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    ARTHUR CURRIE (A brief account of the battle of Passchendaele)      Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was the most capable soldier that Canada has produced. Certainly, he did not look like the great soldier he had become. A very tall man, at six-foot-four, he was also somewhat overweight. Through his successes as the Commander of the Canadian Corps, he knew how to delegate authority and stand by the decisions of his subordinates.      Currie, however

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    I was more than grateful to discover a parcel of crackers and supplies arrive in my name. I thank you for your remarkable support towards me over the course of this seemingly endless war. After spending a year and a half under constant hell fire in a strange and distant place, I am more than eager to come home to you. When I initially enlisted in the Royal Army, I felt it was my duty to defend our glorious Empire against the malevolent hands of the vicious Jerries. I expected to gloriously march

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    One of Canada’s largest military endeavors was the battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One. It was a fierce battle between Germans and Canadians. Canada was trying to take over the German controlled ridge, which ran from northwest to southwest between Lens and Arras, France. Its highest point was 145 feet above sea level, which was exceptionally helpful in battle because of the very flat landscape. Already over 200,000 men had fallen at Vimy, all desperately trying to take or defend this important

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    also wanting to test their new invention called chlorine gas. The battle consisted of the United Kingdom ( Canada, Newfoundland, and British India), France, Germany, and Belgium. The English were led by their leaders Horace Smith- Dorrien and Arthur Currie. The French were led by Henri Gabriel Putz. The Belgians were led by Ceuninck and Theophile Figeys. The

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    real life, small business owner Ed Currie must make leadership decisions every day. Currie worked many years at John Hancock Financial in the 80s as a network relations manager with over six-hundred employees under him in his department. Since then, Currie development the world’s hottest chili pepper, as certified by Guinness World Records, and has ran his Puckerbutt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina full time for the last five years. When questioned, Currie believes that he is a successful

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    Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was the one of the most capable soldiers that Canada has had in history. Through many successes as the Commander of the Canadian Corps, he knew how to delegate authority and represent the decisions of his soldiers. Sir Arthur Currie was also one of the greatest military leaders, who did what was obligatory to help win an astonishing war, while always pursuing ways to protect his troops from offensive attacks. Arthur Currie’s sense of leadership was substantial

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    “Our men are being put into the hottest fighting and are being sacrificed in harebrained ventures like Bullecourt and Passchendaele …and there is no one in War Cabinet to lift a voice in protest…so Australian interests are suffering badly and Australia is not getting anything like the recognition it deserves.” So wrote General, later Sir, John Monash to his wife on October the 18th 1917. After more than two years of fighting the romance of war had long since ebbed away for Australia’s citizens

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    Quote #1: In the first chapter of Everything Matters!, Ron Currie Jr. sets up the story by introducing the theme of the book on page 9. The quote which sets up the theme of this novel reads, “There are things we can surmise, though, one being that if you are still alive when the comet hits, neither you nor anything else on the planet will be afterward. All of which raises the question-your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like-a question which men and women, great and not-so, of every color

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    the mental prisoner. They surpass with little success in diagnosing the mental prisoner. There is way to prevent criminal to grow according to http://www.nber.org/papers/w12171. On it article of; Does Child Abuse Cause Crime? Written by author Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin. The research article had stated out that “We find that maltreatment approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. Low SES children are both more likely to be mistreated and suffer more damaging effects

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    Arthur Currie is one of the many successful corps commander on the Western Front. The manner that Arthur Currie utilized his tactics during the war is one of the many reasons behind how the Canadians won the war. Arthur Currie was born on December 5th, 1875 at Strathroy, Ontario. Arthur Currie wasn’t always a very known person in the society, he was a farmers child attending a rural school. Once, Currie was in high school, he participated in the cadet corps but after an argument with an teacher

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