Subjected to laws forged in London and blessed by the Anglican Church, the Catholic Irish where left to farming and providing manual labor to an industrializing nation on the other side of the Irish Sea. ... Burials at sea where a daily event as whole families where eradicated during the months-long voyage. ... The appalling conditions on these English hellholes where brought to world attention by American doctors inspecting the arriving ships at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. "Britain's "coffin ships" had become a scandal in the eyes of the world but, although this stirred concer...

• Word Count: 924
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We find references to alchemy, sea-voyages, mythology and religion (among many other things). Certain images or ideas recur so often as to seem typical, such as the Rule of the King, alchemy and both ancient and modern cosmology with references to both spheres and the world as sea-discoverers. ...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the narrator extends the rhetorical question by asking if the country in fact belongs to 'those who have added nothing to her power, but have somehow seen her [...] lying as a jewel in a sliver sea, sailing as a ship of souls [...]? ... The diction employed suggests that the author is projecting a different concern through the melancholic voice of his character, that the public life of England and the modern world mirrors the isolation of the Wilcox's 'outer life'. ... We can assess the noun 'telegram' as a synecdoche for the capitalist world as whole, th...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The British and French demonstrate that a strong central power is necessary to maintain power on a world scale. ... Document 6 shows the determination on the part of the British and French to dominate the Dutch, "the king of France will defray all expenses of the campaign by land," and the "for the war at sea the king of England will arm at least 70 warships." ...

• Word Count: 687
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The subjects of the novels were not Greek or Roman gods, nor knights or clowns but people from their own times and their own worlds. 18th century novelists chose sea-men, doctors, maids and even prostitutes and highwaymen as their chief characters but it was rare to find a duke or a knight being the hero of any novel. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the more realistic, and more mundane reason why there are no snakes in Ireland is because the country is an island surrounded by the sea. ... When the Ice Age ended the sea levels rose and Ireland and Britain were both cast away from Europe, hence preventing the spread of snakes to Ireland. ... The Celts were originally from lands around the Caspian sea and they were a proud tribal and warlike race. ... By the 9th Century Irish monasteries were so widespread throughout Europe that Heiric of Auxerre complained in 870 "Almost all Ireland, disregarding the sea, is migrating to our shores...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the twentieth largest in the world. Ireland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean and separated from Great Britain by the Irish Sea. ... The Irish banking sector, like so many around the world, came under extreme pressure in 2007 and 2008 following the fall of the construction industry and an end to Ireland's property growth. ... The understanding of how to do elaborate knitting is not being passed down from generation to generation due to the change in today's world; an entire region of Irish popular culture is changing day ...

• Word Count: 3989
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate