Famous people of the UK Orlando Bloom Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born January 13‚ 1977) is an English actor. He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films‚ and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films‚ including Troy‚ Elizabethtown‚ and Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom’s most recent releases are the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s
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Politics‚ Government and Communication As the number of political parties has fallen‚ that of pressure groups has increased. In the voluntary sector alone‚ one third of the population is involved in regular work for organisations‚ several of which can be described as a pressure group. They are organised groups that don’t put up candidates for election‚ but seek to influence government policy or legislation. These organisations are also described as interest groups‚ lobby groups‚ or protest groups
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What is the purpose of government? A question like this can lead to several different answers and so many more controversies. One of these controversies in reality is democrats and republicans. In my opinion‚ I believe that the purpose of government is to protect everyone‚ to help‚ and to be there for eachother. If we were not there for eachother then‚ we would only have ourselves‚ and there would be chaos‚ and then there would be no government. In the excerpts of the Magna Carta it states‚ “To no
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e LHow far has the coalition government forced the Conversatives and the Liberal Democrats to revise their traditional ideological stances? Before the coalition‚ the Lib Dems were seen as a left-wing party‚ and the Conversatives‚ a right-wing party. However under the coalition government both parties have had to make compromises in order for the coalition to work. I am going to talk about to what extent both parties have had to revise their traditional ideologies. Both parties believe that by being
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Kingdom. Under the Norman monarchy of the Kingdom of England‚ the king and his Curia Regis held judicial power. Later‚ however‚ more courts were created and a judicial profession grew. In the fifteenth century‚ the king’s role in this feature of government thus became small.[4] Nevertheless‚ kings could still influence courts and dismiss judges. The Stuart dynasty used this power frequently in order to overpower Parliament. After the Stuarts were removed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688‚ some advocated
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Private schools Private schools (also known as ‘independent schools’) charge fees to attend instead of being funded by the government. Pupils don’t have to follow the national curriculum. All private schools must be registered with the government and are inspected regularly. State boarding schools State boarding schools provide free education but charge fees for boarding. Some state boarding schools are run by local councils‚ and some are run as academies or free schools. State boarding
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3. “The UK electoral system produces unrepresentative results and should switch to a form of proportional representation. Discuss.” At the moment‚ the UK electoral system uses FPTP‚ or First Past the Post. This electoral system has been in place since 1882‚ but it is true that it provides unrepresentative results. For example‚ in the 2010 General Election‚ the Liberal Democrats got 23% of the vote‚ with over 6‚000‚000 votes‚ yet they only got 57 seats‚ which is only 9% of a say of what goes on
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requested by the Institute for the Examination of Public Policy (IEPP) to report on the UK government’s newley declared policy on the development of ultra- low emission vehicles. The report explains in details the economic structure of the global mass volume car industry‚ explains and analyses the government policy of attempting to foster the development of a significant ‘Tier 1’ electric car component supplier in the UK and concludes with our group expert analysis whether this policy is going to lead
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main functions was to ensure the thirteen states became worked as one rather than following separate laws. Before the Constitution there was a weaker government that encompassed many problems and holes that needed ratification. This lead to a convention in order to create a stronger central government that would fix the issues the current government was facing. This convention lead to the birth of the U.S. Constitution‚ which was and still is considered the supreme law. The Constitutional Convention
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world in the shipbuilding industry‚ headed by prominent companies like the Chosun Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. The government of South Korea is divided into three branches: executive‚ judicial‚ and legislative. The executive and legislative branches operate primarily at the national level‚ although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions. Local governments are semi-autonomous‚ and contain executive and legislative bodies of their own. The judicial branch operates at
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