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1. The European Neighbourhood Policy – Normative power as a vehicle for consensus In 2004, the European Union sought to establish cordial partnerships with its immediate neighbouring countries. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a set of policies aimed at approaching those immediate neighbours of the EU. As Article 8 of the Treaty of the European Union explicitly states: “The Union shall develop a special relationship with the neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity

Geographers use something called the five themes of geography, this idea helps them fully understand a particular area. The first theme is location and the second and third is physical characteristics and the interaction of the environment. The movement of people, goods, and ideas is the fourth. The final one is the regions that makeup of an area. For the sake of the essay, I will be studying my grandmas and grandpas house by using the five themes. My grandparents have a huge property and a huge

Roosevelt had been trying since July 1944 to arrange another summit with Stalin after the Tehran Summit in November-December 1943. The Summit finally took place in February 1945. Germany was the first issue, the Big Three addressed at Yalta. With the Red Army on the Oder River, only forty miles from Berlin, and the Anglo-American forces still on the west side of the Rhine, it was very evident that the Soviets would be the first to reach Berlin and the war themselves. It was, therefore, deemed prudent

earliest of his abilities. Churchill later enrolled into Parliament. It would be the beginning of World War II that Winston Churchill would be selected for First Lord of the Admiralty in the Royal Navy but would run into an unsettling incident in the Dardanelles campaign where numerous naval actions took place but his choices would cost him his position and would trouble him for many years. Succeeding that Winston Churchill would resign but with his willpower to succeed he joined the army and went back

“Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave!” So said Admiral Fisher, the Commander of the Royal Navy in a letter to Winston Churchill on April 5th, 1915. Fisher’s impassioned statement was to prove itself chillingly accurate in the disastrous military operation that followed. Following the Great War many military thinkers attempted to refine the principles of warfare to avoid the horrors of trench warfare, and military disasters such as the Gallipoli campaign. One of these thinkers was British

World War One is regarded as a major turning point in history and modern warfare which has impacted Australia monumentally, scarring the nation’s history. Australia played a significant role in World War One and the Gallipoli campaign, which is considered the birthplace of the ANZAC legend. These events have immensely shaped Australia as the nation we know of today. World War One began in 1914 from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918 on November the 11th which is now recognised

The movie Troy, from Hollywood has been one of the greatest Hollywood movies ever made. It was nominated for more than 10 awards and made approximately $497 million worldwide (Troy (2004) - Financial Information). It was one of the most successful films ever made. However, the content that was in the movie brought some speculation into whether or not the events of the movie were historically accurate. Troy is precise in its portrayal of the setting and the intensity of the Trojan war. Nevertheless

discuss the horrible conditions faced by soldiers and the bravery shown by Australian Soldiers at Gallipoli, where the name ANZAC’s was born.   On the 25th April the Anzacs landed at Lone Pine as part of a broader military campaign to penetrate the Dardanelles through to Istanbul and take Turkey out of the war.  The landing was a disaster as they had landed in the wrong place and faced cliffs instead of flat ground. The fighting was vicious, compounded by confusion and poor strategy.  Sir Ian Hamilton’s

The First World War brought upon the world some of the most dirty, fierce, horrible and disgusting fighting that had ever taken place. The impact on Australian soldiers, physically and mentally, was on a scale never before witnessed. However battles on the Western Front in recent years have been immensely overshadowed by the Gallipoli campaign, even though the even though those actions on the Western Front cost Australia a great deal more. The Physical impact that was brought upon Australian soldiers

historical basis behind the story of Achilles’s rage, Patroclus’s sacrifice, or Hector’s death? When Hienrik Schliemann set out to answer this question in the late 19th century he felt he had with his discovery of Hisarlik at the mouth of the Dardanelles (Kolb, 2004). As more modern-day archaeologists have excavated the site, the belief of Hisarlik as the Troy of legend has been called into question. The site that Schliemann believed to be Troy simply was not a prominent enough city during the