Britain’s Framework Overview Great Britain is a constitutional monarchy. The constitution exists in no one document but is a centuries-old accumulation of statutes‚ judicial decisions‚ usage‚ and tradition. The hereditary monarch‚ who must belong to the Church of England according to the Act of Settlement of 1701‚ is almost entirely limited to exercising ceremonial functions as the head of state. Parties The two main parties are the Conservative party‚ descended from the old Tory party
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Language Codes The underlying theory The construct of elaborated and restricted language codes was introduced by Basil Bernstein in 1971‚ as a way of accounting for the relatively poor performance of working-class pupils on language-based subjects‚ when they were achieving as well as their middle-class counterparts on mathematical topics. Interestingly‚ it was stimulated directly by his experience of teaching in further education. It is frequently misunderstood‚ largely because of Bernstein ’s
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Ch 1: Introducing Government in America * Many young ppl apathetic about politics‚ less involved than elderly * Need to be involved for political tolerance‚ identify what policies they benefit from * Politics compete with TV and the internet Government * Government: institutions + processes through which public policies are made for a society (Congress‚ president‚ the courts‚ federal administrative agencies) * 500‚000 elected officials in US * How should we govern
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Progressivism implies a philosophy that welcomes innovations and reforms in the political‚ economic‚ and social order. The Progressive movement‚ 1901 to 1917‚ was ultimately the triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism. In a general sense‚ the conservative goals of this period justified the Liberal reforms enacted by Progressive leaders. Deviating from the traditional definition of conservatism (a resistance to change and a disposition of hostility to innovations in the political
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Anne Norton’s work on representation demonstrates the importance of an attunement to the contexts in which political ideas circulate. She translates key tenets of American liberalism into everyday practices like eating‚ dressing‚ and shopping. Such practices enact assumptions that freedom means choice and that people represent themselves and exercise authority when they choose freely. By contexualizing liberalism in quotidian activities‚ moreover‚ Norton draws out the way these activities challenge
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A. Welfare Ideologies of the Past - A brief overview. (a) The Elizabethan Poor Law The legal relief of poverty was first introduced after the demise of compulsory charity that followed the reformation. There were initial parish registers of the poor in 1552 and compulsory fund raising‚ through to 1601 with the advent of the Elizabethan Poor Law (43 Eliz I Cap. 2). This law oversaw the levying of taxes for the distribution of money and food to the poor but there was a heavy emphasis on hierarchy
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scientific use. With the dawn of the personal computer all Americans were allowed potential access to computers. As competition and modernization increased‚ issues of cost became less and less of an inhibitor‚ and it appeared that a new technological "populism" had developed. Companies such as Apple Computer became household names‚ and words such as software and downloading became commonplace. It was predicted that by 1990‚ 60 percent of all the jobs in the United States would require familiarity with
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Throughout America’s history‚ many historians have referred to America as being exceptional. American Exceptionalism is the belief that the United States is inherently better than other nations. Many view America as exceptional because of the unique way it was founded and America’s view on liberty. The belief that America is an exceptional nation that in several ways does not conform to the norm has been referred to as American exceptionalism. It is our country’s uniqueness that rates it high and
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“The success of News Ltd is based on tabloid content” 1. Introduction News has always been a matter of commerce‚ and it has always entertained as well as informed (Barkin 2003‚ p.64). News Ltd‚ undeniably‚ has focused on tabloid content in order to derive an enormous benefit from it. To rise fame‚ broadly speaking‚ News Ltd has exploited the interest of the target audiences‚ crucially by appealing to their human side. This is to say that the success of New Corporations is mainly contributed by tabloid
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The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic
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