British English

When I first stepped out of the plane in Mumbai, I paused and started to glance around the beautiful scenery that was in front of me. It was 5 AM; we got into the bus and the first thing I noticed was a cow half a mile away sitting on the street. I looked at my friends, and we started giggling. The city was like no other. Even at that time it seemed like the whole city was awake. The roads were filled with cars and “Tuk Tuks”. On each corner there would be a stand of food, clothing, or jewelry.…

In order to pay off his debt he impose a tax on the colonies without their consent. This caused many uproar throughout the colonies. The colonist did not like being taxed for something that had always been free. They immediately begin to boycott British goods. This thus made the king furious, King George wasted no time in sending soldiers across the Atlantic to make sure the colonies would behave as the way they should. The colonist decided to revolt. A group of colonist dressed up as American…

from the latin neglegere, literally meaning "not to pick up something.” In this scenario what the British Empire weren’t picking up was the welfare of the Irish people, something that seemed like a straightforward responsibility given the trouble they went through to reign in Ireland and establish the Act of Union in 1800. An example of this is shown clearly in Paddy’s Lament describing the British extraction of food and supplies from Ireland made by Irish people during 1847, the most brutal…

the new land. The Spanish, French, and English had many similarities and differences in their purposes for colonizing, relationships with the Indians, and ways of making money. The countries that claimed land in North America had similar ways of colonizing, yet there were many differences among the settlers.…

his book, Defiance of the Patriots: the Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, the Tea Party was sparked by four key factors. Britain’s taxation without representation was evidently the colonists’ primary grievance. To further elaborate, the British government imposed taxes on the colonists, despite the colonists not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made. Such a tyranny over the colonies would not have perpetuated much longer,…

From Colonization to Despaired Hope “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery (Galatians 5:1)”. Through the years Nigeria has gone through many changes; while bringing modernization, enslaved many of the Nigerian people. For years and years Great Britain has played a major role there and has had major effects on it. Great Britain had a great part in the modernization of Nigeria because they…

such support had been stunted by the tensions between the American North and South during the Civil War as Britain found itself strongly supporting the interests of the South. Around that same time, the British upper class felt resentment towards the colonies that had removed themselves from British rule. By the end of the 19th C, these tensions were dissipating and giving way to a rapidly industrializing USA with fewer economic divisions between North and South on one side of the Atlantic and a…

Swaraj. In 1911, the capital of British India moved from Calcutta to Delhi. A city came up on what was previously farmland and shrub forest. The glory of New Delhi was a sign of how sure the British were of their rule, if not for thousand years rule but surely last for several centuries at least. The colonies were diverse in nature, with populations were divided along lines of caste,…

As the British attempted to colonise Australia they had many effects on the aboriginal people (Baird 2015). The Aboriginals, at first, saw the British settlers as no threat, and even welcomed them (Baird 2015). Slowly the British presence became unwelcomed as they began to induced strife and destruction on the Aboriginal people (Henebry 2012). Over the eighteenth century…

eighteenth century. Not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, had sugar become a major source of carbohydrates as staple food for working-class in the growing industrial cities. The British became the biggest consumer of sugar in the world. By 1800, sugar had become a universal necessity in every English person’s diet. Mintz explains that sugar seems invisible and lost its symbol of power in contemporary context, but in fact it becomes more powerful than it has ever been in the…