The war on drugs (cannabis)

This blog task will look at the style of language used in positvely and negatively critisizing  the topic of war on drugs between two different newspapers.firstlyi will look at the negative side from life and style newspaper, then i will look at the positive style from the independent newspaper.

Negative language
cannabis users are two to three times more likely to take other drugs than occasional users
  Daily cannabis smokers proved six times more likely than occasional users to start smoking cigarettes, demonstrating what Dr Wendy Swift from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre calls ''the reverse gateway''.People say drug use always starts with tobacco, but in this study some start with cannabis, and [then move] to tobacco.'The study provides further evidence that cannabis is a ''gateway'' drug that encourages users to experiment with other drugs, both legal and illicit.

 Positive language

But this self-image has turned into a faith – and like all faiths, it can only be maintained by cultivating a deliberate blindness to the evidence.shocking that he was ditched for pointing out the mathematical truth that taking ecstasy is less dangerous than horse-riding, and that smoking cannabis is less harmful than drinking alcohol.

 Criticism.
Above are the exact texts gotten from the newspapers and in this secton they will be contrasted.
on the negative the writer uses lines like : more likely to take other drugs than occasional users,and so on.
while on the positive the writer uses words like less harmful, less dangerous and faith to put a good image on the topic

Cause and effects of riots

This blog is going to focus on the riots that took place in the UK in 2012. firstly we will consider the causes and the effects

CAUSES
 There have been many theories as to what caused the UK riots in 2011. a more official reason was the death of Mark Duggan In Tottenham. this was just many of the responses given on the matter.  however the rioters used this as a minor reason. criminologists after looking into the matter felt it was due to the class of people or the level, so the looting was because people wanted new things and looted because they felt a sense of inequality in the society.



EFFECT
it tarnished the image of the UK as a place of tourism and doing business, it came a year before the 2012 nlondon olympics, it has also caused moreattention to be put on criminality in the UK and citizens felt more threatened

Languages spoken in the UK(Arabic)

This blog is going to look at the Arabic language where it is spoken around the world and in the UK mainly. the blog will look at the amount of people that speak the language in the UK.

 

The official language of the United Arab Emirates,Saudi Arabia, Egypt and some other countries in the world is Arabic, in these countries it is spoken by over 360million people, Arabic is also the language of millions of muslims around the world.
In the 1970s a number of arabs came into the UK to set up businesses and they were living in the affluent areas of london. Also a survey in the year 2000 showed that arabic was the seventh most common spoken language in the UK. The spread of arabic was from the religious conquest of the seventh century AD over a wide area. The grammar of arabic has remained normal only with some slight changes due to modernisation. Arabic writing is from the  right to left, unlike Enlish which is from left to right.

Reference

• Viv Edwards. (2007). Arabic today. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/arabic.shtml. Last accessed 15th nov 2013.