most daunting questions posed to graduate students (or any student for that matter) is the one inquiring about their focus. When asked about this project‚ I have told friends and family that I study the use of Americanness in British comedy as a means to reassert a sense of British identity. This is the easiest and most concise way I have found to answer the question. It is also a sentence constructed in such a way as to impress those unfamiliar with television studies. For some reason‚ when people hear
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5. British and American Press Nearly 80% of all households in Britain buy a copy of one of the main national papers every day – the British are the third biggest newspaper readers. Newspaper publications are dominated by the national press. Non-national‚ local and regional papers‚ with significant circulations are published mostly in the evenings‚ when they don’t compete with national ones. “The Sunday papers” are mostly national‚ they sell slightly more copies and thicker. British “paper round”
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There are many issues the British society is facing‚ it is not a perfect society. British society just like Chinese society，European society and American society have positive things but also some problems that need to solved. British society is not perfect‚ it means it has a lot of issues. We need to look at them in order to find out what problems are and also suggest some methods. This essay will discuss three important issues‚ firstly‚ we are going to discuss that waves of immigration brings tension
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discussion and took the group in the right direction. If‚ on the other hand‚ the first speaker’s start lacks substance‚ he will attract the undivided attention of the evaluators to his shortcomings. So speak first only if you have enough sensible things to say. Otherwise‚ keep yourself silent and let someone else start. Try and summarise the discussion at the end. In the summary‚ do not merely restate your point of view‚ also accommodate dissenting viewpoints. If the group did not reach a consensus
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Introduction British American Tobacco plc (informally BAT) is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest tobacco company by sales (after Philip Morris International). BAT has a market-leading position in over 50 countries and operations in around 180 countries. Its four largest-selling brands are Dunhill‚ Lucky Strike‚ Kent and Pall Mall‚ with others including Kool‚ Benson & Hedges and Rothmans. BAT has a primary listing on
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History: British Airways PLC is the largest international airline in the world. It is based at Heathrow Airport in London‚ the busiest international airport in the world‚ and has a global flight network through such partners as USAir in the United States‚ Qantas in Australia‚ and TAT European Airlines in France. Via its own operations and those of its alliance partners‚ British Airways serves 95 million passengers a year using 441 airports in 86 countries and more than 1‚000 planes. British Airways
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ATTACHING THIS WORD DOCUMENT WITH YOUR ANSWERS FILLED IN) TO THE ASSIGNMENT DROPBOX IN WEEK 5. THE DEADLINE IS SUNDAY‚ OCTOBER 14 BY 11 PM. THE MAXIMUM SCORE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT IS 20 POINTS. PLEASE SHOW ALL OF YOUR WORK. NAME: Telecom Italia is considering the investment in a capital project. The initial cost in year 0 is $149‚000 to be depreciated straight line over 5 years to an expected salvage value of $15‚000. The firm’s tax rate is 35% and it has an 11% cost of capital (the
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British Cinema History Emergent British Cinema 1880-1900 Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1892‚ and their show first came to London in 1896. However‚ the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park in 1889 by William Friese Greene‚ a British inventor‚ who patented the process in 1890. The film is the first known instance of a projected moving image. At the end of the 19th America had started to experiment
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not rebel on the invasion of the Japanese ‚ this was insulting to the statue of British power. And then following in 1942 was the fall of Singapore‚ Burma and Tobruk in Africa. Even though all these colonies were restored after the War‚ the fall of them did have a huge impact on the Empire. Most significantly was the fall of Singapore‚ as according to Churchill “it was the worst humiliation of the British army ever.” Such event taking place gave a new image of Britain; it made her look weak‚ and
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The First War of Indian Independence or the The Sepoy Rebellion). Shatranj Ke Khilari‚ The Chess Players (Hindi‚ 1977) is set in 19th century India on the eve of the Indian rebellion of 1857. It deals with the politics of colonial expansion by the British East India Company. Shaheed (Hindi‚ 1965) The film is set in 1916 and based on the life of Bhagat Singh who joins the freedom fighting movement.
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