Southgate, London

Canadian cities can evoke different feelings in different people. This is evident in Canadian poetry. “Urban Spell” by Tihanya is a positive view of the urban community. “Urban Renewal” by McAdam conveys life in the city negatively. The poems “Urban Spell” and “Urban Renewal” both discuss life in the city, but it is obvious the moods of the poems differ drastically. “Urban Spell” evokes a positive mood through content and word choice. The content of the poem is a busy, bustling city, which…

How John Snow’s Skepticism and Open-mindedness Influenced His Method of Conducting Research At the beginning of the 18th century little was known about cholera transmission or disease communication in general. The miasma theory was in full force. Most of the science world accepted the miasma theory and completely rejected any other theory for disease transmittance. This greatly hindered advancements in research of communicable diseases because miasmas were understood as a fact and no…

horrific crimes as well. This fact is what makes those punishments so important. As evils both great and small were rising up, there had to be punishments to meet them at the pass. The Victorian era implemented punishments that not only benefitted London, but would be very influential to the American Justice system and systems like it. The Victorian Era was a departure from the more barbaric practices of the eras it followed. Police became a more common occurrence in the streets, and trials…

Life in the Towns, Including London, in 16th Century England Life in 16th century England was not the best, but not all of it was bad. Life was very hard whether you live in the country, in the towns, or even in the famous city of London. People did not like to travel, because the roads were rough and nearly everything was made at home, or on the farm. Disease was one of the other major factors for a rough life in this time period. Another factor that affected life during the Elizabethan period…

Steven Johnson’s “The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World” examines the disastrous Cholera epidemic that struck London-- one of the world’s first urbanized centers-- in the summer of 1854. It delineates the rapid movement of the Vibrio cholerae bacteria through an area lacking proper infrastructure to accommodate a population branching into the millions, and relays the importance of scientific understanding through…

in Yorkshire, before reading archaeology, anthropology, and the history of art at Trinity College from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and Sir Lanka to learn more about Buddhism between 1971 and 1974. After attending Saint University College in London between 1977 and n1979. Gormley career began with a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 198. Almost all of his work takes the human body as its subject with his own body used in many works as the basis for metal casts. Gormley…

The sign said New Anglican Church. I was stunned to find out that the loved church that my family and I had been going to for the last 23 years has turned into a lousy new one.”This is absurd,”I said as I furiously marched down the streets in England. My family lives on James Street; not very far from Southampton. We live in a medium sized cottage on a small bluff overlooking the shore line. It is very beautiful on sunsets but still very far away from any houses or towns at the same time. I have…

7 July 2005 London Bombings The London bombings of 2005 were coordinated suicide bomb attacks on the London public transport system that happened on the morning of 7th of July. The incident began at 8:49 am. However, the bombers’ journey actually began way earlier around 4:00 BST when three of the attackers left Leeds, Yorkshire in a rented car bound. From there, they went to Luton, Bedfordshire where they met their fourth accomplice. Finally, they headed to the capital by train. The first…

In the show Blue blood one of the main characters works in the district attorney office in New York City and her name is Erin Reagan. In this episode the case she is working on is about Lenny a mob boss that she knows had been linked to many crimes. As a district attorney it is her job to put criminals in jail but she cannot put Lenny in jail because she cannot get enough evidence against him. She finds a 15 year old cold case about a drug dealer named Mr. Green that she thinks Lenny is somehow…

In London the lower class, known as “plain” people, continued to prefer the plays of Shakespeare while the Plebeian folk of Madrid still loved the plays of Lope de vegu and Calderon. Many places preferred different types and styles of drama. Some even liked…