldier and in return of their kindness‚ he tells the sister marvellous tales‚ each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect tiny silver donkey. The lieutenant‚ himself longs to cross

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    THE DONKEY CART

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    THE DONKEY CART At twenty-five I was a teacher in a small town in the Northwest China. The town was sparsely populated and‚ being so remote‚ lacked modern means of communication. In the evenings the wolves howled in the nearby hills and occasionally entered the town in quest of prey. I spent only one year there and‚ being unable to endure the isolation‚ packed my bags when the summer holidays arrived and prepared to return home. A traveler had to take a donkey cart to the nearest railhead‚ some twenty-five

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    call General Haig the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ The Battle of the Somme was important and crucial to the development of the First World War; and earmarked the final result of the War. Both the Allies and the Germans were extremely eager to make some achievement in order to boost the morale of the armed forces and the confidence of their own countrymen after a long period of stalemate in the various battle fronts. They were both prepared to exhaust all means to win over the other. General Haig was

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    Why Haig Is Bad Leader

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    leader was Haig? Interpretation – A view from somebody’s point of view that may not be necessary be true. The battle of the Somme occurred on the 1th of July 1916‚ with the English and French army fighting against the German. English’s army’s leader‚ Haigwas considered to be a donkey‚ meaning to be a bad general. The historian John Laffin claims that Haig was an awful leader; he says that “Haig really thought he was doing what the people wanted him to do” which makes us think that he was being

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    HAIG WAS A BUTCHER WHO THOUGHT NOTHING OF SENDING MEN TO THEIR DEATHS.” DO YOU AGREE? Field Marshal Douglas Haig was a British senior officer during World War 1. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War. This meant that he was in charge of the Battle of the Somme. His part in this battle has led to split views on him as an army officer. Some believe that his tactic was poor and he was mindlessly sending men to their deaths. However‚ some believe that the Somme

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    Haig Butcher of the Somme

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    Does General Haig deserve the nickname ‘Butcher of the Somme’? Assessments of the Battle Events leading to the battle | Back to top  | The main job of the British forces in 1914 and 1915 was to support the French. This is because the British Army was very small. In 1914‚ it had about 250‚000 men scattered around the British Empire. In that year‚ the British sent 5 divisions (a division was usually about 15‚000 men) to the front in France. The French army had 72 divisions and the Germans had

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    does General Haig deserve to be known as ‘The Butcher of the Somme’? The Battle of the Somme was the most costly battle in terms of casualties every in the history of British Military. A decisive breakthrough was needed by the allies after 2 years of stalemate on the Western Front however after the first day of fighting at the Somme‚ it became very clear that the artillery bombardment had fail to smash German defences and barbed wire and so there were 60000 casualties on the 1/7/1916. General Haig

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