The time of the Dirty War was suitably volatile: amidst its failed war‚ the Argentine government’s mandates gave control to the government but took away the country’s strength.President Juan Perón‚ who propitiated policies of social welfare and maintained a brutal grip on his people‚ set the Dirty War in motion after his return to power in October 1973. The incoming military government temporarily kept Argentina afloat by borrowing increasingly large loans and delivering propaganda to its people
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country’s economics were not in a great state during this time. Especially the more underprivileged parts of the country did not fare well under her government. The schools faced severe cuts to their budgets which was mainly due to the expenses of the Falklands war. These budget cuts meant that the children were not granted the best of educations. This poem would seem to be a direct criticism of the government at the time by Carol Anne Duffy. This is not the only poem that she gives direct criticism towards
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Thatcherism is a set of political ideas during the time when Margaret Thatcher was in power‚ 1979~1990‚ and it is also an ideology associated with Thatcher. I would pointed out that it is difficult to define “Thatcherism” due to the fact that it combines many thoughts and ideas from different ideologies and it is absorbed from many sources from many thinkers and theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Take how Nigel Lawson‚ Mrs. Thatcher ’s Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983
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April 1982 Great Britain declared war on Argentina this became known as the Falklands War. The war happened when Argentina invaded the British owned South Atlantic colony of the Falkland Islands wrongly thinking that the islands belonged to them. Britain had ruled the island for more than 150 years and chose to fight and reclaim the islands and its people from the clutches of the bullying Argentines. Britain sent a full military task force 8000 miles to wage war and battle soon commenced. Argentina’s
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be fair to say that mass media had no choice but to report what the government wanted it to report during the Falklands war? Using evidence from sources 3a‚ 3b‚ 3c and 3d‚ it can be seen that there is indication which shows that the government did in fact control what was reported in the Falklands war. It can be seen that the government did make it difficult to report events from the war‚ which is presented in the fact that there was no photos in the first 55 days. This long delay in media involvement
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To what extent was there a post-war consensus? (45) Despite some historians trying to argue that the notion of a “post-war” consensus becomes more blurry and inaccurate the closer one studies modern Britain from 1951-2007‚ there is a wealth of resources and abundant forms of evidence to firmly claim confidently that a post-war consensus did exist; permeating and diffusing throughout British politics‚ economics‚ societal events and also foreign affairs. Economics: From 1951 to 1979 both parties
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Thatcher without making any evaluation of achievement or limitation e.g.Thatcher was hated‚ Thatcher introduced privatisation and the poll tax Only judges one aspect of Thatcher and so will not have links e.g Only evaluates the success of the Falklands war limited accurate and relevant historical support e.g. does not give dates‚ names‚ any technical terms There will be little‚ if any‚ awareness of differing historical interpretations. e.g. Will not give any balanced view of where she was limited
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When she met with fierce opposition and poor economic results‚ many called for a change of track. But in a now iconic speech‚ Thatcher refused to flinch: ‘The lady’s not for turning‚’ she declared. After leading Britain to victory in a war for control of the Falkland Islands‚ Thatcher was re-elected with an enormous majority. She redoubled her efforts to transform Britain’s economy‚ shutting down coal mines in defiance of the mighty mining unions. For a full year‚ striking miners and the police faced
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Movie analysis – This is England Magnus S. Kristensen This is England was written by Shane Meadows in 2006‚ and it brings light to the young skinhead culture in the early 1980’s. This is England is a movie about the young boy Shaun whom has lost his father‚ and turns to the skinhead culture for manly role models and friends. One day after school where Shaun has been in a fight‚ he comes across some young men who sit down at talks with him. Shaun quickly becomes a part of the little group‚ and
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William Shakespeare‚ as Caesar’s personality develops and the diverse perspective of his death in ensuring civil war create conflict within the play. Raymond Briggs’ picture book The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman generates an understanding of the injustice of Falkland’s war through contrasting the perspectives of both the political leaders at the time and the Falkland Islanders. Through the use of dramatic‚ language and visual techniques both Shakespeare and Briggs have shown how
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