Devolution

as democratic. Over 50% of the votes were for yes, but this does not matter if half the country did not participate. There is no way to decide from that vote whether yes was a minority or a majority, and in democracy the minority does not rule the majority. This is an example of New Labour pushing its policies through. New Labour did not perform well in the elections for the National Assembly of Wales. One can also look the actions taken in London by New Labour through setting up the Greater…

Visualizing the Yellow Wallpaper Assignment During the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main protagonist, Jane undergoes a mental cure for her depression called The Rest Cure. The Rest Cure involves isolation and devolution to a degenerate state to allow one’s mental state to regenerate as wounds in flesh do. Unfortunately The Rest Cure ironically caused a severe decline in Jane’s mental health causing her persona to become permanently shattered like a broken piece…

Most nonprofit leaders could do more work if they had more money, more access to decision making, more talented board members, etc. They are often, in fact, "under resourced". Since money takes a lot of energy to acquire, hyper-cost-consciousness is often present. In addition, organizations may carry an altruistic sense that "most of our resources should go to the clients". As a result, many nonprofit organizations frequently have underdeveloped infrastructures. Nonprofit staff are often more…

For the past 200 years, federalism has played an important role in America’s government. The state and federal government can sometimes be in a power struggle over certain situations and laws. Some Americans would rather have states have more power over the federal government, whereas others prefer a stronger central government. Throughout the years, federalism has changed along with the needs of the country. When President Reagan was in office, he pushed for “New Federalism”. This was the idea…

to regard the definition of professionalism as a ‘shifting phenomenon’ (Whitty, 2006,p.2), changing and regaining new meaning with the particular time (Hanlon, 1998). Current educational reform brings about the new tendency of ‘marketisation’, ‘devolution’ and ‘competition’ in education globally (Whitty, 2006, p.1), resulting in the re-conception of…

The Scotland Act 1998 was responsible for the devolution of significant areas of civil law such as family law, planning law and bankruptcy law to Holyrood. The administrative workings of the Scottish legal systems are far removed from that from the rest of the UK. This includes the structures of the courts, court procedures and the funding of legal aid. (Scottish Parliament Information Centre, 2014). In Scotland, there are 3 main types of civil courts, namely, the Sheriff Courts, Court of…

7. The toxic environment of Graves’ schooling is, luckily, not the only one where he develops romantic relationships and explores his sexuality. Later in the memoir, the amount of people to whom he is attracted is equally spread between men and women, but his male crushes are more lasting and emotional. He claims to have fallen in love with a nurse named Marjorie after a head injury, but his confession that “My heart had remained whole, if numbed, since Dick’s disappearance from it, yet I felt…

King Louis XIV was born in France in 1638, to King Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, a Habsburg. His father died while Louis and his brother Philippe were young. At age 4, he inherited the throne and his mother Anne was the regent until Louis XIV took over at the age of 23. The year before, Louis married Marie-Therese and had 6 children; however, he had many mistresses and illegitimate children during his reign. Louis had a tumultuous childhood filled with revolts and violence against his family…

Foundations of mainstream knowledge of crime have been characterised from classicism and neo classism philosophy. Current knowledge has become criticised gradually in particular in the 20th century. In 1992 Malcolm M Feeley and Jonathan Simon developed this emergence of "The New Penology: Notes on the emerging strategy for corrections". Punishing certain populations who are categorised as the ‘Underclass’. Such groups were specified as dangerous and crucially encouraged cost effective penal…

Susan Tegel article on Veit Harlan’s Jud Suss will highlight facts about the Holocaust and the impact this film may or may not of had on it. As well as the continued creation of Nazi propaganda in condemnation of Jews. Tegel also indicates that the creation of this film in its antisemitic air may have been excessive for many Nazi sympathizers. Tegel will also note the three dissolves in which Suss will evolve and devolve in the film. Tegel starts off by saying that during the Third Reich there…