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    of Woods and Forests when the Prince Regent came to power and Nash’s scheme for Regent’s Park was presented almost immediately. The plan appealed to the Prince Regent who was impressed by the extravagant nature and stated that his developments of London, ‘will quite eclipse Napoleon’. John Nash impressed the Prince and became the advisor on architecture, allowing him to

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    Queen Elizabeth I had a huge impact on her country, so much so that the years of her reign have been named the Elizabethan Age (Morrill). The complexities of Queen Elizabeth I’s life can be best understood by exploring the history of her parents, her siblings, and her feud with her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. The history of Elizabeth’s parents is very complicated. Elizabeth’s mother was Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was King Henry VIII’s second wife. She was expected by Henry to bear a son, but instead

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    The history of the Tower of London will amaze you on how the structure was built and how it came to be. Multiple executions were taken place in the tower of London, executions of many famous people. It soon became a prison to house prisoners. Was even involved in becoming a zoo. The Tower of London was to be built as a complex of mul-tiple other towers that later were added on in 1078 and soon finished in 1100. William the Conqueror had it built to pro-tect London from the British Empire, to be

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    The book is called White Fang. White Fang was written by the author Jack London, in the year 1906. The novel is nonfiction and is set in a first person point of view. This book is important because it gives a important message.It's about how a wolf is just growing up and then comes into the world of hatredness and abusiveness but finally he becomes loved. The book White Fang is located in many settings which include the following, In the beginning of the book we start off in the north.This setting

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    Many people would wonder why someone would go into the wild to escape society. Society contains everything a person could ever want: property, friends, and family. However, for Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, it isn’t enough. Chris McCandless is a free-willed person who loves exploration. On his adventures, he discovers his family’s dark secret that had been kept from him and soon leaves his family because of it. He goes off to explore the continent as he meets new

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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 dark circle became a dot on the moonflooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view. Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.” (London, 43) In the novel The Call of the Wild penned by Jack London, Buck, a Scotch Shepherd/St. Bernard mixed dog, is carried off into the Alaskan Klondike during the Yukon Gold Rush, and retrogresses from a civilized Southland pet into a ferocious, primitive beast of the North. Throughout

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    The Call of the Wild Literacy Analysis “Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.” (London, 43). In the adventure novel by Jack London, The Call of the Wild, a huge 140 pound Saint Bernard/Scotch Shepherd named Buck goes through internal and external challenges that leaves him retrogressed and more wild than ever. He adapts to the wild Northland environment that he had never experienced in the sunny state of California

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    he had not worn the sort of nose guard Bud wore when it was cold. Such a guard passed across the nose and covered the entire face. But it did not matter much, he decided. What was a little frost? A bit painful, that was all. It was never serious.” (London 68) Comparing the man with his own dog, the reader is able to see a massive difference between the the master and pet. The man isn’t worried in the slightest about the weather causing any sort of damage to his own health. On the other hand

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    Winter is and will always be my most unliked and most undesirable season. In my opinion, there’s literally no redeeming qualities about winter, and that includes snow days. The cold is irritating, the snow is infuriating, and especially the ice is aggravating. I used to enjoy winter, but ever since winter almost killed me, my pessimism sees no end when December comes around. “Griffin, you’re in charge!” Yells my mother, 30 feet from my room upstairs. “Yeah, alright. Have fun.” My mother and father

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