I. INTRODUCTION II. OBJECTIVES III. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHOR IV. METAPHOR AND OTHER LANGUAGE FEATURES ANALYSIS OF MARGARET THATCHER’S SPEECH TO 1987 CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE IN BLACKPOOL V. CONCLUSION VI. REFERENCES VII. APPENDIX I I. ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Rhetoric is the art of persuading others
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rebellion within Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party. In a 400-175 vote‚ MPs approved the second reading of a bill legalizing such marriage‚ indicating a significant majority of members support the measure. However‚ it must go through several more stages before it can become law. The bill faces another vote in the House of Commons and a vote in the House of Lords. Before Tuesday’s vote‚ three top party members appealed to Conservative MPs to get behind the controversial legislation
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indicator of a fall in participation. A second indicator of falling participation is levels of party membership. In 1980 nearly 1.7 million people were members of a political party‚ about 4.12% of the electorate. This had declined to only 476‚000 by 2008‚ a mere 0.95% of the population. Conservative Party membership fell from 1.2 million to 0.17 million in the same period. By joining a political party people are involved in influencing their politicians and taking part in campaigning‚ hence their
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British Political History 1945–1990: Consensus and Conflict The examination time is 1 hour 20 minutes. Study Sources 1–6. Answer Question 1‚ parts (a) and (b). Source 1 The 5.6% national swing from Labour to the Conservatives was the largest achieved by either party since 1945. The biggest swing was among skilled workers. These were precisely the people we had to win over from their lifelong socialist allegiances. They were confronted by the fundamental dilemma which faced Britain as a
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three consecutive terms which was the longest since 1827. Through her extraordinary vision she brought forth radical changes‚ not just in her country but worldwide. She had a profound and permanent impact on politics and even changed her own Conservative Parties outlook. Through challenging all ideas that were commonplace‚ she set a catalyst movement for the end of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking views on monetarism and privatization manifested into one of Britain’s biggest contributions
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of people were satisfied with her‚ thus making her one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers ever. Despite these disastrous poll results‚ Thatcher managed a complete turnaround and‚ in the June 1983 General Election succeeded in leading the Conservative party to a victory that returned home a majority of 144 seats‚ a landslide. My research will concern whether the Falklands War‚ a conflict that took place in the intervening months and boosted Thatcher’s popularity‚
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One Value system. Each party select their candidate for the election and the elector has only one vote and simply places an X on a ballot paper against his/her preferred candidate that they wish to represent them. The winning candidate only needs to achieve a plurality of votes not the majority (plurality is the largest number of the group of numbers not the overall majority). Also in the case of the House of Commons whether a candidate wins by one or 14‚000 votes the party gains a seat. There are
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Minister Alec Douglas-Home. The labour party only won a majority of 3 seats. The reason for the decline in support for the Conservative party was because of events and scandals such as the Profumo affair in 1963. Looking at Labour in the run up to the General Election‚ they promoted themselves with a more modern youthful image that was more in tune with the times rather than the aristocratic feel of Home’s Conservative government‚ this lead the Labour party to create an increased lead when it came
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World War resulted in an increase in his popularity and in the coalition he was a valuable asset to the conservative party. Various factors‚ his style of government and its effect on the conservatives‚ the conservative attitude towards him and finally his poor decisions in policymaking brought about his downfall. These factors collectively led to his downfall‚ however in the end‚ the conservatives decided to abandon him because he had outlived his usefulness due to his tarnished reputation and growing
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do not elect them. The House of Lords is composed of hereditary and life peers and peeresses. Their right to sit in the House passes‚ with their title‚ usually to their oldest sons. The prime minister is usually the leader of the political party that has the most seats in the House of Commons. The monarch appoints the prime minister after each general election. The monarch asks the prime minister to form a Government. The prime minister selects about 100 ministers. From them‚ he picks a special
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