Kerrie Neal James Grubb History 111 May 3rd 2013 The BlackBerry Riots In the summer of 2011‚ the city of London‚ England was disheveled. With what started as a simple police brutality protest soon turned the city upside down with riots clustering in almost every borough. Parliament abruptly returned from their summer holidays to quickly address the chaos dismantling their city’s wellbeing. Just under 2‚000 riot related arrests were made by the Metropolitan police and just under 4‚000 throughout
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the Bubonic plague‚ which had decimated the population and ruined the living conditions‚ the Great Fire of London struck the medieval city at the end of a dry summer in 1666. The fire started as an innocent blaze in a bakery‚ but due to lack of immediate response‚ turned into a giant inferno that raged for 3 days and ravaged London (Tinniswood 42). Despite the suspicions of the paranoid city dwellers‚ the official statement issued by the Parliament on the cause of the Fire was that “nothing hath yet
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Currently‚ most large cities of the world are experiencing huge problems with traffic jams that have repercussions on financial and ecological aspects of human lives. It was identified by last researches that it takes people 30% of their traveling time to drive through traffic congestions‚ whilst their cars make almost 75% of total air pollution. The same problems had experienced the London city in the middle of last century. According to report of the Ministry of Transport (1964)‚ new car registrations
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The Devastation of London in 1666 Have you ever wondered why cities install ordinances that citizens must follow? The Great Fire of London is an example of a devastating event that caused the city of London to regroup and reconstruct the lives of many people. In the year of 1666 London had gone through a ten-month drought‚ which made everything very dry and brittle. Many people thought this was the “perfect fire.” However it was nowhere close to a perfect fire‚ it was more of a horrific fire to
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Early on in the Middle Ages‚ London was not the great city it has become in the world today‚ in fact it was not even called London‚ it was called Londinium‚ then Lundenwic‚ and finally London. In the beginning of the Middle Ages‚ London was just a small trading town on the banks of the Thames River in England. As the Middle Ages progressed‚ so did the city of London. Even with the plagues and wars that occurred in and around the city‚ it grew into the center of the kingdom of England. At the close
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Essay to compare the Poem ‘London’ and ‘On Westminster bridge’ Both Wordsworth and Blake depict an image of London‚ but they present it through different perspectives. Their attitudes to London are completely different. While Wordsworth is the lover of nature‚ Blake is a social and political reformer. Thus‚ they have different purposes. The two poems "London" and ‘ Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ are intended to convey different to the reader. Blake has a more negative approach‚ this could be
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LONDON What is London? We can say that it is one of the largest cities and ports in the world‚ that it is one of the most important world`s business. Industrial and cultural centres and that it is the capital of Great Britain. But this answers don`t give a full idea of London. London is the oldest city in the country. It is 2500 years old. The London underground is the longest in Europe. The population of London is over 7 million people. As London is a very old city most of its streets
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The Tower of London Moonlight shines on the bank of the river reflecting the shadow of the Tower of London behind. This ancient and mysterious tower was simply something to be recognized. With its fine architect and magnificent appearance‚ there are many true and untrue myths that surrounded this place. The Tower of London is an important part of British history because of its location‚ its history‚ and its rumors about ghosts. The Tower of London is located east of London City. It is next to
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Kelo vs. City of New London Legal Facts: Kelo v. City of New London 545 U.S. 469 (2005) the U.S. Supreme Court answered “yes” to the question of whether or not taking land for the sole purpose of economic improvement would fall into the realm of public use requirement set forth in the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause. The city of New London Connecticut had made economic recovery efforts to sustain a severely downtrodden local economy. Those efforts included a plan to acquire 115 parcels of
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Tower of London‚ is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London‚ England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets‚ separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower‚ which gives the entire castle its name‚ was built by William the Conqueror in 1078‚ and was a resented symbol of oppression‚ inflicted upon London by the new
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