Tony Blair

false, as the Connecticut representatives voted in favor of the amendment. Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney called out the historical inaccuracy and requested it be fixed before Lincoln came out on DVD. This did not happen, but Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner responded to Courtney’s request by explaining, “We changed two of the delegation 's votes, and we made up new names for the men casting those votes, so as not to ascribe any actions to actual persons who didn 't perform them.” He goes…

Round 3: Obscure Sports 1. In the sport of wife-carrying, a male contestant carries a wife, either his own, his neighbors, or one found further afield, over a 270 yard (250 meter) obstacle course. What country originated this particular athletic frolic? a) Sweden b) Denmark c) Norway d) Finland 2. When J. K. Rowlings invented the sport of Quidditch, she intended a delightful fantasy sport wherein wizards zoom about the playing field on flying broomsticks. However, a few Harry Potter…

The fireman 's wage strikes occurred in the latter part of 2002. A series of forty eight hour and eight day strikes were implemented. The objective of these strikes was to cause disruption to the normal fire cover provided by the fire department thereby making the general public aware of their pay demands. By highlighting their monopoly on fire control and trading on their high standing in the community the union hoped to influence the government 's decision to offer the firemen a 40% wage…

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.” Tony Blair. Have you ever had a difficult decision to make and then eventually decide to do the best thing for you? I feel that we happened all that to us. In the texts Thank You, Ma’am, by Langston Hughes, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and the commentary Doing The Right Thing by Rick Reilly, All the characters had role models, options and inspired others. All three authors wrote about how the…

“The media plays a propaganda role, no matter what type of political regime.” Discuss. The influence of the media and propaganda is intrinsic to political communication. The method of transmitting information between the government and the public is key in both the classification of governments and our understanding of their differences. The freedom of media between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies is markedly different, in both the control that the government exerts over what is…

An Introduction The Second Persian Gulf War, more commonly referred to as the Iraq War, was an extensively long-lasting international armed conflict that found its beginnings on March 20th, 2003, spurred by an invasion carried out by a United States-led coalition with the aims of overthrowing the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict consisted of two phases: a brief, conventionally fought war that had taken place throughout the duration of March 2003 to April 2003, as well as the far…

The European Union is an economic, social, and political union of 28 nations in Europe. Created in the aftermath of the Second World War, a union of European states was sought out and was believed to be the solution to the endless bloodshed that, fueled by the nationalist rivalries between its neighbors, had been ravaging the continent for more than a thousand years. Today, with the institution of the Treaties of Rome and Maastricht, the European Union uses the powers it has acquired from its…

Stanley Donwood’s Get Out Before Saturday is a painting with several subtle symbols referencing, in my interpretation, a post-apocalyptic landscape. In this paper, I will be investigating and attempting to prove that Donwood’s inspiration for the piece stems from humankind’s deterioration of the planet through our ideological shortcomings in regards to both the environment, and global politics. Furthermore, I will be addressing my belief that Donwood intends to issue a warning through the…

The British military has had many allies throughout history. France and England have always been allies. There has only been two wars where Great Britain and France fought against each other. Britain and France fought on opposite sides during the Anglo-French War (1202-1214) and the Saintonge War (1242). Besides these two wars, the two countries have been allies. France and the United Kingdom fought together in World War I and World War II on the side of the Allies. However, during the German…

was charged with treason. It has been agreed after that no single person should have the whole power. The principle of the separation of powers can be seen in practice through the creation of the Supreme Court of United Kingdom. The government of Tony Blair adopted the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 which stated that there should be an institutional separation of the judicial and legislative work of the House of Lords. Article 6 of the Human Rights Act required a ‘’stricter view taken of…