POSH

it comes from port out starboard home, which means that you take the more comfortable side on a cruiser liner. it has come to mean upper class, because they were the ones who could afford to do that. during the days of raj, tickets of passengers that travel from UK to India , were stamped with the word POSH.
another version has it that PO and SH were scrawled on the steamer trunks used on the voyage , by seamen when allocating cabins.



WELFARE
1. The official retire age in Nigeria is 65 years or 35 years of service.
2. there is old age pension in Nigeria but it is paid per month and the amount depends on your position before retirement.
3. there is no benefit for unemployed people but there is free housing scheme which accomodate them.
4. the housing, sickness, maternity benefits and death grant exists in Nigeria, but they are only for Government workers or private firm which are capable of providing the resources.
5. there is social workers , they have association called Nigeria social worker association. but they are not popular.
6.Autism associates charities in Nigeria Nigeria, by phychologist okey-martins and other group of therapists of children with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities. and they get their money through voluntary donation and government donations.
7.there is no equivalent of citizen advice bureau in Nigeria.
8.no
9.the family doctors are also well paid but the amount varies, it depends on the agreement between the family and the doctor.
10. it is usually a white robe, and a cap.
11. the emergency number is 199
12.there are lots of alternative medicines , like the herbal medicine and traditional medicine. there are also foreign alternative medicines like the tianshi health products and the forever living product(aloe vera).

references for posh- jules,g. (2006).'available at http/answers.yahoo/question/index....(accessed:19 dec 2011).

references for welfare- balogun, a(2011). available at info.worldbank.org(accessed:2011).
santa clara county fire department, available at www.sccfd.org/travel.html.unitedstates.(accessed:dec2011).

QUALITY OF LIFE

It has been worth a while, everything has been going to my expectation, from the people around, academics expectation, and other expectations. but the problems i had so far are my church is far from my house, it is located in the middle of cardiff, so transporting to cardiff has been stressful, it takes more than 30 minutes to cardiff with road transport, i am also used to travelling long distance like that, with my personal car, which is more comfortable and relaxing than public transport.
   Secondly, i sometimes miss my family, which is a feeling that is always felt by international students. though i dont live with my parents in Nigeria, but during the christmas period, we all come home for the celebration, these i will be missing this year.
   Finally, preparing Nigeria food is very expensive , due to the fact that you rarely see them to buy, and the sellerswho sometimes import them will have to sell it on a higher rate in order for them to get profits from their sales. eating the british food, is not bad, they have some recipe or food that can be acceptably consumed but it also cost alot, which might be out of my budget.

CONTROVERSIES IN THE DEATH OF MARK DUGGAN.

The Guardian declared that it was not certain if mark is a hardened north london gangster and drugdealer or a loving family man who would never seek confrontation. the 29 years old totteham resident was killed by a police officer in august 2011. he was suspected to have shot at a police officer, which made the officer to shoot back as self defence. his girlfriend semone wilson, who has four children for him, said that though mark duggan has been remanded by the police on some occassion but has never been imprisoned before.
Tunmi's research showed that 13% of the mob involved in the london riot were his gang members, 42% were white coccassion, 46% were black, 7% were assians and the remaining 5% were others. he also stated that it is believed that IPCC is not independent because since 1998, 333 cases of police killing citizens has come up and no convitions has been done to prove that the police were actually responsible. he also stated that most of the youth involved in the crises were expelled from their schools because of their misconduct.
        Ralph stated that his research showed that after the incident,on the 6th of august, the family of duggan went to the police station to ascertain what caused the death of the man, but they were denied access to the top officials, and this contributed to the riot outburst.
       Abdullazeez, made his research known by discribing the believe of mike butchel, were he said that social networking website and blackberry contributed to the riot in london.he also stated that unemployment, poor funding by the Government is also a cause of the problem.
  Omolola, stated that the youth might regret their actions(independent), because of the damages done to the society, and that cameron has predicted that in the future they will start using rubber bullets to protect citizens.

 REFERENCES- Guardian.co.uk,  mabnigogi.blogspot.com,  Independent.co.uk, Dailymail.co.uk

PROBLEMS AT HEATHROW AIRPORT

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GUARDIAN AND DAILYMAIL'S ARTICLE.

GUARDIAN TOPIC-Heatrow chief warns of gridlock in UK border agency staff walkout.
DAILYMAIL-Dont fly to london next wednesday.



GUARDIAN-Significant disruption and delays to arriving passengers of up to 12 hours.
DAILYMAIL-Passengers could be held on planes for a staggering 12 hours.


GUARDIAN-We understand that there will be severe delays in passing through passport control, with potential knock-on effects on wider airport operations.
DAILYMAIL-Disruption at heathrow is expected to be particularly severe because almost 100 long-haul services plan to arrive before 9 a.m.


GUARDIAN-virgin atlantic,one of heathrow largiest carriers , said britain cannot afford to be closed to business.
DAILYMAIL-A virgin atlantic spokeswoman said, we are very concerned about the effect next weeks strike will have on passengers and airport operators. britain cannot afford to be closed for business.


GUARDIAN-A UKBA spokesman said, securing the border is our prioty and over the last weeks and months we have considered all options to ensure we are prepared for union action.
DAILYMAIL- The UK border agency said, the security of the UK border remain our top prioty and it is absolutely right we explore all options to ensure we minimize any disruption caused by planned union action.

refereces-Guardian(25 NOV 2011)
                  Dailymail(25 Nov 2011).

CHINESE IN UK

There are lot of chinese living in the United Kingdom, Cantonese is a language that is spoken by 70 million people, while mandarin which is also known as putonghua is spoken by 874 million people.Cantonese is spoken in the southern part of china and mandarin is spoken in mostly in the north and also serves as the standard language for the country.They first relocated to UK in 1960s and 70s, and most of the immigrants were from Hong Kong, formerly, they dominated cardiff, liverpool, and bristol due to the problem in their country, which is the requisition of land for development purposes and an influx of refugees from the peoples republic of China during the cultural revolution, and high rate of employment in the country at that time.

Most of the immigrants came to study . There are about 300,000 Chinese in the Uk, most of them can be seen in birmigham, liverpool, london, manchester and Newcastle. In london cantonese was the eleventh most widely spoken language in a 2000 survey of school children, with the highest proportion living in hackey, southwark,lambeth and greenwich. They have interesting festivals which entertains other community groups like the chinese new year and the dragon boat festival. these festivals also helps in reviving the culture and language of the people.Funny enough chinese writing system is built around different variety of characters which have no relation to the spoken word.

                                            chinese festivals
google(2011)pics of chinese people.                 www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual

PICTURES OF ME DELIVERING MY PRESENTATION.

ezekiel(2011)pictures-of-me-delivering-my-presentation

TIME MANAGEMENT

Time management is a way you manage your time, it is important for students,in order to be co-ordinated. students who fail to manage their time will be disorganised. they will be unable to submit assignment at the appropriate time. some may even be unable to concetrate or understand lessons in class because they may had been busy using their time for things uneccessary.