Great Fire of London

imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work in Lausanne, Switzerland while it was written in the autumn of 1921. Personal…

October 25,1764: Abigail Smith marries John Adam Richard Cranch, a friend of Abigail’s, starting bringing John Adams with him to the family library. This is how Abigail met John, at first they did not get along quite well. He thought Abigail was a wit, who lacked in tenderness and Abigail thought he spoke too much. As his vistas became frequent, they both slowly began to find something attractive about each other. After John graduated Harvard in 1755, he decided to study law. At twenty-six…

Much like the panopticon where “the major effect [is] to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power” (Foucault 201), Stevenson's London is a city where there is little to no relief from societal surveillance, whether it comes from the police or civilians. Stevenson constantly reminds readers that everyone in the novella is at risk of being seen at any given time. For example, as Mr…

Victorian era was also a time of great signification for the political system. When Victorian reign took place, the first prime minster is she appointed was Whig politician Viscount Melbourne although the Whigs had a great influence in the British politics during 1860s, they were still sidelined by the liberal party. Edward Smith Stanley of the Whig was the last prime minster who resigned in 1868 and after that politics of England was dominated by the liberals and conservative party. At a time…

shout as each play progresses, and the event begins to dwindle down to the final seconds. This is a great a sport: the fans are enthusiastic in an electrifying arena watching massively athletic competitors annihilate each other. Individuals throughout the world can agree that football is the most entertaining sport to watch. Each fall as football takes place, fans crowd from places as far as London and Paris all the way to the home turf of football, America. Football as a sport is extremely…

Compare this to the fact that her father was able to divorce his first wife because she could not bear a male heir and then marry an additional five women with minimal gossip coming from these marriages. Had Elizabeth been a traditional woman in Great Britain she probably could have avoided a large amount of the gossip that pertained to her gender, sexuality, and her right to rule if she had actually married one of her suitors and had children, especially males. Since she was strongly…

The British military has had many allies throughout history. France and England have always been allies. There has only been two wars where Great Britain and France fought against each other. Britain and France fought on opposite sides during the Anglo-French War (1202-1214) and the Saintonge War (1242). Besides these two wars, the two countries have been allies. France and the United Kingdom fought together in World War I and World War II on the side of the Allies. However, during the German…

The current pirates kidnapping people in Somalia is an example of horrifying events being ignored. Mordecai Anielwicz’s Last Letter 4. Great things are happening because the Jewish are standing up against the Nazi’s. With the Jewish fighting back, the Nazi’s will consider them as a stronger entity, and will think twice of immediately killing them. 5. The rebels continued to fight so they…

precautious in cases of a disastrous event that can occur without notice. As previously stated, Wells was attentive to detail and was sure to reference fire throughout this novel. In this case, fire was used as a metaphor to represent technology; if humankind is not careful, technology, if used incorrectly, can easily consume everyone just like how fire dominated the Eloi and Morlocks. In addition, The Island of Doctor Moreau also displays the importance of educating oneself from errors that…

U-boats were hunted by the US navy (16). The air battle of England was difficult too. Raider was invented by English scientists and the British army used raider to hunt German aircrafts. Of course, German Air force threw plenty of bombs on London and there was big fire in the city (17). However, British pilots were brave and they erased all German aircrafts in the sky over the UK. For this…