As the new ‘Middle Britain’ report shows that there are over half of the population say they are working class (53%), and over four in ten Britons (43%) now see themselves as middle class.
In fact, as the article said, the number of Britons who regard themselves as middle class has risen by nearly a half (44%) in the last 40 years. It means there is a trend that the middle class population will become more and more in the future.
To compare the middle class and working class people, it is not hard to find that the people, who are middle class, can earn more money than the working class, but with easier work. Furthermore, the middle class people can get better insurance and education than working class people.
In my opinion that is why more people wish they could be the one of the middle class.
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Exploring British Newspapers
There are 11 national daily newspapers in the Britain. There are two kinds of the newspapers here. We can separate them from their size. One is with larger size and more details and information about the national and international news. The other one is with smaller size and less details about the news, but they usually have more pictures and advertisement. We can call these two kinds newspapers serious papers and tabloids. In addition, both of these two kinds of newspapers have their own reasons to attract people. And now I should talk about one newspaper of them which I usually read about.
When I take the train to go to the other places, I often take a newspaper named ‘Metro’ from the train station. In fact, this newspaper is free, that means maybe you can not get too much professional details or comment from this newspaper, but that not means this newspaper is not useful. In comparison, this newspaper is very useful for me. There are lots of advertisements and they contain much useful information, and the articles are not hard to read because they haven’t too many hard words, and it often come with many pictures that make me understand the article easily. Furthermore, it can help me to spend the boring time on the train and it really help to improve my reading skills.
In conclusion, although I only talk about one kind of the newspapers, in fact it can confirm that every kind of the newspapers have their one way to attract their readers.
When I take the train to go to the other places, I often take a newspaper named ‘Metro’ from the train station. In fact, this newspaper is free, that means maybe you can not get too much professional details or comment from this newspaper, but that not means this newspaper is not useful. In comparison, this newspaper is very useful for me. There are lots of advertisements and they contain much useful information, and the articles are not hard to read because they haven’t too many hard words, and it often come with many pictures that make me understand the article easily. Furthermore, it can help me to spend the boring time on the train and it really help to improve my reading skills.
In conclusion, although I only talk about one kind of the newspapers, in fact it can confirm that every kind of the newspapers have their one way to attract their readers.
Monday, 3 March 2008
St David's Day
To commemorate a great person’s dying, the first day of March is also called St David’s Day in Wales. The people would be celebrating St. David's Day in one way or another at that day.
Saint David was the patron saint of Wales, and he lived in sixth century. During his life, he was the archbishop of Wales, and he was one of many early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain.
And it said that when Celtic tribes invaded Wales in sixth century, Saint David taught people to put the daffodil on the maps to be the marks, and leaded the people to defeat the invader. And now it becomes a custom to put the daffodil on the maps at the St David’s Day in Wales, to commemorate that great person.
Saint David was the patron saint of Wales, and he lived in sixth century. During his life, he was the archbishop of Wales, and he was one of many early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain.
And it said that when Celtic tribes invaded Wales in sixth century, Saint David taught people to put the daffodil on the maps to be the marks, and leaded the people to defeat the invader. And now it becomes a custom to put the daffodil on the maps at the St David’s Day in Wales, to commemorate that great person.
Employment in Britain
To be a international student in Britain now, I am very interesting in getting more knowledge about the employment in Britain, and now I did some discovery about it, special to the international staff’s work situation in Britain.
Britain is the only one country to allow the students to do the part-time job of all the countries which speak English. And at June 1999, the government of Britain canceled the law that the students could not do the part-time job without the Work Permit if they did not belong to E.C. That means if you had the visa of students you can take a part-time job now, but it also need to apply a NI (National Insurance Number) card, because with that card, the students can get job easier, and it would avoid to unfair payment.
How to get job? There are many ways, like go to the Job Centre, read the advertisement of the newspaper, and be introduced by friends. Most of the employer needs the letter of recommendation, we can ask the teachers, the landlords or any native you know to help you writing it.
The government of Britain has changed many laws to increase the economy, it contains to encourage the international people working in the Britain. And it needs some special person of ability. For example, Nurse, Consultant Doctors, Electronic Engineering, Analyst Programmer, Business Analyst, Audiologist and so on.
In conclusion, now in Britain, it is easier to get job if you really have the ability, whatever you are native or not.
Britain is the only one country to allow the students to do the part-time job of all the countries which speak English. And at June 1999, the government of Britain canceled the law that the students could not do the part-time job without the Work Permit if they did not belong to E.C. That means if you had the visa of students you can take a part-time job now, but it also need to apply a NI (National Insurance Number) card, because with that card, the students can get job easier, and it would avoid to unfair payment.
How to get job? There are many ways, like go to the Job Centre, read the advertisement of the newspaper, and be introduced by friends. Most of the employer needs the letter of recommendation, we can ask the teachers, the landlords or any native you know to help you writing it.
The government of Britain has changed many laws to increase the economy, it contains to encourage the international people working in the Britain. And it needs some special person of ability. For example, Nurse, Consultant Doctors, Electronic Engineering, Analyst Programmer, Business Analyst, Audiologist and so on.
In conclusion, now in Britain, it is easier to get job if you really have the ability, whatever you are native or not.
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