St Cross College, Oxford Essays

  • balliol

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    Founded 1263 by John de Balliol. Sister College -– St John’s College Cambridge. Men and Women – Undergraduates 387 Postgraduates 327. Balliol is one of the oldest and largest of the colleges in Oxford with around 327 postgraduates and 387 undergraduates. It has recently become the most popular, with more applications than any other in the university. Balliol is situated right in the heart of the city on its original site with a lease dating back to foundation year – 1263. A student coup in the 1960’s

  • Critical analysis of how and why controversial issues could be /has been included in your teaching, with specific reference made to curriculum req...

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    environment in which I teach, the St. Mary's College in Hobart, there are policies in place to ensure that teachers have an understanding of what is appropriate for the students in both developmentally and culturally. The school's mission statement, also , stresses that " we provide strong role models who attempt to demonstrate leadership in applying Christian values to contemporary issues in education, care of the environment and social issues" (St. Mary's College Statement of Mission, 2014). Educators

  • Pop Style: Live Concert Performance Analysis

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    The live concert performance that I attended was the Dana Concert Series Presents: Faculty and Guest Artist Recital at the The College of Creative Arts and Communication. The venue was Bliss Recital Hall. The recital included the faculty performers, Dr. James Umble on saxophone and Dr. Glenn Schaft on vibraphone. The guest artists from the Cleveland Orchestra, were Art Klima on viola, Stephen Warner on violin, Carolyn Warner on piano, and Richard Weiner on percussion. Modern and Late Romantic

  • Faith and Doubt in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins had eight siblings and was born of Manley and Catherine Smith Hopkins. His parents were Anglicans that followed the Catholic tradition in sacraments and papacy. By instilling the theological values, faith and morals into Gerard, he became heavily influenced by his family. His parents taught him, as well as their other children to love God. Gerard guaranteed his mother that he would strengthen his connection with God and familiarize himself with the Scripture, so Gerard began

  • The Gothic Period

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    The Gothic Period in the twelfth century influenced the creation of Gothic Revival Architecture in the nineteenth century. Gothic architecture began in France in 1140. Some of the first buildings made using this style are the Basilica of Saint Denis and the Cathedral of Sens. (Gothic Architecture By Paul Frank) This style of architecture started losing popularity in the early sixteenth century, but did not die out completely during this time period. Gothic architecture was still predominantly in

  • Synanon: One of the Most Violent Cults of California in the 70s

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    Them, Let’s Get Them!” Sounds like a horror movie. The word cult, from the Latin word Cultus, means a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object (Oxford English Dictionary). Robert J. Lifton, M.D., a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York defines the characteristics of a cult as: 1) a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles

  • presentation for billy collins

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    to Diane Collins. He is the son of Katherine M. Collins and William S. Collins. Collins received a Bachelors Degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and also received a Ph.D. in romantic poetry in 1971. He has been a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and also was a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He is an English Professor at Lehman College for CUNY, where he has been teaching for over 30 years. In June of 2001, Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003)

  • Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator: Speech Analysis

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    attitude, which seems to be the same all over the country, around the Irish voting system and general elections I have decided to look back to Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’ speech. Nearing the end of this speech he says, “In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: the Kingdom of God is within man - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this

  • Following Jesus

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    holds the position of Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews in Scotland. According to his biography, Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1948 and was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism. He has said that by age seven or eight he felt called to Christian ministry. In his early adulthood, he trained in ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford at which time he also married. In 1973 he earned a degree in Theology an... .

  • Rasselas in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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    person has decide for themselves what makes them happy. Works Cited Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1848 . Ed. Beth Newman. Boston: St. Martin’s, 1996. Bronte, Charlotte. The Letters of Charlotte Bronte: 1829-1847. Ed. Margaret Smith. 2 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1995-2000. Gilbert, Sarah M. "Plain Jane’s Progress." Jane Eyre. Ed. Beth Newman. Boston: St. Martin’s, 1996. 475-501. Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia. 1759. Ed. Gwin J. Kolb. Chicago: AHM Publishing

  • Annotated Bibliography: Artificial Intelligence As A Threat

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    Annotated Bibliography: Bilton, Nick. “Artificial Intelligence as a Threat.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2014l. Nick Bilton starts “Artificial Intelligence as a Threat” with a comparison of Ebola, Bird flu, SARS, and artificial intelligence. Noted by Bilton, humans can stop Ebola, bird flu, and SARS. However, artificial intelligence, if it ever exceeds human intelligence, would not be stoppable by humans. Bilton, in his article, argues that AI is the biggest

  • Connecting to Islam Through My Native American Roots

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    all people, no matter their tribal affiliation. References Armstrong, Karen (2002) Islam: A Short History New York: Random House, Inc., ISBN-13:978-0-812966-18-3; Esposito, John L. (2011). What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, 2d. New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-1-60927-041-4 Robinson, B.A. (2008) Native American Spirituality. Beliefs of Native Americans, from the Arctic to the southwest. Religious Tolerance.Org. Retrieved from http://www.religioustolerance.org/nataspir3.htm

  • Christianity as a Unifying Influence in the History of Europe

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    G. Early Modern Europe: 1500 --1789, (London, 1987) Lawrence, C.H. Medieval Monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (2nd ed), (New York, 1989) Lehmann, A.G. The European Heritage: An Outline of Western Culture, (Oxford, 1984) Pirenne, H. A History of Europe: from the invasions to the XVI century, (London, 1967) Robertson, Sir C. G. A History Of Western Europe: AD 1453 -- 1789, (London, 1992) Treasure, G. The Making of Modern Europe: 1646 --1780, (London, 1985)

  • Edward Benjamin Britten

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    one of the only composers of the 20th and 21st centuries to learn music solely through live performance. Thr... ... middle of paper ... ... London: Faber and Faber, 2009. 97-99. Print. JF52opera. "Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream (complete - ST Eng-fr-de-it-esp)." YouTube. YouTube, 17 Oct. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013. "Operas." Britten-Pears Foundation -. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. Riley, Matthew. British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Print. White, Michael

  • Bhabha's Contribution to Postcolonial Theory

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    Colonialism is and has been a reality during previous centuries. As a political and economical reality it entailed significant consequences in the colonized country's politics, geographical maps, and people's lives, fates and temperaments. As the consequences are hard to ignore the writers of the formerly colonized countries never forgot to write about it and their people's lives before, during and after their country's colonization. As Emecheta is one of these writer who is born and brought up

  • Health Reform Literature Review

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    Health Reform Literature Review According to Ehlke (2009), Buerhaus, Ulrich, Donelan, and DesRoches (2008), the health insurance and health care system in America have become an overly politicized arena. Some authors like Healy (2010) perceive that the current health care system is a political positioning that is highly subjective and devised to benefit a select few while the majority will suffer under the heavy burden of higher premiums. It is affirmative that the health care system needed urgent

  • Leonard Cheshire and The Leonard Cheshire Organization

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    CheshireOrganisation. * Leonard Cheshire was born in Chester in 1917, the son of Geoffrey Cheshire, Professor of Law at Oxford. He was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of World War Two. He was the most decorated bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force and had three Distinguished Service Orders (with two bars), a Distinguished Flying Cross and the Victoria Cross. On his 101st mission over enemy territory, on August 9th 1945, at the age of 27; he became an official observer at

  • Queen Elizabeth's Lasting Effect on Theater

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    "contemptible breed", and the theaters that they performed in nothing more "... ... middle of paper ... ... Clarendon Press M.CMXXIII This was useful in giving in depth information on playhouses and acting companies. Somerset, Anne Elizabeth I, St. Martin's Press New York 1992 Elizabeth I was useful in giving me information on the Queen, her empire, and how she helped the theaterical development in England. Hillebrand, Newcomb Harold The Child Actor, Russell & Russell, New York 1964 This was

  • Feminine Identity in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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    middle of paper ... ...nt. “Scoops of the Month: Money-in-the-Bank Fashions.” Mademoiselle. Jan. 1952: 92-95. Print. Smith, Caroline J. “‘The Feeding of Young Women’: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Mademoiselle Magazine, and the Domestic Ideal.” College Literature 37.4 (2010): 1-22. Web. Steele, Valerie. Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now. London and New Haven: Yale UP, 2000. Print. Stetz, Margaret D. “‘A Language Spoken Everywhere’: Fashion Studies and English Studies.” Working With English

  • Richard Wright's - Black Boy

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    the documentary can be used to promote broader inquiries among the disciplines. Because the documentary contains scenes that portray Negro lynchings and an African woman's bare breasts, it is recommended that teachers and administrators below the college level review the program before showing it to students. Questions and activities are provided in the following disciplines: History, Education, Psychology, Literature, Sociology, and Political Science/Cultural Studies. The bibliography completes