Great Britain Essay Examples and Topics

The importance of music in the resistance to colonial ideologies can be seen through the way in which music, more specifically Grime, is used as a means of exploring and critiquing citizenship. Marshall defined citizenship as “full membership of a community” which reveals that citizenship…

  300 people with a terminal illness commit suicide in Britain each year. 300 people who feel they are left with no other option. 300 people that consciously decide a that a traumatic, painful, and lonely death is preferable to the long, drawn-out death they…

Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem, the white man’s burden, was written as a response to the American acquisition of The Philippines after the Spanish-American war. The poem continued and reinforced an opinion already shared with Roosevelt in Kipling’s private letters where he states, “Now go in…

The goals of the Gallipoli Campaign were, Britain wanted to take down the Turkish straits to get control of the Black Sea, to help support Russia. Britain also wanted to knock Turkey out of the war and they wanted to establish a new front, so…

In this essay, I am contending that the mistrust between the British working-class and the doctors and health officials in the nineteenth century was justified. I support this view by looking at different factors that contributed to this distrust; the purchasing of cadavers by medical…

The Duke of Wellington described the rank and file of the British Army in the nineteenth century as “the scum of the earth”. Throughout the nineteenth century there was tremendous prejudice towards the working class both in Britain and India. This prejudice held such a…

The character of Hal is a fascinating character in this play because of how he transforms from being a conniving and cruel youth to Shakespeare’s ideal king. Hal as a young boy was very wayward. His choice of friends was not necessarily the best. He…

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), has been highly regarded for his unique Hitchcockian style. He is renowned as the “master of suspense” given his distinctive understanding of arranging suspense and shock; he also is a master storyteller, who never stopped innovating to surprise the audience; moreover, Hitchcock…

Everyday something either something bad or good happens to me everyday, sometimes even both things happen. My life is not perfect and it will never be that way. I have a short story about what I mean, everyday I wake up for school and usually…

The film The Birds, created by Alfred Hitchcock, is an american horror film made in the 1960s, which focuses mainly on birds violently attacking people in the town of Bodega Bay. Alfred Hitchcock is a famous director who created great films and most with the…

Gabriel, The Dead’s protagonist denies his Irish heritage and wants to identify as British especially when Miss Ivors calls him a “West Briton”(188) which later evokes him to say, “I’m sick of my own country, sick of it!”(190). Throughout the story Gabriel mentions several British…

In her 2004 eulogy honoring former US president Ronald Reagan, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher distinguishes Reagan as not only a great president, but a great American and man. By shedding light on Reagan’s ability to unite a previously divided nation, Thatcher describes Reagan’s…

The 19th century saw many changes, from the First and Second Industrial Revolutions to the collapse and expansion of empires. This largely involved Great Britain (GB). I argue that the ability for countries like GB to colonise other countries is the basis for the development…

In a word: variety. Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge, Manchester United, The Beatles – Britain does icons like nowhere else, and travel here is a fascinating mix of famous names and hidden gems. Few countries pack so much into a small space. Landscapes that range from the…

One evidently leading to peace, stability, and tradition, and the other to anarchy, uncertainty, and grief. The path you fixate upon is a right god has granted to man, the right to makes ones’ own decision. But brothers contemplate your judgments closely. For at the…