Kingdom of Ends

One of the causes of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which falls under external influence, is colonialism. Sri Lanka was under British colonial rule from 1796-1948. The British implemented the divide and rule tactic when governing Sri Lanka, where minority groups, in this case Tamils, are given preferential treatment. This is to aggravate differences between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. This way, the majority group that was being discriminated against would direct their grievances…

An international language refers to a language in widespread use as a foreign language or second language (Richards et al.,1992, p.234). Over the years, the English language has reached a status of the international language, and has played an important role around the world for economic, education, scientific and entertainment exchange between nations and particularly between people, and commonly is characterized as a lingua franca. According to Crystal (1997), today, more people use English…

throughout the world. They attempted to gain control of southeast Asia, and through many wars fought between the years eighteen eighty-seven and nineteen hundred, the French successfully created a colony called Indochina which was created out of the five kingdoms; Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia, and Laos. This French Colony only lasted a good fifty…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

Orientalism is a term which indicates how the West perceives the East as the ‘other’. Edward Said published his controversial book Orientalism in 1978, which talks about how Orientalism forms an inferior Orient, in terms of knowledge and domination. Edward Said opens his introduction by mentioning the Western’s misconception about the East arguing that “The Orient was almost a European invention” (Said 1). The Orient played a significant role in the creation of the European culture and it…

Every day thousands of people are leaving behind their home countries to move away for one reason or another. With each individual that enters into a new country, there are different challenges, new experiences, and new opportunities for them. Leaving behind everything a person knows can be very daunting and sometimes very difficult to assimilate to the new society. From young children into adulthood, everyone has had a desire to feel like they belong somewhere. The efforts to fit into a certain…

Thesis Over a period of one hundred years, the British Empire ruled over the Indian subcontinent in racially discriminatory, enslaving ways. Deprived of self-rule, the Indians formed groups and alliances in order to politically compromise with the British for Indian independence. In his attempts to rid India of British rule, freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose of Calcutta sacrificed his security and ultimately his life, refusing to compromise with the unjust ways of the Raj. A Patriot, and…

The Abolition of the English Department establishes a lot of important details that, even though are happening across the globe, are similar to the current status of the American Continent. This side of the planet is being strongly influenciated by the United States of America; this cultural immersion of the United States or other metropolis is happening not only to U.S. territories, but in all Central and South America, and in the Caribbean. It can be seen in the Drown Collection by Junot…

As the international relations scene began to quickly emerge throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, two main theories came on to the world stage that would dominate the rest. The first theory, many politicians argue is the most dominate, is known as Realism (Baylis, Smith, Owens, 101). The second main theory that emerged in international relations was Liberalism. Despite their wide popularity among many states, these two theories compete head to head when it comes to each of their…

This essay discusses the importance of interiority in relation to the Victorian era. During the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 – 1901, many years after the Industrial Revolution, came major economic developments throughout Britain which had impacts on interior decoration in Victorian homes. The nineteenth century saw a huge growth in the population of Great Britain which had major changes such as the expansion of middle-class families which lead to increased demand for goods and services…