includes promoting children’s safety and welfare as well as protecting children when abuse happens. It has only been developed in the past 50 years‚ and the need for improved legislation has been highlighted by cases such as Maria Colwell (1973) and Victoria Climbie (2000) as these cases showed weaknesses in procedures. The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an international human rights treaty that grants all children a comprehensive set of rights. The convention has 54
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committing to improving children and young people ’s lives and each one of them will plan and show how to meet these five outcomes in their area. Every Child Matter is cover from birth to 19 years old. This was highlighted by the tragic death of Victoria Climbie at the hands of her cares‚ resulting in a independent inquiry into her death. The Laming Report in 2003‚ in common with other inquiries into child deaths over years‚ criticised the approach to protecting children on our society. The Laming
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Victorian Era The Victorian era was a period of wide extremes - characterized by industrial reforms‚ cultural transformations‚ scientific progress‚ gracious living and grinding poverty and wars. The Victorian era lasted from 1837 to 1901‚ when Queen Victoria reigned‚ although many historians believe that the Reform act of 1832 signifies the inception of the Victorian era.The life of women in Victorian era was generally centered on family commitments. Women were seen as temples of love and purity- and
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Feminist Analysis of Cloud Nine In 1979‚ Caryl Churchill wrote a feminist play entitled Cloud Nine. It was the result of a workshop for the Joint Stock Theatre Group and was intended to be about sexual politics. Within the writing she included a myriad of different themes ranging from homosexuality and homophobia to female objectification and oppression. "Churchill clearly intended to raise questions of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and race as ideological issues; she accomplished this largely by
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Victorian Era. Noelle Huang Contents INTRODUCTION:Queen Victoria SOCIETY CONDITION Social Behaviour Views on Different Classes and Races Gender Expectation Literature Reglious View Working Condition Crime Dress Decor LIFE Scientific Discovery Leisure Transportation Trends Architecture Unique custume TECHNOLOGY Health/Medcine Food Events STYLE Queen Victoria The Victorian Era could be broken down into two phases: early era(1837~1860) and Mid-to-late era (1860~1901). In the early
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Doug Aitken was a Multimedia artist who born in 1968 in Redondo Beach‚ California. He graduated from Pasadena Design Art Center at 1991. Doug Aitken moved to New York at 1994 and held his first exhibition at the 303 gallery there. Aitken’s work forms are widely from photography‚ sculpture‚ architectural and all the way to narrative films and sound works. Among them‚ most of his image works are related to several places and the local culture in those places‚ such as Guyana’s Jones Town‚ Africa’s diamond
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a metaphor in itself of the oppression of women and domestic violence in the Victorian Era. My Last Duchess was written in 1842‚ around this time the Industrial Revolution was booming‚ the British economy was thriving because of trade and Queen Victoria was ruler of Britain and all of her colonies. It was a truly glorious era of British History in terms of power and financial prosperity. However‚ it was also a time of poverty and repression‚ although the reigning monarch was female it was very much
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Imperial Britain in the Victorian Era: A Time of Change During the Victorian era‚ the British Empire thrived as the most powerful imperial force in the world. It was a time of great change: in addition to continued expansion of the empire‚ there were also many advances in science‚ as well as the start of an industrial revolution. According to Eric Hobsbawm‚ there are three primary demands a state makes in terms of public art and architecture: “the first is to glorify power itself‚ which in the European
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English 2323 25 July 2011 Religion of the Victorian Era: Faith in Crisis “It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ it was the age of wisdom‚ it was the age of foolishness … it was the spring of hope‚ it was the winter of despair.”(Charles Dickens‚ A Tale of Two Cities) The Victorians had a society comparable to ours with an explosion of ideas and innovation. Today our American society is famous for being a “melting pot.” Each individual has a different background where they
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bad where empires fell and rose as senseless wars were fought‚ people dominated‚ and advancements of culture and technology were made throughout. The Victorian era is called the Victorian era because England was currently being ruled over by Queen Victoria. The British Empire reached its greatest size under her reign. The greatest country she conquered was India‚ it was known as the jewel of the British Empire because it brought England so many natural resources‚ and effects of Victorian rule can still
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