Scottish Renaissance

My passion for politics started when I was 12 years old, after I started noticing things on television concerning Scottish Independence. I saw the independence referendum as a chance for me to speak out about how I wanted my future to be, regardless of whether I would get to vote or not (which obviously, I wouldn’t). What I did not know though, is that just researching about Scottish and British Politics would cause me to branch out to other countries politics and become more aware social and…

fought for it. Writers of history flatter these individuals in stories. Their admirable traits make them very susceptible to immortalisation through myth and legend. Two individuals who have been thus immortalised are Roman gladiator Spartacus and Scottish rebel William Wallace. They continue to inspire people to strive for freedom. As long as rebels survive in the public interest, such as through story, myth or symbolism, history had helped them create legacies of freedom that people still…

he First Minister (FM) in Scotland is the head of the Scottish cabinet and has responsibility for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish government policy. These roles- and numerous additional ones- indicate that the FM does, in fact, play an important roles within the Scottish Parliament. This essays main focus will be to evaluate the FM's importance; specifically, his importance in regards to decision making within the parliament and consequently within Scotland itself. The…

Devolution started when the Scottish Act 1998 is introduced and created Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament. Additionally, the Government of the Wales Act 1998 created Welsh Assembly, which has few powers than the Scottish Parliament. Northern Ireland Assembly created by the 1998 ‘Belfast Agreement’ also known as the ‘Good Friday Agreement’. The Assembly has been suspended a number of times but came back into power in May 2007. The Scottish Executive and Scottish Parliament have…

Why do people vote for the SNP? The last few decades have seen an unprecedented boom in the Scottish National Party (SNP), originally a relatively unimportant minor party pursuing the dream of independence for Scotland, which has changed Scottish and British politics forever. This has been a prominent issue challenging journalists, researchers, political commentators and certainly other major parties for the last decade or so, provoking a seemingly simple though entirely complex and certainly…

There may be ideal conditions for creative work to flourish in periods of calm and peace but the Renaissance proves that people 's creativity spikes in instable times like the people of the Renaissance period lived in. The Renaissance in the north differed from Italy 's Renaissance in the way that Italy had a period where people experimented and changed previous traditions, becoming more creative and secular at the same time. The North…

It is quite typical to refer to the period of history known as the Reformation as a paradigm shift sparked by one man---Martin Luther. He nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg, pounding the Church into its rightful place whilst catapulting human history into the Reformation. However, while it makes for a nice story, the facts run much deeper than at first presumed. Luther likely did not nail the theses to the door at all. More importantly, there is a rich history of…

Empire, and the 15th century around the Renaissance and The Age of Discovery. Most is what is said of the period is focused mostly on Europe where the empire fell and the Catholic Church exercise most of its’ power. The age is both look upon as ignorant and barbaric, as well as an enlightening time by historians. This is debated because not all people were the same, most were ignorant and few gain and spread knowledge. Most importantly when the Renaissance began, ignorance faded away over time…

revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to the Renaissance. Jan van Eyck was one of the first Flemish artist to…

her maid and they stuff the head into a bag and escape back to the town of Bethulia. Many great Renaissance and Baroque artists have chosen to illustrate this biblical narrative in one of two possible scenarios, with or without the servant, the decapitation, with Holofernes disposed on the bed, or of the heroine holding or carrying the head of Holofernes, often assisted by her maid. The Renaissance, is the time period following the Middle Ages. At the time, Europe saw a great revival of…