Should a British person bother learning any language other than English? English is said to be the most common and used language on Earth. People from all over the world use it to communicate with individuals from other countries. Moreover‚ in almost all of the European schools English is the mandatory first language. This brings us to the question: What about the English native speakers? Is there any need for them to study other foreign languages? According to a recent survey in the UK‚ an overwhelming
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The Structure-Agency Debate provides an understanding to the attitudes towards police work shown by Captain Louis de Koster as well as his actions in the extract from Altbeker’s (2005) The Dirty Work of Democracy. This short essay will depict how I understood structure and agency to be taking place in de Koster’s context. Structure is the one extreme position in the Structure-Agency Debate whereby it is believed that a person is shaped by different elements of society such as social institutions
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“THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH LIFE. 1950-2000” This book has been written by Andrew S. Rosen‚ who has been named president of Kaplan‚ Inc.‚ a leading provider of educational services to individuals‚ schools and businesses. The author has chosen his title carefully: British life in the second half of the twentieth century was transformed but not changed. The book talks about some aspects as life‚ transport and other‚ like customs. The religion‚ for example. There was a division of that. On
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A presidential debate is an honest and collaborative effort to explore issues however‚ it is a competition. Although each candidate is working towards the main goal‚ a better nation‚ they are not working together to achieve it. Furthermore‚ each candidate is seeking the truth‚ yet is trying to win the election. There are a handful of occurrences in the 2008 McCain and Obama debate where each candidate points out the past mistakes of the opposing man‚ instead of focusing on how to repair the fault
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and Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln‚ the republican candidate‚ and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas‚ a Democratic Party candidate‚ for a seat in the United States Senate. During the time period of the debates‚ Senators were elected by state legislators; therefore Lincoln and Douglas were competing for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois Legislature. The main issue for the debates was overwhelmingly
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After watching tonight’s GOP debate‚ I am slightly shocked that the topic that consumed the majority of the debate was foreign terrorism. Although this is obviously a serious issue‚ so is domestic terrorism‚ such as the planned parenthood shootings‚ school shootings‚ church shootings‚ and movie theater shootings. The main focus of the debate was keeping "bad guys" out of the United States‚ but what I think the candidates failed to acknowledge and realize is that some white‚ male‚ anglo-saxon United
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5. British and American Press Nearly 80% of all households in Britain buy a copy of one of the main national papers every day – the British are the third biggest newspaper readers. Newspaper publications are dominated by the national press. Non-national‚ local and regional papers‚ with significant circulations are published mostly in the evenings‚ when they don’t compete with national ones. “The Sunday papers” are mostly national‚ they sell slightly more copies and thicker. British “paper round”
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economies and like ways of treating the indigenous population. Once they established land in the new world‚ each country was able to find a new source of wealth‚ either from precious metals or from building necessities such as lumber. Seemingly‚ the British and Spanish colonies were some of the strongest and most productive colonies in history. Despite the similarities in the Spanish and English colonies‚ the two countries had different motives for establishing colonies in the new world. The main
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Late Medieval Period 14th Century British Literature 14th and 15th were period of transition from feudalism to pre-industrial era. A time of political‚ social and ideological conflicts; England was in war with France (the hundred year war 1337-1453 Edward’s claim to the French throne and attempt to bring England‚ Gascony and Flanders under unified political control). The defeats in France lead to deepening the internal crisis. The decline in agriculture together with the rise in the population
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OREGON OXFORD DEBATE • . Rules and Guidelines On Debate Prepared by:Ma. Martha Manette A. Madrid‚ Ed.D. Professor marztmonette@yahoo.com • 2. Proposition:Resolved: “That Parliamentary Form of Government Be Adopted” • 3. Format of Debate:Oxford-Oregon Type • 4. Three Speakers fromeach sideFirst Affirmative -Constructive SpeechFirst Negative -Interpellation of the first affirmative SpeakerFirst Negative -Constructive SpeechFirst Affirmative -Interpellation of the first negative speakerSecond Affirmative
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