Media - TV

Nowadays, the TV become popular around the world, so every thing can be shown and nothing will be hidden. In United Kingdom the land line broadcast channels are 4 which are (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, CHANNEL4, CHANNEL5) BBC1 shows the hot news local and international. And BBC2 show news and some historical programme. On the other hand ITV1 shows sports, soap and about famous people. Furthermore channel 4 tonight will present  at 9 pm Luther Season 2 Episode 3 of 4 “ The detective goes on leave to help Jenny get back on her own two feet, only for their domestic plans to be interrupted by Ripley with news of a violent attack at a petrol station” TV Pixie (2011). Finally, channel 5 shows movies, music and carton for children in the morning.    

 TV Pixie (2011) “TV media”. Available at :http://tvpixie.com/tv-news/2011/06/28/channel-4s-sitcom-sirens-sounds-dark-undertones. Accessed (27/06/2011)

The welfare

Currently, many people having jobs in many countries, and it's been different system between country to other for example , the age of retired in Saudi Arabia is 60 for men and 55 for women but in UK is 65. On the other hand no homeless people can be live in the street in Saudi Arabia all of them living in a house they received it from the government same as the system of United Kingdom. The unemployment people will not get benefit




Guardian (2011) “Retirement age”. Available at: http://m.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/25/retirement-age-scrapped-equality-commission?cat=money&type=article. Accessed (27/06/2011).

Sports

Britain is one of the world countries where people have the possibility to play a variety of sport. In Britain every year a calendar is establishing to shows when and where the most important sport events will happen. This year, this month there are two rest of sport event: Derby horse racing on the flat and the Wimbledon tennis fortnight.

The Derby horse racing is the oldest and most famous horse races in the world and the most popular flat race in the English racing calendar. It takes places on the first Saturday of June each year and it is the 3^rd classic of the English flat racing season. Horses run over a distance of 1mile 4 furlongs. The home of the derby is Epsom downs racecourse; and the race has been run since 1661.The particularity of this event is the fact that the Queen always assists to it since she has her own horse in the race.

This year, the derby horse racing has been won by a 19 years old French rider. Her horse, called “Pour MOI” spoiled the dream of the Queen which was of finally winning the world’s greatest flat race. BBC (2011):” Her Majesty's race favourite Carlton House played his part in one of the great renewals of the Derby at Epsom, but Pour Moi spoiled the party with a spine-tingling last to first success”.

References:

BBC(2011) Derby 2011:Queen’s dream dashed by French resistance. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/horse_racing/13656762.stm. Accessed (12 june2011)

Epsom(2011) Epsom Derby 2011. Available at: http://www.epsom-derby.net/ . Accessed (12june2011)

The national health service

The National Health Service is a service providing care to all the UK’s residents.

It is born in 1948 on July 5. He’s open was an idea of the health secretary Aneurin Bevan who firstly opens Park Hospital in Manchester with the ambition of bringing good healthcare to all the UK’s residents.

The NHS provides free care to all the UK’s residents. This is very significant because in other countries peoples have to pay for their care, and sometimes it might be expensive.  But the dilemma is the fact that in the UK people pay for the NHS when they pay their taxes. The NHS entitles to diagnostic treatment for any illness. People can receive treatment for everything from minor ailments to serious diseases free of charge.

Depending on the nature of their problem, people when ill may be treated by a doctor, dentist or optician and these are the services offers by the NHS. GP services is one of the services offered by the NHS, to benefits from the NHS all the residents should registered to a GP.

Nowadays, the NHS is face to some few problems such as the lack of funding. Like always it’s over budget therefore they have cut thousands of nurses and other staffs jobs to save money which can affect patient care generally.

Reference:  Monetos(2011): "Advantages of the NHS". Available at: http://www.monetos.co.uk/insurance/health-insurance/nhs/advantages/. Accessed(24/06/2011)

The media - newspaper

Nowadays, mass media plays an important role in the society. There are many way of delivering news to the public where newspapers are included.

In Britain there is a variety of newspapers. The popular are The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily telegraph and the Daily express. All of these are printed out every day and give news about the situation in Britain.

Tabloids are also available to have information. But there are many things that differentiate tabloids from newspapers. Tabloids usually refer to a type of newspaper that typically measure 11×17 inches and is five columns across, narrower than a broadsheet newspaper. Tabloids are smaller; their stories tend to be shorter than the one found in broadsheets newspapers. Tabloids readers are often working class residents of big cities. Indeed, many cities prefer tabloids because they are easy to carry and read maybe on the coffee shop, bus or train. And they also use more colour and have more pictures.

Crime and Punishment

In my opinion the death penalty should exist because it act as a deterrent. I strongly believe to do both of punishment and rehabilitation in a prison, because one of those are not enough for the victim.
Many people believe that who drink and drive is deserve the strong punishment and not allowed to drive for one year because that will put others in dangerous situation .In my country the law have special system for the joy-riding, vandalism and graffiti because these become more likely nowadays and the punishment are : stay in the prison for one month also that depends on the type of the this crime. On the same hand the political right should not break the law at all
because the law took place to product the people and make every things equal. Moreover, the smoking cannabis should have a high level of punishment for who use it because its extremely damage the brain after using it. However, the law in Saudi Arabia never been broken because it use a Islamic religion law, for example:
if someone break a hand of other he/she will be judged to get broken hand.

Reference: (2011): " Cannabis reclassification FAQs from the Government". Available at http://www.ukcia.org/library/classc/governmentfaqs.php. Accessed(27/06/2011)

EDUCATION

* Toddlers start nursery or "foundation" level education on their third birthday after September.
This phase introduces them to the education system, however it is usually part time and not compulsory.

* From the age of 4-7 years children join infant school. The infant school is usually housed together with the primary school.
* From ages 7-11 years children join the primary school, this can also be called years 3-6. These are the years when children are preparing for high school or more "academic" education..
* After that ages 11-16 are high school years, also known in the UK as secondary school.. All students will take GCSE (general certificate of education) examinations at the age of 16 or when they reach school year 10.
* "Sixth form" is not compulsory, however if a student wants to join a University they must study 2 further years to take A level examinations.. This is from age 16-18 or school years 11 and 12.

BRITAIN

*There are 4 countries in one country which are ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES and NORTHERN IRELAND
all of them under one name which called United Kingdom or Britain.
*Obviously the population in England are app 51.1 million.
*In the other hand population in Scotland are 5.1 million.
* However the population in Wales are 3.0 million but it does can fit more and more.
*lastly in Northern Ireland population got 1.8 million.
*The total population of all these countries in UK are 60,975,000.

*Britain has created one flag to make the flags of countries on it:

and the four different flags are like :

1st England

2nd Scotland

3rd Wales

4th Northern Ireland

Saint David and Saint david's Day

Who is Saint David?
 Dewi Saint: this is his name in Walsh language. He was born towards the end of the fifth century  also he has been born in south Wales less than a century after the last Roman legions had marched out of Wales . His mother is Non.

In sixth century were a Celtic monk abbot and bishop.
* In 589 was the death of Saint David so 1 March was chosen for remembering him, and has been celebrated by followers since then.

* People used to have a holiday for st David's day in Wales until 2006 and they are voting to have a bank holiday.

* The leek is the national flower of Wales; Welsh people all over the world proudly wear the stalk, flower or a bit of leaf from a leek plant on March 1st.

* Every year parades are held in Wales to commemorate St. David. The largest of these is held in Cardiff

To mark St. David's Day.

And here is the water in Swansea Castle Square become red for remembering.

Valentine's Day

*The VALENTINE's DAY  as we know it is about two people love each other, in fact people in 14th of February which is Valentine day are exchanging the messages , flowers , chocolate and gifts . That way is expression about the love.                                                 

* Valentine day in UK people are use texting messages by phone , in 2004  especially in Valentine days  80 million texts were sent between mobile phones , so people prefer using text messages rather than ' snail mail '

* Finally, most people invite the one who love to a nice restaurant to have a dinner and chare their love and having fun.

                                                                                                          

The government

* Firstaly , the cabinet's mean : an formal group of ministerd .it's has also 20 members on it abvouisly have to meet with outher once a week .

* Secondly, the differentbetween single party government and coalition government is

The implications of coalition and minority governments loom large in the ongoing debate

between proponents of alternative electoral systems and styles of government. Compared to

single-party majority governments, critics of coalition or minority governments say that they

limit direct accountability between citizens and government and are therefore ‘less

democratic’ (Farrell 2001, 196-198). Such direct accountability is, of course, most

emphasised by those who follow in the wake of Joseph Schumpeter, in whose theory the

ability to retrospectively dismiss officeholders becomes the essence of democracy .

* Thierdly, the Queen apears to have a great deal of power , but in fact she has little.on the other hand, the Parlimmnt appears not to have much power but in rality has a very great power.

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The house of Parliament

The British Parliament consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
* House of Commons is made up of men and women who were voted to represent their local area by people who live there.
* The House of Commons has more power than House of  Lords.
* UNITED KINKDOM consists of 659 constituencies which are : 529 constituencies in England , 72 constituencies in  Scotland and , 40 constituencies in Wales and 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland .
* They are not the same geographical size because of the population in England much bigger than others.
* The party which has most MPs will form the government after a general election .
* The person who wins most voteswill be the '' first past the post '' system .


* Nicola Blackwood

* She was born in 1979 in Johannesburg but her family returned to Oxford just two months later after her father had angered the Apartheid government by speaking up for the rights of the black community.

* The Conservative Christian Fellowship know Nicola well, she became a member in 2005 and took part in the CCF Leadership Course in 2006, and although there are many in public life who believe that this country should be entirely secular, Nicola is not one of them. Her political interests and voluntary activity in humanitarian policy, social justice and strengthening communities are both classically Conservative and classically Christian
          http://www.ccfwebsite.com/ProfileNicolaBlackwood.shtml

* Before her election to parliament, Blackwood worked as a volunteer on human rights and aid projects in the Middle East, Mozambique, Rwanda, Bangladesh, and has also worked as a volunteer among the disadvantaged in Birmingham and Blackpool. Prior to her running for office, Blackwood worked with the Conservative Party Human Rights Group which was set up to find ways for the UK to combat human rights abuses in places like Burma and the DRC. She has also worked as an adviser to the  Shadow International Development Secretary , Andrew Mitchell.

BRITAIN JOIN THE EU

Advantages

1. Transaction costs will be eliminated.
For instance, UK firms currently spend about £1.5 billion a year buying and selling foreign currencies to do business in the EU.
With the EMU this is eliminated, so increasing profitability of EU firms.

* Advice to young people: You can go on holiday and not have to worry about getting your money changed, therefore avoiding high conversion charges.

2. Price transparency.
EU firms and households often find it difficult to accurately compare the prices of goods, services and resources across the EU because of the distorting effects of exchange rate differences.
This discourages trade. According to economic theory, prices should act as a mechanism to allocate resources in an optimal way, so as to improve economic efficiency. There is a far greater chance of this happening across an area where E.M.U exists.


Disadvantages

1. The instability of the system.
Throughout most of the 1980s the UK refused to join the ERM (Exchange rate mechanism). It argued that it would be impossible to maintain exchange rate stability within the ERM, especially in the early 1980s when the pound was a petro-currency and when the UK inflation rate was consistently above that of Germany. When the UK joined the ERM in 1990 there had been three years of relative currency stability in Europe and it looked as though the system had become relatively robust. The events of Sept. 1992, when the UK and Italy were forced to leave the system, showed that the system was much less robust than had been thought.

2. Over estimation of Trade benefits.
Some economists argue that the trade and cost advantages of EMU have been grossly overestimated. There is little to be gained from moving from the present system which has some stability built into it, to the rigidities which EMU would bring.
3.  Loss of Sovereignty.
On the political side, it is argued that an independent central bank is undemocratic. Governments must be able to control the actions of the central banks because Governments have been democratically elected by the people, whereas an independent central bank would be controlled by a non elected body. Moreover, there would be a considerable loss of sovereignty. Power would be transferred from London to Brussels. This would be highly undesirable because national governments would lose the ability to control policy. It would be one more step down the road towards a Europe where Brussels was akin to Westminster and Westminster akin to a local authority.

LONDON WEBQUEST .

My friend and I decided to visit London on Saturday by train, so we are going to leave our city at 17.35. and will be there at 10.20  also we are all ready have booked the hotel  in the place called Piccadilly area however we are going to stay there for three days , so we will miss the class I'm afraid  because we'll get back on Tuesday.
So the trip cost us about 300£ per person.

* Firstly, when we arrive will go to the hotel to sleep, and wake up early to visit the museums first in the morning.

* Secondly, on Sunday morning will have our breakfast in the hotel.

* Thirdly, will visit the museum starting in Madame Tussauds in Baker Street, which is cost 25£ for entrance per person.

                                 
After that will go to science museum the oldest and modern invention

* After that we will go to Arabic restaurant in edguaroad called ' Alnkheel restaurant ' to have our lunch , then back to the hotel for relaxing and sleep a few hours .

at the night we are going to Piccadilly to walk around and see how is the night life there

Then get back to the hotel to sleep and repeating for morning visit London eye.

* Fourthly, on Monday morning we will go to London eye which is the most interesting thing to visit because it show London from the higher peak

*After that will be going to harrods to do some shopping .

*Finally, back to the hotel and will spend the all day sleeping after the exhausted past days, and get ready travel back to our city.

                                            

The population of foreign people who live in the UK

As the graph shows in the UK percentage of the original citizen’s people are 6.6% which is 4.02 million to of approximately 60 million.

* 87.5 per cent of the population of England and Wales (seven out of eight people) gave their ethnic group as White British.

* Two per cent of the population of England and Wales are Indian, with Leicester having the highest proportion (25.7 per cent).

* In England and Wales, 1.1 per cent of people are Black Caribbean, 0.9 per cent is Black African and a further 0.2 per cent is from Other Black groups.

* Chinese people from more than two per cent of the population in Westminster, Cambridge, City of London and Barnet.

Interduction of british studies

Interdiction of British studies.

In the United Kingdom there is Buckingham palace which is the queen lives’ in .. it was originally built in 1702 as the London home of the Duke of Buckingham and was simply called Buckingham House.