Life Essays

The distribution and abundance of benthic macro fauna in near shore waters off Karachi is studied for over a period of one year. For this purpose the marine benthic fauna was collected every month from otter trawl catches of “Hella” fishing trips undertaken by Karachi based commercial shrimp trawlers fishing …

The inter-war years were dominated by unemployment. This essay considers government responses to unemployment. It examines policies which were introduced intent on decreasing the number unemployed. It will also examine measures taken by foreign governments in dealing with unemployment. The National Insurance Act of 1911 only provided unemployment benefit to …

Parliament is essentially the legislative section of the British political system. It is an asymmetric bycameralist system, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The House of Commons is easily the more dominant. Its’ functions are fundamentally five fold; representation; legislation; scrutiny and influence of the executive; debate …

Early and middle adulthood is the longest era during the lifecycle (assuming that we enjoy a normal lifespan). Due to the lack of research this area of psychology has received Levinson said that adulthood is “one of the best kept secrets in our society and probably in human history generally”. …

Many theories have been put forward in an attempt to answer the question why the Labour party lost four elections between 1979 and 1997 and could be put into three categories. The first being socio-economic which is put forward by Ivor Crewe, arguing that it is due to a shrinkage …

There is no doubt that between 1529 and 1640 the relationship between monarch and Parliament changed greatly. During the period Parliament changed from being a non-independent institution of “yes men” used as a servant in Henry VIII’s reign, to opposition to monarchy in Charles’s reign. The catalysts to this “monumental …

A pressure group is an organisation that seeks, as one of its functions, to influence the formulation and implementation of public policy.1 A pressure group’s interests lie in influencing a relatively narrow range of public policy, without itself seeking to govern (the country)2. When pressure groups with exclusive interests (aggressively) …

Same-sex friendship in childhood and adolescence has been well investigated. However, normative individual differences in the perception of friendship among heterosexual young adults has had little research attention. The aim of this study is to explore individual differences in the perception of friendship including needs attached to close relationship. Three …

Feminist theory is very different to other forms of key literary theories. Feminist literary theory is not a single unified theory with a single body of work. There is no single key commentator, whose work defines feminist theory. The feminist theory makes few assumptions, and is therefore very adaptable to …

The above quote is taken from a brief speech made by the Dean of the University of Oslo to introduce the visiting Zygmunt Bauman in 1997. It clearly illustrates that Bauman is a much respected and valued writer, and a key intellectual in the postmodern era. In this essay I …