The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings is a fantastic film! I can’t help myself watching it again and again. The film is around a magical ring called the One Ring. It was lost by its maker, Dark Lord Sauron, and was given to a Hobbit boy named Frodo. If Dark Lord found the Ring, he would have the power of enslaving the world. Fighters from all nations (hobbits, elves and dwarves) formed the Fellowship of the Ring. Their aim was to throw the Ring into the magma of Mount of Doom because it
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding a group of children are stranded on an island when their plane crashes. The freedom of having no parents while living in a society that doesn't enforce rules and laws are eliminated. As the novel progresses the kids find use for different items each symbolizing something of different significance. In this novel William
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2015 November 30, 2015 The Young Lord in New York held by El Museo del Barrio By Steffany Estevez Steffany Estevez LAT 125 Cultural Event critique November 30, 2015 El Museo Del Barrio hosted an event of The Young Lords in New York in which explores the legacy of the Young Lords in East Harlem, the Bronx and the Lower East Side, focusing on specific political events that the Young Lords organized in these locations. I attended to this event on November
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This story is an allegory describing a classic tale of a tussle between good and evil- one that has probably been in existence since creation. Upon manifestations of the signs of a long foretold prophecy describing the end of a force of evil, Bilbo Baggins (the eponymous hobbit) is enlisted, by Gandalf the grey wizard, to embark on a quest and his fellow comrades with the 12 dwarves and the wizard to reclaim the lost kingdom of the dwarves. Viewing this premise from my lens, Bilbo, Thorin, Gandalf
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Elective Dictatorship is the term used to describe the government and the Prime minister to be seen as having powers over the country that seem excessive. A government appointing as an elected dictatorship is likely to have a large majority over all other parties in the House of Commons. This essay will analise the arguments for and against the UK having an elected dictatorship. It will conclude that a proper dictatorship is never possible because the UK’s constitution is a democratic one and there
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How effective are back bench MP's? The idea that back bencher MP's are'nt effective has been widely debated. A back bencher MP is an Member of Parliament that doesn't have any status in the cabinet office but still can speak freely in Parliament. One reason that back bench MP's are effective is the power of Select Committees. Due to the 2010 reforms, back bencher's were able to be elected as a select committee chairman which enabled them to feel responsible and have status. It also gave them
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The central government of the UK is based in at the Palace of Westminster in London. It contains the major central political institutions of the UK, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Together with the ruling monarch, these three institutions are known as Parliament. The central government is the layer of government that operates across the whole country. It is usually located in the country's capital city and it has very specific responsibilities that no other level of government is
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Should FPTP continue to be used for elections to the House of Commons? The first reason that FPTP should continue to be used for elections to the House of Commons is that it produces effective constituency representation because there are single member constituencies, meaning that people know which MP represents them in the House of Commons, and thus who they can take their grievances to. This is a strength because it results in a strong working link between an MP and a geographical area, thus connecting
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To a certain extent, the coalition government’s proposals will bring about an effective reform of parliament. However, some people have questioned the effectiveness of the reform of parliament under this coalition, for example suggesting that The referendum on AV may have lead to an even more hung parliament. On the one hand, Primeministers, known as the incumbent, can no longer call elections to suit their own interests. This was due to the establishment of fixed term elections introduced by Cameron
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Unit 1 Government & Politics Assignment 2 P4/M3/D2 Impact of government policies on a range of public services Policies created by the UK Government can have a big impact on the public services, they can create: Affects on all the public services Affects on the armed services Affects on the emergency services ON ALL SERVICES: FINANCE There is a huge impact on finance with the public service. Without finance the public services such as the police could not buy the equipment needed
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