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The Vimy Ridge battle in World War 1

The Vimy Ridge battle in World War 1 took place in France during early 1917 Germany had complete control of the Ridge before Canada came to Vimy The French and British both tried to defeat Germany at Vimy Ridge but failed Led by general in command Arthur Currie and Julian Bing the Canadians captured the Ridge in four days Vimy Ridge is an important battle to Canadian History based on its geographic military and intellectual impact The Canadians had a huge geographic disadvantage at Vimy Ridge Despite those disadvantages they succeeded in capturing the Ridge in blinding speed The Germans were positioned at the top of the hill and the Canadians were positioned at the bottom The Germans position made it so that any soldier who tried to come up was vulnerable in the open space General Arthur Currie came up with an intelligent plan called the Creeping Barrage that would enable the Canadians to reach the top of the Ridge with minimum casualties The Creeping Barrage consisted of artillery being set off and the soldiers moving 100 yards every three minutes The Canadians dug tunnels underground as a place to store their artillery outside of German sight They did this in a place the Germans wouldn't be able to see even from being at the top of the hill Billy Bishop worked with Arthur Currie in creating maps of the Ridge Billy Bishop flew over Vimy Ridge hundreds of times taking pictures of the battlefield Bishop then took these photos and created maps Arthur Currie used these maps to prepare his soldiers Currie had the soldiers learn exactly what the battlefield would be like 



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American culture after World War Noir french Film

The representation of woman in film noir and the notions of sexuality gender roles and the structure of the family that were characteristic of the American culture after World War Noir french film noir is a cinematic term applied to the Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s which capture the atmosphere of pessimism mistrust frustration and cynicism typical of American society during World War II war and the first years of the Cold War The term black film or film noir was first used in 1946 by the French critic Nino Frank to designate a style that gained popularity in American cinema in the mid 1940s It is characterized by a criminal plot a dark atmosphere of cynical fatalism and pessimism blurring the line between hero and antihero relative realism of action and dark lighting of scenes usually night scenes Women usually act as false characters that cannot be trusted on the other hand they motivate the main male characters or they are represented as a perfect wife which is silent and submissive Femme fatal The image of a fatal woman or femme fatale a seductress whose charms are dangerous for a man paralyzes his will and allows a woman to use it for her own purposes this is one of the archetypes of world culture and mythology Eva and Lilith Salome and Cleopatra sirens and succubus they can all be called fatal

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