Social class

Social class are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. In Britain, classes are divided into three groups, the upper class, the middle class and the lower or working class.

The upper class generally include very rich people coming for example from aristocracies families. The middle class include people business peoples, or professionals. And the lower class regroup people who work to survive.

Despites people from different class are all human; there are many things that differentiate them. According to the video that has been watched in class Channel4 (2011), they were many differences between a northern working class girls and an urban upper class girl. These differences were mainly based on the gesture, the language, the posture... And what was really surprising above the video were the fact that there is a way to speak that makes people believe that you are coming from an upper class, also the way her teacher were learned her how to turn her mouth when she might wanted to speak in front of people.

Generally, people might define or use the word “posh” for wealthy people with elegant and luxurious house.

References: Channel4 (2011) “Shop girl to It girl”. Available at: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/faking-it/4oD#2922253. Accessed (22/06/2011).

benefits of nhs

The National Health Service (NHS) is a service providing health care to all residents of the United Kingdom. His aim it to make sure that anyone in the UK can receive the medical care they need, regardless of their age, or financial situation. The NHS offers many benefits to all the UK residents.

able to ask advice to a pharmacist depending on the importance of the illness. 

 In term of cost, the NHS provides care free of charge to most UK residents. IT entitles people to diagnostic care and treatment for any illness or health concern. Treatment free of charge can be received from everything from minor ailments such as colds or even serious diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

In term of care, the NHS depending on the nature of people problem offers a range of services to provide the general public with suitable healthcare. It is also designed to offer to people whatever care they need throughout their life.

To benefits from it, all the residents should be registered with a General Practician(GP). And once they seek help because they feel unwell he might also be able to inform them about the care options available for them.

Reference:  Monetos(2011): "Advantages of the NHS". Available at: http://www.monetos.co.uk/insurance/health-insurance/nhs/advantages/. Accessed(28/06/2011)

Media-Newspaper

News is the elements of the mass media which focus on delivering new to a general public. These include print media, broadcast news and the internet.

Print media are the one including newspapers and newsmagazines. In Britain there are a variety of newspapers. Some popular of them are The Guardian, The independent and the Daily telegraph.

Tabloids and broadsheets are both used for news. But some differences between them are:

*Tabloids use more color, have shorter sentence, and use more pictures.

* Broadsheets have longer sentences, use little or no color, and use small picture.

Five different newspapers have been choosing in this case. All of them are dated of Monday 9^th May 2011. These with their headlines are:

 -Western Mail: Work with labour to from new coalition, parties are urged.

-Echo South Wales: This Hilton is “too cheap” for Butetown.

-The daily telegraph: Workers are 40 pc better off in public sector.

-The Guardian: Nato units left 61 migrants to die of hunger and thirst.

-The Independent: Shadow over Sellafield.

While from the same day, each newspaper has him own headline. It easy to recognize the headline with the fact that it is written in big print, followed by a brief summary and also with the expressions “more page…”, “continued on page…” Even if they all have these differences on the headlines, all of them have the same information included.

Sport and competition

In Britain, sport sometimes plays a more important part in people’s lives than in most other countries. British are also the one of the best in the world in a much larger number of different sports than other country. Every year there is a calendar establishing that shows some of the most important sporting events. This month, the next one is The Derby horse racing on the flat and the Wimbledon tennis fortnight.

Wimbledon is the oldest tournament which has been taking place from as early as 1877. It being one of the most loved tournaments of not only the English but the entire world. It is also one of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments along with Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. Wimbledon held at the end of June and lasts till early July; That is the reason why people call it "Wimbledon tennis fortnight". It lasts for 13 days to be precise, with five major events, four junior events and four invitanional events in the famous tennis club in Wimbledon, South West of London. According to Wimbledon: " the most important dates this year are: Qualifying: 13June-16June, Seeds Announced: 16June, The Championships: 20June-3July, The Draw: 17June". 

One of the most popular tennis man players is Roger Federer and one of the most popular tennis woman players is Serena Williams.

References

Wimbledon (2011) Wimbledon. Available at: http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/index.html (Accessed: 07/06/2011).

Crime and Punishment

Crime could be defined as an act of people to commit something bad which is illegal. Usually when people do committed crime they are locked up in a prison and the main purpose of this prison should be punishment.

Nowadays the more common crime is the juvenile crime which is very hard for any government to control. There are some few kinds of common juvenile crime such as joy-riding, vandalism, and graffiti and a punishment which could be helpful and better is to catch these young and keep them for a week in a prison. Political activists also should never break the law because they are the one supposed to give example to the citizens about how to respect the law.

One other big problem in the world is people who drink and drive., the law should be very strict with them because driving while you are drunk could make you made an accident; and to stop` that there should be a law establishing that when you drink and drive the police should take your car to the pound. In the UK, the most serious problem is social security fraud, according to Murphy.R. (2011) “…. Then benefit fraud is 624 times more important than tax evasion”. In Cameroun, both are the most serious because people poor and unemployed people do not receive help from the government and they are really tempted to fraud on everything and a solution to avoid this is to control everything.

Reference:

Murphy R. (2011) Tax research UK. Available at : http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2010/07/01/benefit-fraud-is-624-times-more-serious-than-tax-evasion/ Accessed (27/07/2011)

The Entrepreuneur: Global tax evasion in Cameroon. Available at : http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2010/02/global-tax-evasion-tax-evasion-stifles-poorest-nations.html Accessed (27/07/2011)

Crime and society. Available at: http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/Crime%20and%20Society.pdf Accessed: (27/07/2011).

Social Secuity

Social security could be define as a program which provide financial assistance and  social protection for people who got socially recognized conditions as poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others.

In Britain, the social security system is runs by the department of work and pensions. For the government, this department is the single most expensive programme. In Britain the official retirement age is 60 for women and 65 for men. According to the text of the ‘Social Security’, the groups of people whish can benefit from the social security system are the people over 65 and the unemployed people. With estimation it is has been found that a quarter of the population (including 4.5 million children) are on the poverty line. And as the population ages, as the numbers of the sick, poor, disadvantaged and unemployed persist, the social security will become more expensive than now. In this case it may be found that as it will become expensive, some people could benefit like for example according to directgov (2010) “The Basic State Pension will increase by £4.50 to £102.15 Pensioners on a low income will benefit because most people who receive Pension Credit will get a £4.75 increase in guarantee credit".

References:
Directgov (2010) New benefit and pension rates for 2011-2012. Available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_193032 (Accessed: 22/05/11).

Media-TV

Television is one of the most popular entertainment activities for peoples in their houses nowadays. But television broadcasting really depends on the country; the way to broadcast might not be the same all over the world just because of some criteria. Here we will talk about UK and Cameroun.
In UK, there are so many British television broadcasting. And the first UK’s broadcasting agency was the BBC (British Broadcasting Company). It is highly independent of government control. But, sometimes although the government can persuade the BBC not to show something, there have also been many occasions when it has refused to give up in front of the government pressure. It also usual in UK to see that BBC does not screen adverts apart from the promotion of its own future programming. But, advertisement revenue provides a significant portion of the funding for most privately owned television networks and for the majority of them, their advertisements do not take long time such from 1 to 3min. And these kind of advertisements are used to promote a wide variety of goods, services and ideas like for example when you watch a movie, it can be cut to shows an advert of a drink, shoes, shop or food. As known, television is not just advertisement; there are also a variety of TV programmes shown such as news, cartoon, documentary, soap, game show... Talking about these programmes there is for example soap operas which are kind of long running series concerned with everyday life, it can also define women in relation to a concern with the family. And the recurrent events in soap opera include marriages, divorces, death, disappearances...

Concerning the TV broadcasting in Cameroon, there are International TV channels and National ones. There is only around 5 national channels and one of them belongs to the Government, its name is CRTV (Cameroon Radio Television). In fact these national TV channel are influenced by the government, every things they show is in accordance with the government. By the way there can also be some international channels also called occidental channels either American channel.  Advertisements are frequent on nationals TV and it is pretty sure that some of them earn a lot in this sector. It is not difficult to send your advert but to make it you should have lot of money because it costs a lot to be promoted which is normal. Basically, adverts cover a wide sector which contains food, clothes, or a business. As general there are a lot of different varieties of program shown: News, Documentaries, Reality shows, Movies, Cartoons, Weather, Music and feuilleton and also, television campaign advertisements are considerers indispensable for a political campaign. In Cameroon the style of soap operas is very simple because it is all about daily life and most of them inspired from a real story. Watching them can help people to understand a few of life; they always carry a lesson to retain.

References: Media UK(2011): "BBC news". Available at:http://www.mediauk.com/tv/28175/bbc-news. Accessed ( 02/06/2011).