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    Margaret Thatcher, was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. She was known as “The iron lady”. The name represents her roles in politics, as a strong and courageous woman, while some people argued that she was only a witch and not decent. When she passed away, these people celebrated by saying “ Ding dong the witch is dead”. Thatcher was an extreme right wing. During in the road of her politics, Thatcher made a good relationship with Ronald Reagan, the president of the

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    As stated by Holmes, in the 1980s, there was a lot of chaos in the party as Margaret Thatcher had moved the party to the extreme right amongst other things, making her members of parliament keen to replace her. She was replaced by John Major in 1990 who won four successive elections. Between 1900 and 2000, the conservatives were in power

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    days later on the 11th, Margaret Thatcher the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, wrote an eulogy for Ronald Reagan. In this eulogy, Thatcher uses rhetorical strategies to convince her readers into believing what she states. She uses the strategies of parallelism, pathos and diction to get her message out and to help her reader receive it. And thus Thatcher can convince her readers into believing what she says. In the first couple of lines of her eulogy, Thatcher uses parallelism to get

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    encouraged to accomplish as much as they can in their short time in office. At the time of this famed eulogy’s deliverance, the uneventful year of 2004 had been rocked by the tragic demise of a great American president: Ronald Reagan. The speaker, Margaret Thatcher, presents this eulogy at Reagan’s funeral in which she argues the immense impact of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, especially regarding his role in ending communism and providing comfort to nation amidst the devastating consequences of the Korean-Vietnam

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    published on the 1st December 1942, discussing problems and similarities. The “five giant evils” Beveridge claimed to exist will be indentified and analyzed in depth and how Clement Attlee's 1945 Labour government pledged to eliminate these evils. Margaret Thatcher was the first woman conservative

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    Thatcher and Thatcherism It is now twenty years since Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, and over eight years since she left office. So this seems a good opportunity to look back at what Thatcher and Thatcherism may have achieved, and what may be the lessons for today. I must start with a disclaimer. I'm the British High Commissioner and normally speak on behalf of the British Government in Australia. But I hope you will realise that in

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    Margaret Roberts attended Huntingtower Road Primary School and won a scholarship to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School.[6] Her school reports showed hard work and continual improvement; her extracurricular activities included the piano, field hockey, poetry recitals, swimming and walking.[7][8] She was head girl in 1942–1943. In her upper sixth year she applied for a scholarship to study chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, but she was initially rejected and was offered a place only after another

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    Negative Effects of Thatcher’s Policies to Britain Introduction Margret Thatcher was the Prime Minister in the United Kingdom between 1979 to 1990. Although other people may be of the opinion that her policy reforms were of good intents to Britain, a critical analysis from a neutral viewpoint may reveal the opposite. As Goodwin puts it, Thatcher`s policies towards the European integration were pragmatic in practice, but aggressive in tone . The policies were characterized by public articulation

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    Globalization’s Positive Impact Point 1: Globalization has had a mainly positive impact on people around the world because of their learning experiences and great improvements in their government. Point 2: Margaret Thatcher’s mistake in trying to control the money supply made her a better leader, helping Britain’s economy rise. Point 3: Technology advances made a positive impact on the city of Bangalore, which provided foreign culture into their city that helped raise their GDP and popularity

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    Politics in Education Politics in the UK’s education system has been defined by the parties which have come into power and influenced the education system in order to reflect a party’s beliefs and ideology through legislations and the organisation of power and funding. In this concept note I will be defining politics in education, how it has affected our education system across the past few decades and how it is sometimes an unreasonable way to conduct an education system which is responsible for

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