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    Answer to Question 2: A Contrast Of Question Between English And Vietnamese Question is one of the types of sentence used with the high probability in the process of learning‚ teaching a language as well as in daily communication. We use it very often and naturally in our daily life because it is the most useful sentence to make a request for information. In reality‚ we sometimes make a question in order not to get information but we just use the question to greet someone for instance. However

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    Ancien Regime; the people were divided into 3 categories: The Clergy‚ Nobility‚ and Commoners or Medieval ranking named the 3rd‚ 2nd and 1st estate respectively. The 3rd estate were commoners and mainly really poor workers who worked under harsh conditions for little pay. This estate; the commoners were the ones who rose up against the other two and started the French Revolution. Their main grievances were; the nobility spending their money unwisely‚ the country’s growing debt‚ and the fact that they were

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    STENTHGS AND WEAKNESSES OF PARLIAMENT ------------------------------------------------- 2008 Question 9 ------------------------------------------------- ‘Two strengths of parliament as a law-maker are that it makes laws which reflect the views of the community and can make laws whenever the need arises.’ ------------------------------------------------- Critically examine these two strengths. (6 marks) The following points could have been used to develop an evaluation of the strengths noted

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    The House of Commons! British Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and its territories. ?The British Parliament‚ in its famed Longitude Act of 1714‚ set the highest bounty of all‚ naming a prize equal to a king?s ransom (several million dollars in today?s currency) for a ?Practicable and Useful? means of determining longitude‚? Davy Sobel. The history of British Parliament surpassed several milestones that

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    Selection and description of site APPLICATION FOR REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS‚ SUBDIVISION AND REZONING IN TERMS OF LUPO 15 OF 1985 FOR A PRPOSED SECTIONAL TITLE UNIT DEVELOPMENT ON THE SUBJECT PROPOERTY: ERF 19787‚ AVONWOOD‚ GOODWOOD Owner and acquisition strategy for the site The subject property is currently vacant and in the ownership of the City of Cape Town. There is a demand for housing within the area‚ with a 40% to be used as sectional title units and the 60% to be used for single residential

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    Before the French Revolution‚ France was ruled and governed by the king‚ his Grand Council of ministers‚ and 13 courts called parliaments. King Louis XVI ruled by “divine right‚” believing that he had been put on the throne by the grace of God. France then was one of the most powerful and wealthiest countries‚ and had a strong army‚ and even stronger cultural influence. (Plain‚ 5) Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette were shielded from the daily lives of the ordinary people in France. When Louis

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    Before the French Revolution‚ there were three estates‚ or classes: the nobility‚ the clergy and the commoners. The nobility and the clergy had many more privileges than the third estate and that is what caused the French Revolution. The Third estate was composed of the peasants‚ the workers and the bourgeoisie; unlike the other segments of the Third Estate‚ the bourgeoisie was able to communicate its grievances to the public during the period after the French Revolution: 1789-1799. The peasants

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    has been radically changed by the Human Rights Act. Judges now see themselves as legislating human rights through their interpretation of Acts of Parliament.’ In Duport Steels Ltd v Sirs‚ Lord Scarman stressed: ‘In the field of statute law the judge must be obedient to the will of Parliament as expressed in the enactments. In this field Parliament makes and unmakes the law‚ the judge’s duty is to interpret and to apply the law‚ not to change it to meet the judge’s idea of what justice requires

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    What is the role of the free press in strengthening democracy‚ good governance‚ and human development?1 Liberal theorists have long argued that the existence of a unfettered and independent press within each nation is essential in the process of democratization‚ by contributing towards the right of freedom of expression‚ thought and conscience‚ strengthening the responsiveness and accountability of governments to all citizens‚ and providing a pluralist platform and channel of political

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    The French Revolution had a huge impact on the society and political system of France during the period of 1789 to 1799. There were many grievances among the Third Estate on the eve of the French Revolution. The Third Estate was discontent with unequal taxation‚ the interference of the government of the people’s lives‚ and unreasonable persecution of different religions. The Third Estate was made up by the merchants‚ peasants‚ and the laborers (bourgiosie). The bourgiosie were the only ones that

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