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This essay will critically analyse the claims that sporting events bring positive economic benefits to the host city. The analysis will focus on one mega event, namely the Olympics, and how previous events have benefitted or hindered the city in regard to the economics of the city. During the bidding to host, and indeed throughout the running of a major sporting event, it is widely assumed that sporting events are used as a catalyst for economic advancement, and many governments around…

British colonization was more tactical than that of other colonial rule. The key agenda of the British was to get maximum economic benefits from this region. In the beginning of 17th century, East India Company was granted permission by the Mughal ruler Jahangir to commence its business activities in India. This organization was supposed to do business and earn profits by trade via sea but soon they tried to become a monopoly and as they were fully armed therefore managed to draw its means from…

an interesting novel or story the title is “The Ghost”. Robert Harris is the author of “Impremium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland, and Selling Hitler”. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the Sunday times (London) and the daily telegraph. His novels have sold more than Ten Million copies and Ten Translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children. The role of the ghost-writer is to make the Client…

the U.S., and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain signed the Moscow Declaration which stated that the Axis power were to take responsibility for the war. In 1943 US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson got the four nations together in London to discuss the war crimes committed during the Second World War by Nazi Germany. That is when the leader began discussing a punishment for their crimes. During the Yalta Conference in 1943, Joseph Stalin suggested that they execute…

The social history of WhSAfE starts with the establishment of a trading and re-freshment station by the Dutch in the Eastern Cape at the end of the 18th century, con-trolled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and frequented by British ships on their itinerary to the Far East (see Bowerman 2013: 512; Bowerman 2008b: 164). Due to the military capture of the Netherlands and its oversea possessions by Napoleon, the station, together with the surrounding area, was taken over by the British in 1795…

infectious enough to spread through the nation. As it collected tens of thousands of supporters, the strike shut down the American railroad system for six weeks before Pinkerton spies thwarted their revolution and put the freight trains back on rail. In the end, the Great Strike failed. But it begs to be asked: would the outcome have changed if the strikers had organized under a labor union strong enough to keep them fighting? One such union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), would be…

Portrait of a killer, By Patricia Cornwell, tells the story of a serial killer known as none other than Jack the Ripper. This including how the author herself believes she has discovered the identity of the murderer. Patricia Cornwell, the author, is a crime writer who is fascinated by medicine, forensic science, and crime. She researches crimes and makes discoveries, then writes about her findings. Portrait of A Killer is no exception to this matter, and one of the discoveries she believes she…

1941 marked the beginning of Operation Barbarossa; the largest military operation in history. Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. This paper will analyze the extent to which Operation Barbarossa was unsuccessful. The assessment will only focus on Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia between the years of 1941-1942. Operation Barbarossa had many key components and was an intricate invasion which was carried out with extreme precision. There were…

people in London, England during the 1800’s. Many adults, teens and children had to work in appalling condition just to survive and it’s sad to say, but many women turned to prostitution to earn money. Little did they know, this could be the most life threatening decision at this time for Jack the Ripper had come out to play. Between 1888 and 1891, a total of 11 women, all of them in the profession of prostitution, were murdered in the Whitechapel district located in the east end of London.…

The Dutch formed the VOC which was the Dutch East India Company and the slaves were taken as ‘property’ of this company. The Dutch company came about after the Dutch colonized the Cape. The Khoikhoi and the San people were the first Bushmen and herdsmen to arrive in the Cape. The Dutch built refreshment…