Essays on English History

            About 200 million starlings from North America have nobody but one man to thank for their success: William Shakespeare. He improved tremendously from being just a novice from a little town, to a globally honored writer in London. During his short lifetime of 52 years, he completed 34 plays, 154 sonnets, and 4 poems. Also, Shakespeare created new words and phrases that are still used today in 21st century such as bloodsucking. After joining the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and beginning his writing and acting career, William Shakespeare became one of the most successful writers of all time and ...

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Answer 1 (4th option): Before Chomskyan Revolution, linguists focused on the description of the language (e.g., finding phonemes and morphemes for each language), but Chomsky claimed that all languages have a basic syntactic configuration that we are mentally hardwired to learn and use (McWhorter). Answer 2 (1st option): “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” correctly follows all the syntactic rules in English, but not the semantic rules (McWhorter). Answer 3 (2nd option): Since children are aware of the hierarchical structure of the relative clause such as CP and VP (McWhorter). Answer 4 (4th option): Both Edward ...

Orwell’s essay ‘England Your England’ written in 1941 is typical of the confusion that is felt by individuals and the whole of the country in uncertain political times. George Orwell attempts to set some kind of direction for the country amongst all the confusion of war. England was being bombed by the Germans in WWII at the time. This paper will argue that the central thesis of the essay was that English patriotism and loyalty exists in different forms depending on class in normal circumstances. As a collective idea, it is far more complex and is undergoing transition. For ...