Scotland

The Loch Ness Lake is in Scotland, United Kingdom. There are stories and sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. People do not know if it is a myth or the real thing. The sightings of this creature date back to 1,500 years ago. In the Newspaper “Inverness Courier” on May 2, 1933 The Loch Ness Monster was born. A couple pf people had an encounter with the creature they say he was plunging and divining of the service of the Loch Ness Lake. The Loch Ness Lake is the biggest fresh water lake in Great…

this report will be the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and how this reinforces Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (UNCRC). This report will examine how these frameworks support the role of play, pedagogical approaches, evaluation of play, learning and development, children’s individual needs and reflective practice. Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 was made…

place on a battlefield in Scotland so many years ago but I can see this happening today. We live in an uncertain society in uncertain times and I feel this speech calls to me. I get emotional every time a see it. The Scottish and English have been fighting over freedom for over a hundred years. England owns Scotland and in doing so have been very cruel to the Scottish people, have raped, murdered, and taken control in every way of the Scottish people. During this time Scotland has decided that…

Nationalist Party today dominates Scottish Politics in an impressive, and to some, even unthinkable way when compared to the party’s grassroots standing a mere 10 years ago. As of 2015, the SNP party is by in large the biggest political party in Scotland in terms of membership, reporting over 112,000 members, or more than 2% of the Scottish population (Scottish Parliament, 2015). But, this domination is perhaps not much of a surprise when the parties leaders, plans and goals are studied…

in theory, the English and Scots would become closer associated as Britons due to the flow of capital, labor, and ideas between the neighboring countries. However, the establishment of the Union immediately increased taxes on an already weakened Scotland. Many Scots felt that the promise of economic improvement had been broken, which resulted in a profound feeling of betrayal towards the British Parliament. Several disgruntled…

Why do people vote for the SNP? The last few decades have seen an unprecedented boom in the Scottish National Party (SNP), originally a relatively unimportant minor party pursuing the dream of independence for Scotland, which has changed Scottish and British politics forever. This has been a prominent issue challenging journalists, researchers, political commentators and certainly other major parties for the last decade or so, provoking a seemingly simple though entirely complex and certainly…

oatmeal, spices and salt. Traditionally wrapped in the sheep’s stomach, but now most haggis is prepared in a sausage casing. It is traditionally served with turnips, potatoes, black pudding (Food & Drink). Traditional Scottish cooking still exist, but Scotland now has more modern restaurants which still include Scottish food and a large variety of other dishes. The Scottish use many ingredients but some of the most common are. Oats and barley, vegetables such as potatoes, turnips and carrots…

In 1707 the Acts of Union were approved by the Westminster Parliament and by the Parliament of Scotland. With the Acts of Union, England and Scotland were declared united ‘by the Name of Great Britain’. Scots law is a legal system which includes elements of civil law and common law. Scots law is based on several sources of law: the legislation or statute law, a written enactment of legal rules passed by the Parliament; the common law: judicial precedent, institutional writings and custom.…

The event occurred between 1979 and 1982. It was claimed that the appellats were sexually abused by Mr Grain, the warden at Axelhome House at Hesley Hall Boarding School. Damages were claimed for the personal injuries attained whilst the claimants were students at Hesley Hall, which ran Axelhome House. The Court of Appeal dismissed the claimant’s actions, though the House of Lords reversed the Appeal Court’s decision stating that the defendant was vicariously liable in respect of the torts…

In 2015 over 2,800 children in Scotland were found to be needing protection from some form of abuse. The named person scheme aims to prevent this. The Scottish government says that a named person will be someone who will be there for parents and their children when they need help and do not know where to go. A named person will usually be a health visitor for a pre-school child and a head teacher or guidance teacher for a child of school age. The scheme was created with the aim of overseeing…