Explore the way in which power and authority shape spoken language‚ considering it in the light of your own classroom experience. The English language contains many aspects and tools used to gain power and authority when speaking. In a political broadcast interview gaining information and turn-taking is expected. Therefore when Jeremy Paxman‚ the interviewer‚ speaks in a blunt and outspoken way to George Galloway‚ a politician who has just won an election to become a Member of Parliament beating
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Explain 3 ways in which Parliament has lost sovereignty? First way is devolution as it takes power away from the Westminster Parliament and spreads it to other parliaments and assemblies (regional authorities). Therefore regional parliaments and assemblies can make their own acts and pass laws and some acts of Westminster parliament are not affecting these regions. A good example of that is Scottish parliament with its own acts such as Scottish Educational Act and therefore almost all educational
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is considered to be a nation’s total output of goods and services in a given time period and has been adjusted for price changes. Nominal GDP is an evaluated GDP at the current market prices. All of the different terms that go along with GDP all explain different values what a country sells when it comes to their goods and services. Unemployment rate is the percentage in a city‚ town or state even as big as the
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gone by but within it is our hope for the future and we are hoping that whomever reads this in the future sees that our ideas about a peaceful‚ accepting and proud America have held true in the time that you open this humble box”. This researcher removed five items all from the decade of the 1960’s; that hold great significance to the decade. The first item is a reel of film labeled “Walter Cronkite: Man on the Moon”. The second item was a bit curious; this item was a round plastic disc container
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Explain the Platonic concept for “forms” Plato was a pupil of the philosopher Socrates‚ who was murdered for corrupting the youth of the city; he had been encouraging people to challenge the views and opinions of the city elders. Plato came up with an allegory of the cave‚ to explain the world we live in. the allegory suggested that people are ‘philosophically ignorant’ and are like the prisoners chained the floor of the cave. They can only see the shadows on the back of the cave; they are assuming
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who make a link with bible accounts and the big bang theory‚ and day age creationists who believe in the Genesis account of creation however state that each of the 6 days of creation in the bible was actually a period of millions of years. Although progressive creationists make a link between the big band and god‚ most creationists would reject this view. Dr Russel Humphreys‚ a young earth creationist‚ believes “the order is all wrong as well as the timescales.” When it comes to matching bible creation
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Q. Explain the factors which make it difficult to amend the US Constitution (15 marks) To amend the US Constitution‚ a bill has to go through a two-stage process: proposal and ratification. The proposal stage has to have two thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Every successful amendment has started this way and even the failed ones. A proposal can also be made by a Constitutional convention‚ which is a one-off body which is put together for a specific purpose‚ and
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or not? To be propositional means that God reveals certain truths at which we respond in accepting these truths. These certain truths may be found in scripture‚ creeds and or the teachings of the church. Non-propositional approach emphasise God revealing himself at which we respond with faith being a personal belief in God‚ resulting in us developing specific ideas and or propositions about God. A non-propositional view believes the Bible is a source book of many different accounts of human response
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understanding of Darwin’s evolution theory? Are there any surprises here? Is there anything about evolution theory that perhaps had not occurred to you? Vonnegut’s Galapagos reinforced by current understanding of Darwin’s evolution theory through a fun narrative I could understand. As I read this Darwinian tale of survival‚ I watched humans just like you and me devolve from "big brained" organisms to small brained swimmers who were able to survive. He made fantastic Darwinian points‚ such
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this assignment I will be explaining the principal psychological perspectives. I will explain the different psychological approaches to health and social practice and assessing the different psychological approaches to study. Psychology is the focus on different subjects such as the human development‚ social behaviour and cognitive processes. There are different approaches that have been developed in order to explain the psychology. These perspective or approaches include the behaviourist‚ social learning
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