Both Washington‚ DC‚ and London are one of most influential English speaking capital cities of the world‚ and yet they offer hugely different experiences to their residents and visitors. Comparing and contrasting the two metropolitans based on their history‚ their culture‚ and their residents show how different and similar the two are. Both cities are abundant in the world and national history‚ though they developed on very different timelines. London‚ for example‚ has a history that dates back
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The famous poem London by William Blake is widely considered to be a masterpiece by all enthusiasts of fine literature. In the poem‚ William Blake describes to us the situation of sorrow and despair that seems to envelope 18th century London. In the poem‚ William Blake is walking through a street near the river Thames and sees the people engulfed in misery and describes it as he sees it. He describes over and over again about how miserable the people are in a deeply sorrowful tone. By using the
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London Eye The Merlin Entertainments London Eye‚ commonly known as London Eye or Millennium Wheel or British Airways London Eye. The Merlin Entertainments London Eye is commonly known as London Eye or Millennium Wheel or British Airways London Eye. It is a giant tall Ferris wheel‚ which has the height of 135 metre ( 443 feet) and located at the western end of Jubilee Gardens‚ on the south bank of the Thames River in the London Borough of Lambeth in England‚ which is between Westminster Bridge and
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Geography of London-Kotite There are many canals in London which is the capital of England. Most of them were built during the late 18th and early 19th century. These canals originally were built for goods and traffic reasons which isn’t usually used today because we have the invention of cars‚ bridges‚ and roads. Even though most of the canals still exist today‚ they are used primarily for looks and show. North of London is where the Thames River Canal lies. Construction in the London area started
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New London. A place of opportunity. A place for the future. A place of fierce oppression. I grew up just like every other child in New London. We’re raised by parents that were raised just as us. We’re given predetermined jobs. Twenty thousand dollars is then given to the children when they reach seventeen as birth money. From there‚ they do their job. They’re given a wife at age thirty. And the circuit is repeated. Just as it has been for the last seven hundred years. Complete stability. Nothing
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Anna-Mariya Yordanova/The London Fashion Week Circus/1 Whilst the already established names in the fashion industry have secured their participation in London Fashion Week‚ students and up and coming designers are holding on to their show invitations as if they are clutching at straws. And in reality that small piece of paper is their pass to the overwhelming world of luxury fabrics‚ glamorous garments‚ and crazy designs that could almost never appear on the window of a high street-style shop
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“The Call of the Wild” is written by Jack London. It was first published in 1903. The book was focused in the area of Alaska‚ about a dog named buck; who was taken away from his home and beaten and worn down and became a member of a sled dog team. He went through a lot of hard times. From hunger to freezing‚ beaten‚ drowning. Buck learned a lot of things in these times‚ like how to dig a hole in the snow to keep warm‚ how to serve threw hunger pains and also hes natural intinsts kick in and help
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misfortune and suffering reigned over the city of London‚ the speaker expressed the scene at the period of time in London‚ written by William Blake. Claude McKay pens The White City to illustrate the intense enmity the persona possesses for the city of New York. London and The White City‚ through comparison and contrast as well as different techniques utilized by each author‚ provoke stirring and passionate responses to the plight of the inhabitants of London and New York City. Parallels between
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London murders: a predictable pattern? Four stabbings to death in a single day. Ninety murders in 7 months. Shocking figures—or are they? Knife crime makes the headlines almost daily but are Londoners really at increased risk of being murdered? David Spiegelhalter and Arthur Barnett investigate— and find a predictable pattern of murder. Violence in London attracts headlines. After four people were murdered in separate incidents in London on July 10th‚ 2008‚ BBC correspondent Andy Tighe said “To
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St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is the seat of the Bishop of London and a major London landmark. It is located on Ludgate Hill in the financial district known as the City of London. The present St. Paul’s Cathedral‚ which was built between 1675 and 1710‚ is the fourth cathedral to occupy the site‚ which was sacred even before Christianity arrived. The cathedral’s immediate predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The cathedral enjoyed by visitors today was designed by
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