European Union Essays

Strong core executive- with a party leader, who also serves as Prime Minister, and ministers, who are chosen by the PM to form a cabinet to run the executive. □ Two-party system based on single member constituencies- parties are strong and nationalised, competing for the same issue on a nationwide …

On a regular day in Ireland on January 30th, 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland everything was turned upside down during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement. Through this it changed the way people looked at their rights as a human being. When something like this happens …

I. Company Overview a) LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) LVMH is one of the most successful luxury goods conglomerate, headquartered in Paris, founded in 1987. Well-known luxury goods group, Christian Dior is the main holding company of LVMH, owning 43% of its share. The company holds about 60 subsidiaries world-wide …

Privet·stvie g-zha Kinghorne i drugimi tovarishchami. Segodnya vy uznaete o Rasputine. Greetings Mrs Kinghorne and fellow comrades. Today you will learn about Rasputin. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was born a peasant in the small village of Pokrovskoye in Siberia in 1869. At age 18 eighteen, Rasputin spent three months in the …

To what extent was Tsar Nicholas II responsible for the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917 It was the political naivete and extreme obstinance of Tsar Nicholas II that led to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. Some aspects of the Tsar’s behaviour definitely contributed to the fall of …

William Pitt was born at Hayes, Kent on 28th May 1759. William Pitt died on 16th January, 1806. He suffered from poor health and was educated at home. His father, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was the former M.P. for Old Sarum and one of the most important politicians of …

The British Raj (rāj, lit. “reign” in Hindi)[1] was British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.[2] The term can also refer to the period of dominion.[2][3] The region under British control, commonly calledIndia in contemporary usage, included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom[4] (contemporaneously British India), …

Empire-building in both the Spanish and Russian empires occurred during the New Imperialism Age; while both empires were politically and socially different, both desired to expand to further their economies and strengthen their international role. While Spain conquered territories across the Atlantic Ocean in the New World, Russia began expanding …

The Parthenon marbles are works of art taken from the Acropolis of Athens by Lord Elgin and brought to England while Greece was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.. Lord Elgin received permission from the Sultan to remove the statues at a price less than what it takes to …

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) also known as ‘The Renaissance poet’ was born in London on December 9, 1608, as a son of the composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey into a middle-class family. The senior John Milton moved to London around 1583 after …