What is St David's Day

St David as a Celtic monk, abbot and bishop, who lived in the sixth century. He was the archbishop of Wales, and he was one of many early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of western Britain. David said to have been of royal lineage. His father, Sant, was the son of Ceredig, who was prince of Ceredigion, a region in South-West Wales. His mother, Non, was the daughter of a local chieftain. Legend has it that Non was also a niece of King Arthur. But David is a very kind man, he ate only bread and herbs. He founded a monastery wales, and it is still there now. There are many stories about St David. It is said that once he rose a youth, and milestones during his life were marked by the appearance of springs of water. It is claimed that Dewi lived for over 100 years, and it is generally accepted that he died in 589.

Exploring Birtish Newspaper

In British there are many different kind of newpaper and they are in differet ways. I took four newpapers in the library which are The daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Western Mail and South Wales Echo on the date of March 6, 2008.They have their own content and are totally different. In The Daily Telegraph the top 1 news is Cabinet Revoit over embyros. It was in the first page and covered about half page. This newspaper focuses on political issues mainly. The top 1 news in The Guardian is about a new scientific. It covered the half page in the first page and continued a whole page in page4. Western Mail took a military issue as its top1 news. The news was also in the first page and another whole page. The mainly part of this newspaper is about sports news and entertainment. Finally, South Wales Echo put a family issue on the first and one more other page as its top1. In this newspaper there are kinds of different advertisement about job vacancies and sell.

Health in Britain

Health care in Britain is unequal although there is NHS in the country. Generally there are five things which are gender, social class, ethnical, region, and allocation of resources made the inequalities.
Different genders take different health care in UK. There are three main things: medical research, acessing to health care, and quality of care. Most of the major studies on CHD in UK are using the sample predominataly male, and male have advantage when acess to health care and they have better quality of care than female.
Different social class take different care in UK. There are hospital health care, private care and public care. The people in upper social class have the better care than middle class and working class. They can have their private health care but the middle class and working class couldn't do that.

Health in Britain

Health inequalities are the result of a complex and wide-ranging network of factors. Different social class will be treated by different ways. The higher class will be treated better. It also has something to do with the region, gender and ethnicity. The following website shows a powerpoint which says the health inequalities in uk. http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/images/InequalitiesHealthcareProv_tcm4-336483.ppt

Education in Britain - Homeschooling

Although non-government funded schools didn't have their number risen in the pupils in the past five years, the secondry schools had more students than ever before. It seems that more and more parents sent their children to the non-govermen funded schools that is private schools.

As a type of education in UK, homeschooling has its own advantages and disadvantages. The children who are taking homeschooling don't have to follow the classmates' step. It saves time while the children take homeschooling. In a class, there always have the students who are very good at study, while some are not so good at it. But the teachers should have to go his general step. That means he goes the level as middle ones. As a result of that, the ones who are not so good at study can't catch up with the teachers' step. But the quite smart ones feel that is too easy. It may cost them 6 year to learn the knowledge which they may only spent 4 years in homeschooling. Homeschooling makes the learning effiency and effectively. And the children get more freedom than in the school. But on contrary, homeschooling may reduce the time that the child get together with other children. It may make the children lack the ability of commucating with others in the future. And it is quite difficult for the parents to control the time of their children's study. And they won't be as professional as the teachers in schools.

History of Hollween

The celebration of Halloween on 31 October each year goes back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. It was the New Year Eve of ancient Celtic. People thought the barrier of human being and supernatural being would break down. They thougt all the supernatural beings would come out at that night. And they believed that it was the time that the soul of dead revisited their homes. And they thought that night the sprit world would be seen on earth.

During the night, people have bonefire and they wear masks in order to frighten the sprit away. The halloween brought comfort to the souls in purguary. They prayed for them as they held burning straw up high.

Answer To Annie's Blog

I do think women's role in the family is changing. It is quite different form the past. But it is still not so phonomenal. Very few men help doing things like cooking,washing,and cleaning as I know. It just happens in some places. The fine for people who have more than one child is not so big. It is generally about 20,000RMB. Depends on different area, the fine is different. But for the rich people, it is just a piece of cases. The goverment to do so is to control the population. But it doesn't make too much sense. There are still many people have more than one child in the coutryside. It is better in the city. I think it has something to do with people thought.I can understand the law, but I am not agree with the way they do.