Oxford University Press Essays

  • My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

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    stood - a Loaded Gun” Poetry Foundation. 2014. Poetry Foundation. 25 Feb. 2014 “Cordial.” Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. “Identical.” Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. “Identified.” Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. “Versuvian.” Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

  • Time And Aging In Sonnet 18

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    “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow / And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, / Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, / Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held” (2. 1-4). Time and therefore aging are a theme in the sonnets. The writer seems to be older, since he talks about the beautiful young man and how fleeting that beauty will be with time, and tries to convince him in the first sonnets to have a child to pass on his beauty. Time is a fierce enemy, since Shakespeare uses

  • The Mask We Wear: An Analysis of Sonnet 138

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    of mediocrity in “Sonnet 138”. Works Cited "habit, n.". OED Online. June 2011. Oxford University Press. 12 September 2011 . "maid, n.1". OED Online. September 2011. Oxford University Press. 26 September 2011 . Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth.” Poetry X. Ed. Jough Dempsey. 16 Jun 2003. 12 Sep. 2011 . "subtle, adj.". OED Online. June 2011. Oxford University Press. 12 September 2011 .

  • How to Deal with RESENTMENT in a Better Way?

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    senior year, it hurt me badly. I had problems trying to figure out why and how could that have happened to me or anyone else. I don’t like showing how I feel, so my family started to worry about me. How can I deal with RESENTMENT in a better way? The Oxford English Dictionary defines RESENTMENT as “a sense of grievance, injury, or insult received or perceived.” It can also be “(a feeling of) ill will, bitterness, or anger against a person or thing.” RESENTMENT often happens when a person loses trust

  • Plot Analysis of the Play: The Lion and The Jewel

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    LEAD OUR LIFE IN A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS WAY” BIBLIOGRAPHY  Title: The Lion and the Jewel Author: Soyinka, Wole Length: 65 pages Genre: Fiction, Drama Publisher / Year: Oxford University Press / 1962 Source: Used bookstore in Johannesburg  The Lion and the Jewel. – London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963  Agetua, John, When the Man Died. Benin City, Nigeria: Bendel Newspaper Corp., 1975. HV9865.5 A15

  • Encountering the urban landscape

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    The image of the city. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Tilley, C. (1994). A phenomenology of landscape : places, paths, and monuments. Oxford, UK Providence, R.I: Berg. Balshaw, M. & Kennedy, L. (2000). Urban space and representation. London Sterling, Va: Pluto Press. Baudelaire, C. & Mayne, J. (1995). The painter of modern life and other essays. London: Phaidon Press. Definition of flâneur in English. (2013) Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press. [online] Available at: http://www.oxforddictionaries

  • A beauty obsessed culture

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    lifestyle. Although I will never be the perfect perception of today’s standard of beauty, I am finally learning to accept my imperfections. Works Cited "Definition of Beauty in English:." Beauty: Definition of Beauty in Oxford Dictionary (American English) (US). Oxford University Press, 2014. Web. 26 Apr. 2014. .

  • Emotional Intelligence and Nursing

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    psychological conditi... ... middle of paper ... ...2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Rosen, C. S. (2000). Is the sequencing of change processes by stage consistent across health problems? A meta-analysis. Health Psychology, 19(6), 593-604. Smith, T. B., Rodríguez, M. D., & Bernal, G. (2011). Culture. In J. C. Norcross (Ed.), Psychotherapy relationships that work (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Swift, J. K., Callahan, J. L., & Vollmer, B. M., (2011). Preferences. In

  • Listening Skills Assessment

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    ..n. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. Bachman, L.F. & Palmer. A.S. (1996). Language Testing in Practice: Developing and Designing Useful Language Tests. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, H.D. (2004). Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices. New York: Pearson Education. Brown, J.D. (1996). Testing in Language Programs. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents. Buck, G. (2001). Assessing Listening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Flowerdew, J. & Miller,

  • Power and Knowledge in Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’

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    The Oxford University Dictionary defines the word power as ‘authority or control’ over an individual and knowledge as ‘the sum of what is known’. In Angela Carter’s story The Bloody Chamber (1979) knowledge and power correlate with each other. The more information a character possesses the greater authority they have. In The Bloody Chamber Carter utilises a variety of literary techniques to express the importance of knowledge and power in the plot. This essay will analyse the way Carter applies these

  • Loneliness and Isolation in Robert Frost's Poem

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    possibly the theme of the poems more. Works cited: - Frost, Robert. “Acquainted With the Night.” Robert Frost: Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 58-59 - Frost, Robert. “Ghost House.” Robert Frost: Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 18-19 - Frost, Robert. “Waiting.” Robert Frost: Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20

  • Jude the Obscure and Social Darwinism

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    instances of cruelty in the novel, and there are numerous others (such as the cruel revelation that Latin is not merely "decodable" into English, which shatters Jude's naive pretensions about learning that language; and Jude's rejected application for university entrance, without even having the opportunity to be tested; and Sue's reversal of all her ideals and decisions upon the death of her children, which she sees as some sort of divine warning, and her subsequent return to Phillotson, to name but a

  • Differences between Photographic and Painted Portraiture

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    details such as the slightly out ... ... middle of paper ... ...istory 1839-1900 Cambridge University Press (1997) J.Friday Aesthetics and Photography Ashgate (2002) J. Woodall ed. Portraiture: Facing the Subject Manchester University Press (1997) Sources consulted but not cited G Clarke ed The Portrait in Photography Reaktion Books (1992) M Rogers Camera Portraits Oxford University Press (1989) --------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] A. Scharf

  • The Appearance of Incest in Gothic Fiction

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    Works Cited Heller, Tamar. Dead Secrets. London: Yale University Press, 1992. Lewis, Matthew. The Monk, ed. Howard Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1972. Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto, ed. W. S. Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. Williams, Anne. The Art of Darkness. Chicago: U of C Press, 1995. Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary and The Wrongs of Woman, ed. Gary Kelly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

  • history of theatre

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    “History exists only when it is “made” by the historian.” (Vince, 65). According to R.W. Vince, it is very easy for researchers to get lost between “fact” and “interpretation” when documenting theatre history. Even when scholars uncover identical pieces of information, they may each have their own personal explanations as to why these facts exist. In turn, readers must exercise critical analysis when studying scholar’s research and not fall into the trap of viewing history from the author’s perspective

  • Cultural theory in the works of Tarantino

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    could b... ... middle of paper ... ...Forgetting Lyotard: Semanticist pretextual theory in the works of Spelling. And/Or Press 4. McElwaine, O. T. D. (1992) Semanticist pretextual theory, nihilism and textual materialism. Cambridge University Press 5. Hubbard, J. Z. ed. (1984) Reinventing Modernism: Cultural theory in the works of Smith. University of Massachusetts Press 6. Dahmus, L. H. B. (1973) Semanticist pretextual theory in the works of Gaiman. Panic Button Books 7. la Tournier, O. Y

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Analysis

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems 1918, Spring and Fall: To a young child MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Áh! ás the heart grows older 5 It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: 10 Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What

  • Abortion During the 18th and 19th Centuries

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    Hiding behind the idea of “restoring” one’s menses, abortion was practiced throughout colonial America. However, abortions weren’t fully considered to be so until after the quickening in pregnancy. Quickening was marked by when the baby would kick, so in a time when not that much was known about the female body quickening was the only thing that confirmed if a woman was pregnant or not. The opinion on abortifacients changed over time and was dependent on who was taking advantage of them. People seemed

  • The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth

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    The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth In William Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us,' this poem heeds warning to his generation. This warning is that they are losing sight of what is actually important in this world: nature and God. To some people both of these are the same thing '...as if lacking appreciation for the natural gifts of God is not sin enough, we add to it the insult of pride for our rape of His land' (Wordsworth). With his words, Wordsworth makes this message

  • Hope, a Theme in Shakespeare´s Richard the Third and in George Frederick Watts´s Painting

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    results that I gained from my research have shown that people can’t achieve their dreams in the lack of hope. Hope is the irreplaceable element of success. The Oxford dictionary, an online dictionary which is created by The Oxford University, defines hope as “to want something to happen and think that is possible”(Hope). The denotation by The Oxford dictionary vitiates the true meaning of the word “hope”. “To want something to happen” (Hope) can be the explanation of require/desire however simplifying