God Save the Green: Are the Royal Family a Luxury we can no Longer Afford? Cheers rise from the jubilant crowd as the crowning moment we’ve all been waiting for finally arrives. Thousands fill the Mall‚ craning their necks as Queen Elizabeth II steps out onto her balcony‚ offering a smile to her adoring subjects. Clad in her bedazzled hat‚ she surveys the scene: a vast sea of British flags‚ frantic in their support of sixty years on the throne‚ waving in time to a raucous rendition of God Save
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Jordan The future of a constitutional monarchy? Jen Payer The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a small but strategically located country positioned at the crossroads of what is referred to by Christians‚ Jews and Muslims as the Holy Land. (BBC‚ 2013) Jordan’s position in the Middle East is bordered by Syria to the North‚ Iraq on the East‚ Saudi Arabia to the south and the West Bank‚ Israel and the Dead Sea to the west. Slightly smaller than the state of Indiana‚ Jordan measures only 34‚440
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interesting and significant public figures of the modern era. His struggle to maintain the culture‚ identity‚ and religion of the Tibetan people are renowned. The Dalai Lama’s peaceful manner and joyful approach to life is inspiring‚ despite the fact that he has lived most of his adult life as “a stateless refugee in India” (Beyond Religion‚ 2011). The Dalai Lama’s life path is endlessly uplifting as a humanitarian example and his role in modern history is difficult to overestimate. The Dalai Lama
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Great Britain Household Worker Trips up Britain’s Immigration Minister By: JENNY ANDERSON The British immigration minister has resigned after revealing that his house cleaner of six years was living in the country illegally. A man name Mr. Harper‚ who had been leading a restriction on illegal immigration in Britain‚ was an important part of a “go home” campaign. Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. Immigration is an increasingly fractious issue in
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empires ever created‚ and Great Britain’s in the early 1800’s was another of the best. During this time‚ many empires started expanding to make greater and more commanding kingdoms. Great Britain greatly grew in the 19th century. India‚ Asia and parts of Africa joined with them to help expand their territory. Britain used an imperialistic government‚ which was made to take over other areas of the world to gain power to add to their own empire. There were many different causes to British imperialism
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From the very beginning of the book‚ Rousseau rejects the idea that any political authority is found in nature but rather the only natural authority is that of a father over their children. This only exists for the preservation of the child. This is consistent with the words of Hobbes who also say the relationship between the subjects and their ruler as a father and a child. This political superiority over the subjects comes from a force‚ not nature itself. “MAN is born free; and everywhere he is
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Education in Britain is compulsory and free for all children between the ages of 5-16. About 93 percent of all children are educated in state schools and the rest attend private schools. Primary school. Schoolchildren attend a primary school for 6 years (5 to 11 years). When students transfer to Secondary School at the age of 11‚ they do not take any examination‚ but their reports are sent on from the Primary School. Secondary School. Most children – over 80 percent – go to a comprehensive school
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Religion in Britain Religious life in Britain in the past 30 years is characterized by an increasingly diverse pattern of religious beliefs and affiliations. Although the UK is predominantly Christian‚ most of the world’s religions are represented in the country. There are large Hindu‚ Jewish‚ Muslim and Sikh communities‚ and also smaller communities of Baha’is‚ Buddhists‚ Zoroastrians that are common in the areas with large ethnic communities. Britain today may be characterized by considerable
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Britain at war Unseen archives Chapter one The opening moves By the morning of the 3th september 1939 war was inevitable. Prime minister neville chamberlain broadcast to the nation at 11.15 a. that this country is at war withg germany this declaration followed britans issuing of an ultimatum to germany to withdraw from the polish territory they had attacked and occupied in the early hoin urs of the 1st september
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major changes. The mid-15th century saw a decrease in the power and popularity of the feudal system of governing‚ and an increase in the authority of centralized monarchies. General chaos descended upon much of Europe and so the New Monarchs - as the sovereigns of these monarchies are referred to - advertised their idea of a central monarchy as the best way to restore order. As the feudal lords that mostly governed Europe during the Late Middle Ages weakened due to civil war‚ rebellion‚ and banditry
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