The most important differences between the middle class and the working class on the aspect of ‘above degree-level education’ and ‘average value of investments’ are significant, the other some big differences are presented on the career such as working in professional/managerial/ technical jobs (workers only), average value of savings and average value of home (homeowners only). According to these differences, it is easy to found that the key point effect your class in the society is the education which can explore your view, extend you skill and then the chance for you to get a good job or invest some project increases.
The other opinion I want to talk is about distinctions between social classes today are perhaps less defined than they once were. The phenomenon that increasing in number of middle class means there is a decreasing in number of upper-class and working class. In the other word, the distance between more and more people becomes short. It is the results of civilized development in society, for example, the policy for protecting the poor have been provided by government. People have paid less attention on the different classes.
Friday, 25 April 2008
St David's Day
On the way I went back home from campus, a girl ran toward me, sent me a yellow flower and then ran way, I felt so surprising about it until I saw the new of BBC about the day. On 1 March 2008 I knew about 'St David's and the yellow flower called daffodil.
Saint David is the patron saint of Wales. He was a Celtic monk, abbot and bishop, who lived in the sixth century. During his life, he was the archbishop of Wales, and he was one of many early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain. It is claimed that Dewi lived for over 100 years, and it is generally accepted that he died in AD 589.
Regardless of this, St. David was, and is, a very important figure to the Welsh. Naturally, then, St. David's Day is a time of great celebration in Wales. Societies all over Wales celebrate with special meetings and events. In St. David's Hall, Cardiff, each March 1st, there will be a concert featuring a 1000-member male voice choir, specially formed for the occasion.
Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil (a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March) or the leek (Saint David's personal symbol) on this day. The association between leeks and daffodils is strengthened by the fact that they have similar names in Welsh, Cenin (leek) and Cenin Bedr (daffodil, literally "Peter's leek").
The Welsh flag is always flown in honour of St. David.
Saint David is the patron saint of Wales. He was a Celtic monk, abbot and bishop, who lived in the sixth century. During his life, he was the archbishop of Wales, and he was one of many early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain. It is claimed that Dewi lived for over 100 years, and it is generally accepted that he died in AD 589.
Regardless of this, St. David was, and is, a very important figure to the Welsh. Naturally, then, St. David's Day is a time of great celebration in Wales. Societies all over Wales celebrate with special meetings and events. In St. David's Hall, Cardiff, each March 1st, there will be a concert featuring a 1000-member male voice choir, specially formed for the occasion.
Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil (a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March) or the leek (Saint David's personal symbol) on this day. The association between leeks and daffodils is strengthened by the fact that they have similar names in Welsh, Cenin (leek) and Cenin Bedr (daffodil, literally "Peter's leek").
The Welsh flag is always flown in honour of St. David.
Employment in Britain
Companies need to look for employees who are a cultural match for their organizations, those who can actually do the work that needs to be done, and those who will ultimately make their organizations more productive. The aspects of an organisation dealing with employment are using the recruitment agencies and some jobcentre plus in internet and so on. Some projects supporting for employment are also useful, such as the Data Protection Act which is broad ranging and covers all kinds of information stored by almost any organisation.
The employment issues become more and more widespread in UK now, such as human rights in the workplace, sick pay and sickness absence, using your own vehicle for work and so on. The employees will be unhappy and want to change for another job if the issues can not be improved.
The relationship employers share with employees is affected by three significant factors – interests, control and motivation. Interests cover facets such as labour productivity, wages and the effect of financial markets on businesses. Control can be describe as being either output focused, focusing on desired targets with within managers defining, and using, their own methods for reaching targets, or process controls, which specify the manner in which tasks will be achieved . Employee motivation can often be in direct conflict with control mechanisms of employers, and can be broadly defined as that which energizes, directs and sustains human behaviour.
What Employees should be aware of before accepting a job is various. First of all, worker should make sure they entitled to certain statutory rights. Moreover the contract with your employer is legal, it contains job title, wages, hours of work, holiday entitlement, sick pay, pension schemes, notice, grievance dismissal activities. Besides that employees have to make sure only those who are better prepared and informed will be the winners in the competition for talent that is just around the corner.
The employment issues become more and more widespread in UK now, such as human rights in the workplace, sick pay and sickness absence, using your own vehicle for work and so on. The employees will be unhappy and want to change for another job if the issues can not be improved.
The relationship employers share with employees is affected by three significant factors – interests, control and motivation. Interests cover facets such as labour productivity, wages and the effect of financial markets on businesses. Control can be describe as being either output focused, focusing on desired targets with within managers defining, and using, their own methods for reaching targets, or process controls, which specify the manner in which tasks will be achieved . Employee motivation can often be in direct conflict with control mechanisms of employers, and can be broadly defined as that which energizes, directs and sustains human behaviour.
What Employees should be aware of before accepting a job is various. First of all, worker should make sure they entitled to certain statutory rights. Moreover the contract with your employer is legal, it contains job title, wages, hours of work, holiday entitlement, sick pay, pension schemes, notice, grievance dismissal activities. Besides that employees have to make sure only those who are better prepared and informed will be the winners in the competition for talent that is just around the corner.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Exploring British Newpapers
Comparing The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph which are some of the famous newspapers in UK, it is phenomenal that the editors plan the layout of their papers very carefully because they want to keep their readers and attract new ones. It is easy to find out some difference among them, and i will give two most important differences:
Firstly, each of them have the own special feature.
The Times was named as the UK's leading daily newspaper for business people in the British Business Survey 2005. The main section news in the first half of the paper, and world news following. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social and the like. The sport section is at the end of the main paper.The Independent is politically left-leaning. The paper's editorial line favours the implementation of proportional representation and the tackling of climate change through governmental measures.The Guardian is founded by textile traders and merchants.The Guardian had a reputation as ‘an organ of the middle class’. It is considered British centre-left as US politics are generally further to the right of the UK.The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper. It includes separate Money, Home and Health, Sport, Travel and Business suppliments.
Secondly, it is interesting that the same news in different newspapers is reported in different style. Such as the news about Flight BA038 accident' in January 18th 2008, The Times and The Daily Telegraph report this news in the first page, and The Daily Telegraph spend 3 pages on this new while The Time just use 1 page. But The Independent report it in page 5, and The Guardian report it in page 3. Why do they report the same new but in different page? I think that is because the main point newspapers report generally and want to attract reader is different.
There are still many differences among the different newspaper except the two i gave, for example the layout, the format, the history, the circulation and some supplement.
Firstly, each of them have the own special feature.
The Times was named as the UK's leading daily newspaper for business people in the British Business Survey 2005. The main section news in the first half of the paper, and world news following. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social and the like. The sport section is at the end of the main paper.The Independent is politically left-leaning. The paper's editorial line favours the implementation of proportional representation and the tackling of climate change through governmental measures.The Guardian is founded by textile traders and merchants.The Guardian had a reputation as ‘an organ of the middle class’. It is considered British centre-left as US politics are generally further to the right of the UK.The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper. It includes separate Money, Home and Health, Sport, Travel and Business suppliments.
Secondly, it is interesting that the same news in different newspapers is reported in different style. Such as the news about Flight BA038 accident' in January 18th 2008, The Times and The Daily Telegraph report this news in the first page, and The Daily Telegraph spend 3 pages on this new while The Time just use 1 page. But The Independent report it in page 5, and The Guardian report it in page 3. Why do they report the same new but in different page? I think that is because the main point newspapers report generally and want to attract reader is different.
There are still many differences among the different newspaper except the two i gave, for example the layout, the format, the history, the circulation and some supplement.
Monday, 21 January 2008
Health Issues in Britain
The National Health Service was set up as a part of welfare in uk. It have treated more patients every year, but with limited resources it has had to deal with ill health caused by changes in lifestyle.
There are many reasons for inequalities in health in the UK. some parts of the country have poorer health, differences between the poorest and richest parts are greater.Those living in poverty have poorer life chances and poorer health because of lower living standards, including bad housing and bad diet. And women are more aware of health issues and more likely to consult doctors than men.
The most important diffirence between NHS in uk and the medical service in china is the free problem. We must pay a lot of money in hospital if we are ill in china, but the NHS in uk is free.
The weak poit of NHS is the lower inefficiency, patients will have to wait for may be some weeks,may be some months, some times may be more than a year for a operation. We hope it can improve under the attention of government.
There are many reasons for inequalities in health in the UK. some parts of the country have poorer health, differences between the poorest and richest parts are greater.Those living in poverty have poorer life chances and poorer health because of lower living standards, including bad housing and bad diet. And women are more aware of health issues and more likely to consult doctors than men.
The most important diffirence between NHS in uk and the medical service in china is the free problem. We must pay a lot of money in hospital if we are ill in china, but the NHS in uk is free.
The weak poit of NHS is the lower inefficiency, patients will have to wait for may be some weeks,may be some months, some times may be more than a year for a operation. We hope it can improve under the attention of government.
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Education in Britain - Homeschooling
According to web site http://www.privateschools.co.uk/, i discovered that there are 2,500+ non-government fund schools in the UK which are independent of local or central government control. Such as Lyndon Preparatory School , Cardiff Academy and so on.It used to be thought that only rich and Privately-educated people sent their children to Private schools. This is certainly not true now. More than half the children entering private education have parents who were educated in the state system.
Homeschooling has grown significantly over the past several years, with current estimates of up to 1.5 million students now attending homeschool.
A majority of homeschoolers have one or more of the following three basic reasons: 1) School environment 2) Religious or Moral 3) Academics. There is a huge variety of advantages ,Some homeschool so their child can be in the movies. Some homeschool because it is hard to get rid of bad public school teachers. Others homeschool because of the father's work schedule.
Inspite of so many advantages,there are also many disvantages of homeschooling in my opinion. The foremost important one is the friendship of the classmate.Either discussing assignment or playing together is a good method to improve students' communication.
Homeschooling has grown significantly over the past several years, with current estimates of up to 1.5 million students now attending homeschool.
A majority of homeschoolers have one or more of the following three basic reasons: 1) School environment 2) Religious or Moral 3) Academics. There is a huge variety of advantages ,Some homeschool so their child can be in the movies. Some homeschool because it is hard to get rid of bad public school teachers. Others homeschool because of the father's work schedule.
Inspite of so many advantages,there are also many disvantages of homeschooling in my opinion. The foremost important one is the friendship of the classmate.Either discussing assignment or playing together is a good method to improve students' communication.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
History of Halloween
What is the Halloween? I have just known there is a Halloween festival in western country, i haven't got any more detail about it untill this 31 October.On the Halloween festival of this year, i have got the knownlege that Ghosts, witches, jack-o-lanterns, black cats, and skeletons are all symbols of the holiday known as Halloween. Celebrated in the United States on October 31, it has become a festival where children dress in costumes and visit neighbors to ask for treats. The origin of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celts who inhabited parts of France and Ireland more than 2,000 years ago At the end of the summer these people honored Samhain, who was the lord of the dead. On this day, the high priests of the Celts, or Druids, ordered the people to put out their hearth fires. The Druids then built a huge new bonfire that was considered sacred. Into this new fire they threw crops, animals, and even human sacrifices. Then each family relit its hearth fire from the new year's fire. It was believed that Samhain allowed the souls of the dead to return to roam the earth on this night.
And then i got the reason why a boy ask me to give him a five in front of the school gate when i was going to the library, I felt shame because i didn't known what is his mean, and didn't give hime a five with a 'sorry'.
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