Sir Francis Drake was an English navigator and explorer‚ born near Tavistock. He served an apprenticeship as a mariner‚ and in 1567 he was given his first command. His ship‚ the Judith‚ was one of a squadron of vessels led by a kinsman of Drake‚ the English navigator Sir John Hawkins‚ on a slave-trading voyage in the Gulf of Mexico. All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron. In 1570 and 1571 Drake made two profitable trading voyages to the West Indies. In 1572
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Sir Edward Elgar’s Inspiration Elgar was born on June 2nd‚ 1857 in the United Kingdom. Around this time English music was in the Romantic Era‚ which meant that all the music made during this time was generally very emotionally demanding. Sir Edward Elgar did not go to school to learn about music‚ rather his father‚ William Henry Elgar‚ owned a music store. The only formal music education he received was a few violin lessons. Along with running a music store‚ Edward’s father played the organ‚ conducted
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By mocking King Arthur‚ he steps forward to take the challenge but everything changes once Sir Gawain stops his King and ask to take on the challenge instead. In one deadly blow‚ the axe cut off the knight’s head which concludes the game officially started. As the headless Green Knight picked up his head he reminds the young brave Gawain to find him within a year and a day at the Green Chapel. Although‚ Sir Gawain proved his loyalty towards his king‚ he felt uneasy [explain how pride got the best
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In 1829‚ Sir Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police when he served as Home Secretary of England. According to Peel‚ the real key for policing is "the police are the people and the people are the police". Peel believed that prevention of crime could be accomplished without intruding into the lives of citizens. With the development of the Metropolitan Police‚ Peel established nine principles to his theory of policing. These nine principles are as relevant today as they were in the 1800’s.
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Analysis of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia The purpose of this paper is to carefully study and analyze Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia. Before‚ I being with my analysis I want to give you a quick back brief on who Thomas More was‚ and why he might have wrote the book to begin with. Sir Thomas More was a man of many titles and jobs‚ but for the sake of this paper I will only discuss the titles and offices in which he held prior to the publication of this book. More was a lawyer who studied law at Oxford from
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Sir Jimmy Savile: Icon in life‚ sexual predator in death Child abuse and pedophilia is absolutely rife‚ not just in Britain but all over the world and most people have no idea the kind of scale we are looking at. Perhaps equally as shocking‚ the people being exposed as ring-leaders in the abuse cases are often high profile celebrities and well known public figures. The information that becomes public over the coming weeks and months could shatter not just the BBC‚ but the whole country from top
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Your assignment is to pretend you are a modern Sir Thomas More in the United States of America. Just as Sir Thomas More highlighted problems with European societies in Book I of Utopia‚ you are to discuss current problems with American society today. Remember that More discussed unfair punishment for crime‚ a corrupt socio-economic system‚ the greediness of kings‚ and distrust in technology. He also closely analyzed the corruption of advisors to the king. These were all significant problems in 16th
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Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburg Scotland on August‚ 15‚ 1721 was a Scottish writer historian poet and is even considered to be a inventor . His father was Walter Scott and his mother was Anne Rutherford his father was a lawyer and his mother was a physicians daughter he began to write at a very young age what had inspired to write was his family and the older folk in the town the person that mainly inspired him was his grandpa he got his ideas of writing from reading poetry ‚ drama
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Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh : 1584 Everybody remembers Jamestown‚ Capt. John Smith‚ Pocahontas and all the rest. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585‚ after a small scouting expedition had returned from North America with two Native Americans and many astonishing stories‚ Sir Walter Raleigh tried to establish a colony called Roanoke in the land which the British named "Virginia"‚ in honor of Elizabeth‚ the Virgin Queen. The site was actually an island on North America’s eastern seaboard protected
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Who Is Fleeing From Thomas Wyatt? In the poem‚ “They Flee From Me” by Thomas Wyatt many different interpretations are formed by each person who reads it. In the title Wyatt uses the word ‘they’ never giving a definitive identity as to which ‘they’ refers to. Some would say that ‘they’ refers to the women that Wyatt has loved and left while others would say that it refers to only the few women that have seduced and left Wyatt. This type of argument is made all throughout the entire poem.
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