British National Formulary Essays

After completing a career project in the sixth grade, I have not been able to see myself working in a career other than nursing. As early as I can remember, I was interested in books of the human body and having my mom tell me her experiences as a certified nursing assistant. I knew I wanted a career involved with helping people. My fascination with the human body became visible around the age of five. My mom says that I was curious as to what the “real” name of our body parts were called, such

FAIZA RUKSAR ARIF H2013BA50 International Relations and Foreign Policies- Term Paper: COLONIALISM: Abstract: This paper is a discussion of the character of British colonization in Nigeria. We examine the facts leading to the intrusion of British in Nigeria. While the British constantly expanded their territory, it wasn’t until 1900 when they established political control over the Nigerian area in the form of three autonomous administrations. They were then amalgamated to form the Nigerian state

Raiders from the north by Alex Rutherford is a fictionalised story about king Zahir-ud-din-Muhammad Babur, son of Umar-Shaikh and the founder of the Moghul empire. Alex Rutherford is a pseudonym for the husband and wife writing team of Michael and Diane Preston. Alex Rutherford has written seven historical non-fiction books and their previous book was on Taj Mahal. Michael and Diane Preston have also stayed in India for about an year doing research and reading many historical books. During this time

largest economy during the years 1 AD and 1000 AD [1], due to the vagaries of history, India’s economy had plunged during British rule. Though industrialisation proceeded rapidly in Britain, the British had different policies for the regions under its rule. However the economic impact of British imperialism in India is still being debated. On the one hand, the British established a good network of railways, laid out a telegraph system for communication and established a legal system. The

A Modern Day Imperial Power Presently, the presence of injustice, disorder, and poverty are all problems demanding a need for an active imperial power to solve them. Throughout the past two centuries, America has emerged as a capable modern day imperial power. As an imperial power, America has the ability to spread its economic, cultural and military influence internationally, majority of which benefits foreign nations. Likewise, imperialism is a widespread concept amongst existing and rising imperial

consequently developed into something that still affects our daily lives today, more than 100 years after the beginning of this brutality against humanity that we today refer to as racism. The Oxford Dictionary defines racism as “Cecil John Rhodes was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa. He served as the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896”. (Wikipedia) “The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific

Throughout the course I have read a lot of about the empires. In this essay I will discuss the motives for spread of two empires; Mongol empires and Ottoman empires. My thesis statement for this essay is that both of these empires (Mongol empires and Ottoman empires) were having economic, exploratory; ethnocentric; political and religious reasons for their expansion. The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state that was established in 1299 in the wake of growing out of the separate of a few Turkish tribes

of seventeen days in June of 1776, Thomas Jefferson drafted a document that is still “the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty” (Archives). It was a formalized document to begin the process of America’s independence from British governance and an overbearing British king. Jefferson was among a group of five men who the Continental Congress had entrusted with this job, and he was elected by his fellow committee members to actually write the document. Jefferson took inspiration from Virginia’s

Edmund Burke was an English politician who disagreed with the principles of the French Revolution, taking then part on the British debate "Revolution Controversy" (1789-1795). One of the main reasons for this attitude is his criticism to those who insisted on implementing a regime of “liberty”, a term that involved different meaning for Burke considered. He was horrified by the anti-religious attitude in France and the triumph of atheism (Hampsher-Monk, 1996, p. 323 et ss). Moreover, he opposed to

as the First War of Independence, was the most violent and brutal incident in the history of British India. The incident not only posed the greatest threat to the British imperial rule in the subcontinent, but also forever altered the fate of the East India Company. Following the investigation of the rebellion, the British Parliament adopted the new ruling policies towards various perspectives in British India. The incident also rewrote the Indian history and immensely impacted on the development

In Between Desires and Expectations In the narrative, “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell writes about his memory of shooting an elephant, when he was a police officer in Moulmein, Lower Burma and shows the nature of imperialism. Firstly, he was not going to kill the elephant, because this “monster” elephant, who was destroying the city, was completely peaceful and calm, when he found it. However, the locals were expecting him to kill the elephant and put him under the pressure. He had inner

employed by Henry to display the need to split from the British government. First, Henry refers to the poem Odyssey by Homer in order to compare Britain to the enticing “sirens” that lure people to them by singing mesmerizing “songs” with the devious intention of “transform[ing these people] into beasts” (Henry 14). The colonists are a comparison to the people who fall into the sirens’ trap. With this allusion, Henry is expressing that the British government is deceiving the colonists just like the sirens

other European countries. However, it was generally acknowledged that the first comprehensive nationwide conscription was instituted by the French Republic in 1793 during the French Revolutionary War when it raised an army of 300,000 men through national service[1]. Conscripted

SUMMARY The case study of “Road to Hell”, there are story about two characters with a different personality, backgrounds, and points of view and how these two characters interact. The first character is John Baker which is a successful western chief engineer of the Barracania’s branch of a multinational company. We also assume that Baker is white, possibly born in Canada because in the case it is mentioned that John Baker is English expatriate. Due to the baker with experience in understanding the

My name is Olaudah Equiano. I was born in the Eboe of Africa. While I was just a young child, my sister and I were taken by kidnappers and they sold us to these slave traders. This was the worst and terrifying day of my life. I was sent to the West Indies or the island of Barbados. The ship I was on was horrific, put together with no care of sex or gender. There were many people who had died due to the harsh inhumane condition we was in. Lucky I was the one of few who survived. I finally arrived

“Shooting an elephant” and “A modest proposal” are two essays where expresses Orwell’s feelings directly, while Swift presents his feelings through a projector (one who forms schemes or designs) whose attitude is cold and unsympathetic. To begin with, there were be a comparison between the following essays: “Shooting an elephant” and “A modest proposal” and a summary of both essays. During the 1800’s, Great Britain fought several wars against Burma (Myanmar); hoping to secure a better trade route

One of the main problems in the United States is illegal immigration. We tried to prevent immigration from certain countries since the start of America. In 1798 congress passed the Naturalization Act. The Act states that any alien free white male must go to court to pass good citizenship and say an oath to follow the constitution in the country. That is the earliest recorded date for an immigration policy in America. Since then we have taken down policies that seem unjustified, but we also try to

not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence” (“Four Quartets by Eliot”). The British have colonized Canada from 1763 to 1867, which greatly impacted the lives of both populations. During this period of colonization, it sparked various unique personal experiences and perspectives for the Canadians and British. With that context, how do differing perspectives help us to understand the British colonization of Canada? Differing perspectives allow one to perceive multiple sides of the historical

THE JUNGLE BOOK (1894) By: Rudyard Kipling INTRODUCTION. The Jungle Book its written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling or simply known as Rudyard Kipling, he was a British author and poet best known for the jungle book published in 1894 and it’s regarded as major innovation in the art of short story. This is live and action story about of the jungle in India. In the jungle book there is man named Mowgli who was adopted

The globalization of the English language is not something that came about coincidentally, or because of some inherent superiority in the structure of the English language. English came about as a dominating language because of the rise of military, economic, and political power of the Western nations that used it as its mother tongue. While the prospect of a global language has many positive attributes in terms of global communication, the very real possibility of English being the dominant language