To what extent is there a ‘democratic deficit’ in the UK? The extent to which there is a ‘democratic deficit’ in the UK can be argued to varying degrees of accuracy. A democratic deficit would be when a democratic institution‚ such as the UK Government or in the courts of the UK‚ breaks or falls short of its democratic principles in their principles. An example of democratic deficit in the UK is when In parts of London‚ Sheffield‚ Manchester and Birmingham‚ thousands of would-be voters had to stand
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foods harmful or‚ helpful? In a study in the early 1990’s rats were fed genetically modified tomatoes. Well actually‚ the rats refused to eat them. They were force-fed. Several of the rats developed stomach lesions and seven out of forty died within two weeks. Although the GM tomato has been taken off the market‚ millions of acres of soy‚ corn‚ canola‚ and cotton have had foreign genes inserted into their DNA. Millions of people eat GM foods daily. What are some of the
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Feminist Perspectives of the Family There are many different feminist views on the family and how the family should be due to the different strands of feminism‚ for example: Radical feminists believe that men try to dominate‚ control and exploit women; Marxist feminists make a direct connection between capitalism and the inferior position women hold in society; and liberal feminists believe that gender inequality comes from ignorance and the social constraints on freedom of choice. Radical feminists
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New Criticism VS Reader-Response Criticism What is more accurate‚ new criticism or reader response criticism? The answer is neither‚ seeing as both styles of critic views and analyzes the topic at hand and gives feedback. Though both styles offer feedback‚ they are different forms of feedback entirely. New criticism involves focusing on the material at hand‚ and not what it was meant to be perceived as‚ to judge the topic by every measurable feature possible. Reader response criticism is when
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Identification Info: The title of the painting is Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Gallilee and was painted in 1633 by Rembrandt Van Rijn. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher who worked and lived during the Dutch Golden Age. The dimensions of the painting are 168 centimeters by 128 centimeters. The materials of the artwork employed are oil on canvas. The last known location of it was the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston Massachusetts‚ until March 18‚ 1990 when it was stolen from the
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Essay: Study Shortcuts Helpful or Harmful Ulya Ehsen First Year BS Commerce University of Karachi Study Shortcuts Helpful or Harmful A recent threat to our education system is the rapidly spreading trend of five (5) years‚ guidebooks‚ guess papers and coaching centers. 5 year is a booklet containing past papers of last 5 years of a particular subject or of all subjects in a group. 5 years are available both in solved and unsolved forms. Guidebooks are books containing solved objective
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Outline and assess Feminist explanations of the relationship between gender and crime. (50 marks) Gender is on the agenda” wrote Francis Heidensohn (1989) Feminist definition of crime is that “crime is politically informed and linked to particular interests”– of men. Before feminism‚ women were invisible in sociological research‚ this meant that explanations for female recidivism saw‚ female crime as a ’special case’ resulting from sexual promiscuity and biological deviance. Biological explanations
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supply raw resources for paper. Large areas of Chile’s forested areas are now being utilized for planting exotic tree species so much that it is changing the dominant type of landscape in the region. What is worse is that once native forests are colonized by exotic tree species‚ then there is little
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To what extent is television educationally beneficial for children? Information from Boston Municipal Research Bureau suggests that children aged from 11 to 15 in Britain averagely watching TV for more than 50 hours per week‚ which may be considered as too much as nearly half of their daytime excluding 8 hours ’ sleeping period. (BBC‚ 2011) Since children ’s television-viewing time occupying almost a third of a day‚ the sense of its educational virtue has to be confirmed. By the means of children
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To what extent is there a democratic deficit in the UK? The most telling indicator of there being a democratic deficit in the UK today is the continuing decline of voter turnout at all elections for the past 60 years. There is a growing level of general apathy towards political issues in the UK which is not just damaging to the health of a democracy but fatal. The government requires a mandate to govern‚ if they do not achieve popular consent then how are they representative of the people? The
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