April Fools' Day

Today is a special day becauce people who are very gullible often fall for April Fools' jokes.

Crime and Justice

Community Sentences

Last week, I learnt about the UK of crime and interested in the community service so it is not rule in China Law. 

Community service is what many teenagers or individuals who have committed their first crime are obliged to undertake as way of punishment. This community service takes the place of a custodial sentence as the nature of the crime may be such that a custodial sentence is either not the most helpful in rehabilitating the guilty party or simply because the crime does not warrant a custodial sentence.

I think community service is a more useful and positive way of punishing people than giving a jail sentence.

References:

http://www.lawandparents.co.uk/community-sentences.html

http://www.direct.gov.uk/

Barry Island

Barry Island is a seaside in the South Wales. We have arrived to find it cloudy but all classmates are still very excited. The beach is flanked by a wide seabeach where people can play in free for the more active beach sports such as surfing, windsurfing, sea kayaking, beach volleyball and holidays on a sandy beach and swimming in a warm blue sea, while the Barry Island Pleasure Park is nearby. There is fun for all family with children at the Pleasure Park, with its fairground rides and traditional stalls. I am looked forward to the summer is coming as quickly as possible. 

References:

http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/Towns_in_Wales/Barry_Island_Town.htm

Why the Welsh flag is not included in the Union Jack?

Why doesn't the Welsh dragon appear on the Union Flag? It is very interesting question. Because when the first Union Flag was created in 1606, Wales was already united with England from the 13th century. This meant that Wales a Principality instead of a Kingdom and as such could not be included. In 1536, under Henry VIII, the Act of Union joined England and Wales officially.  

The Union Flag have a future, the flag look like:

Reference:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/geography/unionjack5.html

Child Benefit

In the UK, Child Benefit is given monthly for every child in the UK.  It's a universal benefit and tax-free.  It's paid for every child until the age of 16 or up to 19. Each parent has to be responsible for the child.

Child Benefit  investments on their parents in children was an increase in maternal care time during the child’s first year, with significant valuable in the  improved child and maternal health of child-related goods or services in long-term educational attainment or works for the country development.

References:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/index.htm

Tabloid VS Broadsheet

Tabloids are generally smaller, it talks about people, interesting stories and gossip. Tabloids include The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, The Star, The Daily Express etc
Broadsheets give news, and talk about politics, the recession and business. Broadsheets include The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Times amongst others.

The two types of newspaper used to be easy to distinguish. Tabloids were long and thin with lots of pictures. Broadsheets were fat and short and had more dense writing. It used to be that broadsheets were bigger than tabloids. Also broadsheets were considered more serious covering political and arty topics in greater depth. Tabloids were considered to cover topics in a less high brow manner.

I like to read broadsheets so it have better written articles, with much less scandal and gossip, much less sensational headlines and people depended upon them for getting their quota of what could now be called 'serious news'.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet   (exceed 11/2/2011)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid   (exceed 11/2/2011)

http://journalism.about.com/od/trends/a/tabloidsbroadsheets.htm   (exceed 11/2/2011)

Sport and competition questions

1. What sports are the following trophies associated with?

The Calcutta Cup
The AshesThe Triple Crown

Which of the above have Enlgand won in this year?

The Calcutta Cup

2. Name a famous sporting venue associated with these sports:
Tennis
FootballGolf
Rugby
Cricket
Horse-racing

3. What is the 6 Nations Tournament?
The Six Nations Championship  is the successor to the Five Nations and the Home Nations Championship an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides:  England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy.