City status in the United Kingdom

and are considered to be “norm providing” (Mesthrie & Bhatt 29). ENL’s, countries where English is the primary language of the great majority of the population and is spoken and used as the Native Language, include countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia (Kirkpatrick 27). The “Outer Circle” includes countries of ESL that have developed their own spoken norms, but rely on models for written English (Mesthrie & Bhatt 29). ESL’s, countries where English is not the…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

between Greenland and Denmark. Greenland was one amongst the three constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark known as Danish Realm. The three countries that make up former Danish Realm are Faroe Islands, Greenland and Denmark. Historically, Greenland was tied with Denmark after the unitary state Denmark-Norway was dissolved in 1814, Greenland remained under Danish colonial empire however colonial status ceased in 1953. In 1721 modern colonization began with the Norwegian- Danish missionary…

death as half his kingdom was “depopulated” by the terrible disease called the red death. He seems to not care too much about the poor people in his kingdom and only invites a thousand “hale and light-hearted friends” to his castle to shield them from the arms…

Why did the Renaissance begin when and where? The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy because it was a huge trade center at the time. Florence was in a nice geographical location for commerce and trade. This gave a huge amount of wealth to the city which contributed to its economic success. As the main point of exchange, many concepts took off from Florence including new forms of art and politics. Location wasn’t the only contributing factor to the beginning of the Renaissance since The Black…

The conflict in Kurdistan has a very long history and is very complicated. The Kurdish people are at a crossroads. With the destabilization in Iraq and Syria, Kurdish forces are seizing the opportunity to establish a nation-state. The Kurds have been oppressed and tossed around for the past century and are now in a position to create a sovereign state. Pre world war 1, the Kurds lived rather peacefully under the Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans only acted violently against the Kurds when there were…

“to commemorate such great nuptial ceremonies, [Claudius] built the city which he called Claudiocester”: Unity and Harmony The roll-maker used women to prove a political point that peace, harmony and greatness could be expected from a king if he had a loving and supportive wife. Women were carefully selected by the roll-maker to exhibit this idea in a variety of differing scenarios. If women inspired their husbands to do great things, created successful lineages, had a useful heritage, or were…

A, United Kingdom and African countries from the 90s to date. According to (Frank Burch Brown, 2013). in continuation to the basic information stated above on bad taste, I would consider gangster rap music as an example of batiste due to the flowing reasons; it…

various differences of realization (cf. Ibid). The short front vowels are closer than in Received Pronunciation, for instance, sat may sound like set and set may sound like sit (cf. Ibid). Another feature from Cockney English is that the final vowel in city is pronounced as /i:/ in contrast to /ɪ/ used in Received Pronunciation (cf. Hughes 2005: 74). Concerning the consonants there are additional differences, for example the omission of h and the use of dark /ł/. Dark /ł/ means that “/l/ in…

David Graeber is an American anthropologist, anarchist and an activist. He is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. To begin with, Graeber uses definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary to define debt. Firstly, debt is defined as a sum of money owed. Secondly, it is the state owing money. Thirdly, it is a feeling of gratitude for a favor or service. Graeber then introduces the book with the following American Proverb: “If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars…