Subject: Re: Introduction |
Author: Lucy
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Date Posted: 05:45:38 09/30/12 Sun
In reply to:
Ivy
's message, "Re: Introduction" on 19:37:11 09/29/12 Sat
Hi Ivy
I think Chicago and Edinburgh are completely different, and it's impossible to compare them.
I'll apply for University when I'm in sixth form (the last two years of school). I can apply to five, then they will make me offers or not based on what I'm predicted to get in myt A levels, as well as other stuff. A levels are the standard final qualification you get from school, it's a two year course in your last two years, and you usually do three or four of them if you want to go to Uni, because they usually ask for three quite high grades.
The American system does sound confusing, I think it's better to have one standad system across the country.We do for A levels but before that it can be very confusing with different schools teaching different things.
I understand about the president. It's the same here, the Prime Minister can't give executive orders, Parliament actually makes the decisions, and he leads his party in the House of Commons in Parliament and heads the Cabinet which proposes bills. Everything Parliament decides theoretically has to be approved by the queen, but that's automatic now.
Prince Phillip is a distant relative, they are actually third cousins or something. Where it gets confusing that he was a Prince in his own right before they married, but because he had a foreign title he had to give it up before the wedding and become Mr. Phillip Mountbatten and then straight away was made a British Prince when they got married.
Details, details, it's not as fun unless you crash into something. Glad you're enjoying it though, even if everyone else is harder to persuade.
Talk soon
Lucy
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