British Essays

What the company does? The British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the UK. Its headquarters is at the waterside near the main hub in London, Heathrow Airport. Its second hub is at London Gatwick Airport. BA is the largest airline in the UK which currently serves 150 destinations, including domestic flights and […]

Mughal influence can be seen in cultural contributions such as[citation needed]: Centralised, imperialistic government which brought together many smaller kingdoms. Persian art and culture amalgamated with Indian art and culture. New trade routes to Arab and Turkic lands. The development of Mughlai cuisine. Mughal Architecture found its way into local Indian architecture, most conspicuously in […]

History and its influence on British 17th century’s literature By regarding British’ literary works up to the 17th century, one can recognize many parallels to the history and culture of that time. In my following term paper I am though going to investigate where the parallels between history, culture and literature are. I will do […]

British Airways (BA) and Easyjet are two British airline companies. They are competitors in many aspects with different operational techniques. Easyjet is Europe’s leading low-cost airline, which targets at both leisure and business markets on a range of European routes. It is one of Europe’s largest Internet retailers with ticketless travel service. In addition, it […]

Someone who has an interest or influence on a business is known as a stakeholder. This includes; shareholders, local communities, employees, employers, customers, suppliers and the government. Any decisions made by British Airways will most likely affect some, if not all stakeholders and vice-versa.How does British Airways affect local communities?Social CostsBritain’s largest airline has a […]

British cuisine has been greatly influenced by European food and there style of cooking through out the years. The 4 main counties that have influenced the UK are Spain, France, Italy and Greece.Spanish cuisine has influenced British cooking by the introduction of different ingredients and equipment. The Spanish helped to introduce sea foods in dishes […]

British Airways – Operational Environmental Introduction British Airways (BA) is the UK’s largest international scheduled airline, currently flying to over 550 destinations. The British Airways group consists of British Airways Plc and a number of subsidiary companies including, among others, International Aeradio, British Airways Helicopters serving mainly the North Sea oil rigs and British Airways […]

There are many different causes that are attributed to Britain’s expansion in East and West Africa. One of which is the ‘men on the spot’, these individuals like Goldie and Mackinnon, were no doubt instrumental in British expansion, however fair weight has to be placed on the other factors as well. Foreign competition is a […]

In this essay, I will be writing about three different media texts, which we have studied and analysed in class. I am going to compare the representation of ‘Britishness’ and what it is like in Britain, using the three texts. The key terms in the title is to compare, because we are going to talking […]

By the 1950’s, the blues had lost it’s primary black audience to soul music, but had gained a new audience of young white kids. To the black audience, the themes of oppression, anger and rebellion were no longer relevant and reminded them uncomfortably of their past history as slaves. In Britain, the popular music scene […]

The world thought that Germany would win The Battle of Britain but they were wrong. This essay will explain to you how and why Britain won the battle. The reasons that I am about to tell you about are all factors that are continued throughout the whole battle.Britain had magnificent technology. From the start of […]

A slight problem with attempting to discuss the British constitution is that Britain doesn’t have a constitution, not in any traditional sense. In fact, what Britain does have are aged customs, traditions, man-made religious beliefs and a kind of indoctrinated attempt at moral law. Britain is not, in a strict sense, a democracy. Britain is, […]

Andrew Gamble was the political theorist who first argued that the dual character of Thatcherism was ‘a commitment to the free market and the strong state’. At present, the Conservative Party is trying, or at least should be trying, to shake off the legacy left to it by Britain’s first female Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher […]

The main assumption of this paper is that there must be a convergence of the socio-cultural base with the political regime in power. If this does not exist, political legitimacy and stability will decline. In order to explain what has happened in the British political culture over the past few decades and decide what presently […]

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919 and put an official end to one of the most terrible and brutal wars the planet had ever seen. The signing of the treaty was taken to mean as the first step to an era of peace and prosperity for the entire globe, and most […]

During the First World War propaganda was used to encourage the British public to think and act in a certain way. In particular the government attempted to gain support for the war and also increase recruitment to the army. They also aimed to raise the morale and keep spirits high on the home front finally; […]

This essay will critically comment on how and why the term ‘British Culture’ is controversial. The beginning of this essay will define culture; explain why it is said that culture has many different inner related meanings, what factors contribute to a culture and how one is formed. Moving on from that by commenting on the […]

Today it is estimated that the value if the UK drugs trade is worth around i?? 8 billion (Morris, 2007). The Global Drugs trade is worth more than the global trade for oil (McInnes 2007). A substantial amount of this money is laundered and reinvested in society, some influencing the legal and medical professions. Castells […]

Most of British popular and colourful customs come from early celebrations marking the passage of the seasons, such as those surrounding the advent of spring or midsummer at Stonehenge. Another source of British customs are festivities and rites associated with the Christian Church, such as Christmas and Easter. Some pre-Christian religious ceremonies have become so […]

Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain from the Third of May 1979 until November 22nd 1990. She was the first female and the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century. She brought with her a completely new ideology to base policies upon and a controversial style of leadership leading to nick-names such […]

The discussion of Britishness has become so widespread in recent years, be it through politics or film. I will be looking at how British films aimed at a worldwide market contribute to the long debate over the representation of Britishness and also the representation in films aimed a national audience. Looking back at British films […]

The media forms and conventions of ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ (FWF) seem to show that it is mainly a British film. If you look at the generic codes and conventions used FWF you can see that they are of a stereotypical British nature and this is linked to the media representation of class, masculinity, […]