Hiya! – hello! Scotland’s mainland shares a border with England to the south. It is home to almost 800 small islands, including the northern isles of Shetland and Orkney, the Hebrides, Arran and Skye. Its neighboring countries are England, Northern Ireland, and Norway. Major cities are located in the Scottish lowlands (cultural area) with 80% of the population. Scotland has its northern lights, highest mountains, and its golden beaches. The culture of Scotland refers to the patterns of human…
California vs. New York How many times has it happened where you mixed California and New York in the middle of a conversation? I, for one, have done it very many times. It’s for from impossible to do since they have a lot of similarities, like their super high taxes every year. Though they have a lot of similarities, they have even more differences, like the fact that CA ruined pizza! First of all, NY and CA are the biggest liberal states in the U.S. In almost every election the citizens…
Greece is a country in the (southern tip of Europe), with a population of 10.75 million people. Greek is the language spoken by 99 percent of the population; English, French, German, and Italian make the other one percent. Greek Orthodox Church is the religion practice by over 90 percent of the people in the country; Islam, Catholic Hinduism, and others make the rest of the 10 percent of religion practice. Greece holds a great significance of history dating back to ancient times; today it is…
America, the Mosaic Society The New Colossus poem became part of the Statue of Liberty, also known as Mother of Exiles, on Liberty Island in 1903. As the Statue of Liberty was essentially America’s welcome sign and beacon of hope for thousands of European immigrants arriving on Ellis Island, it was fitting for Emma Lazarus’s full poem to be engraved above the main entrance of the statue in 1945. Lazarus’s poem references and symbolizes freedom, opportunity, independence, and compassion to the…
Overview: New Hampshire is located in New England region, in the north eastern parts of the United States Of America. The state lies between latitude 42-40 north and longitude 70-37 west. The state is about 180 miles long with extreme width measuring 93 miles. They rank forty fourth in size among the fifty states of United States. The state is roughly in shape of a right triangle. The state holds a total land area of 8968 square miles. It is bounded by Quebec province in the north and by Maine…
One of the issues that have been raised today with the advancement of science and technology is automatic license plate recognition. To do this, a system must be designed that can read the license plate by taking a picture of the car [1]. Automatic licence plate recognition aims to identify the license plate in a digital natural image in order to read the number and convert it into equivalent ASCII code. One of the most important parameters affecting the number plate recognition is the existence…
legal sovereignty is the EU. As epitomised by the Factortame case of 1990 and, more recently, the 2008 Coleman case, European Law ultimately takes primacy over UK law. In terms of sovereignty however, this is directly counteracted with the UK’s ability to withdraw membership at any time and restore its own sovereignty (as recognised in 1972 during negotiations regarding the European Community). It is important to firstly outline a few ways in which EU sovereignty has disadvantaged Britain. In…
The Bride, Groom, and 4,000 of Their Closest Unknown Friends Immigrants and refugees have been in the news for years, but the topic has heated up considerably in the past year. South American refugees have been flooding across the southern border of the United States with illegal immigrant Mexicans. They are often front page news, especially with the presidential debates going on. In Europe, migrants and refugees are dying in tunnels trying to get to England from France where they are stuck in…
As a resident of Arcadia of almost 20 years, arcadia has changed drastically. From the houses to the community, people have also changed. These differences can be for better or for worse. Although the city of Arcadia has modernized over the years, there are many key differences that can be pointed out. Housing in the city of Arcadia has changed overtime. It is interesting to see the modernization of the housing over time. Many years ago when I was a kid, I remembered that many of the houses…
of services, people, money, and goods inside of the European Union. Spain also benefited from allowment of movement between countries, allowing the service economy in Southern Spain to flourish. Unfortunately, recent events threaten the short lived prosperity of all members of the union. With the rise in more solitary thinking, and splitting from the union; several nation states are questioning the purpose of a unitary force of the European union. The Kingdom of Spain has concern for not only…