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In late 2016, Madrid's Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center. On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid's main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It's part of a larger effort to ban all diesel cars in Madrid by 2025. But the Spanish city is not the only one getting ready to take the car-free plunge. Urban planners and policy makers around the world…

rhetoric. To fully grasp the effect terrorism has had on an EU collective response, I will be analyzing the political positions of European leaders and policy makers on the refugee crisis after the terrorist attacks in Paris and more recently in Brussels and the rise of xenophobia in anti-immigrant right wing nationalist…

Maslin, Janet. "Sure, Mr. President, If You Really Want Me To." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Feb. 2012. Web. 05 May 2016. In this article Janet Maslin gives her very sarcastic opinion about the inner idea to write a book like “Once Upon a Secret” by Mimi Alford. The critic says that the book had been sold almost only because of the public interest in President`s life but not of the well told story or writing skills of the author. Also, Maslin noticed a massive lock of logic in the…

years later Peter forms a close, lasting bond with two men, who both help Peter with his troublesome love life with his cheating girlfriend. They go along with Peter as he becomes a more renowned artist. After a year of imprisonment, Peter moves to Brussels in sight of his true love, Mayken. After marriage, and the raising of children,…

In Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad challenges the readers with the ambiguities of civilization. Conrad suggest that civilization and the Noble Cause are ironic and reveals a shocking reversal of conventional expectations. Heart Of Darkness affirms the gain of self-knowledge and a psychological journey into human experience of Kurtz and Marlow through the internal struggle between restraint and savagery. Kurtz and Marlow realize the cause of Kurtz’s downfall was a lack of moral restraint and a…

at Charleroi, in south Belgium. His army numbered around 122,652. Napoleon had chosen Charleroi as it was near the road that led to Brussels, by taking it Napoleon would prevent Wellington’s and Blucher’s armies meeting up. Arriving at Charleroi, Napoleon used his overwhelming numbers to beat back the few Prussian soldiers there and opened up the road to Brussels for his armys.…

existence of the country Belgium. With no loyalty to Belgium the government is often shut down. This language conflict has been hurting Belgium for the last 30 years. Language is a crucial part of life because language unifies a nation. The city of Brussels is considered the front line of conflict because it is the only city where to the two groups interact. The twos sides rarely interact. Kids are operated in schools and even have…

I have always had an affinity for nature, having been attracted to its ethereal beauty at a very young age. My earliest and fondest memories are, hiding amidst the jasmine trellis, and yellow roses of my garden. Having gone to a preschool and kindergarten on a small farm, at a very young age I solidified bonds with nature, through the process of growing, and harvesting plants, as well as caring for small animals. When I planted seeds with my small hands, watching them transform into plants, I…

ABOUT Rachel Ritfeld is born in Suriname, South America and is of mixed Indian and Black Caribbean heritage. She moved to Belgium at age 10 with her mother who worked for the Surinamese Embassy in Brussels. It was here, that Rachel was scouted on the streets of Brussels by a model scout who signed her at age 15. Rachel was instantly in love with the catwalk. Keen to get an education, she moved to Brighton in England at age 17 to go to University where she majored in Social Anthropology at the…

shows the matrix of eigenvalues of the principal component analysis for all accessions of Brassica oleracea studied. All the accessions of cauliflowers and cabbages studied showed the highest variability on the first component. The 2 accessions of brussels sprouts and the accession of fodder kale HRIGRU4502 showed their greatest variability on the third component, while all other accessions of kales showed an intermediate level of variation on the fourth component (Table 4). Figure 2 shows PCA…