HIGHER MODERN STUDIES Electoral Systems First-Past-The-Post (Simple Majority) How the System works: The current system of electing MPs to the House of Commons is called First-Past-The-Post. There are 646 separate constituencies across the UK each electing one single Member of Parliament. In order to vote you simply put an ‘X’ next to the name of the candidate you support. The candidate who gets the
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Bfvfegbgrebefgbergbghbfdbdfbfeghdfghsfghfsghsdghsdg Sy Gh Jfbb D&B NSC D&B Scan Df Gb FDB Drug He DVD Erg Df B D&B Dog H RnIn June of 1812‚ President James Madison asked Congress for a declaration of war on Britain. Following years of neutrality under the leadership of Washington‚ Adams‚ and Jefferson‚ the United States’ conflicts with Britain and France finally went into a war. President Madison had tried to create a diplomatic solution for three long years‚ but all attempts were unsuccessful. The War of 1812 was caused
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Have you ever read a poem where you can sense‚ feel‚ hear and even see what they are talking about? Those are the best kinds of poems‚ when the poet writes so vividly. That is exactly what Bradstreet did. She wrote with such emotion and passion. And that is what made the reading of her poems so much more fun. Anne Bradstreet was a very amazing poetic writer. She always brought her writing to life. She wrote about what happened in her world around her‚ the good and the bad. She mostly wrote about
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National Sports of Great Britain Many kinds of sport originated from England. The English have a proverb‚ "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". They do not think that play is more important than work; they think that Jack will do his work better if he plays as well. so he is encouraged to do both. Association football‚ or soccer is one of the most popular games in the British Isles played from late August until the beginning of May. In summer the English national sport is cricket. When the
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England and France both developed very different governmental systems during the sixteenth century. Great Britain created a governmental system on which there is little infringement upon the rights of the people‚ and there is a parliamentary government to keep the royal power in check. The French monarchy was the exact opposite. The monarchs ruled absolutely and controlled all the affairs that took place in the kingdom. Although the English and French of the sixteenth century evolved differently
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In Britain‚ many women’s employment in the so-called "non-standard” form: part-time work‚ temporary contracts‚ overtime work‚ stay away from the employer.(Knights and Richards‚2003)This is a kind of discrimination.Discrimination against women is on the basis of gender there is a human right to influence the recognition of women‚ to enjoy or exercise‚ regardless of their marital status‚ the basis of equality between men and women‚ the purpose of any distinction‚ exclusion or restriction in many aspects
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UNIVERSITY OF TARTU DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told
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Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd [1953] 2 WLR427 is a well-known English contract law judgment on the nature of an offer. The Court held that the exhibition of a product in a store with a price attached is not adequate to be considered an offer‚ although relatively is an invitation to treat. Boots Cash Chemists had presently employed a new technique for its customers to purchase certain medicines. They would let shoppers single out drugs off the shelves
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Explain why there was popular discontent in Britain in the years 1815 – 1820 Lord Liverpool‘s government took office in 1812. At this time Industrialisation had already started to take effect which in term meant that workers were slowly becoming replaced because of the new machinery that was coming forward. At this point luddites came forward who were against machines taking over people because they saw the machines as a threat to their living. A reason of discontent here was that the workers who
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Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots [1953] 1 QB 401 Court of Appeal Boots introduced the then new self service system into their shops whereby customers would pick up goods from the shelf put them in their basket and then take them to the cash till to pay. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain brought an action to determine the legality of the system with regard to the sale of pharmaceutical products which were required by law to be sold in the presence of a pharmacist. The court
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