Although Notting Hill Carnival is a celebration of the traditions of black people in Britain people from all over the world come to watch it
everybody seems to participate in it
Caribbean people also take part in it
it touches on native British traditions as well
it is gaining in popularity among the white in recent years
During the Carnival, the police find it difficult to keep the participants under control
preparations begin early in the morning
the participants in the carnival decorate the streets with colourful streamers
traffic is banned from certain streets
music and colour fill the streets of London
The writer states that thousands of people take part in the preparations for the carnival
this carnival has been held since the 1950s
dancers in the carnival wear special clothes
usually there are many injuries during the carnival because of the great crush of people
the dancers in the carnival are from the black community
26 ALFRED NOBEL - A MAN OF CONTRASTS Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature; an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a simple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it used as a weapon of war to kill and injure his fellow men. During his useful life he often felt he was useless: "Alfred Nobel," he once wrote of himself, "ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life." World- famous for his work, he was never personally well-known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. "I do not see," he once said, "that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it." Since his death, however, his name has brought fame and glory to others. His famous will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long after his death.