I am very honored of being eligible to become a member of the National Honors Society‚ becoming a member of the NHS has been one of my major goals throughout my highschool career. It would be a great privilege to represent the NHS as a student with scholarship‚ leadership‚ service and character. I believe that as a student I represent these Four Pillars. For instance scholarship represents the hard work that as a student you put into your academics‚ but to me academics is something that I care
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“The age of Victoria made Britain great and brought prosperity to all her subjects”. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Queen Victoria reign lasted sixty-three years. This was called the Victorian Era and this era played a key part in developing the British Empire and all her subjects. Many historians argue if the Victorian Era was good or bad and if events like The Opium wars and more people being able to vote made Britain great and brought prosperity to all her subjects. This essay
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Themes of Treachery‚ Deceit‚ and Greed The main concept that is portrayed in the medieval text “The History of the Kings of Britain” is the theme of treachery‚ deceit‚ and greed. The book revolves around the medieval leadership in Britain from the era of King Brutus to King Cadwallon. In chapter I‚ Gratian Municeps is seen to run and grab power after the demise of Maximian. This shows the greed for power as the author further adds that Municeps ruled with such tyranny that the common people felt
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Growth Strategy and Performance of Britain Growth Strategy In the following analysis‚ we will study growth strategy of Britain from 1980 to 1990 and growth performance from 1980 to 2000. The decade of 1980s was marked by the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Desire to study the economic impact of Thatcher’s economic policy made me opt for Britain. She was strong proponent of free market economics and was subject to scrutiny for her nonconventional economic policies‚ known as Thatcherism. Thatcherism
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Members of Parliament (MPs) are chosen as representatives of constituencies all over Britain by the people. Whether these MPs represent each individual and his or her views fairly in the House of Commons‚ it is up to each individual to decide. MPs are chosen by voters on the electoral list who choose to go vote for candidates they want to be their "local" MPs; people who will represent their constitution in the House of Commons. Some may vote for the candidates who represent the party of their
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What are team members’ roles? Why are they necessary to the team? After defining each person’s role on a team‚ what are their responsibilities? Can a team have dual roles and responsibilities? Does your personality have to match your role on the team? What are the benefits and advantages in working within a team? These are all questions that are not clearly defined in the beginning. This causing the overall scope of the project to be difficult‚ lack of communication between team members and team members
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In the early years of colonial settlement in the Americas‚ the struggle for land ownership between European countries seemed everlasting. One feud between Great Britain and France led to the French and Indian War during the mid 18th century. After the war was over in 1763‚ the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies were altered. Although altered‚ not all would agree that they were altered for the worse. Soldiers on Britain’s side during the French
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Explain why Great Britain followed a policy of appeasement toward Germany in the 1930s? The appeasement policy‚ which can be defined as a diplomatic policy that hopes of preventing war by making concessions to an aggressor‚ was displayed by Great Britain towards Germany in the preface to World War II. However‚ it proved to be a spectacular failure‚ because leaders of the countries that were being appeased were taking advantages of these policies and were building up their own power since other
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Москва‚ 2013г. Abstract Theme of the work: “Theatrical Life of Britain and Russia” Author: Elena Ganenko‚ 9«B» ‚ gymnasium №1538 Supervisor: Tatiana Kuznetsova‚ English teacher Consultant: Irina Lyubivaya‚ Teacher of English and Culture of Higher Theatrical School (Institute) named after M.S. Schepkin Theatrical spectators of Russia and the Great Britain became the purpose of mine research. I have decided to learn history of English and Russian of theatres
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Should Turkey become the EU member? Modern Turkey is located in the territory of central part of former East-Roman empire which sufficiently influenced on formation of European civilization. Nowadays‚ there are many historical monuments reminding about Greek-Roman colonies and Christian traditions in Turkey. Since the beginning of XX century‚ Turkey was striving for adoption of the European model of development in all spheres of social life. All of this could be considered as essential criteria
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