Take the Crown

Background to the English legal system English law is applied in England and Wales as well as in the US, except of course Louisiana which a Roman law country Its influence has also remained in Commonwealth countries which were colonized by the British. Scottish law is based on Roman law, and Northern Ireland law is yet another system. These 4 countries share a common parliament which is the sole statute making body. Statute law is therefore applicable in the whole of the UK. English

Time: 3 Hrs. AKSHARNANDAN Std. VIII Term II English Parallel 2009-10 Q.1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. (10) ------------------------------------------------- Poor Jovinian! He lay by the side of the road – bruised, battered, hurt, hungry and humiliated. “What have I done to deserve all this?” he lamented. “I have lost my wealth, power, family – even my identity. No one knows me. No one listens to me. What is my fate now?” -------------------------------------------------

N°4 | | |Book I – The Shimerdas - Chapter XVI | |Mr. Shimerda's funeral | Mr. Shimerda's death is the first turning point in the novel. Importance of religion and Biblical references. Chapter XIV – page 82 Chapter XV – page 84 Willa Cather has chosen this particular section of the book to emphasize the importance of religion

CHALLENGING THE BRITISH RULE: THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857 Summary of events The British had been in India since the early seventeenth century, when the East India Company had established trading settlements (known as factories) at Surat (1612) and Madras (1640), and later at Bombay (1661) and Calcutta (1690). In the early days the Company was there purely for trade and not to take political control of India. In the early eighteenth century the central administration of India began to break down;

I: THE ORIGINS OF PARLIAMENT A] The early years Like in all European countries, the British parliament has his origins in a group of advisers who helped the king to make his decisions. At the beginning, these people were connected with the church or the army and the first assembly of this kind was the witan or grand council which we find in Saxon England during the reign of king offal in the VIII century. By the 10th century, the Witan were much bigger and more formal and had the power

instance de niveau inférieur (reverse the decision/ruling – infirmer un jugement). Elle peut au contraire confirmer la décision (affirm or uphold a decision/ruling). Une Cour d'appel peut aussi suivre le raisonnement juridique qui a prévalu dans le jugement précédent (follow or approve a principle of law), ou au contraire, appliquer un principe de droit différent (overrule the principle). Elle peut également décider que la décision précédente était infondée (disapprove the precedent) ou bien que les faits

Cyprus Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is a Eurasian island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean south of Turkey, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, north of Egypt, and east of Greece. Cyprus is the third largest Mediterranean island and one of the most popular tourist destinations, attracting over 2.4 million tourists per year. A former British colony, it gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960 and became a Commonwealth republic in 1961. The Republic of Cyprus is a

AT THE SIGN OF THE CAT AND RACKET Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics. For what other name could the passer-by give to the Xs and Vs which the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front, outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster

« In what extent was culture part of the creation or maintenance of the British Empire ? » Imperial propaganda was extensively broadcast through cultural means. Public interest in the colonies and imperial expansion date back from 1867 onwards . This seems a bit surprising since imperial matters never played any important role in British elections . The thread examined in the following essay is an attempt to show how culture in its various forms asserted Englishness as an hegemonic identity

EDINBURGH Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. Due to its neo-classical architecture, Nicknamed Athens of the North because it was a major centre of the Enlightenment. The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. Until the late 18th century, Edinburgh consisted, almost exclusively, of what is now known as the Old Town (the area where you'll find the Castle, Royal Mile and Grassmarket). 1707 saw the Act of Union, which joined