LONDON ATTRACTION 1: BIG BEN Historical Information: WHAT IS IT? Clock tower in City of Westminster‚ England Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London‚ and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower Height of Big Ben clock tower: 316’ (96 m) Opened: 1859 Architectural style: Gothic Revival architecture Architect: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the
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Samuel Johnson was a well-known eighteenth century writer‚ and poet who published one of the first dictionaries of the English language. What he wrote a few hundred years ago in this piece still holds true today‚ though even a fluent-English-speaking individual may have difficulty understanding it. Johnson argues that it’s man’s nature to search for power throughout life. We earn honor from either success or failure of our goals in life. No matter how small the goal may be‚ man will strive to accomplish
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What London Was Like in the 1500s In the 1500s London constructed around 50‚ 000 buildings throughout the 1500s. These buildings shaped and built London into what it is today. Before the 1500s the people of London went on many conquests in which they appointed Westminster as their center for control for government. London was one of the U. K.’s largest cities. Many events transpired in London in the 1500s including the Black Death diminishing their population by a great deal. London did rebuild
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The Tower of London: A Landmark Alive With History The Tower of London is one of the most famous and visited historic monuments in the world. For some people it conjures up images of Norman architecture and towering battlements‚ but most associate it with arms and armour‚ ravens‚ the Crown Jewels‚ Yeoman Warders‚ imprisonment‚ death and ghostly apparitions. But this does not do it justice: the history of the Tower and its buildings is a vast‚ fascinating and complex subject‚ intertwined with
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poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time‚ several poets were kind of actively involved in a literary movement known as Romanticism and they were William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ John Keats‚ Samuel Coleridge and other famous poets in his time. William Blake as one of the members of the movement can be considered as a very radical poet during that time for he was somehow preoccupied with the issues of liberalism‚ radicalism and also nationalism later
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The dictionary defines it as “a broken piece of a brittle artifact” and we call it a mind-blowing architectural masterpiece‚ the new monumental signature of London‚ the conception of a genius‚ delicately crafted and poetically christened‚ The Shard. Sky scrapers are known to be the symbol of modern city for a few centuries and The London Shard - known to be the tallest building in Western Europe stands proudly at 310 meters tall with 95 floors of city life i.e. shops‚ offices‚ restaurants‚ hotels
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Retail in London: Working Paper F International Comparisons of Retail March 2006 copyright Greater London Authority March 2006 Published by Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4000 minicom 020 7983 4458 ISBN 1 85261 842 6 Cover photographs © Macy’s‚ Zara and Hayley Madden This publication is printed on recycled paper. For more information about this publication‚ please contact: GLA Economics telephone 020 7983 4922 email
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Jack London Some say he was “the successor to Poe” (Unger). Was he truly the successor to Edgar Allen Poe? Jack London believed in a fine line between Social Darwinism and social justice‚ and individualism and socialism. He reflected his beliefs into all of his novels and stories. American writer‚ Jack London‚ made a successful career out of his experiences and adventures. Jack “London was born in San Francisco‚ the illegitimate child of Flora Wellman” on January 12‚ 1876 (Jack London St). It
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least John‚ one of the three other men on the trip‚ wasn’t too alarming. That is‚ until he began acting like our dad. But I digress. I believe I had brought up waiting in the terminal for the plane. The terminal‚ right. Both the one in Chicago and London were a mess of people‚ luggage‚ and unintelligible intercom announcements that always made me think‚ “What was that? Did they just say something about our flight? Have we been delayed?” As it happened‚ the flight was delayed slightly‚ but as far as
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Essay on the Planners:- The Planners‚ a poem written by Boey Kim Cheng in Singapore.Boey Kim Cheng demonstrates this heartless modernization in his poem by using a constant perfect strait almost unnatural description of everything. The soullessness of Singapore is also portrayed in this poem by its perpetual effort to neglect and erase the past or any history of it‚ creating a facade of culture. This city is so soulless and synthetic that it’s not even considered part of nature. Boey Kim Cheng starts
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