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    1557 St. Andrew’s Day sermon provides evidence for Eamon Duffy’s defense of the cardinal’s record — not only as an outspoken advocate for the importance of preaching‚ but also as a hard-nosed realist confronting an entire population of apostatized Londoners. In the final essay of this section‚ John Edwards reveals that‚ unlike English documents‚ records from the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions indicate greater Spanish involvement in the restoration of English Catholicism than has been previously

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    Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a late-Victorian variation on ideas first raised in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Stevenson’s monster‚ however‚ is not artificially created from stitched-together body parts‚ but rather emerges fully formed from the dark side of the human personality. In the novella Dr. Jekyll‚ who is an esteemed and respected member of the Victorian middle-classes‚ conducts a scientific experiment which allows him to release from

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    A “Christmas Carol” is an engaging social commentary written in the form of a novella‚ which outlines the plight of the poor‚ with the intention of altering the views of the wealthy‚ in Victorian London society. Dickens himself was a victim of the Poor Laws which were a by-product of the industrial Revolution‚ and wrote this novella with the hope of making life more bearable for the poor. Dickens uses the appealing nature of his descriptive novella‚ in order to subtly promote a change of attitude

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    term Cockney has geographical‚ cultural and linguistic associations. Traditionally‚ it refers to people born within a certain area‚ that is covered by "the sound of Bow bells". Geographically and culturally‚ it is often used to refer to working-class Londoners‚ particularly those in the East End. Linguistically‚ it can refer to the accent and form of English spoken by this group. Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect‚ and occasionally use rhyming slang. The Essex dialect is rapidly

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    One of the major cities that was effect by this disease was London‚ because of the unhygienic gray water disposal. John Snow and his fellow Londoners studied the symptoms‚ transmission‚ and helped save lives form cholera. Between fevers‚ cramps‚ and sever diarrhea the symptoms of choral where terrible to endure. Because the fluid loss was so great‚ due to the extensive diarrhea‚ you would die

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    system was opened in 1863 and was only 4 miles long (6.5 kilometers) running from the west of London to the city in the east. It was not very deep and steam trains were used. Then deeper tunnels were built and in 1890 the electric railway was opened. Londoners called this system the Tube and it is still a very popular name for the London Underground. Some deep stations of the London Underground were used for protection of people during the Second World War. A great number of people use the underground

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    Once again the opinion is split. Some argue this is the only solution to deal with housing crisis by increasing the density in central London‚ however‚ critics argue that the tower blocks are being built for foreign investors and not for ordinary Londoners who face rise in rent and house prices. In

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    London riots escalate as police battle for control Vikram Dodd and Caroline Davies The Guardian‚ Tuesday 9 August 2011 • Full-scale alert as violence spreads across capital • Disorder breaks out in Birmingham city centre • Prime minister‚ mayor and home secretary return 1 The prime minister cut short his holiday and flew back to Britain as London witnessed devastating scenes of violence stretching the emergency services beyond limit on a third night of rioting in the capital. 2 Buildings were

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    The initial review of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker generally followed a pattern: the brilliance of the actors was celebrated and the questions of influence‚ primarily Beckett’s‚ were linked to discussions of the relationship between the comic and serious elements in the play. Interpretations of the ’meaning’ varied from the literal to the fully allegorical‚ by way of generalized abstract tags. Subsequent academic criticism‚ deriving from textual study rather than stage performance‚ has early always

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