This essay will introduce an important person of the United Kingdom - „The Iron Lady” - Margaret Thatcher. An intelligent girl and a hard worker, she took a degree in chemistry at Oxford, where she had started to be active in Conservative politics. She entered Parliament in 1959 in north London, and quickly became a junior minister in 1961. Margaret Thatcher was the first and only female Prime Minister of Britain and was in power from 1979 to 1990. The Iron Lady was the leader of the Conservative Party and throughout the 1980s she led a program of massive privatisation of national industries. In the time while she was the head of the British government she promoted conservative values associated with economic liberalism, politics, low taxes, limiting the impact of immigration and trade unions, as well as a strong and independent foreign policy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As it was mentioned, now it will be demonstrated few of her important reforms. The first one is privatisation of national industries, such as British Gas, British Telecom, BritOil, British Steel, and British Airways. This step caused a high unemployment and economic difficulties for England. The Britain was not prepared for it, and this led to the Miners Strike from 1984 to 1985. The government wanted to close a number (around 100) of coal miners across Britain, mostly in the South Wales, East Midlands and Yorkshire, as they were seen as unprofitable and a problem to possible plans for privatisation. Arthur Scargill, the leader of the miners´ union, helped the strike to start and it was too violent. In 1970 she became an education secretary while Edward Heath was a prime minister. As she stated: “I learned a valua...
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...budgets and to buy care under the GP scheme (these reforms are also known as the Ken Clarke reforms) but she was absolutely involved - as she was in every area of government. In this essay it was briefly explained what Margaret Thatcher´s reforms were about. Her reign had huge and significant impacts for not only British but also worldwide economy and social lives. She is one of the most important people of British history. Margaret Thatcher became the only Prime Minister who ruled three times during the 20th century. There is even a movie inspired by her life with Meryl Streep in the main role which had its premiere in 2011. The Iron Lady had many supporters but also many opponents. She was succeeded by John Major and then in 1997, Tony Blair, member of New Labour party who became Prime Minister. Baroness Thatcher died aged 87 following a stroke one year ago.
Emma Griffith is the author of the influential book, Liberty’s Dawn which talks about the people’s people’s personal experience during the time of industrial revolution.The Industrial Revolution was the period encompassing the vast social and economic changes that resulted from the development of steam-powered machinery and mass-production methods. The lives of large section
To apply this rhetorical strategy, she incorporates several crucial phrases and words to which one can appertain. One example of Thatcher’s use of diction occurs in line twenty-three of her eulogy when she refers to Reagan as “Ronnie.” While to the reader, this name is but a sobriquet Thatcher uses for Reagan, one must identify her use of diction to understand her intention for using this name. After analyzing the word’s connotation instead of its denotation, the reader can discover that she incorporates this word into her eulogy to give the reader a thorough comprehension of the friendship they shared. For the reader, this diction permits him or her to identify Thatcher’s credibility, and for Thatcher, she strengthens her claim by validating her relation with Reagan. Thatcher, however, goes beyond reinforcing her claim through credibility; upon analysis of her eulogy, one can recognize her use of diction to depict historical occurrences surrounding Reagan’s presidency. The reader can identify an example of this tactic when Thatcher states in lines five and six, “[Reagan] sought to mend America’s wounded spirit” (Thatcher). On a superficial level, this
Thesis Statement: Through her intriguing personality, physical attributes, political intuitiveness, and her distorted moral/family values, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary has led the life of one of the most fascinating yet neurotic leaders in all of Transylvania’s history.
Elizabeth I was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Although she entertained many marriage proposals and flirted incessantly, she never married or had children.
Unions have always been a pain in employers’ sides. From today to the 1910s, workers have tried to unionize for better conditions in their jobs. Today, people try to opt out of being in unions, avoiding the union’s dues but still reaping the rewards. That’s a long way away from what people experienced in the 1910s. During that time period, people were struggling to even be apart of a union. Some people would even risk their jobs to do it. In fact, the first worker’s strike was was during the the West Virginia Coal Wars. Coal Miners went on strike to advocate for better working conditions and better pay. At the helm was Mary Harris Jones, or Mother Jones as she was known. She fought for coal miner workers’ rights and helped them unionize by
Congresswoman Elizabeth Hanford Dole grew up in North Carolina in the small town of Salisbury ,and was born to a wholesaler on July 29, 1936. Dole had a privileged childhood and had the opportunity to study private balled and horseback riding amongst other things. As she grew up she became a model student succeeding in academics as well as extracurricular activities, such as drama and student government; and even got elected as president of her freshman class. After high school like many girls her age, Dole proceeded to go to college where she followed in her brothers footsteps and attended Duke University where she majored in political science in 1958 after which she did post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959 (“San Diego 96”). Some of her many accomplishments while there was to be elected May queen, Student body president, and even got accepted into an undergraduate honors society by the name of Phi Beta Kappa.
Although Eleanor Roosevelt served as first lady from 1932 to 1945, her influence lasted much longer than expected. Eleanor became her husband’s ears and eyes during her husband’s presidency and aided human rights during her entire life. She did what no other First Lady, or woman had dared to do before; she challenged society’s wrong doings. Many respected her; President Truman had called her “the First Lady of the World (Freedman, 168).” Eleanor Roosevelt was an amazing first lady who helped her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, run the country.
Queen Elizabeth I was said to be one of the best rulers of England. Unlike rulers before her, she was a Protestant and not a Catholic. She was not stupid though. She did go to church and did everything that Catholics did to prevent getting her head cut off under the rules of her sister Mary. Elizabeth was very young when she came to rule. She was only 17 years old when her sister Mary died and she took over.
... funding for secret ballots. It then progressed on to the Employment Act 1982, this act which built upon the previous legislation with a more forceful stance on trade unions. This essay discussed the Trade Union Act 1984, the Employment Act 1988 and the Employment Act 1990. It focused on how each of these pieces of legislation developed upon the last, thus allowing Thatcher to stop the power of the unions. It then moved on to discuss how Thatcher handled the miner’s union crisis efficiently, and how this accomplishment allowed her to curb trade union power further. Thatcher not only weakened the closed shop, but she managed to completely remove it. She also managed to in effect contain picketing, and increased balloting within trade unions on a national scale. Margaret Thatcher was therefore successful in her campaign to limit the power of trade unions completely.
Working conditions in the Industrial Revolution were very harsh. It was a time when people wanted mass amounts of production and were not concerned about how things got done as long as they got done. Chadwick and Sadler both took initiative to try to change and protect workers’ rights. As worker’s health became more public, people began to realize how bad they were suffering, the Parliament knew they had to make changes. The Parliament put in many acts and laws that would limit work hours and give workers more rights and better health.
Causes of the General Strike In this essay I will discuss the reasons for the start of the general strike, the long and short term causes. In the 1920's Britain was having a hard time on the industrial front. It had begun with the miners, the coal industry wasn't fairing to well and was declining rapidly and had been since 1918. This was because during the first world war the mines were run by the government and the conditions of the mines were good but also the wages were standardised which the miners had no problems with as the were very acceptable.
Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the “Iron Queen”, was a remarkable woman of her time, she ruled with great power and longevity. She was one of the greatest feminist of time. Coming to the throne in 1558, she took the place of her father, Henry VIII. She was given one of the most difficult jobs fit for a man or King, ruling England. At the time women were second class citizens, they could not vote nor own properties and such. Surprising England with her intelligence and fierce rulings, she changed herself to make better decisions. She proved through her rulings, to everyone that females were strong and could rule just as well as a king. She refused to marry, giving a feeling of “I don’t need a man for anything.” The Queen was responsible for giving females a voice in literature and it is shown through Shakespeare’s writings.
1.4 Plan: First, I will give a small amount of background information on why Labour needed to change. Then contrast Old and New Labour. Second I will cover the policies that Blair and New Labour have introduced. Third, whether these changes were radical ideas by the government or just reworked past polices with a different spin on them.
Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britian. Margaret changed many policies and she also defended strongly other government policies.
norm. She was an advocate for education and equality because of the hardships she experienced in her