argue that the current electoral system of Britain‚ which is based on the plurality principle (FTPT)‚ is unfair‚ as winners take it all‚ and votes for defeated candidates are simply wasted and do not count anymore. The electoral reform was one of the central objectives of the Liberal Democrats‚ led by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The referendum gave the victory to David Cameron: the British prime minister who has launched the most savage cut programs in the country since the Second World War
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Have you ever thought about how the food you’re about to eat was prepared? I know I rarely do‚ and many of us never pay any mind to what exactly is on our plate. David Foster Wallace’s essay will almost definitely make you ask yourself a few questions regarding meat consumption. His piece talks about the controversy behind killing lobsters and questions people’s general views on that matter‚ making his audience think about morality. After reading “Consider the Lobster” I couldn’t help but think
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David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother
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environment in which one develops is key to studying and comprehending humans overall. However‚ the notion of biology and environment intertwining isn’t always exemplified clearly in various aspects of people’s lives. This was shown in the case of David Reimer‚ the boy who was raised as a girl. In Reimer’s case‚ he was born biologically male‚ but due to an unfortunate circumstance involving
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Christian Nicholson Von Professor Petrusky Composition September 29‚ 2014 Summary of “The Battle of the Ants” In Henry David Thoreau’s essay “The Battle of the ants” he tells about his experience he had involving two different colonies of ants. One colony was red ants that were large. The second group was black ants which were double the size of the red ants. Throughout the story Thoreau personifies the ants as humans and argues that the battles of humans aren’t different from battles of ants. The
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It Only Takes One I have encountered numerous individuals in my life. Some impact my life for the better‚ and some for the worse. The more commendable people in my life have given some exceptional advice. Although‚ the most outstanding advice that I have ever gotten is “Be yourself.” Why this piece of advice is my personal favorite and why I followed it will be explained through three different aspects: making friends in high school‚ interacting with my family‚ and participating in my religion
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Navajo Tribe I choose the Navajo culture because when I was twelve I had a friend that was Navajo. She taught me a lot about her culture‚ and what it was all about. So‚ I thought doing the Navajo culture would be a perfect topic for me to research because of my personal connection to my friends life. This tribe of the Native Americans is the largest one in the United States to this day. Doing the research has taught me a lot more of the nature of the culture and the beliefs. That their culture
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	David Hume‚ a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76‚ carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer‚ he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied but did not graduate‚ and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later returned to Britain and
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David George Joseph Malouf (born 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000‚ his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996‚ he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008‚ and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Malouf was born in Brisbane‚ Australia‚ to a Christian Lebanese father and an English- Jewish mother. He was an avid reader as a child‚ and at 12 years old was reading
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Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist writer during the 1800s. While Muhammad Ali was an Islamic boxer born in 19 42 and is still living today. One would think that these two would have beliefs and proceedings that completely contradict each other. However‚ even though Henry David Thoreau and Muhammad Ali have similar beliefs‚ their approaches towards civil disobedience couldn’t be more different. Thoreau seemed to be a man who cared only for himself and did whatever he wanted whenever and
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