Read and carefully annotate the following text: “La Belle Epoque: Paris 1914” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25619822. Next read and carefully annotate the following text: “Berlin 1914: A City of Ambition and Self Doubt” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25635311. When you have done so, write an essay comparing the two cities.
Your essay could be organized in various different ways depending on what kind of thesis statement you choose to write and whether you compare by whole parts or point by point. It is suggested that you take the former route but the reason for comparison – your thesis statement – I leave to you.