January 2010
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Cuisine Challenge Hits Tummy And Pocket
The Couponsherpa site contains an phenomenal list of forty eating challenges that would blast the run of the mill diner’s stomach into the solar system!
You ought be a meat enthusiast however - the challenge is almost all meat based and vary from eating gigantic burgers to enormous pizzas and steaks. You might imagine yourself as the equivalent of a black hole, but are you also rapid...
December 2009
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England - A Short Description
Britain, consisting of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland, is the largest island in the world, encompassed by the ocean, the German and French seas.
The largest and southern part of it is England, so named from the Angli, who quitting the little territory yet called Angel in the kingdom of Denmark, took possession here. It is governed by its own King, who owns no superior but God. It is...
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England by Marianne Moore
The following poem is by Marianne Moore and is a very nice description of england. England with its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral; with voices - one voice perhaps, echoing through the transept - the criterion of suitability and convenience; and Italy with its equal shores - contriving an epicureanism from which the grossness has been extracted, and Greece with...
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Brief Synopsis of This Is England by The Coolest...
The historical setting of the film ” is July 1983 – Margaret Thatcher’s England.
The plot centres around the Skinhead subculture – Skinheads are names so because they shave their heads. It gives them a look of violence and aggression. The identity, belonging and culture are at the heart of the film.
There is an irony in the film and indeed the Skinhead culture that the music most...
November 2009
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Jerusalem by William Blake
The following words by William Blake are famous throughout the world because they are sang as the English patriotic hymn Jerusalem.
William Blake was a very famous english man.
The words is very interesting from a theological point of view because Jesus did not walk upon England’s green and pleasant land.
The Poem Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s...
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Englishness What Is It? - Initial Thoughts
I want to write about the idea of Englishness. In many ways England is a unique country. However is it fair to say that the country, or rather the people in the country, suffer from a malady resembling a crisis of identity. The English are often puzzled when asked if to choose between describing themselves as ‘English’ or ‘British’. It seems as though the English have no national identity.
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