Country Essays

When I first came to Ireland, I knew almost nothing about the country. I went to live in a place that was unknown to me. I still know only a few things but they are not enough for a person who lives in the country. I need to know the …

Since 1990 the British film scene has changed dramatically with films such as Trainspotting, The full Monty East is East and Dirty Pretty Things hitting the Cinema with critical acclaim due to their intensely hard hitting and realistic tales about actual problems handled in an overwhelmingly authentic and dramatic style. …

SME’s are vital to economic growth in Ireland and the UK, employing up to 90% of the workforce. Given this fact it is important to look at how the government support these SME’s. The government see SME’s as a vital element to both the UK and Ireland economy but also …

Australian society, in history, had thrown off the rigid class barriers of England and of its own early colonial period and it had spread political power and economic power to a far greater extent than had England. Australia’s egalitarian democratic tendencies combined with an essentially conservative bourgeois materialism. The result …

British election turnout since 1945 had not dropped below 71. 2% until the Labour Party victory in 2001, where turnout was the lowest since 1918 at 59. 3%. Turnout slowly increased in the 2005 election with 61. 4% and then up again to 65. 1% in 2010. Reasons for the …

Goffman has been widely regarded as a rudimentary, ‘flat’ thinker in the world of social theory. His work, whilst far reaching and insightful of the day to day events in social life, has come under much controversy resulting phrases typical of the example above. To answer such a question, we …

As we move into the twenty-first century, the political climate in Britain is changing, and with this change, comes a shift in the decision-making power within the British government. The British executive, is usually thought of in broad terms, as consisting of the Prime Minister, the political members of the …

The British economy before 1873: -Britain was the economic superpower of the world, due to her huge empire and monopoly of industrial global output. -50% of worlds Coal, 50% of worlds Iron & Steel and 50% of all Cotton goods were produced by Britain; not to mention much engineering goods, …

Australia provides a very good example as to a nation who has benefited tremendously from globalization. In 1986 it unilaterally lowered its tariffs. As a result, exports have soared, particularly in newly competitive industries such as manufacturing. It is noteworthy that wages in the new export sectors of manufacturing a …

1948 was a crucial year in the history of South Africa. In May of that year the National Party (NP), leaded by Dr. Daniel F. Malan, won the general elections for the parliament of the Union of South Africa. It was surely a turning point in the history of race …