English Social Studies

Election in UK - First televison debate between three leaders

2010-04-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

Thursday 15th april was a debate sent live on tv. It was the first 90 minutes television debate out of three, and was produced by ITV. The main topic of the debate was domestic politics. The debate was between three leaders; Gordon Brown, David Vameron and Nick Clegg.

All the leaders were a bit nervous in the start, but they got in line after debating or "attacking" each other. However, Clegg was the winner of the debate. He had 43% of the votes, Cameron got 26% of the votes and Gordon Brown only got 20% of the votes. This was suprising, but this is how it is.

Clegg won the debate because he had new thoughts. He gave people hope and wanted a change, just like Mr Obama. I think that was the reason why he won the debate.

Federal Parliament's Question Time

2010-03-09T04:52:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday 24 February started a debate at the House of Commons about lack of things in the UK’s system. Some of the topics discussed were youth unemployment, economic situation in Scotland, rail services, number of job opportunities, public expenditure and search and rescue services. After the debaters were finished Mr. Speaker allowed them to ask questions to Mr. President.

There are different definitions on what “question time” is and some confusions let people think that it’s just asking questions in parliament. Question time is when a member of parliament asks questions to Government and Prime Minister. The ministers are obliged to answer their questions. Basically question time is quite popular in the UK, and occurs nearly daily while parliament is sitting.
In the start the debate room was quite empty with few debaters. Within half an hour the room was nearly full. Many well known politicians had arrived and Mr. Prime Minister was ready for the question time. Before the question time the debaters discussed important topics such as youth unemployment, economic situation in Scotland, rail services, number of job opportunities, public expenditure and search and rescue services. After that debate Mr. Prime Minister came to the microphone and started with a tribute to soldiers who had lost their life in Afghanistan. Mr. Prime Minister was ready to get asked questions after his tribute to the dead soldiers.

to be continued...

Senior project - Michael Jackson

2010-01-26T04:06:00.001-08:00

Michael Jackson is my inspiration and my ideal. I got interested in dance when I saw his performance on tv. I decided to start dancing and today am a dancer for one of the best streetdance group in Scandinavia. One of my dreams was to meet him once.

I have huge respect for MJ and wish I ever could met him. He died on thursday, June 25, 2009. MJ was I lovely person and helped lots of poor people. He has seen many bad days in his life, but I hope he is in good condition where ever he is now.

MJ was supposed to have round about 50 performances at the O2 arena in 2009-2010, but was killed two days before his first performance. I've got many questions in my head am wondering. therefor I would find out more about his death cause I still belive that he has been killed. I do also want to know about his whole life story. How he struggled, how his family treated him, why he wanted to become white and lots more.

This idea of having a senior project is really nice. I've got a chance to work with what I want. This is really a project I will work hard on cause its time to get answer on questions I've been wondering for a long time.

Michael Jackson was the king of pop and will remain the king. No one can beat his music. His music had meaning and changed the whole world. Am very excited to work on MJ project.

The House of Lords

2009-11-10T04:37:00.000-08:00

The House of Lords is the highest court in the UK. Judges of The House of Lords are "life peers". A life peer is a British peer whose title lapses at death.

There are 12 Law Lords and their role is to hear cases from the lower courts on appeal. The Law Lords can participate in a debate and enactment of Government legislation.

No court in UK can change The House of Lords decision. However, The European Court of Justice are able to do so and can change decision made of The House of Lords.

1974: President Richard Nixon resigns because of Watergate scandal

2009-10-27T04:34:00.000-07:00

Richard Nixon was graduated from Duke University Law School and was the 37th president of the United States. He was married to Patricia Ryan and they had two daughters, Julie and Patricia.

On August 9, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned due to a scandal caused by the break in at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. The hotel was the location of the Democratic Party Headquarters in 1972.

A security guard cought some burglars breaking into the hotel. Some of the burglars had ties to people in Nixton administration, and president Nixton tried to minimize the damage to his administration. The investigations uncovered many unethical and illegal activities by people very close to the president. Since the president lost lots of political support he then himself covered it up. Nixton chose to resign the presidency rather than face certain impeachment.

Traditional sport in Norway

2009-10-20T00:38:00.000-07:00

Yo Robin! I thought maybe you want to know something about the traditional sports in Norway. Its several actually, but the most common is football and skiing. I personally like football. Its more interessting and a human wants to see more of it. Skiing is only fun to do when you do it by your self. I cant play football, I "suck" in other words. However, football is the sport the majority in Norway like. People here likes to play and watch football. We've got alright teams. They aren't the best in the world, but they can play football. Thats the main thing.

Whats traditional sport in your country?

To our Korean friends - A blogpost about the weather in Norway

2009-10-13T03:24:00.000-07:00

Dear Korean friends

As you already now Norway is a cold country. It starts snowing here in the middle of october. The next months are really very cold. But we can always have fun even if its cold here. In fact its quite nice with cold weather. We do amazing actvities, such as skiing, sledging and lots more. Snow combinates good with Christmas too. Its nice when its cold and snowy outside and warm inside.

However, the people of Norway survive the weather here and enjoys it. How is your weather? and which activities are most common in your country?

Best regards

Mr Z

Does it matter?

2009-09-01T01:59:00.000-07:00

G) the first sentence in every paragraph

H) People from a soldiers country doest care about them...

2009-09-01T00:59:00.001-07:00

My name is Zishan Mir and am 18 years old. Am a student at Sandvika college in Bærum. Bærum is a municipality in Norway and my hometown. I've been living in Bærum since 2003. I lived in Oslo before that, which is the capital of Norway.

I live with my family and we're total six familiy members. Am the next oldest and I've got a younger brother and sister, and an older brother. My dad owns a pub in Oslo, and my mum doesn't work.

Am a dancer. I do mix streetdance and hip hop. Am a member of a dance group called "One Unity". My biggest inspiration is Michael Jackson. I started dancing when I first saw him dance on tv. My other interests are cars, hanging around with friends etc...