Magdalene College, Cambridge Essays

  • College Meals

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    Throughout Virginia Woolf’s writings, she describes two different dinners: one at a men’s college, and another at a women’s college. Using multiple devices, Woolf expresses her opinion of the inequality between men and women within these two passages. She also uses a narrative style to express her opinions even more throughout the passages. One of the most prominent rhetorical devices Virginia Woolf uses throughout both pieces is imagery. She uses imagery in order to make the ideas and situations

  • St Johns

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    The College of Saint John the Evangelist. Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist. Founded 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort. Sister Colleges – Balliol College Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. Men and Women – Undergraduates 569 Postgraduates 337. St John’s is the third largest college in the University of Cambridge. It sits on a huge site, straddling the River Cam a little to the north of the city centre, which is within walking distance. Its closest neighbours are Trinity and Magdalene

  • Newnham College

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    Sidgwick, Eleanor Balfour and Anne Clough. Named after Newnham Village. Sister College – Lady Margaret Hall Oxford. Women only – Undergraduates 380 Postgraduates 230. When liberal reformers presented proposals for women to attend university, they were greeted with incredulity; so radical and extreme was the concept in the 19th century. However, pioneering liberals are nothing if not persistent and in 1871 Newnham College was formed by philosopher Henry Sidgwick, a fellow at Trinity, along with his

  • Selwyn College

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    Sister College – Keble College Oxford. Men and Women – Undergraduates 400 Postgraduates 200. For a college with modest financial endowments, Selwyn punches way above its weight in the Cambridge academic performance tables, recently achieving top spot. The foundation started life in 1882 as a Public Hostel of the University, a Christian initiative in memory of the Rt Revd George Augustus Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand, and was paid for by subscription. Formal approval as a Cambridge College

  • Higher Education and Women in the United Kingdom

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    be almost twice as many female students than male students. (Ratcliffe,2013). This essay aims to give a timeline of the key events that led to the equality of women in higher education as well as when degrees were awarded to women on Oxford and Cambridge. History and statistics According to the research shown by Brown (2011C), the population of women was rising gradually from 1036 per 1000 males in 1821 to 1054 per 1000 males in 1871. This meant that there would be unmarried women who would

  • oriel

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    Founded 1438 as The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed of Oxford by Henry Chiche Archbishop of Canterbury. Sister College – Trinity Hall Cambridge. Fellows only, Men and Women (by entrance exam or invitation). Only the most brilliant scholars drawn from a pool of the most gifted are invited to All Souls to engage in a life advanced academic study. Traditionally the college has no undergraduates and is unusual in that all members become fellows and join the college’s governing body. Originally

  • Finding Balance: Howards End Argumentative Essay

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    Throughout the novel Howards End, E.M. Forster presents readers with a multitude of extremes, ranging from femininity vs masculinity, passion vs practicality, and maturity vs immaturity. These extremes appear to be completely irreconcilable. However, upon a closer look, it becomes apparent that Forster’s main point in describing these extremes is to work to bring them together, uniting them in one middle ground, or finding balance and proportion. This is accomplished through the behavior and attitudes

  • The Important Role of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India

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    The Important Role of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India During the fourteen years that followed the publication of Howards End, Edward Morgan Forster underwent a harsh mood change that culminated in the publication of A Passage to India, Forster's bitterest book (Shusterman 159).  Forster was not alone in his transition to a harsher tone in his fiction.  A Passage to India was written in the era that followed the First World War.  George Thomson writes that the novel

  • Srinivasa Ramanujan

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    investigated the series (1/n) and calculated Euler's constant to 15 decimal places. He began to study the numbers, which is entirely his own independent discovery. Ramanujan, on the strength of his good schoolwork, was given a scholarship to the Government College in Kumbakonam, which he entered in 1904. However the following year his scholarship was not renewed because Ramanujan devoted more and more of his time to mathematics and neglected his other subjects. Without money he was soon in difficulties and

  • The City of Cambridge

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    The City of Cambridge The city of Cambridge is in the southeast of England, 50 miles north of London. It is well served by road and rail links, and is within an easy distance of the major London airports. Shopping in Cambridge: the city enjoys a strong mixture of comparison and convenience goods retailers. A large number of chain companies are present as well as many regional and local retailers. These retailers offer high quality products and are supported by the generally above average

  • Gender Bias in the 1920’s as Portrayed in "A Passage to India"

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    Today, for the most part, women are seen as equal to men. Women are given the same opportunities as men, and an equal chance at getting a job. In today’s society, women no longer have one role, which is to have kids and raise them, but they can pursue any career they wish. However, it was not always this way. According to feminist theorists, western civilizations were patriarchal, meaning they were dominated by males. Society was set up so the male was above the female in all cultural aspects

  • Sidney Sussex

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    The college of the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex. Founded 1596 by Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. Sister College – St John’s College Oxford. Men and Women –Undergraduates 355 Postgraduates 240. Sidney Sussex College, often shortened to just ‘Sidney’, is in the heart of Cambridge, a little to the north of the market square. Its closest neighbours are Christ’s College to the south and more important to the students, Sainsbury’s supermarket just across the road to the west. Running out of essential

  • Alfred Tennyson And His Work

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    mental condition got worse, and he became paranoid, abusive, and violent. In 1827 Tennyson escaped his troubled home when he followed his two older brothers to Trinity College, Cambridge, where his teacher was William Whewell. Because each of them had won university prizes for poetry the Tennyson brothers became well known at Cambridge. In 1829 The Apostles, an undergraduate club, invited him to join. The members of this group would remain Tennyson's friends all his life. Arthur Hallam was the most

  • An Analysis of Marlow's Dr. Faustus

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    In 1564 Christopher Marlow was born in Canterbury. His father was a shoemaker, and it was only through scholarships that Marlow was able to attain his education. He attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he wrote Tamburlaine. According to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Marlow wrote Dr. Faustus in the last stages of his life. Christopher Marlow only lived to be twenty-nine years old; he was killed in London during an argument over the bill at a bar (1: 970-971). This essay

  • Gonville and Cauis

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    John Caius. Originally Gonville Hall 1348-1351. Sister College – Brasenose College Oxford. Men and Women –Undergraduates 500 Postgraduates 250. Gonville and Caius was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall, by the somewhat mysterious Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington St Clements, from the flatlands of Norfolk. There must have been more to Edmund than the records show, because it is doubtful a humble rector could have established a Cambridge college. There has been speculation that he was also a successful

  • John Edensor Littlewood Research Paper

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    John Edensor Littlewood On the ninth day of June, in 1885, in Rochester Kent, England , Edward Thornton Littlewood and his wife, Sylvia Maud Ackland, welcomed their first child, a little boy. Whom they named John Edensor Littlewood. John was the oldest of three children. Their second child, Martin, was successful in his studies of medicine. Tragically, he lost his youngest brother when he was only eight years old, in a drowning accident. John was professionally known as John, or J.E. Littlewood

  • Roald Dahl Research Paper

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    but wasn’t going to change the way he acted. Though his behavior was not the best, he still excelled academically. He was one of the best students, but had the worst behavior. While at Repton, his mother offered to pay for him to go to college at Oxford or Cambridge University. He simply responded by saying, “No thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway

  • The Themes of Dostoyevsky

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    invention of the detective story and his researches into the human psyche. In The Brothers Karamazov there are echo... ... middle of paper ... ...alog in Queens College library. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Quotes from www.brainyquote.com. 2004. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/fyodor_dostoyevsky.html. Haskins, Susan. Mary Magdalene: Myth and Metaphor. London. 1993. Harcourt Brace & Company. Heinegg, Peter. “The First Anti-Hero.” America. Vol. 191. 2004. 24,25. Kasia, Andrzej. “ Dostoyevsky

  • Sir Arthur Tedder's Air Superiority

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    and decisive advantages throughout the course of the war. Air Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder was not always an Air Marshall, nor was he always a knight of the British Empire. Born in Glenguin, Scotland in 1890, he received an education at Magdalene College in Cambridge before enlisting in the Royal Army in 1913 at the age of 23. He quickly transitioned to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France and Egypt for two years each. After carrying out many bombing and reconnaissance missions, he was

  • Maharaja Dalip Singh

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    Maharaja Dalip Singh Maharaja DALIP SINGH, the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who was born in Lahore, on Feb. 1837, to mother Maharani Jind Kaur. His date of birth is disputed by some and alternately suggested as Sept. 4, 1838. Many foreign journalists have wrongly named him as Dhalip Singh and Duleep Singh. However, it should be noted that his correct name is Maharaja Dalip Singh. He assumed the Punjab throne as a child, after Maharaja Sher Singh, on Sept. 18, 1843. During his reign