To what extent can we say Great Britain and the USA have a special relationship? What have the advantages and the disadvantages of the relationship been?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Many signs in history show that the UK and the USA detain a privileged relation. As one of the first British colony to be liberated, the USA has always been related to Great Britain. These two countries share the same language, the same political tradition, the same religion. From...
Muslims and the State: A comparative study of Muslim religious needs in the educational domain in France and Great Britain
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in Europe today; it is already the second religion in Europe. There are at least thirteen million Muslims living in this area ranging from Portugal to Finland and from Ireland to Bulgaria. The sociological entity of these Muslims is very...
Communatarism" in Great Britain and the "French Republican model" of integration: With which method should the public policies be controlled while dealing with a multicultural society
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The issues of national identity, citizenship and multiculturalism are definitely in the middle of nowadays debates. In his work, John Rex develops the approach that the development of multiculturalism policies might diminish tensions between dominant and minority groups within a contemporary...
The experience of the Indian and Pakistani immigrant communities in Great Britain from 1948 to 1971
Essay - 56 pages - Modern history
The history of Indian and Pakistani presence in Britain is long as it dates back to the seventeenth century. Yet the influence of the South Asian community was almost insignificant at that time, for its size remained very small. Only after the Second World War (1939-1945) did South Asian...
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is...
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is...
Rule, Britannia! - James Thomson (1740); UKIP Party Song - Jonny and the Baptists (2013); The New York Times, How Britain Voted in the E.U. Referendum - Gregor Aisch, Adam Pearce and Karl Russell (2016); History of British Empire for Dummies - The United Kingdom, Between Unity and Division
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
The document comments on the two notions of "Space and Exchanges" and "Places and Forms of Power" in the context of the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. The commentary answer the questions "How was the UK built and what cultural model did it set up?" and "What...
How to Manage Great Resignation - The Economist (2021) - How Firms can Rethink their Recruitment Strategy for Keeping their Workforce in Place and Motivated?
Text commentary - 4 pages - International economy
This article from The Economist was edited approximately one year ago (late November 2021), two years after the pandemic crisis. Economies are impacted in many ways. First of all, human resource managers have to reinvent their job. For two years, the job market has been struggling due to the...
Great Expectations, Chapter 41 - Charles Dickens (1861) - Pip's Assessment of a Past Event
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Published in 1861 and written by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations is the perfect illustration of the Victorian period. Through this novel, Dickens portrays different social classes in industrial Britain, and mock the aristocracy. Different styles are blended together (notably...
How to become a part of the Great British story?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Cultural heritage, representing culture and civilisation, has a vital importance in Great Britain, and in this context the school has an important place. Access to culture is achieved primarily through education and training and, in addition, literature, theatre and art, which are...
Youth marginality in Britain: Contemporary studies of austerity - Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers (2017) - Offering evidence-based recommendations for policymakers to achieve social justice for young people
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
The selected book for review is Youth marginality in Britain: Contemporary studies of austerity by Shane Blackman and Ruth Rogers. This book was published in 2017 and is based on case studies on factors affecting young people in the United Kingdom. The book has 17 chapters written by...
The Battle of Britain in World War II
Case study - 5 pages - Modern history
The Battle of Britain was an encounter between British air force, the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German air force, the Luftwaffe. The aerial battle took place in the United Kingdom in 1940. Germany had planned an invasion, named “Operation Sealion”, in Britain. For...
Cars and the environment in Britain
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Human beings always search for technical progress, the industrial revolution is a good example of this assertion but it is sometimes to the detriment of the nature. The invention of the car was decisive, thanks to it, time and space can be reduced but it has also some disastrous effects on the...
The idea of progress - Modernity and tradition in Britain
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
The youngest part of the British population agrees with the Monarchy. All generations seem to agree about the future of the British monarchy. In the past, many people wanted to see Prince William succeed, now they prefer Prince Charles. Moreover if the population thinks Monarchy is a symbol, a...
Britain's stance towards the Briand Plan
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
"Among people who are geographically grouped as the people of Europe, there must be some sort of federal link.” This is how the French foreign minister Aristide Briand presented his plan for a federal European Union or the Briand Project of European Union, as it is known today, for the first...
Britain's industrial revolution: Social consequences and the plight of the working class
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The late 18th century was a period of revolutions, which is why for many it was a time of change and uncertainty. The American colonists had achieved their independence from Britain and the French had overthrown their monarchy and the nobility during this time period. In Britain...
Britain and Europe Since 1945
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
Winston Churchill, the great British leader who had seen Britain through the war, had an incredible charisma. At the end of the Second World War in 1946, he came up with a brilliant idea. He opined that in the European continent, the only way to go forward for the war-torn Europe...
In what ways and why was Britain's industrialization experience unusual?
Case study - 5 pages - Modern history
The British Industrial Revolution is a highly debated historical event. The discussion is vigorous, especially when it comes to the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps the most common questions in this respect are: “Why was England First?”, “What was so special about...
To what extent can Britain's relatively slow industrial growth between 1870 and 1914 be blamed on the failings of entrepreneurs?
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
In the late 19th century Great Britain was still one of the world's leading and growing economies. The Great British economy was mature with a relatively small agricultural sector and a large service sector. However, historians have often debated the reason as to why such an...
Is Britain a religious country?
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Nowadays, in the modern western countries, religion is becoming less and less important, and that includes Great-Britain. Since the end of Second World War, religion has lost its grip on peoples lives for many reasons. According to the many polls that have been conducted recently by a...
Was the Macmillan government's decision to apply for membership of the European Communities the product of Britain's declining global status? - publié le 02/04/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The fear that Britain would become, as Labour's post-war Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin put it “just another European country” , was one of the main reasons to explain the British refusal to join a European supranational organisation. The Attlee government was indeed in favour of...
Eurosceptics in Britain
Thesis - 4 pages - European union
An eurosceptic is a person who takes a dim view to European Union, who only considers its drawbacks, someone who criticizes the process of European Integration and who has doubts about the viability or the usefulness of Europe. This term is mainly used to qualify politics, especially the British....
Was the Macmillan government's decision to apply for membership of the European Communities the product of Britain's declining global status?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The fear that Britain would become, as Labour's post-war Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin put it "just another European country" , was one of the main reasons to explain the British refusal to join a European supranational organisation. The Attlee government was indeed in favour of...
What were the principal factors behind Britain's late accession to the European Union?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
To unify Western Europe after World War II, France, Western Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands founded the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. The Treaty of Paris was the first step towards a European integration. It was aimed at avoiding any other war between France...
Britain is widely regarded as the 'awkward partner' in Europe: How accurate is this assessment? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The Second World War gave impetus to the idea of European unity. A view developed that only by the creation of some form of European federation would Europe enjoys a permanent peace. After WW2, European states focussed on national reconstruction, whereas Britain had a globalist...
Britain and France in Mandatory Palestine and Lebanon: Power, Division, and the Nation
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
Most scholars of the Middle East agree that many conflicts present in the Middle East today can be attributed to the borders drawn by Western powers during the crucial Mandate period beginning in 1919 and continuing through the outbreak of World War I. The cases of Palestine/Israel and Lebanon...
Britain is widely regarded as the 'awkward partner' in Europe: How accurate is this assessment?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The Second World War gave impetus to the idea of European unity. A view developed that only by the creation of some form of European federation would Europe enjoys a permanent peace. After WW2, European states focussed on national reconstruction, whereas Britain had a globalist...
Does secular anglicanism still exist in Britain ?
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
During a conference organized last December, Tony Blair recalled the tradition of tolerance in the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, Great Britain, since a long time, seems to be a multicultural nation, where the differences of each one are articulated around the divisions common...
The Great Scramble: European Anxiety and the Division of Africa
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
In the high Victorian era, the Great Powers of Europe were suddenly struck with what initially seemed a inexplicable fever to divide among themselves an entire continent about which they knew remarkably little. Although some of the colonies subsequently formed became very profitable, the...
The impact of the Suez crisis on Britain, Egypt and Israel - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Suez Crisis of 1956 has been commonly seen as a turning point in post war world history, the moment when Britain's pretension to world power status was stripped away, and when Egypt became the leader of the Arab world, an event which triggered a radical change in the relations...
