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.

Symmetrical Families

Last week we talked about the family. There are some differences between Chinese families. In the past decades men are the leading in the familyes. They were the main earners in the families, and women looked after the house and the children. There were many children in a family in past. It was nearly the same as UK. But now things get changed. Women are not only staying at home to look after the house and the child, they also go for work. The law only allow each couple to have one child because there are too many people. But in the countryside people would like to have more than one children, and at least one of them is boy. And they got fined. Although women have their own jobs, men are the leadings in the families. They make the improtant desions.

Family Size

The family size in Britian is trending to be 2.4 person on average. That is much smaller than in the past. In the past the typical type of family is extented family. People used to have big familes. But children lived in bigger families has reduced since 1972. At that time 44% children lived in the families where had three or more dependent children. However in 2003 there was only 31% did. The number of children living in families where they are the only dependent child increased in this period from 18% to 25%.


This changes of family size will make more aging population. The aging people have to work because there are not enough people taking place of them. Some of them have to work a few more years than before. And the aging people can't take better care of the society because of lacking of money.

Wlecome & Families

Britain families is changing nowadays. In the past people got married and they stay married. Now they changed their mind on marrige. Many yong couple lived together without marrige which was not happend in the past. Divoce become an usual thing which took much money and time in the past. And many couples don't like to have babies. They just enjoy to live by themselives. It is much different from before. The family become nuclear famliy rather than extensive famies. The average of the family member is about 2.4 now. More and more yong men move out their family to live by themselives. They don't live with their parents like before.

Wrong Train But Good Experience

Last Sunday, I went to Cardiff to apply a part time job in KFC. When I came back, I met a classmate to go back school by train. When the train came, we jumped into the train. As the train went a long way, we found it was different from before. So we asked a man in the train, and he told us it wasn't the one we should take. Then we got off the train, and find that we had to go back to Cardiff again. But the next train should be wait for one hour. We walked in the town, and found there was a castle. And we knew it was Caerphlly Castle. Although we got the wrong train, we found it wonderful to find the castle.