Media TV

Television has become a common household communications device in homes and institutions, particularly in the first world, as a source of entertainment and news. In the UK, they are many different types of channel, such as, BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, SKY and Channel 4, Channel 5 so on. These channels are showing many different programs every day, such as, skin care, Independent, International journalism and advertisement so on. In China, they are also having another sort of programs every day, such as CCTV1, CCTV5, CCTV8 so on. However, not every news are allowed to play in China.

These programmers showed ‘The One Show’, BBC2 were showed ‘coast’, ‘Emmerdale’. The ‘coast’ was talking about journey around the coast of UK, The ‘Emmerdale’ is showing one of the popular British soap opera. In addition, these channels are also including weather, international news and sports.

Week 5- The Legal System

The legal System

5 questions to Wei

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/user/ukhomeoffice

1.       What does immigration minister Damian Green suppose to mean?

2.       Are they available to this country?

3.       What does he suggest?

4.       What will him looking for after September?

5.       What will become automatically?

Ref: : UK Homeoffice (2011) More than 400 children protected .
Available at : http://www.youtube.com/user/ukhomeoffice

(Access: Sunday, 20^th of June 2011)

The Media Exploring British Newspapers

There are many newspapers published in the UK, among the most well-know newspapers are The guardian, The national, The Independent and the Financial times. These newspapers have become people’s essential tools to know the world. I have chosen the Daily Telegraph on 10^th of May in 2011. It reports on the findings of a think tank founded by lain Duncan Smith which claims that David Cameron’s coalition has failed to support marriage, unfairly penalized middle-class parents and done “almost nothing” to address the breakdown of families. In addition, the top story always takes the most obvious position on the first page and usually goes with a big picture and the biggest headline. On the other hand, newspapers report the same news, the top story of different newspapers may differ. Different newspapers may have different stories or cover the same story, however, sometimes from different angles, depending on what factor does the newspaper appreciate respectively. In our country, it also has many different types of newspaper, it was similar with UK.
In conclusion, newspaper is an ancient tool that people communicate, it keeps long period. Newspapers are also become one part of our life.

Sports

Sport is an activity which is one of the ways and which can the world becomes closer. In addition, sports also can help different people familiar with each other and process their relationship. However, one of the sport is the football and the first World Cup was held on 1936 in Uruguay, afterwards it usually be held every 4 years. The recently World Cup was held on 2010 in South Africa it was exciting. Conversely, in the UK, there are many popular sports such as football, rugby, cricket and tennis. There are many famous stars and venues around the UK, for example the most famous venues are in London, it is called Webley. However, the locations of the famous rugby venues are in London, Wales and Dublin.

In the UK, the most famous star is absolute David Beckham, he is a legend man who plays football. In addition, the famous player of rugby is George who lives in England. In the UK people like to watch the sport every day. However, in China, people also like to watch the sport, especially the World Cup. The interested things are people do not really like to play football in China. Because of Chinese are not good at football, include rugby and cricket.

In conclusion, the period of these sports were held in different times, such as cricket is held from April to August. Football is held on May.

Reference: http://www.guardian.co.uk/search?q=football&section=sport

Crime and punishment

A crime is any act or omission that violates a law which results in a punishment. In addition, crime has become serious issue in the world. The typical case of crime is murder. In China, murder is an important problem, it breaks the law. For example, people who murdered, the law will charge you the death penalty of people who murdered. Another example is parking, people who parking in a area and this area is not allow to parking is a crime. On the other hand, robbing someone is a much more severe crime that results in a lengthy prison sentence. Many family codes have general policy statements that encourage parents to resolve custody disputes in a friendly manner. If the custody battle turns ugly, a violation of the general policy rule, by itself, is not a crime because there is not a defined punishment.

In conclusion, the law can protect our personal safety, but sometime it protect virtual things instead of significant issues. The government should realize and help people who need help and decrease crime, In addition, good punishment can cut down crime effective.

Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/crimewatch/

compare and contrast the Welfare system in your country with the Welfare system in the UK.

In our country, our official retirement age is between 50 to 60 years old. Men's retirement is becially 60, women is 50. However, the retirement age of UK is 65 years old. Roy Gill said that 'Under the proposal, employers would not be allowed to dismiss staff because they had reached the age of 65'. In our country sometimes depends them selfs, they can also stay long time as they wish. There is also have an old age pension for people too old to work in our country, such as national insurance contributions, retirement funding for government and so on. It is similar with UK, it has national insurance contributions, the government pension. the pension is not very high in UK, it same as China. Some people can apply for income support who are not have a work for long time, they can receive it.

UK's welfare has 7 different types, there are Children and pregnant women welfare, disability or illness benefits, retirement benefits, widow welfare, unemployment benefits, low-income people welfare and social fund.
reference:http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/26661788.html

St David's Day

Thousands of people celebrated St. David’s Day Cardiff on Tuesday, participating or cheering for the annual parade that passed through the city centre.

The parade began from outside the City Hall, through the city centre and ended at the Hayes, right outside the St. David’s Hall. The parade comprised not only people of Welsh heritage but also school children, bands, dancing troupes and even international participants like an group of Nepalis in Wales.

People wore costumes and carried either the Welsh flag or a flag bearing St. David’s cross. Mike Peterson, who led the parade as St. David explained the essence of the festival saying: “He was a man who realized how important it was to be in tune with nature and not to exploit the world. There’s plenty for everybody if we’re not greedy and then we’ll all be happy. Well, it s a joyous occasion isn’t it?”

“His dying words were be joyful, keep the faith; do the little things that you’ve heard and seen with me.”

Once the parade came to an end, a traditional Welsh song and dance show continued to entertain the crowd at the Hayes with performers from all over Wales. The city centre buzzed with the spirit of the festival as special stalls were set up for the day selling Welsh specialties and vendors walked around selling balloons and souvenirs, such as daffodil headdresses and brooches and flags.

Government

A government is the organization through which a political unit exercises its authority, dominates and administers public policy,directs and controls the actions of its members or.Generally, the term "government" refers to the civil government of a sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies.Bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration or councils of elders. The size of governments can vary by region or purpose.The leaders of governments are human beings, what constitutes good governance has been a subject written about since the earliest known books. The form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized in order to exert its powers over a house in the congress body politic. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".

Trip to London

7 ：00, I do get a breakfast
8 ：00 point reached the Cardiff long-distance bus station
9 ：00to London
Weekend arrived in Victoria long-distance bus station
12 moment we take underground to st. James' park by circle line.
Reach holy. James' park let's go Westminster, Buckingham Palace, the Capitol, Big Ben, etc.
We take the subway has been northern Waterloo line
Reached Waterloo, we can visit the London eye.
In the afternoon, we take the subway to Leicester Square
In Leicester Square's Chinatown, we can go there.
16:50 back to Victoria long-distance bus station, waiting for the coach
How to 17 points back.
When we finish a day trip
I'm in London spent about fifty pounds to finish this journey, I feel this is I can't forget the day. I'll have a chance to spend all London place worth going to play all over again.

UK Parliament

  British Parliament is sometimes called 'parliamentary mother', because these countries once part of the British Empire, which was modeled on some of the political system.United Kingdom Parliament, which is the River Thames in Central London is perhaps the world's most famous. This is mainly because of its unique architecture, including the impressive clock tower commonly known as'Big Ben'.Most people do not know is that the name does not actually refer to the whole tower, inside the water, but only a huge bell.

  There are two House of Parliament which is the House of Commons and the House of Lords.In addition the House of Commons has more power than the House of Lords.There are 659 constituencies in the United Kingdom.529 constituencies are there in England and 72 constituencies are there in Scotland.However there are not 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.Therefore, there will be a lot of constituences in big city.In addition, the political party with most Member of Parliaments forms the goverment and the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister.However, the 'first past the post' system is the people who has the most votes wins, even if they have only one vote more than the next person.When all the Member of Parliaaments are elected, Ministry of Public Security to form a government with the majority of political parties and party leaders to become prime minister.(http://www.parliament.uk/)

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators. Members of parliament tend to form parliamentary parties with members of the same political party. The term Member of Parliament is often shortened in the media and in every day use to the initialism "MP".

The European Union

  The ideal of a united Europe, has the strong economic and political system, draws some European politicians in the second world war ii (1939-45). Create an urge to the peace, prosperity damage over several centuries Europe after the two world wars and hostility and distrust with the European powers.
  Basic relatively complete Europe in 1957 so far in west Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and ii. It signed the treaty of Rome, formed the European economic community (EEC). Britain did not join, but help create European free trade association (efta) in 1959. British alienated himself from European connection in the 1950s and saw its future transaction mode of the commonwealth and the "special relationship" and the United States.

However, European commitment in part British society in the 1960s, this is affected by the national growing social and economic problems. But want to join the European economic community in Britain is French president Charles de Gaulle. he was critical of the relationship, the United States (especially in nuclear degree policy), inquires the British commitment to Europe, also don't want let British community leadership rivals

  A new labor government (1974) in Harold Wilson to the English people committed to continue a referendum on membership.After further renegotiations the last day of the period when a referendum in 1975, the first in the British political history.

Geography of UK

The UK has a total area of approximately 245,000 km², almost a quarter-of-a-million square kilometres.The UK is an island nation in Western Europe just off the coast of France. The mainland areas lie between latitudes 49°N and 59°N and longitudes 8°W to 2°E. The UK lies between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, and comes within 35 km (22 miles) of the northwest coast of France, from which it is separated by the English Channel. Northern Ireland shares a 360 km international land boundary with the Republic of Ireland. The Channel Tunnel bored beneath the English Channel, now links the UK with France.

The UK is made up of:

• Great Britain (the formerly separate realms of England and Scotland, and the principality of Wales. )
  
• Northern Ireland (also known as Ulster)
  
• Numerous smaller islands including the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, and the Scilly, Orkney, Shetland, and Hebridean archipelagos.

The people of British

As you know UK has 4 different part of region is England,Scotland,Wales and Ireland.Their political unification was a gradual process that took several hundred years.It was completed in 1800 when the Irish Parliament was joined with the Parliament for England,Scotland and Wales in Westminster,the whole of the British Isles became a single state-United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

 In my country we are commonly called British people is 'ying guo ren' ,the source that why we called this because of relative England , i dot think any Brithsh people might be offended because these word has not viciousness.we just used to be called English people as 'ying guo ren' as well.

In England,the important patron saint is St George, St George's Day is England's national Day and it is held in April 23th every year,and  St David's day is Wales' national day which is celebrate in 1st March,St Andrew is Scotland special day and people will celebrate this day in 30th Nov. March 17th  is the traditional day of Northern Ireland.

 
A lot of people living in Britain are not locals,but they also live together with local people,They are international friends,in order to study, work and business so that they lives in Britain.