The City of London Police Introduction The City of London is the world’s leading business and financial centre. Over 450 international banks are sited here. The City of London is the recognised world centre for the insurance industry and home to the headquarters of countless international corporations. More than 300‚000 people travel to work in the Square Mile every day‚ generating tens of billions of pounds for the UK economy. Many major global companies have their headquarters in the City
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In the aftermath of 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
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David Fox Rouse Period 6 English III AP 5/5/14 London fog is seen by many as an inevitable force that has plagued the area for centuries. The fog fills the air with a thick cloud that coats the city and everyone inside. Tim Goodwin believes the fog is a manmade force that acts as a parasite against the city. While Charles Dickens sees the fog as a shadow of the city that creeps around everywhere. Both passages clearly regard this topic with a different purpose and style‚ but still gives the viewer
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Movie Review Jack the Giant Slayer Director: Bryan Singer Lead Actors: Nicholas Hoult (Jack)‚ Eleanor Tomlinson (Isabelle)‚ Ewan McGregor (Elmont)‚ Stanley Tucci (Lord Roderick)‚ Ian McShane (King Brahmwell)‚ Bill Nighty and John Kassir (Fallon). Genre: Adventure‚ Fantasy Setting: In the Kingdom of Cloister Plot Overview (Summary): In the Kingdom of Cloister‚ Jack‚ a young farm boy‚ is fascinated by the legend of Erik‚ an ancient king who defeated an army of invading giants from a realm in
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In this poem‚ Blake is trying to dispel the myth of grandeur and glory associated with London and to show the ’real’ people of London and how they felt. London was seen and portrayed as a powerful and wonderful city where the wealthy lived and socialised. However‚ Blake knew that London was really a dirty‚ depressing and poverty-stricken city filled with slums and the homeless and chronically sick. To reveal the truth‚ Blake combines description of people and places with the thoughts and emotions
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London: A Poem" was published anonymously in 1738‚ and was immediately popular‚ perhaps because‚ unlike the later "The Vanity of Human Wishes‚" it is fairly easy to read: Alexander Pope praised it‚ and the impoverished Johnson received ten guineas from Edward Cave‚ the publisher‚ for the copyright. It is‚ the author states‚ a poem written "In imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal." The Third Satire is a poem about the decay of ancient Rome and the decadence which the poet found there: how closely
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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London‚ from Sunday‚ 2 September to Wednesday‚ 5 September 1666.[1] The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall. It threatened‚ but did not reach‚ the aristocratic district of Westminster‚ Charles II’s Palace of Whitehall‚ and most of the suburban slums.[2] It consumed 13‚200 houses‚ 87 parish churches‚ St. Paul’s Cathedral‚ and most of the buildings of the
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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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Shops in London Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………3 Chapter1.The history of shops………………………………………..4 1.1 The medieval shops………………………………………………..4 1.2 The development of department stores……………………………4 1.3 The buildings of shops in London…………………………………5 Chapter 2. The oldest shops in Europe………………………………..6 2.1 Fortnum and Mason………………………………………………..6 2.2 Harrods……………………………………………………………..6 2.3 Selfridges…………………………………………………………..7 Chapter 3. Special shops ……………...……………………………
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LONDON - WILLIAM BLAKE The poem that I have selected to comment on is “LONDON’’ by William Blake. London is a poem by William Blake published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience which does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence.. This work is dedicated to the analysis of the poem and the importance of the poem in Blake’s life. PERSONAL ANALYSIS OF THE
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