THE EMPIRE By: Hailey Barnes A CRUMBLING EMPIRE As the UK’s long lAsting empire begins to fall it hurts America. We had a great relationship with the UK but now lots of new bills are due to them. This means that we lose their large economic strength and nuclearbacked army which could potentially hurt us. David Cameron (prime minister of the UK)visiting Obama in Washington SLOWLY SHRINKING ECONOMY They have a good economy but recently since there economy is beginning to slowly fall their GDP has a growth rate of negative .1%. Although they are a developed country with a high standard way of living much like the US. Some of the things that help with that are their multiple import/export trade partners and all their different industries. LIVES AFFECTED the UK’s every dAy lives Are negAtively affected every day by the geography. Since lots of homes are on low-lying coastal land it floods often and can affect them because of the large cost of fixing all of the damage. Also there are plenty of mountains there so this makes it difficult to live on certain areas of the land and it minimizes there living space. DIFFERENT FROM THE REST They are very unique and one reason is they are very, very reserved people and do not approve of anything loud and respect each others personal space. They go to pubs for most things and go often because its considered to be a family place they even take babies there after being Baptized for a party. Their very polite when meeting people for lunch or dinner and often bring gifts and nice alcohol is a common gift. http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/e n/word-street/food-britain