Essays on Last Summer

Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin considers the origins of World War from the perspective of the alliances Germany had formed prior to the war and how those alliances affected its entry into the war. It also examines how relatively small events (such as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand) can spiral out of control and lead to a world war. In particular, Fromkin looks in detail at the European crisis that occurred in mid-1914 and pieces together his argument that it was Germany’s alliances and how poorly it handled its diplomatic relations which resulted in the terrible calamity ...

REFLECTION PAPER

Reflection Paper Introduction I am a student of global financial management studies at the Regents Business School in London. I actually believe this school is the best choice for training and all other finance-related disciplines. My objective is to work in the financial markets after graduating from university. Some of the areas that I want to focus on include wealth management, private equity, private banking, and the hedge funds. In other words, I am focused on developing a career in the investment banking concentrating on the high net worth individuals across the world. To gain the core competencies required ...

Language has different systemic functional perspectives which allow a writer to express and connect ideas, interact with others and create cohesive and coherent texts for the readers (Derewianka 2012). The first text is an information report written to give generalized information about Antarctica and its food web. An information report structure involves a general statement identifying the topic of the report, followed by various descriptions of the topic. The second text is a narrative about a dramatic event that occurred during a family holiday at the beach. It was written as a first person narrative with the clear intent to entertain and instruct through ...

On the day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo, it could not have been known to anyone alive at the time how vast the scale of consequences would become. But the balance of power among the European nations had been offset in recent years and decades due to various events that placed various pressures on the nations involved and set the stage for the large European conflict that was to come. While the war was certainly by no means inevitable, the rising pressures within the various nations as well as increasing pressure between the ...

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Karate is generally a martial art that was started in Japan at a place called Okinawa. This place was previously called Ryukyu Islands. Some of the fighting skills taught in karate include elbow strikes, punching, knee strikes, and punching. Though karate is concerned with fighting methods, I would wish to point out that it is not a violent sport. Last summer I got a chance to join a karate group at a local gym and one thing that I came to learn is that this sport not only involves learning the art of fighting but also trains people to be disciplined. Indeed discipline is ...

Take Back the Night Film Series is a sequential presentations on the fight for the women freedom in the society. It is majorly concerned with the rights that the women feel that they are being denied by the men. This is the society and calls for the cooperation of all women to take part and work against the ruling of man. The major concerns are in the rape of women, how women can defend themselves among others. This brings the connections with the rape cases that were made in form of presentations in class. Ever since the saying has ...