Disneyland Paris

finally arrived. I was leaving for France! Our flight left at 4pm out of JFK and had a layover in Amsterdam which took about 8 hours. When we landed there the sun was rising, causing the sky to be pink and purple. It was beautiful. The actual flight to Paris took 45 minutes. Once we landed, we met our tour guide, David, and went straight to the hotel. After we got all situated, we made our way to the train station, where we would take a train to the city. When we were actually in the city…

1.3 Implications of the Complexities The complexities present both good and bad implications because of the nature of the sector and what can be done based on the changing trends. The following are the implications: 1) The highly fragmented nature of the tourism sector will continue to experience unhealthy competition due to lack of market leaders and collective strategy. It will be hard to manage destinations for various tourist activities when different firms provide different packages and…

Huge Ben at Night London travel is regularly connected with pictures of Big Ben, the acclaimed clock tower from the Palace of Westminster. Worked along the Thames River, Westminster is home to the significant vacation spots in London, including Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster. During the evening, astounding pictures can be caught from the Westminster connect or the Waterloo Bridge of the enlightened attractions, including the London Eye…

Union workers, and a significant decline in the global economy all seem to put the odds out of Burnham's favor. His failure seems all but revenant, especially after the construction of the Eiffel Tower by the architect Gustavo Eiffel is completed in Paris. However, Daniel Burnham is ultimately successful in the completion of the…

Cities worldwide containing enormous skyscrapers, bustling streets, and breathtaking views has captured artists attention and been the focal point of thousands of art pieces. However, the way an artist portrays their interpretation of the city often varies. At first glance, Fernand Léger’s 1919 The City and Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1925 New York Street With Moon appear to be extremely different photos— the color schemes, spacing, and amount of detail to objects and movement for each photo are distinct…

On your vacation in Portugal take a Lisbon Guided Tour of Sintra and discover this wonderful place full of hundreds of centuries of royalty and aristocracy history, so close to the wonderful city of Lisbon! If you were charmed by Lisbon attractions such as its historic center and its popular neighborhoods, in Sintra you will be impressed by the beauty of its palaces, castles and sumptuous gardens. The town of Sintra was the refuge of kings and nobility until the nineteenth century and it is…

Paris may be known worldwide today as ‘the city of lights’ and home to the unmistakable Eiffel Tower that dominates the city, but there was once a time when Paris was a medieval town, with ancient buildings and streets. Prior to the drastic actions of Georges-Eugène Haussmann to modernise the city, the river Seine was the centre of commerce. This was until his boulevards became the new highways of the city. Haussmann’s renovation of Paris took place between 1853 and 1870, and saw buildings like…

In Homer’s The Iliad not only is Achilles the main character, he is also the perfect depiction of what a self-sufficient man looks like. Sometimes we get the idea that we are able to accomplish and conquer anything without help. To add on, the point of human interaction is to create human empowerment. Human empowerment is the ability to come together as a unified whole. Thus when you are unified together as a group you can conquer, solve and learn from one another. Human interaction is also…

were followers of the immortal gods, that loved war, and did not believe that they would be defeated. The heroes in the Iliad are fighting over Helen, the wife of the Menelaus king. After Helen had been promised to the prince of troy by Aphrodite; Paris, the Prince of Troy, had taken Helen away to Troy. Angered, her husband had begun gathering an army to bring her back to him with the help of this dear brother. Successfully, Menelaus had gathered enough Greeks to support him in the war against…

Greek and Sumerian (Mesopotamian) cultures can demonstrate two completely different ideologies as they existed and thrived in two different time periods. However, because it existed in two different time periods, it does not mean that it cannot give the readers an idea of what they regarded their virtues at the highest standard. Whether it discusses the stories of great men, evil tyrannical lords, hypocritical gods, or the contradiction of how they viewed women, both stories discussed some of…