Geats‚ traveled to the Danes to help the king Hrothgar to kill the monsters who often attacked people of the Geats. However‚ for the epic poem‚ some questions occur to me‚ which likes “why does the hero Beowulf not live in Britain? Even‚ why this story has no concern with Britain?” or “why was Beowulf‚ as a pagan story‚ preserved and circulated by the Christianity in the Dark Middle Age?” and so on. Consequently‚ after I finished my reading about Beowulf and others books about its reviews‚ and my thinking
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of Scotland Hebrides Islands --> the west coast of Scotland Isle Of Man --> between England and Scotland John O’Groat’s --> the northest point in Great Britain Land’s End --> the southest point in Great Britain LOCH LOMOND – the largest lake in Scotland BEN NEVIS – the highest mountain in Scotland and also in Britain LOCH NESS – also Scottish lake CLAN – type of Scottish family group (each clan has different pattern of kilt) Mc/Mac – it means “son of…”; Scots names begin in
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Should Britain introduce a codified constitution? The British constitution is unwritten‚ although it may be less misleading to call it uncodified as various aspects of the constitution are written down. The term uncodified means the constitution is not all kept in a single document‚ but is spread about in various pieces of legislature. It also means British laws‚ policies and codes are developed through statutes‚ common law‚ convention‚ and recently European Union law. Although the British constitution
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To what extent has the stability of class as a marker of identity changed in contemporary Britain? Discuss with reference to two examples from British television. In this essay I will be discussing how class is considered in modern day Britain and how people see class in their lives‚ I will also discuss how the class system is treated by the media through TV sitcoms and reality TV programs. The examples of modern television programs I have chosen as my subjects are massively popular and critically
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compulsory in Britain? Britain currently employs a voluntary voting system‚ whereby it is entirely up to the individual to choose whether to vote or not. 32 countries across the world‚ such as; Australia‚ Switzerland and Belgium‚ employ a compulsory voting system‚ were the citizens of their countries must register their vote in elections. This paper is going to look into the positive‚ negative‚ opportunity and threat aspects of whether voting should be made compulsory in Britain. One of the
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would offer protection if an extremist came to power and wanted to disregard democratic procedures. Against • Britain has survived very well until now with an unwritten constitution. The public is not clamouring for a written constitution because it understands the conventions which govern political procedure. • Written constitutions are ruled upon by judges. In Britain our judges are unelected and it is therefore undemocratic to take power away from our elected representatives and give
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In fact‚ Marx‚ Lenin‚ terrorists and others were bothering not the Great Britain but its enemies or friends‚ and that’s quite another matter. After all‚ no one even stumbled upon the idea to grant political asylum for the enemies of the throne and of the establishment or for the fighters for the independence of the British colonies (the becoming of many future undertakers of the British Empire took place in British colleges and universities‚ but at those times they had not fledged yet and had not
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This essay will focus on the two superpowers‚ France and Britain‚ with a respective of their colonies. It’s necessary to note that‚ there was a great difference between the colonial policies of France and Britain and this is what impacts rather or not decolonisation caused more problems than it solved. Mainly because‚ the Superpowers colonial process‚ had a direct influence of the procedure of colonized states gaining their independence. Decolonisation is defined as “the act of getting rid of
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Before the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s Britain mainly consisted of little agricultural communities and manufacturing was done mainly in the people’s homes or in rural stores using hand tools or simple machinery. When the Industrial Revolution began it lead the people into a new era‚ full of new inventions‚ mass production and steam power. Though industrialisation increased Goods manufacturing and improved the standard of living for a small portion of people‚ the poor and the working
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There were many things that made the colonists upset with the British‚ and therefore‚ led to the American Revolution. One event that made the colonists upset with Britain is the French and Indian War. After the war‚ Greta Britain was in a lot of debt‚ so they had to get money from somewhere. They started taxing the colonies‚ which made them very upset and angry because they didn’t think that they should be the one who had to pay it off. Another event that upset the colonists was the Boston Massacre
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