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    arresting more than 60,000 of them. Gandhi declared the Salt March as the theme for his new campaign, Satyagraha or Civil Disobedience. Gandhi was released in 1931 and agreed to call of his campaign in exchange for a negotiation role in a conference in London regarding India’s future. A non-violent movement that occurred in 1919 was the protest against the Simon Commission. The Simon Commission was a group of 7 English men sent from England to report how the Indian Constitution was working. It was led

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    disguises and most importantly, his use of the city as means of solving mysteries. The cityscape plays a significant role in the narrative of The Sign of Four. Conan Doyle uses real places found in London in The Sign of Four. It gives the novel a degree of realism, and Holmes the detective appears genuine to the reader. He certainly knows his way through the streets of London. At the beginning of the novel, Dr. Watson and Holmes are travelling across London to a meeting they know very little

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    The London Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament in 1829. This Act created the first legitimate police force composed of salaried police officers’ designated to patrol the city of London. London’s Metropolitan Police force is important to present day crime control in America because it is where the idea of policing in America originated. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, long before crime control measures aroused the attention of Americans technological communications were non-existent

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    Dense Drizzly Analysis

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    miserable atmosphere of a 19th century London. The case of Mary Morstan is presented to start on a ‘September evening’. This particular choice of month brings the reader into the cold,foggy and often miserable atmosphere of September. The atmosphere is highlighted by the sentence ‘the day had been a dreary one,and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city.’ Doyle uses alliteration as shown in ‘dense drizzly’ to illustrate and intensify the imagery of London in the 19th century. The repetition

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    the fact that Radar Detectors are legal in B.C. Radar Detectors warn drivers of oncoming police using speed scanners which allows drivers to maneuver around police. The radar detector innately encourages people to speed as it cancels out one of the major drawbacks of doing so, getting caught. Dangerous driving combined with overconfidence is a recipe for disaster.  The City of Abbotsford

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    south London, a beautiful twin was born. A boy called Thomas and a girl called Elizabeth. In their childhood, they were enjoying an exciting peaceful life like most children does. They loved each other so much. Thomas was better than Elizabeth in school and he got many awards such as the best student of the year or the best sports man. Elizabeth got jealous and she started a bad competition between herself and her brother. She tries to be better than him in doing stupid things. The police hated

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    Introduction The article titled “Better than London” discusses the expansion of the NFL to London, and the implications involved with this. While the NFL has been located in the United States for around 87 years, they are now expanding its company to London, England, making it its first overseas expansion into the European market (Vrentas, 2014). This expansion has seemed optimistic, and the NFL’s strategy for expansion seems to be going well, however, they are starting to realize some of the implications

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    Social Housing Essay

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    Those who rent from private landlords do not only tend to, on average, pay almost double the rent of a person living within social housing but also are twice as likely to live in a residence the Government would class as a “non-decent home”, a residence in disrepair and one that does not meet health and safety standards (Jonathan Owen, 2014). The undisputable growth of private renting sector is not limited to England but is also noticeable in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In wales the private

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    Ripper was never caught, and his identity remains a mystery to this day. The police were unable to catch Jack The Ripper and solve the mystery of the Whit Chapel murders because of several reasons. The first reason is the police themselves. In London, there were two police forces. The Metropolitan police and the City Of London police. The murders took place in both of the jurisdictions. The police forces each had separate investigations going on and they did not share

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    waltzes around the room, as the scene switches back and forth from him to siren-blazoned police cars and officers rushing in the museum to catch him, only to find him relaxing in the throne, calm as could be. The contrasting collision editing in this scene shows how easily Moriarty completely shifted the entire power dynamic of London by hacking into the leadership, economic, and safety institutions of the city. His eerily calm demeanor provides a stark contrast to the frenzy that he has thrown everyone

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