Social class

There are many different class for every country. For example, in Uk, it has working class, middle class and upper class.
Last week we watched a video that about "shop girl to it girl". It talk about drama team arranged 4 weeks that change one upper class girl join to posh class. This is call Lise of a girl and she comes from Yorkshire. She needs to spent in next 4 weeks to speak, choice appropriate clothing and body language. Last she fail in dinner party,but she also feel happy for these 4 weeks. So, we can know that some important reason lead to these class can't real integrstion in one class.
POSH means elegant, swanky and rich. It from the 1890s onward to mean a dandy.

Ref:
Martin, G(2010) 'POSH - Port out, starboard home' Available at: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/port%20out%20starboard%20home.html (Accessed at: 20 June 2011).

The information from: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/faking-it/4oD#2922253

Answer questions for Movenda

Q1: In immigration system the biggest problem is Far too many people have been allowed to use the student visa as a way to come to Britain to work.
Q2:The government reduce the actual numebers of student visas over the next few years.
Q3:Private colleges existed abuse in immigration system.
Q4:Every individual comes here can speak English to a proper level so they can gain the proper benefit from the course.
Q5:Education sector open for business.
Ref:
UK student visa system (2011) homeoffice video Available at: http://www.youtube.com/ukhomeoffice#p/u/4/upVZrBtziGU. (Accessed at: 20 June 2011).

The Legal System(Millionth new passport )Ask for Movenda

Millionth new passport(http://www.youtube.com/ukhomeoffice#p/u/11/HFR9sHBiD4Y)
Q1: where are Identity and Passport Service give one millionth of the new passports?
Q2: who can get the one millionth of the new passports?
Q3: Is this coure free or have some charge, to all those people born either on or before 2 September 1929?
Q4: When the new passport start issuing?
Q5: What about the British passport in the world?
Ref:
Millionth new passport(2011) homeoffice video Available at: http://www.youtube.com/ukhomeoffice#p/u/11/HFR9sHBiD4Y (Accessed at: 20 June 2011)

Sport in China & UK

Sports are flourishing in china now. More and more people are willing to take part in sports of different kinds, such as table-tennis, football, volleyball, and so on. Every year there are many matches played on the city, provincial or national level. Sports are no longer limited to a few professional players. Early in the morning people may be seen doing exercise. Martial arts (like Chinese boxing or swordplay) which formerly were cultivated for self-defense, now have become a form of physical exercise and are practiced in parks, streets, gardens, or on campuses. In addition young and old people are also often seen running in order to build up their bodies. China promotes sports to enhance the physical condition of its people; she is formulating policies to provide encouragement of this activity. She awards prizes to the excellent players for the best records both in china and the world. In the world the Chinese have become a strong people instead of “the weaklings of East Asia”.

Hays, J(2008) Sport in China.

Available at : http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=282&catid=12&subcatid=77.

(Access at: April 15th)

Crime and Punishment

There has been a sharp increase in juvenile delinquency, which means great harm not only to the youngsters and the families concerned but also to the destiny and prospects of our nation. For this reason, it is topic of great importance as to how we can create a sound social environment for the young, thus preventing them from committing transgression and crimes. In china, the adult age is 18 years old. And in18 years ago are not death sentence. I think the death penalty exists as a punishment for murder or terrorism is the right. Because terrorism abused huge society problem in people's life, people must entrap every crisis in every day. But the death penalty can not solve all problems. So, there are many ways to solve this problem, the Government's responsibility is to invest a lot of manpower and resources lies in the education of offenders, or allow them to work is that this community do more to contribute to exile criminals, so that they understand the social life is really all Exists.

Ref:

Implementing the finding Available at: http://www.rethinking.org.uk/ (Accessed: 30 May,2011)

Media continued

In May10, there are DIANA INQUEST SAMPLES SWITCHED from Daily Express.

Let me note this report because it’s title on the first page and takes half the position. There were other reports in this forum, but their space was small. I have noticed this report on the other newspaper, but it was not so prominent here. I think a newspaper has its own unique reporting information; therefore, there were different people like it. In every day, if all the newspapers reported the same information, so they no competitive. In the page 5, it was very special space about this report, because there were comments about this story in the top.

An explosive new book claims that is Princess Diana's autopsy came from another woman. Wreck of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was killed in August 1997. Morgan said he has uncovered a litany of conflicting data over Diana's death.

There were a lot of newspapers will be reporting such information in our country, but the difference was we did not find in the newspapers about their comments.

Ref: Thorne, F. (2011) 'DIANA INQUEST SAMPLES SWITCHED', Daily Express, 10 May, p.1, 5.

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Welfare in China and UK

There are seven different types of UK's welfre. They are children and pregnant women welfare, disability or illness benefits, retirement benefits, widow welfare, unemployment benefits, low-income people welfare and social fund.

We can said every country has own offical retirement age. For example, in UK men official retirement age is 65, and women's age is 60. In China, at the moment men can claim their pension when they are from 60 to 65, while women can claim from 55 to 60.

In China, the government to give different subsidies of every family. Because sizes of each city and each person's income is not the same. So, the government gave subsidies are also different. The government will give the family housing subsidies, retirment pensions, and so on.

Ref:

UK retirement age. Available at:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6788425.ece (Accessed: 8 August 2009).

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Media TV

There are many media TV programmes in UK. I chooes 5 programmes from 3rd May on 7 p.m o'clock. They are BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel5. On BBC1 is a talk show on 7 p.m o'clock that is "the one show". On BBC2 is " coast" of documentary on 7 p.m o'clock that is about a journey around the coast of the UK. On the ITV1 is sown a serial "emmerdale" duration 30 minutes on 7 p.m o'clock. On Channel 4 and Channel5 is News duration 50 minutes. In British, the most famous soaps is "coronation street".

In China, we have many Media TV programmes, too. Now, we watch is dogital television system. And on 7 p.m o'clock, nearly of same that every all programmes are News. The news are civil news, intennational news and weather forecast.

Ref：

1. www.bbc.co.uk


2. www.itv.com


3. www.channel4.com


4. www.five.tv

Education

In China, students need go to school. They have 3 phases. There are primary education, secondary education and higher education. In primary education, they need 7 years. About secondary education are 12 to 19 years. Last is higher education are 19 more years. The secondary education is divided into two phases, the junior school and the senior school. Students who graduate from primary schools can choose a junior middle school by them selves. At this stage, students study reading, writing, English and so on.After studying in junior middle schools, students need take an exam to graduation. Then some students stop school or go on to have vocational education, but most students take the examination to enter senior middle school.In senior middle schools, students spend most of their time studying, to enter the college. In China, we also have many kinds of universities and colleges.There are also two world-famous universities in China, Tsinghua and Peking University.

I think students in China are suffering much more from their study than students in Britain. In China, entering a university is very hard. Students need to struggle in order to enter a university. In Britain, the exam G.C.S.E seems easier. But I like Brutish education, because it has activeness thought in study.

Tour of the Senedd

The National Assembly for Wales is called The Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru.National Assembly for Wales building was known as the Senedd (parliament). The building finally opened in 2006. I was standing in front of Senedd that I can see sea. The Senedd has a glass façade around the entire building and is dominated by a steel roof and wood ceiling.About the Senedd its floors, it has 3 floors and the first and second floors are accessible is to the public and the ground floor is a private area for officials. In cold weather it can be automatically heated to 14°C. The same time, installation of biomass boilers using wood chips from the recycling of waste wood building heating and rainwater collected from the roof to flush toilets within the building.

The Oriel is a public sitting and exhibition area, you can see through the glass views of the Siambr and committee rooms from above.

Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day is the patron saint of Wales and falls on 1 March each year. Tradition holds that he died on that day in 589.

He went to the south Wales and the west England and fouded religion of centres and Jerusalem that he madearchbishop.

His mother's is non and his father who called sant that was the son of Ceredig, King of Ceredigion.

To celebrate this day, people wear a symbol of either a leek, or daffodil.Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil or the leek on this day. This costume consists of a long woollen skirt, white blouse, woollen shawl and a Welsh hat. One of the most famous recipe is Welsh cake.

The government

What is government? In the social sciences, the term government refers to the particular group of people, the administrative bureaucracy, who control a state at a given time, and the manner in which their governing organizations are structured. That is, governments are the means through which state power is employed. States are served by a continuous succession of different governments.

In British, there are secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs, PM, secretary of state for transport and other 6 state. The leading politicians in the governing party usually become members of the cabinet. Ther are 20 or 23 New Government is do usually have and it meet is once a week. About single government and coalition government has 2 or 3 parties. The PM more power than the Queen. In the parliamentary system a cabinet shuffle or reshuffle is an informal term for an event that occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet. The everyday management of the government is done by the civil service. And the top rank of the civil service. The High sarlay in minister and the job for life is being a civil servant better than being a minister. At local government level what do we call the Mps is councillors, the Parliament is Town Hall or Couty Hall, the Civil servants is Cocal government officers. Council tax do loacal councils collect and it based on property.

In 1999, Nick Clegg was elected European Parliament, won the first major campaign personal political career. In 2005 British general election, Clegg was elected to congress. In 2006 as a Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman. In 2007 Leadership election in the Liberal Democratic Party to 50.6% of the vote, beating rival Chris. Hu nepal(Chris Huhne) was elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party today. Befor a British election in 2010, he served as the Deputy Prime Minister.

After graduation, Cameron into the Conservative policy research department. In 1991, the Conservative leader, British Prime Minister John Major of work, was appointed head of political research department. During the 1992 British general election, David Cameron has been playing the role of the Conservative Party campaign strategist, and the specific charge of economic affairs. In 1994, Cameron left the government departments, into the Carlton Communications, Michael Green, chairman of the company's public relations men in charge. In 1997, he joined Mr Stafford area congressional district election defeat. In 2001, he successfully contested the seat Witney, and became the Special House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. In 2003, Cameron was appointed to the Privy Council Office of the Minister of the Shadow Cabinet; the same year in November, the Conservative Party leader Michael Howard to become, after David Cameron as deputy leader. When the Conservative Party again in 2005 after losing the British general election, Michael Howard announced his resignation as leader of duties; determination to run for Tory leader David Cameron, and eventually was elected when he was 39 years old.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg

The UK Parliament

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the highest legislative council. At its head is the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth ll.It has the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Queen is the third component of the legislature. The same time, it go by the name of "mother of parliament". About senator, the House of Lords has 26 floor and the House of Commons has 646 floor in the Uk Parliament.

There are Ballot box, Campaign, Candidate, Canvass, Constituency, Electoral register, Electorate, General enection and Opinion poll about the Member of Parliament. There are 659 constituencies in the UK: 529 in England, 72 on Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland.

They are not all the same geographical size. Because some cover a large area, in places where not many people live. Others cover a very small area if the population is dense. Prime Minister is elected through general elections.

First past the post--in a multiple member first-past-the-post ballots the first candidates in order of highest vote to cross the line are elected. In some cases the system involves an iteration of the counting of Plurality votes.

THE EUROPEAN UNION

After World War II, moves towards European integration were seen by many as an escape from the extreme forms of nationalism which had devastated the continent. One such attempt to unite Europeans was the European Coal and Steel Community which, while having the modest aim of centralised control of the previously national coal and steel industries of its member states, was declared to be "a first step in the federation of Europe". The founding members of the Community were Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The originators and supporters of the Community include Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Paul Henri Spaak, and Alcide De Gasperi. In 1957, the six countries signed the Treaties of Rome, which extended the earliercooperation within the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and created the European Economic Community, (EEC) establishing a customs union and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) for cooperation in developing nuclear energy. The treaty came into force in 1958.

The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 25 member states which are located primarily in Europe with a total population of 450 million people and about 40 of world trade belongs to the EU.The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC) formed by six countries in the 1950s. In the intervening years the EU has grown in size by the accession of new member states, and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. The Maastricht Treaty established the European Union under its current name in 1993.

The EU is a secular body with no formal connection with any religion, but Article 17 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union recognises the "status under national law of churches and religious associations" as well as that of "philosophical and non-confessional organisations".
Eurostat's Eurobarometer opinion polls showed in 2005 that 52% of EU citizens believed in a god, 27% in "some sort of spirit or life force", and 18% had no form of belief.[188] Many countries have experienced falling church attendance and membership in recent years.[192] The countries where the fewest people reported a religious belief were Estonia (16%) and the Czech Republic (19%).The most religious countries are Malta (95%; predominantly Roman Catholic), and Cyprus and Romania both with about 90% of the citizens believing in God (both predominantly Eastern Orthodox). Across the EU, belief was higher among women, increased with age, those with religious upbringing, those who left school at 15 with a basic education, and those "positioning themselves on the right of the political scale (57%)."

Trip to London

Trip to London

Firstly we will arrive at Victoria Station in 10:20 am.

Secondly we will buy the one-day travelcard for London, it cost about ￡15。

So we will walk a short way to visit Buckingham Palce and we will arrive the Buckingham Palce about 10:50 am.

Then we will visit the Buckingham Palce for 35 minutes.

The Queen Elizabeth Ⅱof Britain lives in Buckingham Palace.

When we will finish visiting Buckingham,we will go across the St James's Park to visit the 10 Downing Street. It cost for half an hour.

Thirdly we will visit the 10 Downing Street at 11:45 am.This place is for the every British prime minister.We spend a quarter to visit the 10 Downing Street.

Fourthly, we will walk a short way to visit the Big Ben and see the River Thames at 12:20 am.In addition we will see the opposite of Thames to look the London Eye.If we will interest in London Eye ,you can cost ￡17.5 to take a turn.

Because the London's Big Ben, probably the most famous clock in the world, is turning 151 years old.

When we will finish visiting the Big Ben, we will need take underground from Westminster Station to London

Bridge Station for 20 minutes.So we will arrive at Tower of London about 12:50 am.

Then we will go across the Tower of London and we will go to take underground from Tower Hill Station to Leciester Square at 1:15 pm. Tower of London,the most striking of all London bridges.

We will arrive at Leciester Square to eat a lunch in China-town in 2:10 pm. We will spend 1 hour to eat the lunch and it will cost about ￡10 to ￡15.

Finally we will take underground from Leicester Square to Tottenham Court Road for 20 minutes.

So we will arrive at British Museum at 3:30 pm.We will spend 45 minutes to visit the British Museum not include explain.In addition to enjoying the exhibits, we can also appreciate the magnificent design of the British Museum.

So we will finish visiting the British Museum , we will go to take the underground to Victoria Station. We will leave for 17:35 pm.

One day travelling London I think we cost about ￡25 to ￡30 person.

The People of Britaim

England, Walse, Scoland and Northern Ireland are meant by the 'four nation' of Britain.

"Ying Guo Ren" is my language to describe people who live in Britain. Britain say "Poeenes" and "Aussie". If used these word, maybe they could understand. Because somebody do not has only one language.

There are between the people of the "four nations". Welsh is about 290 million populations and using the Welsh is only for the north farmer. Scotchman has about 510 million populations and they use the traditional language that is “Gaelic”.Northern Irish like call them “Northern Irish".

I don't know of any 'national' days that are celebrated in the UK. 243.6 thousand sp.km in UK and it has 60 million population. The national anthem is ' God Save the Queen'. In England. its flag is St George's Cross, its plant is rose and its saint's day is 23 April. The Wales's flag is Dragon os Cadwallader, its plant is Leek and its saint's day is 1st March. The Scotland's flag is St andrew's Cross and Lion rempant, its plant is Thistle and its saint's day is 30 Nov.. In Ireland, its flag is St Patrick's Cross and Republic of Ireland, its plant is Shamrock and its Patron saint and Saint's day is St Patrick and 17March.

There are New Year's day, Valentine's day, Easter day, All Fools day, Queen's Birthday, Hallowmas and Christmas day in Uk.

Introduction to British Studies

What is the population of the United Kingdom? There are over 60 million. It has four part--these are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Glasgow in the Scotland, Manchester and Birmingham in the England, and it has a island that is Isle of Wight. Birmingham is second larger city and London is the largest city. British daily newspapers has the Times. It has a river taht is the River Thames.