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.