Great Fire of London

John’s Island was an experiment on the part of Great Britain, which was never repeated. Proprietors had to pay substantial quitrents, 6 shillings for every 100 acres of fertile land or 2 shillings for every 100 acres of fallow land, the quitrents were put in place to help the island grow and become…

The kitchen is a great way to train the brain to process and remember information at quicker speeds. According to Church the brain remembers and uses info more readily when all 5 senses are insulted. You cannot get more of a multi-sensory experience than cooking. It can…

During the Elizabethan era, food was a major importance in England. The type of food that was eaten largely depended on the social class. The poor generally ate less meat, but more vegetables. The rich had a more luxurious way of dining, and ate finer foods and more meat than the poor. However, the idea of meat being only for the rich did not last because population grew, which led to new agricultural techniques. Not surprisingly, the rich had silverware and the poor would have wooden utensils.…

Nowadays it is difficult to live in big cities without using the transport. It is well-known fact that in metropolises the transportation system is developed well. In almost every big city there are a buses, metro, taxes and great number of personal cars. The fast enlargement of citizens leads to increasing number of cars. Thus, statistic, provided The World Bank, says that the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in 2011 in the USA was 786, whereas the year earlier it was 782. In…

Heroes Versus Monsters:The Battle is Not What it Seems A terrifying monster shows up to bring great unimaginable terror to a town in the middle of the night. The people are so terribly frightened that they do not know what to do or who to turn to so they tell the king and let him know what is going on to see if he can help solve the problem. The king finds out about the unexpected terrible attack that has occured in his land, but he can not personally solve the issue even though he really wants…

or even speculated that the Bermuda Triangle is a portal to another dimension. The first recorded sighting of a UFO dates back to September 13, 1492 when Christopher Columbus started noticing that his compass was not working correctly as he saw a fire like light in the sky coming down upon the ocean. This can be related to how UFO activity has been present since long ago in this area. As well as, the speculation sea monsters have been said to be lurking in the depths of the sea taking each…

From the 1770s onwards the West Indies were becoming less important because Cuba and Brazil could produce cheaper sugar. Many of the plantations in the West Indies were closed down and the demand for slaves fell. For example, in 1771 Barbados imported 2728 slaves but one year later they imported none. If this was the case the decision to abolish slavery would have been easier as it was no longer needed and was slowly dying out. Furthermore plantation owners had to pay a substantial amount of…

In the following decades, 1960s-1970s, there were other ethical problems, though not due to the manipulation of photographs, but about the actual subject of the picture which could be shocking for the viewers. Most of these problems were caused by the imagery that came from the Vietnam War. Those pictures were seen as controversial because they symbolize a special impression of war: the violence and brutality that was inflicted on the civil population, the useless sacrifice of American soldiers.…

The idea that ‘Space thus becomes an acting place, rather than a place of action’ is particularly potent when applied to Defoe’s Moll Flanders as he does not often describe setting or space in any great detail, almost viewing it as inconsequential to the actual story. This does not mean that space never has an effect on the character, however, it would be more accurate to say that the outcome of a situation lies on how successfully a character uses that space to their own advantage. The space…

In A Tale of Two Cities this man wants revenge and when a matter is taken into peoples own hands they set fire to the estate. One moment in the book after the child ran over a woman hops onto the wagon and after the stop the wagon a woman pops out and asks Monsieur for money she wanted a tombstone for her husband so that he would be remembered and with being…