Copyright: June 1990 ISBN: 0-688-07895-8 Format: Hardcover Pages: 270 It was about time for me to read another non-fiction book. This is an irreverant and often-humorous look at the history and quirks of the English language‚ covering both British and American English and the distinctions between them (and touching briefly on Australian as well). While it does touch on some of the origins and major turning points of the language‚ it’s not a history book so much as a collection of fascinating
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How did Trade and Commerce Contribute to the Development of the British Empire 1680-1763? The role of trade and commerce in the initial establishment of the British Empire bore huge weight. With a financial agreement with another country comes natural relations‚ and from that blooms a possibility to extend those relations into the foundations of an impending empire. Both the East India and Royal African Companies acted as a stem for lasting European presence in native land and so are both significant
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of all British women. The huge scale of the war resulted in the enormous participation of almost six million men and subsequently an extensive demand for female labour in the manufacturing and services industries. The war resulted in massive social upheaval particularly on the lives women who attained greater freedom despite tighter Government controls. Women’s lives were upturned as they were thrust into the labour‚ social and economic spotlight‚ something never previously seen in British history
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The question "were the British soldiers ’Lions led by Donkeys?’" has been an ongoing debate since the end of the war. A war which is dominated by images of bloody battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele - futile frontal attacks against the machine guns. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the troops were ’lions led by donkeys’. The definition that the soldiers were ’lions’ in the war has never been questioned - due to the horrific reports of their lives in the war. The soldiers were
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The British established a settlement in New South Wales in 1788 because they needed to send some of the prisoners out of the country because of the overcrowded prisons in Britain‚ which led to more crime and therefore convicts‚ for a growth of empire‚ security and trade and they needed a climate suitable for growing crops such as flax and trees for their wood due to their supply being under threat from war. Such a colony would solve the problem of Britain’s overcrowded prisons (a problem caused
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The Role of English in the world today In the last years English plays more and bigger role as in the life word society as in the life of every person. Now the time when communication between people allows to find solution any problem from global to privet. First of all‚ the English is the main language of most international organization like the United nations‚ NATO‚‚ European Free trade Association. Diplomats and politicians from different countries use this language to communicate with each
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Isle of the Lost Book Report By Sammie Unger In the beginning of the story‚ I found out that all the villains from the fairy tales we all banished from the United States of Auradon‚ and imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost. They no longer had their powers and had to live on the scraps that were brought to the Isle from Auradon. The whole island was invited to the 6th birthday of a princess‚ Evie‚ daughter of the Evil Queen‚ except for 1 child‚ Mal‚ daughter of Malefiecent. They were given “baddie bags”
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THE SENTINEL Arthur C. Clarke 1951 Avon Periodicals Inc. The next time you see the full moon high in the south‚ look carefully at its right-hand edge and let your eye travel upward along the curve of the disk. Round about two o’clock you will notice a small‚ dark oval: anyone with normal eyesight can find it quite easily. It is the great walled plain‚ one of the finest on the Moon‚ known as the Mare Crisium-the Sea of Crises. Three hundred miles in diameter‚ and almost completely surrounded
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I agree that the way the British soldiers treated the Boer fighters and civilians was in fact brutal. With the use of the ‘refugee camps’ and the scorched earth policy it made them seem that much more brutal. Sources P‚ Q and R all offer different insights into how brutally British soldier dealt with the Boer guerrilla fighters during the Second Boer war in 1899‚ with evidence to support the brutality of it all. Source R strongly agrees that the British treated the Boers badly‚ particularly the
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railroad‚ and irrigation systems. It also set up a large army called the Sepoys to defend its interests and India’s borders. The Sepoys were commanded by the British officers and were supported by the units of the British army. Although the Indians benefited from the British rule many resented British rule. The East India Company made sure that British colonist received most of the advantages from the new technology and industrialization. Indian factory workers and servants received very low wages. Farmers
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