Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Glamorgan has changed my style of living in the area of making friends, when i am in my room i feel lonely and empty inside.

1. Judges and teachers retire between the age of 65-70 years for both male and females. While federal or civil service workers retire after 35years length of service or an attainment of 60 years.

2. Yes, (#18,000) Eighten thousand naira only per month.

3.No benefits

4. Housing- Yes
Sickness- No
Maternity-No
Death grants- No

5. No

6. Unicef

7. Yes

8. Yes. 1) lack of infrastructure
2) lack of training for the doctors
3) lack of funding
4) lack of common and basic training especially nurses.

9. Not specific



Sources
www.nairaland.com
www.allafrica.com

Listing out my weaknesses, strengths and also what i'm looking up to for the next presentation.

My Strength, my points where well placed, well structured and straight forward.

My weakness, I was shy not confident of myself which allowed me to stammer and some of the questions I was asked I could not give a solid answer.

The fact is that I want to try my possible best to beat this my shyness behavior

The Times

Languge: It is formal.Stomach bug puts Queen in hospital.

Content: It talks about the Queen cancelling all her engagements and trip to rome due to her illness. It also talks more about the illness and the hospital where she was.

In-text references: An official said, "She is in good health and good spirits, i don't think she has goot worse. It is just a case of her medical experts thinking that her assessment could be better carried out in the hospital."

Images: The two policemen standing outside the hospital. The image is big.

The Sun
Language: It is informal. , Hope you'll soon be feeling right as reign Ma'am.

Content: It talks on the Queens illness and how it is going. It also shows that people voiced their goodwill messages to the Queen.

In-text references: The Sun's Veteran royal photographer said, "Ma'am, get better quickly-work can wait until you feel up to it."

Images: Small Images of the two policemen,the Queen and David Cameron.

Yorùbá is a Nigeria -Congo language related to Igala, Edo, Ishan, and Igbo amongst others. It is one of the principal languages of Nigeria and spoken in a couple of countries in the West African coast. An estimated 20+ million people speak Yorùbá as their first language in south western Nigeria and more in the Republics of Benin and Togo. Yorùbá is also spoken by diaspora communities of traders in Cote d'Ivore, Ghana, Senegal and the Gambia, and it used to be a vibrant language in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Outside West Africa, millions of people have Yorùbá language and culture as part of their heritage; Yorùbá religion being one of the means of survival in Cuba during the obnoxious slave trade. Many who did not have Yorùbá as their heritage bought into Yorùbá identity through religious conversion. Yorùbá language, culture and religion survived since then until now in Brazil and several other New World countries. A mixture of the old and new decendants of the Yorùbá now live in North America, the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Yorùbá is one of the most extensively researched of all sub-Saharan languages and cultures, and has a long tradition of oral verbal production (oral literature) within indigenous cosmopolitan which is receptive of both Islamic and Christian cultures.. Yorùbá is one of the many African languages that one is sure to hear people speak in the buses and the underground trains in several parts of London; a BBC reporter has compared Rye Lane in Peckham, South East London, to a mini-Lagos, where one can hear several people speaking loudly in Yorùbá as they go about their shopping. Like many other African languages, Yorùbá is tonal.

Time Management

Time Management is an act of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities. Time Management is a big problem in the society today and time management have both it weakness an it strength.

Strength of Time Management
1. Commitment
2. Planning
3. Hard work
4. Passion toward work

Weakness
1. Procrastination
2. Laziness
3. Ineffectively scheduling task.

Welsh Assembly

The Welsh Assembly is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as AM or Assembly Member, the members are elected under the additional member system for four year in office where 40 Assembly Members are to represent geographical constituencies and they are elected by thr plurality sytem, also 20 Assembly Member from five electoral regions.

The Welsh Assembly have it Roles to play in the society, the assembly are to guide to people of Wales, the Welsh assembly roles are to make the law that the welsh people are to follow and to hold the welsh government together.

The Welsh Assembly gather in a place called the Senedd and this is where the law are been made, the Senedd was opened in 2006. The Senedd is locate at a prime position which is the Cardiff Bay

Britain and the EU

The European counties but not all European countries some are still trying to join, the European Union is an economic and political union of 27 member states.


The EU Benefits:

-Some of the laws that have come out of the EU are good and progressive, such as the 1998 Human Rights Acts which was pretty much dictated by the EU.
-Trade associations mean British businesses do not have to pay as many taxes and tariffs when importing/exporting within the EU. This reduces costs which can then be passed on to customers. It also encourages businesses from outside the EU to locate in the UK as a gateway into Europe, taking advantage of these lower taxes. This provides money for the economy, and jobs for local people.
-As a trade block we can compete with the USA, China etc. much more easily than we would otherwise be able to.
-British people can travel freely around Europe, e.g. all the old people who retire to France/Spain each year, or the younger people who can freely move to other countries to work or study.
-Lots of skilled workers from across Europe have moved here and taken important and valuable jobs that add a lot to society and economy, as well as all the unskilled workers who do jobs like cleaning the streets or picking fruit that many employers just cannot find British people to do.

Disadvantages include:
-We pay £40million to the EU each day: money that could be better spent on the NHS, schools, or getting our country a little less in debt.
-MEPs are elected, but the ruling, executive branch of the EU is the unelected and therefore unaccountable European Commission.
-People think our government is corrupt, but that's nothing compared to the way in which the EU parliament works. It would make some African states proud.
-The single currency problem. We are under huge pressure from many in the EU to adopt the Euro, even though it is a potentially weaker currency.
-We've lost a lot of independence in terms of law making: 75% of our laws come from the EU parliament, but some of these are a total waste of time and money. And have you seen the EU parliament recently? We're paying all these MEPs as well as our own MPs, but regularly hardly any MEPs turn up, even to important debates etc.
-The EU wants to use the Common Agricultural Policy to subsidise farmers in the East, who are not as efficient or productive (in many cases) as those in Western Europe. So our money is being used to support people in a far away country in an activity that is economically unproductive, which many people do not agree with any more than they like our taxes supporting French farmers.
-It's gone from being an organisation that aimed for closer economic ties and trade associations to one that makes our laws and is verging on turning us into one big USofEurope, which is not exactly a good thing.

Education

Education is a big deal all over the world and there are similarities and diferences in education in each country but the countries that is been focused on are UK and Nigeria.

Here are the similarites between the educational system in UK and Nigeria.

They both operate on  a strictly proper british english and this is what is been use to teach and its expected for the student to use in is everyday life.

Another similarite is the fact that they both have a particular age when you begin a section in school, from age 5-11 is the primary school, 11-16 is the secondary and 16 and above is the university this are the approved age for a student to begin school and when they are expected to finish.

They also have the same name of the stages of schools, primary school, seondary school and the university,

This are the stages of school the UK and Nigeria operate

There are also the difference between this two countries educational system and each of this differences are from the similarites.

In the UK a child is meant to begin to at the age of 5 by then the child wil be ready and matured to handle what is been thought in class, But in Nigeria a child can begin school as early as possible like a child can begin school at the age of 1.

Another aspect of in the differences is that free education is offered to children at the age of 5  and  16, while in Nigeria there is no free eduation the child fee must be paid before he begins school.

In addition, a child must be 11 in the UK to enter secondary school and must be 18 to enter university if a child is not around this age the child will not be accepted to any UK school, while in Nigeria a child and enter secondary school at the ages of 9 and in university at the age of 16 all that matters is that you are passing your classes to get promoted to the next class.

In conclusion, there are some huge similarites and differences between UK and Nigeria education and the counries also have the own special thing in there educational system.

Sources;
www.guardian.co.uk
www.narialand.com

 

Britian and the four Nations

The Great Britain commonly know as the United Kingdom is a sovereign state which is a located of the northern western coast of Europe.
The Great Britain form of government is a Constitutional Monarchy with a parliamentary system. The capital of this great nation is London. The Great Britain consist of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each of this countries also have a capital, England is London , Wales is Cardiff, Scotland is Edinburg and Ireland is Belfast.

The United Kingdom have a flag which hold the four nations has a Kingdom But each of this nations have a Flag which represent something, The English Flag is a white background and a Red Cross on it and this Red Cross is of St George. The Welsh flag is a white and green background and a dragon in-between the Dragon has been used in Wales for centuries to symbolize the spirit of the Welsh people in the face of the endless attack from the English. The Scottish Flag is a blue background and a white X in the blue represents vigilance, truth, and loyalty, perseverance and justice, while the white X signify peace and honesty. The Irish flag is another flag which show three sections of color green white and orange, each if this color represent something. The green color represent the Catholic, Nationalist and Republican communities and the white stands for hope and unity between the Irish while the orange represent the Protestant, Union, and Loyalist community. This are the Flags of the four nation and each of the flags comes with a represent something.

The United Kingdom maybe be one Nation but this countries in that nation have different cultures and languages, the general language spoken in the nation is English but there native language are English, Brythonic and Gaelic , the English speak English, the Welsh speak Brythonic and but the Scottish and Irish speak Gaelic. The culture of the English is called the idiosyncratic cultural norm of England. Because of the English dominant position within Great Britain in terms of population. The English culture is often quite different and difficult from the United Kingdom and the patriot saint of England was St George who emblem is on the flag of England. The Welsh have a distinctive culture including its own language, custom, holidays and music. The patriot saint of wales is St David and this is a day which the Welsh celebrate the saint and this day occurs in the 1 of March. The patriot saint of Scotland is St Andrew and this man emblem is on the country flag which is the X on it and this man is honored every November 30.The final Saint is St Patrick of the Irish St Patrick it is said that St Patrick was a Christian missionary to  Ireland, he was an active missionary to the Irish in the fifth century and this man is honoured every March 17. This are the saint of The United Kingdom and this Saint are been honored because of the huge role they have played in each of this countries.

The Great Britain carrys a whole alot of history in it and this Nation is a tourist atraction with place like the Buckingham palace, Cardiff castle,Barryscourt castle and the Burnnock battlefield this place carry a whole lot of history an each of this countries, The leading tourist atraction is the Buckingham palace which is the home to Queen Elizabeth, the palace became the royal residence during the accession of Queen Victoria and the palace can be found in England London. Wales also Cardiff Castle is one of Wales' leading heritage attractions and a site of international significance. During 2000 years of history, the Castle has been a Roman Garrison, a Norman stronghold and in Victorian times was transformed into a gothic fairytale fantasy. The Burnnock Battlefield is an important place because this land hold where the scottish gained independence. The Irish historical

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