20th-century English people

is the daughter of Powhatan who became an intermediary between the English colonist and her father, who the chief of their tribe. In 1616, Simon van de Passe did the first portrait of Pocahontas in England. The engraving is the only visual depiction of Pocahontas during her lifetime, other portraits of her were created after she had passed away (Robertson 554). Pocahontas ended up in England when she was captured by the English and converted to Christianity. Soon after she meet her husband John…

but he is of English descent. He was educated in England, and he later returned to Burma where he served as a police officer. This background knowledge sets up all the hatred that the villagers had for him. The cause and effect relationship here is if you are European then the oppressed villagers will have hatred for you. Orwell said he was tripped on the football field by a Burman and the referee just looked the other way. If we want to know why the villagers did not like the English we have to…

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show was a particular hit with English audiences when it arrived in England in 1887: “From foreign dignitaries to Queen Victoria herself, Cody pulled in audiences from every station of Victorian society and presented them with his vision of heroic, indelible Americanism” (Robinson 1). Novels, written by both English and American authors, were widely read and published in England. The English were enthralled with the American West and its heroic cowboys.…

Our enterprise began seven years to the date beyond the treacherous malfeasance, of a madman called, “Ripper.” His haunt extended from Whitechapel to Pall Mall, preying on the working-class woman. By comparison, this brutal display of carnage progressed unrivalled, since Scotland Yard expunged the Fleet Street tonsorial and his bawdy innkeeper. Yet, Never a man nor beast more dreadful walk the prestigious Isle of Great Britain, than the monster we'd come to extirpate. The killings had…

came into the picture around 1300 BCE (20-23). After this culture came to be, but then came the Bronze Age Collapse which occurred a couple hundred years after by a group known as the “sea people”(19) which whom had supposedly caused this destruction and there might have been another group that assisted the sea people with their plans. There was an event where the Greek legends discuss about the Dorian Invasion and whether or not the ancestors of the Celts were involved (20). The trouble of this…

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet. The works of William Shakespeare have been performed in countless countries and cities. “Though no birth records exist, church records indicate that a William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564” (William Shakespeare). William was the…

Journal Example on “A Modest Proposal”, by Jonathan Swift Style: Swift’s use of Satire to Drive his Point Swift’s use of satire is what truly makes his message so powerful. I can imagine that there were many do-gooders at the time breathlessly trying to convince the greedy British government that they need to act at solving the humanitarian crisis in Ireland, but that none likely got quite as much airtime as Swift’s outlandish essay. Through satire he must have shocked the upper class into…

Long ago in the kingdom of Camahort lived a king named Treasach and his beautiful queen named Aoife. They lived peacefully with all the lands of Ireland and they were the strongest kingdom on all the Irish highlands. All of Treasach’s subjects adored him they called him Treasach the Merciful and Treasach the Just. But do not be deceived if you your the mighty Treasach he will not take it lightly for his name means warrior. He is the son of the mighty god Lug himself. And Aoife the most…

were badly outnumbered by the English who had 14,000 men. “Marching north in 1298, Edward sought to avenge the English defeat at Stirling Bridge the year before” says Kennedy Hickman a Military History Expert on about.com. Wallace had a brilliant battle tactic, he continuously burned the land around the English camps in hope of starving them out, his plan worked. Edward and his army were planning to retreat back to England when Wallace moved about 13 miles from the English location. Wallace was…

William Shakespeare is a British writer and actors born on April 23, 1564. He has written many well-known plays and pieces of writing, such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Shakespeare is very inspirational and has set the bar and format for writing today, 452 years later. Many of his writings are realistic and we can relate to them to something going on around us or something in the past. Shakespeare took ideas from what was happening in his life and applied it to the writing…