Biography Margaret Thatcher’s political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham‚ a small market town in eastern England‚ she rose to become the first (and for two decades the only) woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive General Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90)‚ a record unmatched in the twentieth century. During her term of office she reshaped almost every aspect
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TUESDAY 9 APRIL 2013 WWW.THEDAY.CO.UK Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ prime minister dies Margaret Thatcher‚ the first female prime minister of the UK‚ has died aged 87. Her vision and determination has left an indelible mark in Britain and beyond – for better or for worse. GOVERNMENT & POLITICS HISTORY Shaping the nation: Margaret Thatcher at her desk in Downing Street‚ 1987 © Getty Images ance on powerful trade unions. Thatcher was elected on a promise of radical change; and she kept her word
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher is the first woman to have held the office of prime minister in Great Britain. She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham‚ Lincolnshire and educated at the University of Oxford‚ where she earned degrees in chemistry. After graduation she worked as a research chemist from 1947 to 1951. She married Denis Thatcher in 1951‚ and in 1953‚ having studied for the bar‚ she became a tax lawyer. Thatcher joined the Conservative party‚ and was elected to the House of Commons
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The acknowledged Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis uses his novel‚ Zorba the Greek‚ as a means to present philosophical ideas to his audience. In his novel he explores many different themes and ideas‚ some of which stem from his greatest inspirations. Two of these philosophical ideas are Epicureanism and Dionysian nature. Epicureanism is a theoretical system founded by the philosopher‚ Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.)‚ who held that happiness should be valued as life’s highest good and that the best way to
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Margaret Sanger: Radical Heroine Margaret Sanger founded a movement in this country that would institute such a change in the course of our biological history that it is still debated today. Described by some as a "radiant rebel"‚ Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian hypocrisy and oppression through moral standards were at their highest. Working her way up from a nurse in New York’s poor Lower East Side to the head of the Planned Parenthood
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The Demonstration of Wit in The Odyssey In Greek literature‚ many writers include an epic hero‚ with many heroic qualities. In the epic poem‚ The Odyssey by Homer‚ Homer portrays a captain named Odysseus‚ who needs to use his wit to get himself and his men home to Ithaca by ship. Odysseus and his men face different obstacles that require Odysseus’s great strength in mind‚ so that they may pass through safely. Although Odysseus faces several hardships‚ it is Odysseus’s wit and aptitude‚ not his physical
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Margaret (Higgins) Sanger was born on September 14‚ 1879‚ in Corning‚ New York. She was the sixth of 11 children born into a Roman Catholic working-class class Irish American family. Margaret was taught since a young age to stand up for what she believed in and to make sure she always spoke her mind‚ she got this from her outspoken radical father. Margaret’s family lived in poverty as her father was a stonemason‚ who preferred to drink and talk politics rather than earn a steady wage for the
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A report on Margaret Thatcher’s leadership style‚ approaches and personality attributes Name: Noor Al Abdulla Student Number: 08434474 Module: Leadership in Context Table of contents: Page Number 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Leadership defined 3 3.0 Margaret Thatcher 3 4.0 Leadership Theories 4 4.1 An illustration of four theories 4 4.2 Trait Theory 4 4.3 Trait Theory Application to Margaret Thatcher 5 4.4 Trait Theory limitations
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- Margaret Thatcher ’s path to power [English special topic] Sophie Paiker 4/10/2014 Table of Contents Abstract p. 3 Prologue p. 3 Early Biography p. 4 First Rungs p. 5 Making it to the Shadow Cabinet p. 6 Rising to the Top I: Party Leader p. 6 Rising to the Top II: Prime Minister p. 7 Falklands War p. 9 Mrs. Thatcher and the IRA p. 10 Miners‘ Strike 1984-5 p. 11 Cold War: Mrs. Thatcher and the Soviet Union p. 13 Privatising
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Rat Song Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior animal) the poem shows how judgemental‚ hateful‚ hypocritical and “unnatural” the human race is. The poem furthermore advocates that humans are a much greater parasite than the rats they are so desperately
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