Crime and punishment

In recent years crimes are increasing in the United kingdom and many people are searching to reduce crime rate by suitable punishment. Some people believe rehabilitation for youngsters is the proper way but others believe that adult suitable punishment is the prison.

Some popular crimes which are done by teenagers are juvenile crimes for instance joy-riding, vandalism and graffiti, also there are series crime such as knife crimes. However shorter time for youngsters punishment in prison and longer rehabilitation programme to reform them is a good part of their society.  

Another major problem in United Kingdom is driving while drinking alcohol and this might result in major damage on lives of people or property. Therefore the suitable punishment should be band from driving more than two years with fine and retaking the driving licence exam.

Death penalty must take place in some issues especially to frighten those who have criminal way of thinking to let them think many times before carrying a gun or knife with them.

Politician mustn’t break the law especially that they are the ones who present the law to the people in society so they have to be good examples for ordinary people.

References:

  Crime and society . Available at: http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/Crime%20and%20Society.pdf Accessed: [25/06/2011].

Hough ,M . and  Julian, V ,R. (2003)YOUTH CRIME AND YOUTH JUSTICE:PUBLIC OPINON IN ENGLAND AND WALES. London: The policy press 

The media news paper

In United Kingdom there are two main categories for the newspapers, the broad sheets or the quality papers and the tabloids or the popular papers. The broadsheets are for educated people containing academic language and most of the articles are on politics and news series. It also has small section about the public life and it has a good section of sports. The reason it called broad sheets because it is larger than the tabloids and some popular broadsheets are the times, guardian and observer .The tabloids newspapers have more readers then the broadsheets it might be because the simple English style and it contain more human interest such as sex and stories also it contain more pictures and less writing then the broad sheets and it has large headlines. Some famous tabloids papers are sunday mirror, sun and daily express. Both the broad sheets and tabloids newspaper can be daily or weekly newspapers.

Three newspapers were carefully chosen in order to complete the LRC task and the issue date of these newspapers was 7^th of May 2011 .The newspapers selected were Westernmail which is local news paper of Wales and the title on first page was ''it is labour but not by enough''. The second paper was financial times, it is economic news paper , and the title was ''scores historical victory'', and third paper was the daily telegraph and the title was ''let us risk our lives''. The story of the day was always in the first page of all of those newspapers and there is different news on the front page that might be related to the categories of the news in the papers.

References:

O'driscoll (1995) the Media from Britain – the country and its people: an introduction for learners of English.

Newspaper:

Westernmail(2011):it is labour- but not by enough, 7 May, p.1.

The financial times (2011): scores historic victory, 7 May, p.1.

The daily telegraph (2011): let us risk our lives, 7 May,p.1.

The National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS), which was established in 1948, has developed through the years to become the world’s greatest publicly funded health service. The main goals of the NHS are to provide health care services to everyone despite their wealth or status and that everyone in the society receives good treatment. However, there are some charges on some particular treatments such as prescriptions, optical and dental services. The NHS provides care to all citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom.  There are more than 60 million people who receive free treatment from the NHS. The NHS provides health care to 4 nations but it is managed separately and in addition there have been some slight changes between them especially in recent years. The NHS is funded by national insurance and general taxation. Today the NHS faces some problems such as lack of funding, shortage of staff and long waiting lists.

The pharmacies clip which was shown to us tells us how the pharmacies use the reboots, which is more accurate than the human being, to organise the medicine in order and quantity for the patients. The pharmacists help people who are in need of special medicine such as tablets to be taken at a particular a date and time. People can also ask the pharmacist for advice about the medicines.

References:

National health service  (2011) the NHS history. Available at URL ://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/nhshistory/Pages/NHShistory1948.aspx

[Accessed:24/06/2011]

Sport in the UK

There are many famous types of sports played in the United Kingdom. Many sports have a special stadium or play ground across the country such as Twickenham stadium for rugby, Wimbledon for tennis, lords ground for cricket, football at Wembley stadium, horseracing in Newmarket race court,St Andrew golf course in Scotland or sunningdale in England.

                                                                                       

The next event on sport calendar will be the Wimbledon championship for tennis in London during the month of July. Tennis is an interesting sport which can be played by both sex .It is easy and simple to understand. The players play on the ground in rectangular court facing each other and there is a net between them. If two players are playing than the game is called the singles game and if four players are taking part than it is called doubles.

References:

Sports (2011) BBc sports. Available at URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/default.stm [Accessed:24/06/2011]

The social class in UK

The social class in the UK is divided into 3 main classes; working class, middle class and the upper class.  The comments made on the video clip were of a girl who came from northern working class to an urban upper class. The girl was receiving teaching from 3 people for a month to change 3 things; the posture, the speech and the appearance. It was a difficult challenge for LIZ. The behaviour of the working class girl was very honest and simple but she was trying to pretend to be someone else who was not living the real life. The voice and accent of the working class girl was ordinary and strong while copying upper class accent was really difficult for her. The posture was very sluggish and untidy whereas trying to pretend to be upper class girl was tidy and organised.  The working class girl was drinking beer and whisky whereas the upper class drinks champing and wine.

Posh means elegant, swanky and rich. The origin of the word posh comes from port out starboard home where p and o, which means peninsula and orient, was printed on tickets for passengers who travelled from United Kingdom to India in the time of raj and SH were scrawled on the steamer trunks used on the voyages, by the seamen on cabins.

References 

Channel 4 (26 September 2000)faking it :shop girl to it girl .available at URL http://www.channel4.com/programmes/faking-it/4oD#2922253.

[Accessed:23/06/2011]

Martin,G. 1997.(2010)phrase finder. available at URL http://www.phrases.org.uk/

[Accessed:23/06/2011]

 The welfare system 

The social security in the United kingdom is run by the department of work and pensions agencies. It is funded by general taxation which will be taken from employers and workers over 16 years of age. The noteworthy about this department for the government is that it is the most expensive programme. The social security provides benefit and support to British people such as pregnant working women, old people who retired at 65 for men and 60 for women, or young unemployed people. Another problem that the social

security faces is poverty which is estimated to affect quarter of the population .Social security is expensive and might increase because the number of  people who rely on it are increasing.

                                                                           

The social security in Saudi Arabia is run by the general organization for social insurance which is related to the ministry of work. It is funded by the government and also through employers. The social security provides financial support for poor people, pregnant working women, disabled people, and retired people. People can retire at age of 50 or 60 years old.

References:

                                                                       

The hand out:  18 Welfare , page168.

The hand out:  Social security, page 192.

     

 

                           
                                                           

                                      Saint Patrick

                                    Saint of Ireland

                                             Ireland flag 

                                                  
                                          the symbol of Ireland shamrock

                             

                                        Wales's flag 

                                       St David flag

                               the symbol of Wales's daffodil

                                      

                                                 

                               St David  St

of Wales

                                       The welsh custom 

                                         Scotland flag 

                                  
                                        
                                       Saint Andrew  
                                       Saint of Scotland 

                                       Scottish custom

               

                                the symbol of Scotland thistles

                                        

                                          Saint George

                                        Saint of England

                                         Saint George flag

                                          Flag of England

                         the symbol of England rose flower

THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN

The United Kingdom or Britain is a sovereign state in Western Europe, located off north-western coast of Europe. It is a state consisting of four countries known as England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The population is around 62 million and the currency is the pound strolling. The official language of the people is English, however, there are other sub-languages such as Irish mostly spoken in Ireland, Welsh mostly spoken in Wales, Ulster Scots, Scots and Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic langue native to Scotland and Cornish which is a Brythonic Celtic language spoken in the region of Cornwall. Each country has its own symbol, flag, customs and history. For instance, Highland dress is a traditional dress worn by the Scottish, widely used during celebrations to commemorate their ancestors. In the north of Scotland, the Gaelic language is still spoken. Further more, Scotland has its own flag, symbol and saint. There is a border between each country but without guard or customs, therefore, a passport is not needed to travel from one country to another. In the United Kingdom, there are between 8% to 10% immigrants. Net immigration quadrupled to 237,000 a year between 1997 and 2007. In 2009, it was 196,000. 3 million immigrants have arrived since 1997.

References

www.Wikipedia.com

www.migrationwatchuk.com