Commanding Heights Reflection My initial thought to this video was “What am I supposed to be learning?” As time went on I finally came to realize that there were three main points; socialism‚ Keynes versus Hayek and right wing versus left wing. To begin with I didn’t really understand what the concept socialism compared to capitalism or communism meant. Now I can say that socialism is basically when the government regulates the economy compared to communism which is a bit more liberal but still
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Miners’ Strike Exam Questions 1) You can learn from Source A about the role of women in the miners’ strike that women wanted to have a movement to support the miners and their families in the UK miners’ strike of 1984–85. The movement is recognised with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial argument and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated society. They showed this by their participation in enforcing the law to change rights of which miners
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great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” ― Margaret Thatcher “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion‚ which is life‚ by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later‚ when a stranger looks at it‚ it moves again since it is life.” ― William Faulkner “The credit belongs to those
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As the divine Gautam Buddha righty quoted‚ “All that we are‚ is a result of everything we have thought. The mind is everything! All that we think‚ we become! Scientific Research has proven that the human species is the most intelligent species of all. And what distinguishes it from all the other billions species in the world? The choice of making their own decisions. The ability to shape their own future. It is a fact that every person is a unique indivisual. Therefore‚ whether to be
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Hard work or Hard luck Hard work has been the main reason for success throughout history. Inventors‚ sinentest and leaders are examples of successful workers who scarify a lot of things in order to privilege. Some people claim that hard work is the only means to success and luck has nothing to do with it‚ while others say that luck is a main factor for successes. I believe that hard work is a very important factor for success and the hard luck is a secondary reason we must not rely on. Brandau
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and radio all had an (10) ………… (ELECTRIC) effect on people and society. Use the word given in capitals at the end of the line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. (Destinations p.51) MARGARET THATCHER Few British politicians have aroused more passion than Margaret Thatcher‚ who was Prime Minister from 1979 until 1990. It is not (1) ………….. that‚ during her premiership‚ Britain INCIDENT went through a period of (2) ………….. change. Those who support Thatcher’s policies say
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‘Education for leisure’ was written in the 1980s by carol Anne Duffy during the time when Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of Great Britain. The aims that were pursued by her government were to encourage an individual pursuit of wealth‚ very much a capitalist aim. The 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
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Prof David Marquand’s curriculum vitae is discouraging – Labour MP for 11 years under Harold Wilson‚ and later an adviser to the European Commission. Later still he became a founder member of the Social Democratic Party. He started his academic career as a politics lecturer at Sussex University. Yet Marquand has overcome these disadvantages and become one of the most original political thinkers of his generation. He has a gift for bringing political arguments to life and – unique among Left-wing
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Billy Elliot This story shows us all the rewards of perseverance in following our own star despite parental or popular opinion. It demonstrates the redemptive agency of love in a family under enormous stress and shows a father coming through as a parent after some blatant errors. The film illuminates the tensions and sorrows of a family dealing with the loss of its wife and mother while the grandmother gently sinks into senility. (Billy lovingly takes care of his grandmother.) In this film a friendship
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1965 to 1974‚ punctuated by the joining of the ECC in 1973‚ prolonged damaging strikes‚ high levels of inflation‚ and many monumental U-turns through the period of his office. The concept of change is most notably seen right from the offset of his leadership as he was the first conservative leader to be elected democratically‚ by ballot‚ marking a turning away from the old boy network of Tory prime ministers preceding him. He himself went against tradition‚ coming from very humble backgrounds‚ having
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