Should a British person bother learning any language other than English? English is said to be the most common and used language on Earth. People from all over the world use it to communicate with individuals from other countries. Moreover‚ in almost all of the European schools English is the mandatory first language. This brings us to the question: What about the English native speakers? Is there any need for them to study other foreign languages? According to a recent survey in the UK‚ an overwhelming
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revolves around a small group of friends from New Orleans who vacation together on Grand Isle each summer‚ the main character being Edna Pontellier. On the other hand‚ there’s a film entitled Grand Isle‚ which is a direct translation of Chopin’s novel. Both The Awakening and Grand Isle make use of setting‚ symbols‚ and characters to reveal the ultimate theme of the work: that nobody is free from society. Grand Isle is a very complete adaptation of The Awakening and with only a couple minor details altered
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The climate of the British Isles is said to be both temperate and maritime‚ discuss. The British Isles located at 54◦N has historically had very unstable and hard to predict weather patterns due its location where five significantly different air masses converge and with influences from the Sub-polar Jet stream and North Atlantic Drift. Along with the additional complication of global warming potentially causing more extreme weather‚ meteorologists have been unable to agree on whether the UK has
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“Was Ireland a colony of the British Empire?” The literal definition of a colony is: “A subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state.” Whether or not Ireland fell under this classification‚ in its unionist days‚ is hotly debated. One could argue that because Ireland was incorporated into Great Britain as a single kingdom‚ was included in parliament and involved in colonial affairs‚ that it was not a colony itself. However one could
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according to the chronological method of history‚ let us always try to think of it as the progressive revelation of the mind and spirit of the English people. We shall look in detail at the social and cultural history of the centuries in which the British literary tradition has grown‚ and explore the historical experience as well as the literary importance of the writers it considers. English literature as an integral part of the world cultural heritage English literature is an integral part of
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English Literature is much more colourful and has greater analytical depth than West Indian Literature. It is often said that “the grass is greener on the other side.” For many which is located closer to us or that which we have become more accustom to often appear to be of lesser value and totally depreciated. The veracity of this observation is definitely pertinent as we look comparatively at the literary perspectives locally‚ and that which is regarded as foreign. English Literature is much more
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as well. so he is encouraged to do both. Association football‚ or soccer is one of the most popular games in the British Isles played from late August until the beginning of May. In summer the English national sport is cricket. When the English say: "that’s not cricket" it means "that’s not fair"‚ "to play the game" means "to be fair". Golf is Scotland’s chief contribution to British sport. It is worth noting here an interesting feature of sporting life in Britain‚ namely‚ its frequently close connections
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lie in the north-west coast of Europe. Collectively they are known as the British Isles. The largest island is called Great Britain. The smaller one is called Ireland. Great Britain is separated from the continent by the English Channel. The country is washed by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Great Britain is separated from Belgium and Holland by the North Sea‚ and from Ireland - by the Irish Sea. In the British Isles there are two states. One of them governs of the most of the island of Ireland
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discuss the impacts of storm events in the british isles and evaluate Can someone help clear something up for me with ecosystems - savanna grassland biome... In the textbook it says that it is cooler in the dry season and hotter in the wet season but then says that in the desert margins the temperature ranges from 18ºC in the wet season and 34ºC in the dry season Did the make a mistake by saying that the wet season is hotter or have they got the temperatures muddled? (Original post by
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and British English.” We know that the language of some English speakers differs from that of others‚ every language allows different kinds of variations: geographical or territorial‚ perhaps the most obvious‚ stylistic‚ the difference between the written and the spoken form of the standard national language and others. For historical and economic reasons the English language has spread over vast territories. It is natural‚ that‚ the English language is not used with uniformity in the British Isles
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