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Please follow the directions for Parts I-IV and either hand in your papers or email in your work by Friday 04/27.

__**I. The British Monarchy**__ 1. Based on [|this article] which monarch was Britain's best and why? (Pick one and defend your reasoning) 2. England has both a Prime Minister and a King/Queen. What is Queen Elizabeth II's role in the United Kingdom? [] 3. In addition to her job as Head of State what other role does Queen Elizabeth II play? [] 4. Who are the next five in line to the throne? [] 5. List two changes that may soon be made to the rules of succession in England: []

__**II. Ireland's Economy and Irish Emigration**__ [|Read this article]and answer the following: 1. Where are some of the people from Ireland emigrating to? 2. How many people are leaving Ireland each year? How many are arriving in Australia? 2. Why are people choosing Australia over other countries? 3. Are the Irish who emigrate to Australia succeeding and doing well?

[|Look over this site] [|This one] may also be helpful... 1. Summarize what happened in Norway last summer. (July 2011) 2. The trial is currently underway: [] a) Where is the trial being held? b) Who is the accused? c) What are some of the victim's concerns? 3. What kind of games did the Breivik play that are considered to have contributed to what he did? [|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47145905/ns/world_news/#.T5bV5dkRSBM](And for the gamers out there - [|this site] argues that it was not games that really influenced Breivik's brutality) If you want to see how it is going there is a daily summary of the trial here: []
 * __III. Norway's Tragedy__**

__**IV. Holocaust Denial Laws in Germany**__ [|Read this article] (or see article below) 1. What did the Iranian president say in regard to Israel that sparked outrage from Germany? 2. Why were people in Germany slow to acknowledge what happened during the Holocaust? 3. What did student protesters demand in the 1960s? 4. What laws were passed in Germany in 1985 and 1994? 5. What other country has similar, even tougher laws?

German politicians swiftly condemned Iran's president when he called into question Israel's right to exist and said the Holocaust was a myth. Their reactions reflect a broad consensus on the issue in German society. Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust was opened in May this year Germany's parliamentarians were in agreement: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish remarks were "entirely unacceptable." Ahmadinejad caused international outrage in the past few weeks with a series of remarks, in which he said Israel -- described as a tumor -- should be wiped off the map, or moved to Europe, casting doubt on whether the mass extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany ever took place. "For us, the unconditional acknowledgement of the State of Israel's right to exist is one of the fundamental pillars of German foreign policy," pronounced Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler in the name of the German government.
 * No Room for Holocaust Denial in Germany **

Aside from a small group of right-wing extremists, a broad consensus in German society sees the World War II extermination of six million Jews as a historical fact that cannot be denied, according to historian Wolfgang Benz, who heads the Center for Anti-Semitism Research in Berlin. "Everyone has gotten it: The Holocaust took place, the genocide existed. And it wrought horrible consequences that we continue to suffer from today," Benz said.

Delayed acknowledgement West Germany was indeed slow to come to turns with its Nazi past. The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal brought the horrors of Hitler's regime to light, despite the fact that many Germans didn't want to talk about what happened. Germany has come clean about the Holocaust "People were ashamed. People felt guilty and didn't want to deal with it publicly," Benz said. But they didn't deny it." West Germany first made an effort during the student demonstrations in the late 1960s. They weren't just protesting against the Vietnam War, but also demanded that their parents speak openly about the Nazi past.  An unexpectedly passionate debate developed in West Germany in the late 1970s, when "Holocaust," an American mini-series about a Jewish family during the Third Reich, was aired on television. People began to grasp the emotional dimension of the Holocaust in which real people were killed, not just an abstract figure of six million, Benz said.  In the mid-1980s, German newspapers were filled with the so-called //Historiker-Streit//, a passionate dispute between German historians, not about whether the Holocaust occurred, but about whether it was a unique event in world history. In the end, the opinion prevailed that the Holocaust was a crime that could not be equated or even compared to the horrors of Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union.

Holocaust denial illegal Germany's parliament passed legislation in 1985, making it a crime to deny the extermination of the Jews. In 1994, the law was tightened. Now, anyone who publicly endorses, denies or plays down the genocide against the Jews faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and no less than the imposition of a fine. "It affects the agitator who claims the Jews prey on the German people, that they invented the Holocaust for that purpose, that foreigners should all be thrown out and that the discussion should finally be over with," Benz said. "He must be punished because he engages in incitement of the masses, because he slanders the memory of those murdered, because he slanders our fellow citizens." Austria imposes even tougher penalties for such offences. Historian and Holocaust-denier David Irving, who was recently arrested there, faces up to 20 years in prison.