3. The Houses of Parliament are in Westminster in
London and sometimes "Westminster" itself is used
to mean Parliament.
4. The House of Commons (or the Commons) is the lower
but more powerful of the two Houses. It has 650 elected
members, called Members of Parliament or MPs, each
representing people in a particular area or constituency.
5. The House of Lords (or the Lords) is the higher but
less powerful of the two Houses. It has over 1,000
members, none of whom is elected. These members
include several categories.
6. Firstly, hereditary peers - people who have titles like
Lord or Viscount which have been passed down to
them on the death of their father.
7. Secondly, life peers - people who are given titles as a
reward for their long service in public life, but whose
children do not inherit their title.
8. Last, but not least, some archbishops and bishops -
important leaders of the Church of England.
9. The government brings bills to the House of Commons to
be discussed by MPs. The bills then go to the House of
Lords. The House of Lords can suggest changes to a bill,
but does not have the power to reject it.
10. When bills come back to the Commons, MPs vote on
them and if they are passed they are signed by the
monarch and become Acts of Parliament.
11. At present England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern
Ireland are all governed by Parliament in
Westminster.
12. In Northern Ireland political parties are different but
their MPs still go to the House of Commons.
13. In Scotland there is a lot of discussion about whether
Scotland should have some separate or partly sepa-
rate from of government. The same is true in Wales.
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язык рассказ проф. Чарльза Холла о его книге "War
on Terror: Insights into Global Issues", созданной в со-
авторстве с учеными МГУ. Следует уделять особое
внимание переводу реалий.
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1. In many ways, the history of contemporary terrorism
in the United States of America is very different from
that of almost all other major countries or regions.
Unlike other countries such as Britain, Russia,
France, India or China, the United States did not real-
ly consider itself vulnerable to 'terrorists' until the
World Trade Center Bombing of 1993. Even then, ter-
rorism seemed really to be someone else's problem.
2. However, in the aftermath of the second attack and
ensuing destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001,
Americans finally grasped the global threat and nature
of contemporary terrorism. Now, there is a need to re-
examine how Americans viewed their own history of
calculated violence, in other words, terrorism.
3. Perhaps one of the major differences between terror-
ism in the United States and other countries is that
there has been little "revolutionary" violence in the
United States. Rather, most contemporary terrorism
or calculated violence seems to have been to "pre-
serve" a traditional, perhaps mythical American cul-
ture described as the Melting Pot.
4. Two contrasting metaphors describe American views
of their society: the Melting Pot and the Salad Bowl.
In the traditional view knows as the Melting Pot,
everyone who came to America became alike, assimi-
lated through their shared experiences; conversely,
using a newer symbol, the Salad Bowl, Americans
attempt to acknowledge significant cultural differ-
ences of the various groups in the USA with the now
famous slogan "celebrate diversity."
5. Both metaphors are important in understanding the
history of contemporary terrorism in the United
States. However, we must begin our look at contem-