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Salman Mrs.King AP English 11 December 2, 2014 The English Journey To India In the novel, A Passage to India, E.M. Forster describes how the heritage and civilization of India profoundly differs from England when a class of English set foot in Indian territory with detrimental effects to follow. Introduction Cultural Background of India and England Entering the Caves Detrimental Effects Courthouse Letters with Aziz Assumptions Conclusion Ameera Salman Mrs.King AP English 11 December 2, 2014

predominantly Denmark and Norway, the Vikings began raiding the British Isles in the late 700s (James). The Vikings primarily targeted monasteries, because that is where most of the wealth was concentrated (Loughrey). These raids were very violent, people were killed, and the survivors were sold into slavery (Loughrey). These violent raids earned the Vikings the reputation of barbarians, much like the Mongols a few centuries later in Asia. After some time, once the Vikings exhausted most of the wealth

Gaelic lords with New English lords equally meant that continuing differences in customs..were the despised customs of a lower class.. As woods were cleared, roads built and cultivation intensified, protestant interests were at last secure, bringing with it rapid and tangible progress towards civility and prosperity.” (Connolly 168) Although there is some allusion to doubt whether or not the English were successful in transforming Ireland into what Barnard claims as an “english replica,” both Connolly

Tan explains in her article, “Mother Tongue” published in 1990 that based on other “people 's perceptions of the limited English speaker,… [her] mother’s “limited” English limited [her] perception of her [mother]” (Tan, 1990, 198). Thus, Tan’s point is she had internalized those beliefs on her mother even if she didn’t intentionally mean to. She didn’t have the opportunity to

colonialism, imperialism, the British Empire, racism and nationalism. Orwell has described the native Burmese society in his novel. The novel talks about a town named Kyauktada in Upper Burma, its hot climate and their people. It clearly shows the superstitious nature of the Burmese. These people mostly follow Buddhism and believe in Buddhist beliefs – those who do evil in this life will suffer badly in their next birth, building pagodas will wash away all their bad works and evil from their lives. “According

purpose of growing and profiting from tobacco. On the other hand, the colonies of New England were set up primarily for religious reasons. Although there were some that sought profit in New England, most settlers sought liberty and freedom of worship. English separatists, who vehemently disagreed with the way the Church of England was set up, left Holland and came to America on the Mayflower. They landed in modern Massachusetts and established the Plymouth Colony. Rhode Island was also founded on a religious

philosophical powerhouse, whose writing is the stuff of legend, for most of his life he only wrote plays, poems, and novels. It wasn’t until he was almost forty in 1733 that he published his first major philosophical work, “Letters Concerning the English Nation.” This was a series of letters that describe the customs, cultures and great men of England, and even though his praise for England, a country “where all the arts are honored and rewarded,” and where one could think “free and nobly without

its historical and its canonical position in English literature. By the time the story of Beowulf was composed by an unknown Anglo-Saxon poet around 700 a.d., much of its material had been in circulation in oral narrative for many years. The Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples had invaded the island of Britain and settled there several hundred years earlier, bringing with them several closely related Germanic languages that would evolve into Old English. Elements of the Beowulf story—including its

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Vikings come to mind, one may think of Denmark, Norway, or Sweden. This may be true, but for these particular Vikings, it was not the case. Anglo-Saxons are in fact from Germany, Denmark, and Northern Holland. They are called Anglo-Saxons due to the people that came over were Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. What made these Germanic descendants decide to go to Great Britain, Rome. Rome had problems back at home which lead to them moving back to protect the Homefront. While Britain was vacant, the Anglo-Saxons