The Royal British Legion Essays

  • Volunteering Is Important in the Public Services

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    helping to prevent crime just like an ordinary officer who gets paid. the time you must give up between 8-12 hours a week. TA, RAF, Navy the reservists are the volunteers for the armed forces which are the Army, Royal Navy & Royal Air Force (RAF). The army's volunteers are the TA. The Royal navy's and the RAF's volunteers are their reservis... ... middle of paper ... ...lps the organisation is it gives them free work as they don't have to pay for the volunteer. Also the organisation can employ

  • Turner and The Royal Canadian Legion

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    leaders of the Army and Navy Veterans (ANV) and the Royal Canadian Legion, as the representatives of the veterans who sacrificed for Canada in its wars. The establishment of the Legion was Turner’s final major service to Canada by acting first as the figurehead and then actual leader in unifying the fragmented major veterans organisations, but one, into the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League and later the Royal Canadian Legion. By 1925, the veteran’s movement has split into multiple

  • Canadian Flag Debate Analysis

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    Levine’s argument has strong valid points about people not being adverse to change and that the Canadian flag is a symbol for ones country having the Red Ensign which was a symbol to the British. Many thought of that to be a Canadian tradition and were opposed for change on the Canadian flag. We tend to forget about the British connection and that emotional attachment that people have (Levine, 2014). This article examines the debates in which formal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson opted for a new design

  • Factors Influencing the American Victory at Yorktown

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    power in the western hemisphere. Many variables led to the downfall of the British Army and ultimate surrender to the American army. Though the defeat can be read in history book, it goes without controversy. The British had more experience, better equipment and better leaders. Some of the factors that have to be looked at was the American and foreign military support, Cornwallis defeat and the weapons used to defeat the British army and navy. These were some of the important factors that pushed the

  • Should We Continue To Commemorate Wars?

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    course of this essay I will be discussing whether or not we should continue to commemorate wars, I will be mainly referring to Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday as my examples because these are the biggest commemorations for any of the wars in British history. Among all of the ceremonies and silences that occur throughout the year, there is still a tendency for people to forget what they are commemorating and remembering. When we commemorate wars, for example on remembrance weekend, we are remembering

  • Epic of Beowulf - Where Did the Christianity in Beowulf Come From?

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    the Christianity in Beowulf Come From? The Christian influences in Beowulf ultimately came from the Christian/Catholic Church of Rome which converted Romans, and thereby the Roman legions and thereby the occupied provinces. Also the Christian/Catholic Bishop of Rome sent missionary priests and monks to the British Isles to proselytze the population. There are additional considerations too. First of all, let us be clear about the fact that the conversion of Britain to Christianity began quite

  • Epic of Beowulf Essay - Lindisfarne and Christian Influences in Beowulf

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    the poem is the product of a great age, the age of Bede, an age which knew artistic achievements of the kind buried at Sutton Hoo, an age in which art and learning were united to produce great gospel books like the Lindisfarne Gospels, now in the British Museum,  . . . (Stanley 3). The Lindisfarne Gospels was written and artistically decorated about the year 700. About the middle of the tenth century a Catholic priest named Aldred, after translating The Lindisfarne Gospels from Latin into Anglo-Saxon

  • Lester B Pearson Essay

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    Pearson’s greatest diplomatic achievement came in 1956 when he proposed a UN peacekeeping force in order to carefully maneuver the British and French out of Egypt during the Suez Crisis when the new nationalistic Egyptian government took control of the Suez Canal. Pearson had to be extremely careful when making his decision about the Suez Crisis because if unsuccessful, he could cause

  • Boudicca's Revolt against Roman Rule in Britain

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    authority, to at any time intervene in the internal affairs of their client kingdoms. On the other hand the main city of the Trinovantes tribe, which was located just south of the Iceni tribe, was declared by Emperor Claudius as the capital of his British province. The Trinovantes people lost their freedom as well as having most of the... ... middle of paper ... ...an occupation of Briton that the Romans were tested and nearly broke. She stood up and showed the Romans how all Celtic people felt

  • WW1 Canadian Vets and Post-War Veterans Assistance

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    harder for the veterans to make a living. Approximately 620,000 Canadians fought during the First World War. Nearly 700,000 if we account for the men and women that enlisted in the Canadian units outside of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and in the British forces. Of which, almost 173,000 Canadians were wounded and about 67,000 Canadians had lost their lives by November 11th, 1918. These casualties were devastating in numbers. Canada needed to regain the good faith of its people, despite the fact that

  • The Enlightenment and the Electric Battery

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    The Enlightenment and the Electric Battery This paper is a discussion of the role played by the ideals of the Enlightenment in the invention and assessment of artifacts like the electric battery. The first electric battery was built in 1799 by Alessandro Volta, who was both a natural philosopher and an artisan-like inventor of intriguing machines. I will show that the story of Volta and the battery contains three plots, each characterized by its own pace and logic. One is the story of natural

  • Culture Sociology

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    Culture is defined in many ways, but it derives from the word culminate from the 1900’s. Cultures are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. Learned behavior and accumulated behavior are a few of the different characteristics of culture. Cultures also share similar race and ethnicity. Learned behavior includes social behaviors in a large or small group, work ethics, spousal interaction, and treatment of family and friends

  • Let There Be Light: Did Punk Rock Really Make a Difference

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    Let there be light, and there was light Let there be sound, and there was sound Let there be drums, there was drums Let there be guitar, there was guitar, ah Let there be rock And it came to pass That rock 'n' roll was born All across the land every rockin' band Was blowin' up a storm And the guitar man got famous The business man got rich -Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott (AC/DC) In the early 1950s when Rock and Roll was born, it was so new and so different than anything heard

  • Elisabeth Louise Vigée- Lebrun

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    Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was one of the most successful painters of her time. Over the course of her life, spanning from 1755-1842, she painted over 900 works. She enjoyed painting self portraits, completing almost 40 throughout her career, in the style of artists she admired such as Peter Paul Rubens (Montfort). However, the majority of her paintings were beautiful, colorful, idealized likenesses of the aristocrats of her time, the most well known of these being the Queen of France Marie Antoinette

  • CSR

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    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves going beyond the interests of the firm and requirements of law to contribute in developing a sustainable environment and a better society (McWilliams and Siegel, 2001). Yet Vogel (2005) claims that regulation is required to ensure that companies comply with a standard of CSR. Unethical practices create negative images of organisations, however through adopting CSR; profitability may be increased through the positive image that society creates (Pava and

  • The Role of Public Service

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    The Role of Public Service Discipline: In Debra Gray’s book: BTEC National Public Service (uniformed) Book 1: discipline is described as obedience to authority. Discipline is necessary in all of the Public Services as it moulds people’s behaviour. It can do this in many ways such as causing fear of punishment, offering material rewards, or by offering opportunities if promotion. The main internet source of definitions I found was www.wikipedia.co.uk here I found definitions such

  • life during wartime

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    There’s nothing I can say about the parade of still pictures, the faces on the television – except, perhaps, that they all seemed to share a fierce pride in their eyes, photographed for the first time in their Marine Dress Blues. Surely their families are proud of them. I certainly am, and I never got to know any of them. And now, I never will. Names scroll in little yellow letters across the bottom of our glowing screens: Sergeants, and Captains, and Privates. These men have died for us. More will