Anglo-Afghan War is widely considered the worst military defeat in British Imperial history. Also known as Auckland’s Folly‚ it was a contest between the British East India Company and the tribes of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. Approximately 4‚500 British and Indian Sepoy soldiers‚ and 12‚000 camp followers died in the ruinous retreat from Kabul through the Gandamak Pass to Jalalabad. Famously (if exaggeratedly) only one British survivor‚ assistant surgeon William Brydon‚ made it to Jalalabad
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British monarchy - Should they stay or should they go? Yona Oshrat The nurse Jacintha Saldanha was looking after Prince William’s wife Kate – who was suffering from morning sickness – when two Australian DJs called the hospital impersonating The Queen and Prince Charles. Believing the call was genuine she then transferred the call to the ward where Kate was staying where another nurse gave information about Kate’s condition. The nurse found hanged after the hoax call to the hospital - she committed
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British Consulate Is Moved From Bonny To Duke Town (’Old Calabar’): 1888 The first determined action taken by the British Government to advance its interests in the Niger Coast was its decision in 1888 - barely 6 months after the deportation of King Jaja - to station a consul at Duke Town‚ Calabar. Despite the fact that the consul had no means of exercising any authority over any of the peoples of the area who did not care a thing about the powers of a foreign‚ uninvited‚ and therefore‚ unwelcome
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How were British political parties affected by the First World War by 1918? The First World War affected all areas of Britain and its people‚ impacting the economy‚ industry and the role of its government amongst other things. I believe that the war was a terrible struggle for the British government‚ what with it being a total war‚ meaning it wasn’t just the soldiers who were fighting the effects of a world war. Bombs were dropped from 1914 on December 16th when a German warship killed 119 people
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effecting the role of the Navy worldwide. The British Royal Navy had no match or rival; especially evident after they decisively destroyed their European rivals: the French‚ Dutch and the Spanish‚ by 1763. However‚ full dominancy wasn’t reached until 1805‚ during the destruction of the Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar. Once the Royal Navy achieved dominance‚ the navy began playing major roles in trade‚ diplomacy and exploration‚ therefore‚ spreading British influence from
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Discuss the impacts of storm events in the British Isles and evaluate the response to them (40) The British Isles have variable weather‚ which may differ from day to day and many storms can pass unnoticed. They regularly experience stormy weather from depressions mainly originating in the Atlantic and move East to the UK due to its location at about 50 degrees north where the Polar Jet Stream will often cross over bringing these unpredictable weather systems. Depressions are areas of low atmospheric
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Explain the Importance of carbon taxes for the airline industry. Can Ryanair and British Airways respond in the same way? What is “Carbon Tax”? In the past‚ polluting was free. Generating pollution has a cost‚ which is a cost on earth natural environment‚ our economy and earth way of life. A Carbon Tax changes this. Instead of being able to pollute for free‚ polluters must pay for a price for every tone of carbon pollution is created. How does “Carbon Tax” affect the flight industry? Industry
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A staggering war debt influenced many British policies after the Seven Years War. Many colonists who came here in pursuit of freedom were outraged at the attempts by British Parliament to enforce tax laws to benefit the British and the monarchy‚ John Stockton‚ a23 year old glassblower‚ living in New York‚ and member of the New York Sons of Liberty‚ was one of those angry colonists in 1768. The conceptualization of this freedom would compel him and other Patriot‚ artisans‚ to continue to fight for
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psychological antrhopology‚ 2nd edition. Waveland: Prospec Heights. Hofstede‚ G. (1980). Culture ’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. London: SAGE Publications. Hofstede‚ G. (1983). The cultural relativity of organizational practices and theories. Journal of International Business Studies‚ Fall‚ 75-90. Hofstede‚ G. (1991). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. London: McGraw-Hill. Hofstede‚ G. (1996). Riding the waves of commerce: a test on Trompenaars ’ "model"
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| Vietnam | France | Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. | Vietnam scores high on this dimension (score of 70) which means that people accept a hierarchical order in which
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