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    between the British and the Americans; this greatly affected the Indigenous people living in the areas that were being fought on. The British side looked at the Indigenous as possible allies but overall wanted to leave them out of the fight, but that ended up not being the case because the Indigenous people became important allies for the British. The American side did as the British side when it came to trying to leave the Indigenous people out of the war, but the ended up using the Indigenous peoples like the British because they realized that if they did not the British would and the Indigenous became important for the possibility of winning the war. Many indigenous peoples did not really care for the war and only…

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    show has attributes that their culture values. For example, cooking shows, like Barefoot Contessa, prepare traditional, or well-known, foods of the show’s founding country in new ways. Other food shows, like Top Chef and The Great British Bake off, use competition – a reality TV of sorts – to connect with the culture that watches the show. Through…

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    According to research conducted by Ipsos MORI (2010, n.p.) discussed the causes of climate change among British people. This study indicated that approximately (47%) of British people thought the climate change is partly caused by natural processes and partly caused by human activities .In addition, the study carried out by Reser et.al(2011, p.176) also stated that most of people considered the climate change is partly caused by natural processes and partly by human activities .However, the…

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    form of propaganda to try to persuade people into wanting full independence from Britain. He persuaded people with his pamphlet by talking about, “The Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution, Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession, Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs, and The Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections”. Within these sections he tries to persuade people and details his opinions of all the wrong…

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    “Nature does nothing by a jump, it is said. But to the British people living at the time, it seemed as if the world they knew had vanished almost overnight,” David Newsome writes of the Victorian Era (Swisher). From the spinning jenny to the steam engine, many products were created to provide a better life and pave the way for social adjustment. During the Victorian Era, industry and innovation ignited the country and influenced the future of steam, power and social change. Before the Victorian…

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    that often, more often not, than to edges into hypocrisy. They proclaim “Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish,” all the while alienating and pushing out the Indian population that created said dish. They are all too happy to wholly accept white immigrants,but push against non-white immigrants. Purely on the color of their skin. Continued reference to the “pink world” is no doubt a call to the skin color of Britain’s national identity. This phrase was used, not only in…

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    In Linda Colley’s book Britons, she takes a shot at combining numerous components of Britain in the eighteenth century to form an understanding of what exactly made up the British identity. Colley’s book is organized well and her arguments are always thoroughly backed up with evidence. Colley makes it very clear that she believes Dominance and Majesty are two elements that encompassed the British identity in the eighteenth century. The overwhelming evidence and support that Colley provides…

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    This anxiety was not limited, however, to a theme in only women’s novels. Persis Remanet in Grant Allen’s “The Great Ruby Robbery” is one of these dollar princesses. In this story, the ruby necklace of Persis Remanet, a wealthy American woman visiting London, goes missing. Mr. Gregory, the police detective investigating the robbery, suspects Sir Justin O’byrne, an Irish baronet. Sir Justin wishes to marry Persis, but says she is too rich for him to marry because people will believe that her…

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    England. Kincaid begins by describing England in ways the British “favour” to flatter themselves. It is a “special jewel,” “beautiful” and “delicate.” As she is a child, England is presented to her as a mysterious far off land that has an almost magical appeal. It was a “source of myth” and the source “from which [they] (Antiguan) got [their] sense of reality.” It ‘could not really look like anything familiar,” because it was not really a tangible thing, at least not her her. Kincaid uses this…

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    help organize the Indian community and unite it as one. When my activist movement started I opted for a passive form of protest which basically consisted of the use propaganda even the national Indian congress was propaganda to make the people of england know what was happening in Natal. With time I realized that my passive form of protest was useless so I decided to opt to a new form of protest called non-violence resistance which I called satarahaya. My political philosophy movement was…

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