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    Trump)” (Shelbourne, Mallory)” Ivanka Trump is a big influencer to powerful people in the world. She has spoken with world leaders like Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel about the gender pay gap. Talking to world leaders at a Women 20 Summit in Germany, Ivanka praised Chancellor Merkel for passing a transparent paid leave legislation in Germany. She said, “The United States will look to Germany for legislation that will benefit families on paid leave.” (Abramson

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    The House of Lords in 1909 consisted mainly of aristocrats that where part of the conservative party. There are many different reasons for the rejection of the people’s budget, which was an idea, brought forward by David Lloyd George of the Liberal party. The swift rejection by the House of Lords sparked the first constitutional crisis of the 20th century. The first reason I am going to bring forward is that this new budget included the idea of taxation on the rich for money that would go to support

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    lexis, the reader is instinctively drawn towards the main location where Dickens describes the masses of mud to be 'accumulating' at 'compound interest' almost like money in a bank. Furthermore, this centres the reader's thoughts on the Chancellor and indirectly focuses on the unethical, unprincipled ways of today's society. The fog described in the second paragraph is another focal point in 'Bleak House', where Dickens personifies it to an extent that it 'cruelly pinches

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    How is the defeat of the conservative party in 1945 best explained ? On the 26th July 1945, Clement Attlee lead the labour party to a landslide victory against the conservative party, represented by wartime hero Winston Churchill. This came as a shock to the British population, who had not anticipated this outcome. The defeat of the conservative party in 1945 can be best explained by highlighting the contrast between the people and the conservative party, the conservatives’ inability to carry out

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    In the 1931 general elections, MacDonald’s National Government party, made mostly of Conservatives, had an overwhelming victory. Neville Chamberlain was offered the office of the Chancellor of Exchequer once again. During his second term in office as the Chancellor of Exchequer, his policies raised his reputation as an efficient administrator. In April 1923, he presented his first budget. Chamberlain reduced the interest rate of Great Britain’s war debt. He also successfully

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    the conservatives dominated in the years 1951 to 1964 partly as a result of the disunity of the Labour party at this time, but also as a result of the strength of their leadership amongst other advantages that the Conservative party had over Labour at this time. For example, the peacetime economic boom that they were able to take advantage of. The Labour disunity also had knock effects like Labour being unable to take advantage of the Suez crisis. One way in which the disunity of labour helped the

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    In 2010, the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government took power. The new government ‘’inherited a substantial public spending deficit and a fragile economy’’ (Tess, 2013, p. 406) and this led to the government making budget cuts to welfare provision and the public sector. Some of the changes to the welfare system when the new government took power from the Labour government included; ‘’substantial cuts to social security benefits and tax credits’’ (Tess, 2013,p find), freezing of child

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    The first immediate political consequences of Hitler to becoming Chancellor of Germany was the Reichstag fire, on the 27th of February, 1933. The reichstag building was the main meeting place for the government of Germany. Hitler blamed the fire on a young communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, who was found inside the building, and later used this as a reason to arrest 3000 communists and social democrats. Because of the fire, all political meetings got moved to the Berlin Opera House, where Hitler

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    Hitler becoming chancellor in 1933? Germany was already lingering with the unhappiness of the Treaty of Versailles and the Hyperinflation that happened in the early 1920’s this made the people of Germany lose all faith in the government of the Weimar Republic. Combined with the massive hit of the Great Depression the German people and President Hindenburg decided to turn to the Nazi party for support. Primarily, the Great Depression was mostly responsible for Hitler becoming chancellor in 1933

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    The Reasons Hitler Became Chancellor After over ten years of trying, in 1933 Hitler and the Nazis had almost fulfilled their goal to hold all power in Germany. The Nazis were by far the most powerful party in the Reichstag holding the most seats, and Hitler being made Chancellor, but it wasn't that simple, in fact it was very complicated. There were several big contributors to Hitler becoming Chancellor. The Great Depression, one the worst times for Germany, and

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