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    It wasn't gun, aircraft and belugi meapons whish destruct London city , but fire. The Great Fire Of London was major conflalgration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sundy ,2 September to Wednesday , 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval city of London . Failures all facitlities in fighting the fire More than 400 years later, however, and fire is still one of the gravest threats to human life. Moreover, more than 100 firefighter died while on duty

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    England: In the UK, London suffered great fires in 798, 982, 989, 1212 and above all in 1666 (the Great Fire of London). The Great Fire of London in 1666 set in motion changes which laid the foundations for organized firefighting in the future. In the wake of the Great Fire, the City Council established the first fire insurance company, "The Fire Office", in 1667, which employed small teams of Thames watermen as firefighters and provided them with uniforms and arm badges showing the company to which

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    London by William Blake and Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth This essay aims to compare and contrast the differences and similarities between the two poems 'London' and 'Upon Westminster Bridge'. They both create powerful, contrasting images but are both similar in the use of language and exaggeration. The first poem to be commented upon is 'London' by William Blake, written a couple of decades before the second poem written by William Wordsworth. William

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    Could London follow New York and lose its creative class? Rohan Silva, a former senior policy advisor to UK prime minister David Cameron, has warned Londoners that the flow of creative people from New York to Los Angeles could be sign of things to come for the big smoke. He believes that the recent trend of creatives leaving New York due to exorbitant living costs and a lack of suitable studio space could also happen in London, and sooner rather than later! Rohan Silver has warned that the flow

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    A literary Analysis of Jack London three most recognized works, Sea Wolf; The Call of the Wild; and White Fang. Jack London lived a full life, even though he died at the young age of forty. In his life time he experienced many things, and I believe that these experiences were the catalyst of his novels. Jack London was an oyster pirate, a government patrolman in San Francisco Bay, a sailor and an agrarian reformer, a seal hunter in the North Pacific and a gold prospector in the frozen

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    The Tower of London is the most glorious land structure out of all Medieval castles. It has been said that many have stayed; however, it was not pleasingly pleasant. The people who visited the castle in those days were mostly executed. Some of the people that were incarcerated/executed were: Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Princes in the Tower, Guy Fawkes, Lady Jane Grey, and Rudolf Hess. The Tower of London is known for holding many treasures and both famous and infamous prisoners. The Tower

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    P1 How marketing techniques are used to market products in Transport for London and Iceland Introduction In every organisation, marketing is of great importance large organisations use marketing principles to meet the needs of their customers and achieve their objectives. Marketing - “The action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.” – Oxford Dictionary -“The management process through which goods and services move from concept to the

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    ‘Understanding inequalities in London’s life expectancy and healthy life expectancy’ is a document that summarises data, that has been collected over various years, by the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) in regards to life expectancy and inequalities (London Knowledge and Intelligence Team. 2014). The data within this document could be considered as a valid and reliable outlook into London’s life expectancy because it is a published document by Public Health England which is a health organisation. The

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    Jack London was an individual uniquely concerned with man’s relationship to nature; he felt there was a lack of vitality in modern human life that came from humanity’s desire to keep itself comfortable at the expense of their ability to accept their own animal selves. To that end, London attempted to explore this idea of naturalism within his works and writings – his essays and stories focused chiefly on the folly of men who attempted to control nature the same way they controlled their society,

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    must be strong enough to survive, White Fang is the model work of the naturalist movement, and is written in a detailed and realistic style which was accomplished by Jack London

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