The English-speaking nations—America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies—are a "decent, honest, generous, fair-minded and self-sacrificing imperium" and "the last, best hope for Mankind," argues this jingoistic peroration. Roberts (Napoleon and Wellington) treats them as...
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The survey closes with a note on ways in which the status of English as an international lingua franca may conceivably affect its future development.doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/05058-6M. SwanEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition)...
Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and his or her cabinet, who are appointed by the monarch from among the members of the party receiving a majority in the House of Commons. Cabinet members must sit in Parliament, and they, individually and collectively, are responsible to the...
In 1900 Helen went to Radcliff College, in England. Helen became the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. At college Helen also began to write about her life. Helen wrote many books. Some of the books were about her life. Other books were about her Christian ...
What her parents failed to realise that it was not the older man who was grooming their young daughter, it was their young daughter who was the prime mover in forging this relationship. Renske returned to London and moved in with Cyril. She wanted to marry him but could not as he was ...
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(e.g., the United Kingdom in 1900) but of all legal systems in the present or perhaps of all laws at all times. Philosophy of law often aims to distinguish law from other systems of norms, such asmorality(seeethics) or other social conventions. Views about the nature of law often ...
(2005). His writing appears in The Sunday Telegraph. He lives in London.This essay isexcerpted from hisnew book, AHistory ofthe English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900(New York: HarperCollins, 2007).Abstract: Winston Churchill’s classic the History of the English SpeakingPeoples (in four volumes...