Tower of London

William Penn not only founded a state, but saved an innumerable number of Quakers and other religions not welcome to society from being persecuted and unwelcomed. William Penn was born on October 14, 1644 into a distinguished Anglican family in London, England. He was the oldest of three children of Admiral William Penn and Margaret Jasper. Around the age of thirteen, the Quaker Thomas Loc preached at the admiral’s invitation which intensified his religious feelings. (Association,…

takes readers back to London and Paris during the time of the French Revolution and utilizes metaphorical comparison to comment on events of his current state in the 1850’s. As the story develops, it becomes evident that the motif of resurrection is highly prevalent and essential to the plotline, predominantly through the narratives of Sydney Carton’s life. However, it is not only the characters that undergo examples of this motif, but also society and the cities of Paris and London. Although…

Introduction William Penn greatly explored the ‘New World’ of Pennsylvania, encountered the people of his new land, and exchanged peace, hope, equal rights, and brotherly love with the newcomers to his “Holy Experiment.” Before he did this though, he did many things back in the European countries. He had many failures but soon was successful in his own ways. Penn got his huge area of the ‘New World’ because King Charles II was in debt to Penn’s recently deceased father. To repay this debt, King…

proclaim certain kinds of art as speaking for the time[s], and it was then that Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent received a lot of attention, it being a novel concerned with a plot to blow up a well-known building. Subsequent to the attacks on the Twin Towers, this book has now come to be known as The Great Terrorism Novel, and is seen as a kind of prophetic/prescient work. Yet, there is something about the The Secret Agent,…

Panoptic Society Plague stricken London is in need of order and discipline. The citizens are fearful and they struggle to find an organized solution. Through different accounts of how society reacts to fear, sickness, and the unknown, one can see proof that society needs to embrace the idea of the Panopticon. Foucault’s chapter of Discipline and Punish, “Panopticism”, tells the reader that the most efficient way to survey a person or group of people is through the Panopticon. The Panopticon is…

corporation does not exist separately from its shareholders or its parent corporation. The parent company is responsible if the subsidiaries company are facing any legal issues or problem. Based on the case of D.H.N Food Distributors Ltd. V. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, it stated that DHN was the parent company in a group of three companies and directly owned two subsidiaries. In the Court of Appeal, the judge, Lord Denning MR held that the subsidiaries must follow the operation of the…

He was killed in Pavia in 1525. Although he remained a threat throughout Henry VII's life he never made a direct claim to the throne as he would have been unable to take London and the crown and Henry had nothing to fear of him. In a way they were the most and the least significant threat as they did not use their potential claim to the thrones and did not live up to the threat they could have become if they had more support…

T automobile, the first to be produced via the assembly line. It proves that Ford was viewed as a God to the World State society since their sayings and technology is similar to Ford’s. He is also symbolized in the society throughout the charing T tower. “ Ford sang out an immense bass voice from all the golden trumpets’’ (68). The number of time the bell rings represent the time of the day. Once again, this proves that Ford is alluded, in their world, throughout social and visual aspects in…

She was the heir to the throne since her brothers, Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, were presumed dead after being imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III and vanishing without explanation. An invasion was planned but never came to fruition but further set Henry back as he had to flee to France where he found eager support for his claim. Due to the betrothal arrangement…

Yoko Ono, born in Tokyo in 1933, was very artistic from a young age. She had always shown interests in art and music yet was never supported by her parents. Her father believed that since he failed at becoming a musician, instead becoming a very successful banker, that Yoko herself would also fail, while her mother deemed her “handsome, yet not pretty” to the point where Yoko felt she could not live up to either of her parents’ expectations. Her father's job in banking led to Yoko being…