With the rise in the professional politician many prefer to remain loyal in order to gain power and move up in the hierarchy as opposed to become a rebel who remains in the back benchers. This can be seen after the vote on tuition fees and the liberal democrats. Despite the fact that they had campaigned for this cause endlessly only 26 (including a few Conservatives) chose to vote against the bill. Whips play an important part in removing efficiency from Parliament. By having whips who ensure that MPs behave in accordance to the decisions of the executive both Parliaments ability to scrutinise and hold the executive to account is diminished, but also their role as representatives of their individual constituency is also compromised.
A pressure group is a group that tries to influence public policy in the interest of a particular cause. There are many pressure groups around the world, from well-known organisations such as Amnesty International, to lesser-known pressure groups such as the Zip Fastener Manufacturers’ Administration. However, no matter the size, they all have something in common; that they want their voices to be heard. Pressure groups undermine democracy because, although they improve participation, they are said to do this in an unequal way. Critics say that pressure groups benefit the well organised but they disadvantage the weakly organised, subsequently working against the public interest.
'Overt prestige' and 'covert prestige' are terms usually used to refer to dialects. An overt prestige dialect is generally one that is widely recognized as being used by a culturally dominant group. In England, this would be RP. In the US, the Midwestern standard. A covert prestige dialect, on the other hand, is one that is generally perceived by the dominant culture group as being inferior but which compels its speakers to use it to show membership in an exclusive community.
However, most people looked badly upon religions outside of their own. One of the most close-minded settlements in America was New England, this was both a good and a bad thing as it brought the settlers closer together, but also pushed outsiders away. The Middle Colonies accepted many more churches, as there was a greater amount of ethnic and religious diversity. This shows the importance of religion by highlighting how it brought people with common religions together to form colonies and gave incentive to people who lived in England to immigrate to America for more religious freedom than they previously had. Colonists were provided with even more reason to practice their religion and continue their work in America for a better, more liberated life.
To this I would say that the parties may have centralised slightly, but their core values still exist, which is what most people are interested in. For example the conservative party is attempting to decrease benefits, whereas the labour party wants to keep them. Another argument for political parties enhancing democracy is that parties are pluralist. This means they allow party members to influence decisions within the party, including who will be the leader. This pluralism is shown well in the party conference that is held once a year.
Essay 1: FD 09/19/2011 America Between an Arrogant Past and a Challenging Future A lot of Americans might think that the country reputation internationally is great. But is it really? America is considered by a lot of people the actor of extreme ethnocentric arrogance by judging other countries and different environments depending on their standards. This arrogance generated some hostility against the United States based on historical events that support this attitude. This is a normal result if we observe the general morals nowadays Americans have and that’s exactly where the reconstruction process should begin.
The Disdain of Total Equality Total equality may seem fair and justifiable in the eyes of some people, but in many cases it turns out to be little more than a form of oppression, in which a group of people limit the abilities of others. Throughout the story Vonnegut speaks of this necessity for equality and the means that the government goes to achieve it by using devices called ‘handicaps’; one example of this is George’s earpiece, “A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.” Vonnegut’s simile here creates a sort of loud diction, which expresses the sheer discomfort invoked by these restraints on the person wearing them. The governing body in this society views this as the solution to a problem, one that happens to be relatively impossible to solve, this is how Vonnegut incorporates satire into his story. He is poking fun at the age old concept of ‘equality,’ one that has inspired wars and movements alike; he accomplishes this by creating a system to make everyone equal, a system that happens to be just as stupid as the idea of ‘total equality.’ Under this system equality is achieved, but it is at the cost of individual freedom and a society full of stupid people, this in-turn creates the situational irony found in the story.
They would find it outrages since it would be unorthodox to their teachings. With the different viewpoints and knowledge levels of the people today, it would not be a surprise to see varies people agree or disagree with cultural relativism. Given a position of one of the two views in the world today, I believe many would side with the idea that seems morally right even though a small group believes it’s the right thing to do. For example, she gives a scenario in which between two different civilizations. One of the civilizations was the Greeks who practiced cremation for the dead while the other civilization, the Callatians, believed in Cannibalism of eating the dead.
We are all built different. Some of us are shy and others are simply motor mouths. A lot of these pre-existing beliefs can distort and impair our judgment on other races. Such people are entrenched in their own position in this logical reasoning. I will admit that I am guilty of holding a stereotype against the Asian community.
When the total picture is absent then blind judgment causes stereotyping. Society innocently makes and perpetuates stereotyping, that sometimes lead to unjust discrimination and maltreatment when it is unfavorable. Stereotypes sometimes progress out of fear from minority groups. Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination are all considered to be biases. The way people see others of certain groups is not the exact way they imagine he or she may or should be.