John of England

In 1707, The Act of Union forged the nation of Great Britain. This joined the English and Scottish Parliaments into the British Parliament centered in London. The Union promised Scots unhindered access to English markets and colonies. The possibility of economic benefit through trade was a significant pro-union sentiment, expressed best by a Commissioner of Scottish Parliament: This nation is behind all other nations of Europe, for many years, with respect to the effects of an extended trade.…

were the main reasons for the common citizens to flee to the New World; they desired new opportunity and had ambitions to search for revenue, this eventually became a reality for many English men; however, these previously known common people of England had to work hard to achieve their ambitions. The first permanent English colony was Jamestown on the banks of James River, located in the Chesapeake; the small English outpost was contaminated with famine and several deadly diseases. “Colonists…

people came into the New World at different time frames, both countries had goals to achieve. The English wanted to establish settlements for a growing future nation, and the Spanish wanted gold and success in expansion as well. The Spanish and New England colonies in the New World in 1492-1763 had both major differences and similarities in government, religion, and the treatment of indigenous people. The Spanish government maintained a monarchical rule throughout New World exploration while…

Incredible pressure strangles American immigrants, from the moment they step onto United States soil, throughout their struggles to make better lives for themselves, all the way to watching their first-generation children begin to understand their alienation among their stark-white peers. With verbal abuses echoing in their minds, such as,“if you’re in America, learn to speak ‘American’” and “go back to your own country if you can’t handle it here”, the understanding of American assimilation…

bilingualism,’ I said. ‘They’re against giving anything more to immigrants’” (37). Henry Park, the first-person narrator, says this in the present day to his coworker at the spy agency while performing research on his target: a Korean-American immigrant named John Kwang. Park likely means that the majority of people in New York City are against forcing school students to learn more than one language. Given that United States education requirements have schools teaching English, this means the…

Clearly, Fielding goes to great lengths to convince Aziz that India will never become a united nation. Fielding and Forster denounce colonisation yet they simultaneously gain privilege from it, and this explains the contradiction in their attitudes towards colonisation. The scene of the boats promises a fresh start, a form of rebirth, for Aziz and Fielding. It coincides with the festival of Shri Krishna in which the whole world is delivered from their pains and sorrow. The boats collide and…

Mert Çanğırı 12010003007 Tuba Geyikler January 26, 2016 ENGL 431 THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRITISH IDENTITY British nation has an extremely large history; it is full of wars, examples of assimilation, cultural alienation and new formations of new identities. Once a country in which many different nations lived, now it is a united kingdom where there is no cultural imperialism left and every nation forming this united kingdom has right to say what to do. Of course, many struggles and effort have been…

English is often described as the dominant language of the world and as a primary language, the language in which all transactions are conducted. English proficiency has become an essential requirement in many professions. In the middle of the fifth century AD, English came to Britain from northern Europe. The number of speakers in English between 5-7 million by the end of the sixteenth century, as a result of the spread of the British Empire, and lived most of them in the British Isles. As a…

Culture is an important factor that my parents hold highly of and felt that my siblings and I should learn every aspect of it. Growing up, my siblings and I attended Vietnamese classes where we learned how to read and write Vietnamese. Vietnamese is not that hard to learn because the letters are similar to those in the English language, but the difficulties was in the accent marks on the words. A wrong pronunciation of the word meant another word. For example, the Vietnamese word for dad is ba,…

Immigrants Language In the essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan describes an important realization she had In 1989. Conducting a symposium in San Francisco where she discussed her well-known book “The Joy Luck Club.” This symposium was the first time that her mother was part of her audience. Not until then, Tan realizes that the academic English she is using to address the audience is different than the one she uses with her mother. Tan’s essay describes the exploration of languages and how it can…