Little Britain

|American English is not superior to British English or vice-verser, it's practically the same friggin language. So stop arguing| |like little kiddies. | |Really!!?? A lot of Americans have difficulty understanding some of the accents and dialects in Britain, including myself at | |times. I think Snatch the movie gives a good example

New York Times. Réponse possible In the ad entitled “Before and After” we see a TV star advertising Unilever’s Lux toilet soap. The beautiful, smiling young lady is wearing a shiny evening dress which reveals her arms, shoulders and back (and even a little thigh, according to the commentary). This ad was displayed on hoardings in Israel, despite the fact that people in this country might be offended. When they caught on to the cultural norms in Israel and understood that they had got themselves into

troops to the western front, thereby increasing pressure on the Allies (Discovering U.S. History). The Soviet Union further alienated the Allies when the new Russian leaders began to stir up revolutionary activity against Western governments. In fact, Britain, France, and the United States found the new Russia so intolerable that in 1920 a coalition of the Western powers and Japan landed troops throughout the Soviet Union in an effort to kill the Communist revolution in its infancy (Discovering U.S. History)

and evading the new immigration rules. Besides, a huge increase in raids carried out by police and immigration officers took place. It created a situation where most Asians and West Indians faced little choice but to carry their passport around with them at all times. Finally, Thatcher's regime saw Britain acquiring one of the worst records in Europe in its treatment of asylum seekers. Between 1984 and 1986 British immigration officers accepted for asylum only 240 for every 1 million of the UK's inhabitant

voters and to redistribute seats in the British House of Commons. The periodic redrawing of constituency boundaries is now dealt with by a permanent Boundary Commission in each part of the United Kingdom, rather than by a Reform Act. Some people in Britain, mostly associated with the Liberal Democrats, have called for a new "Great Reform Act" to introduce electoral changes they favour. These would include lowering the minimum voting age to 16 and introducing proportional representation. Reform Act

so authorized the arms dealers to trade with countries little scrupulous as Sudan, at war civil Angola (which(who) supported the Ugandan rebels of Lord Resistance Army), Yemen, but also China, Zimbabwe and Burma, nevertheless any three under European embargos. Other embargos of the UNO, aiming at Lebanon, at Somalia and at Sudan were violated in 2006. Amnesty International denounced(cancelled) in June, 2002 Russia, France, Italy, Great Britain and Germany, by accusing them of having delivered weapons

landowners to pay a tax on their land • But this outraged the nobles and the middles class, who’d been mostly exempt from taxes. • Louis XVI fired Turgot in 1776 • Louis XVI got France involved in the American Revolution (1775-1781) to take revenge on Britain • This added to France’s already huge national debt, but Louis XVI didn’t care • It also made many Frenchmen who’d fought with Americans envious of their political freedom • Louis XVI didn’t realize how this made him and absolutism look bad. The

of state surveillance It is not any one cigarette or one extra drink that is ruinous to the health. The damage is done over the years, almost imperceptibly. Grave threats to the health of democracy can also accrue so incrementally that they draw little attention. A committee of peers diagnose one such danger today in a report on the steady creep of surveillance. The charge of hysteria is routinely used to sweep aside such talk when it comes from crusading journalists and pressure groups. The Lords

a disctrict nurse ; the old folk cured, the disctrict cutting back. That Dad's business - which he had built up so carefully with sixteen-hour days, including Saturdays and Sundays, and evenings spent writing invoices in his best handwriting in a little blue book - had after all gone bust. I thought they were having to move out of the house. The house in a proper street that they were so proud of they sent pictures of it to relatives with invitations to come and stay. "You going back to the flat

J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling (Joanne, Jo) was born 31 July 1963, in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol. When she was four, they moved to Winterbourne with Joanne’s little sister, Dianne. She liked her sister, but they often fought, when they were children. So there is a scar above Di’s eyebrow since Joanne threw her by a battery. Jo started the school in this town and her elder headmaster inspired her in the future, when she created Albus Dumbledore’s character in the Harry Potter fiction. The Rowling