Where do you think by a decade you would be? Rich? Successful? Poor? Or still on something you think would make you successful? Or you don’t know. This life such unpredictable. When and how it turns around no man knows, I believe. It can make someone who’s successful in present times, poor later in ten years’ time. The individual may be very economical and careful but that’s how things have turn within a 10-year interval and there’s no nomothetical way to explain this phenomenon. Have ever seen an old person who is weeding or doing any hard work to earn living? What questions do you ask yourself? Aren’t they supposed to be resting or doing less active work at their age? What went wrong for them when they were young? Weren’t they given any opportunity like you have? Or they had it and didn’t make any good use of it? Some of them, I believe, were not expose to opportunities. Imagine you were born and bred in a hamlet where you have no reach to technology and social amenit...
THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 –1916 BACKGROUND TO WAR: THE ROAD TO WAR The route which led the major powers of Europe to war in 1914 was long and tortuous, with many complex and interwoven factors eventually combining to drive them into a protracted and cataclysmic struggle. Among these factors were new naval and military technology, colonial rivalries, economic competition and irreconcilable national ambitions. However, perhaps the most important and obvious turning point towards a general European conflict was the Franco [1] Prussian War of 1870–1871. That limited confrontation had seen the humiliating defeat of France and the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership. The sudden emergence of the German Empire, which as part of the spoils of victory took the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine from France, brought about a fundamental shift in the European balance of power. Germany’s subsequent and accelerating progress towards economic ascendancy only intensified the anxieties o...