Crime and Punishment

Nowadays the crime has become one of the most serious problem in the world. One of the most serious problems is murder .In Saudi Arabia (KSA) death penalty exist as punishment for murder and terrorism . I agree with the death penalty for murder because a lot of people can loose their family or friends. Moreover, I think if you lose somebody of your friend you will find it difficult to find any punishment to the killer except  the death penalty. However, In UK the main purpose of prison serves the public by keeping in custody those committed by the courts and to look after them with humanity and help them lead law-abiding and useful lives in custody and after release. I believe that the main purpose of prison should be punishment and rehabilitation as well .Moreover, I think the best way to deal with juvenile crime such as graffiti or vandalism is by rehabilitations at first and if it happen again to be by punishment. However, In KSA there are no right for political activists to break the law . I think if political activists break the law it will cause many problems in society such as terrorism. However , it is believed that the law should be strict with people who drink and drive. That because those people who drink and drive can kill many people and even so themselves. the more serious problem in KSA between  tax evasion and social security fraud is social security fraud that because we don't have tax in KSA so we don't have tax evasion.
In conclusion, it may be stated that the law should respect the rights of homeless people to squat in unoccupied property or shop doorways. Moreover, the government should help those people to find homes instead of shop doorways or  unoccupied property.
REF:
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/abouttheservice/statementofpurpose/
http://www.photius.com/countries/saudi_arabia/national_security/saudi_arabia_national_security_crime_and_punishment.html

Welfare

In Uk, the retirement age is 65 years old for both women and men . While , In KSA the retirement age is 60 

for both men and women .Also, both UK  and KSA have an old pension for the people who too old to work  and it cover the same income for both countries. These pensions are regular incomes paid to people who are too old to work and support themselves anymore. In addition, In Uk and KSA  people who are unemployed  received financial help .Moreover, In KSA there have many benefits exist same asUK such as housing benefit, sickness benefits, maternity benefits and death grants . Also, the social workers in KSA are popular same as UK. However, In KSA there have different kinds of charities same as UK such as red crescent society ,Welfare Charity and Islamic Relief Authority.  they collect the money from government , Voluntary and some companies . However , In KSA we don't have an equivalent of the Citizens Advice Bureau.

In KSA there have an equivalent of the national health service same as UK.In addition The (GPs)are very well in UK and KSA as well . they  usually earn about 2000 pound per month. In KSA the typical nurses uniform  is white dress for women with hat  and  men ware white and black shoose . However, the emergency number in UK  is 999 .While in KSA is 211 .

In conclusion , In KSA there  there have some popular alternative medicines  such as ,Carmine, Honey and  Some herbs used to treat patients.  

REF:

what is an old pension Available at :http://www.canadian-money-advisor.ca/what-is-old-age-pension.html

(accessed on 24 May 2011)

 Walfare[class hand out] : Britain, pp.168-173.

The Media (Exploring British Newspaper)

last week , our homework was to go to the newspaper section in the library and find 3 national newspaper at least in UK for same date. However, I have chosen The Times, THE Independent ,THE Daily  Telegraph and The Guardian. The date was on each newspaper 24-July-2010.In addition, In the front page each newspaper have represented the story about bugler killer was jailed for two years because he downloaded images of child pornography. However, each newspaper have taken different space in the front page. For example, The Times and The Independent taken the whole front page for the story .While , The Daily Telegraph has taken about a quarter of the front page and The Guardian has taken a little bit of the front page and more details in page 4. However, in the Editorial section , in the all newspaper there was nothing mention related to the story. Almost was about sports, political and business. Also, each newspaper have represented the story in clear and simple way. However, In my opinion i agree with what each newspapers have represented about the story because I think it is serious story which can affect badly in our society .

In the end if I have to choose which newspaper was the best I would choose The Independent that because the headline of the story was very excited and make the reader excited to read the whole story . The headline was  "I'm glad to be back in jail" bugler killer said. I think the word glad so strange for somebody who will be back in jail  and that's what make me excited to read the story .

in conclusion, in my country we have many kinds of newspaper same as UK. On the other hand , we don't have editorial section or comments page. However, I really enjoyed to read newspaper in UK and to know the major difference between Uk and KSA.

Media TV

In UK there are many channels such as, BBC1,BBC2,ITV1,Channel4, Channel 5 . each channel represent different kind of programs every day . However, In Saudi Arabia there are fewer channels than UK channels .But recently we have many Arabic channels in the Arabic satellite .Also, those  channels represent different kind of programs such as, news ,series ,movies and reality TV shows.

last Tuesday, our homework was to find some famous programs in British channels at 7:00pm . in BBC1 there was a magazine show with topical reports and information about UK it called "the one show". Moreover BBC2 was represented famous program called "coast" it is about journey around the coast of UK.In addition, ITV1 was represented one of the popular British soap opera called "Emmerdale".While, both chanel4 and channel 5 was represented the "news" in UK which include the weather ,sports and the international news . However , the most popular British soap is Coronation Street created by Tony Warren.

Ref:

http://www.channel4.com/tv-listings/daily/2011/05/03

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mvlc

http://www.itv.com/TVGuide/?intcmp=NAV_TVGUIDE