Following World War II, the United States emerged as one of the two dominant superpowers. The post-war era in the United States was defined internationally by the beginning of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to expand...
The Detective novel has always been related to public interest in the problems of modern, urban life, particularly in crime. But crime as a feature of Western social life was not generally recognized until the rise of large cities in the early 1800s, a period...
Cinema should by now have attained some measure of cultural respectability. But many literary critics still view film at worst as the illegitimate offspring of theatre and photography, and at best as a vulgar, commercial medium, capable very occasionally of achieving...
The commonwealth is a free association of sovereign states comprising G B and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbolic head...
The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as the Commonwealth and sometimes as the British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies (the exceptions being the United Kingdom...
This system is one of the most successful in the world, without violent changes since the "bloodest revolution" of 1688. The English parliament invited William of Orange, from the Low Countries to become the 1st constitutional monarch. The Bill of Rights (1689)...
The social and economic problems that had become evident after the revolution were an important element in the closer union of the states. In 1786 a meeting was called in Annapolis, Maryland, to resolve commercial difficulties. Only representatives from 5...
At 15 can take the examinations for The General Certificate of Education at Ordinary Level (GCE at O level). These exams are set and marked by six different examining boards appointed by universities or groups of universities. Each school prepares its pupils...
In the 20th, the expansion of technology and commerce, made necessary the existence of an international language (a lingua franca). This language has been English, for several reasons, among them, the economical power of US...