A Parliamentary System is a system of government in which the ministers of the Executive Branch get their legitimacy from a Legislature and are accountable to that body, such that the Executive and Legislative branches are intertwined.
A Parliamentary System may consist of two styles of chambers of parliament one with two chambers (or houses): an elected lower house, and an upper house or Senate which may be appointed or elected by a different mechanism from the lower house. This style of two houses is called bicameral system. Legislatures with only one house are known as unicameral system. Scholars of Democracy such as Arend Lijphart divide Parliamentary Democracies into two different systems, the Westminster and Consensus systems.
Implementations of the parliamentary system can also differ on whether the government needs the explicit approval of the parliament to form, rather than just the absence of its disapproval, and under what conditions (if any) the government has the right to dissolve the parliament, like Jamaica and many others.[citation needed]
Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്) (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information[citation needed] and as the Minister of State for the Ministry of External Affairs.
He is also an author and columnist.
Shashi Tharoor was born in London to Lily and Chandran Tharoor, both Malayalis, hailing from the state of Kerala[citation needed]. Tharoor studied at Montfort School in Yercaud and Campion School in Mumbai[citation needed]. He attended high school at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
He went on to win a scholarship to study at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and earned three degrees in three years - a Ph.D. and two master's degrees at the age of 22, Tharoor is the youngest person in the history of the Fletcher School to be awarded a doctorate. His doctoral thesis, "Reasons of State", was a required reading in courses on Indian foreign-policy making. In 2000, Tharoor was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree[citation needed] by the University of Puget Sound and in 2008 he received an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Bucharest[citation needed].
Zhivargo Laing is a Bahamian politician, cabinet member and member of the Bahamas House of Assembly for the Marco City Constituency. He was sworn in as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and the repesentative for the Marco City constituency on May 2, 2007.
As the seventh child of hotel worker Cedric Laing and former senator Naomi Seymour, he was born on September 7, 1967 and grew up on Grand Bahama. He attended Lewis Yard Primary School and Hawksbill High School before moving to Nassau. He is married to Zsa Zsa LaRoda. Together, they have two children. He published three books: “College, Career and Money – A Guide for Teens and Young Adults”, “A Trust Out of this World” and “Who Moved My Conch – Understanding How Free Trade will affect the Bahamian Economy”. He also writes a weekly column "Straight Up Talk".
After moving to Nassau, he attended the College of the Bahamas (COB). Later, he was enrolled at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, graduating with a Bachelor of Art's Degree in Agro-economics. Laing went on to pursue graduate courses at George Washington University, concentrating on business administration.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy (born on March 30, 1962) is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar, India. He is a National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He holds a Commercial Pilot’s License with the specialization to fly the A-320 from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved SimCenter in Miami, Florida.
The father of Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his several siblings died when Rajiv was aged five. They were brought up thereafter by their mother.[citation needed]
Rajiv Rudy lectured at Anugrah Narayan College, Patna prior to entering state politics, but he had been involved in student politics while at Panjab University.[citation needed]
He was elected in 1990 as an Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.[citation needed] Then aged 26, he was one of the youngest legislators.[citation needed][clarification needed]
He was elected to the Lok Sabha - the lower house of the Parliament of India - as a candidate of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)[clarification needed] in 1996.[citation needed] His constituency was the remote rural area of Chapra in north Bihar.[citation needed] Re–elected in 1999[citation needed] and inducted as a Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry,[when?] Rudy subsequently became Civil Aviation Minister with an independent charge in the National Democratic Alliance government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[citation needed]
Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
Robert Clarke grew up as a movie-loving kid in his native Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He decided at an early age that he wanted to be an actor, but nevertheless suffered from stage fright in his first school productions. He attended Kemper Military School and College, planning to make a career in the service, but dropped out after his asthma prevented his serving in World War II. He later attended the University of Oklahoma, where he acted in radio plays, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he appeared on stage. He did not graduate, but hitched a ride to California to try to break into the motion picture business.
After screen tests at 20th Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, Clarke landed a berth as a contract player at RKO. His first credited role was The Falcon in Hollywood in 1944, then went on to play small roles in The Body Snatcher (1945), Bedlam (1945), and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947). When RKO dropped his option three years later, he began freelancing. In the 1950s, he appeared in many classic science fiction films, including The Man from Planet X (1951), Captain John Smith and Pocahontas as John Rolfe, The Incredible Petrified World (1957), The Astounding She-Monster (1957), From the Earth to the Moon (1958), and The Hideous Sun Demon (1959), which Clarke wrote, directed and produced.