Oxford English Dictionary

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a hero is defined as “a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”. However, this definition is only a general statement of what qualifies someone to be a hero. The meaning of words can change over time which means that what defines a “hero” today may be different than what a “hero” was defined as in ancient times. This means that although it is the same word, it has the possibility of holding different…

Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching! The world revolves around money. People have to have money to buy things, own a business, and run a business. Companies have to earn money in order to be able to run it while all other companies also have to have money. These companies should have people to help handle the money and know where the money is being used. The people they hire are called accountants and financial managers. Accountants and Financial managers have to have an education to learn about the…

School uniforms obstructing the first amendment, should not exist due to school districts having the ability to set requirements for those who want to receive education. Do school uniforms obstruct expression? The word expression in the constitution is being bent too much for this statement to be considered valid. In this case the Constitution is also saying that school administrators have the ability to express their rules because it is a part of their freedom. The constitution should not be…

Phonies, or a fake people are those with multiple identities. These people act different in public and private, or in different groups of people. Phonies have been criticized in literature for hundreds of years, but one of the most notable times, and possible the first time it was criticized was in Shakespeare's Othello. Shakespeare uses characters in Othello, such as Iago, Othello and Desdemona, to show how the worst of people usually have an extreme difference in their identities, while the…

scholasticism and the morning star of the Reformation. Wycliffe was born in Ipreswell, Yorkshire, England. Wycliffe had a very formal and exceptional education and Wycliffe completed his arts degree at the College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford. That same year he wrote a small treatise, The Last Age of the Church. In the recent events of the malignance of the plague that had subsided only seven years previously, Wycliffe's studies led him to the conclusion that the close of…

As the decades pass by, words are being added into the English dictionary. Many may not realize the effects of such terms that have been introduced to the English language. George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, predicts his vision of what the future would become in his novel 1984. The novel tells a powerful vision that the future would be controlled by the government from what we wear to how we speak and think. Orwell also introduces the idea of Newspeak. It’s…

though their French counterparts preferred the Earl of Derby, and in Austria Sigmund Freud, in a classic instance of the fantasies about secret aristocratic origins which he had identified in children, placed his own ill-informed faith in the Earl of Oxford,” says The…

lied about his identity. The question at hand is to explore the theory of Shakespeare being the Earl of Oxford. During this essay, I am going to examine the plays we have recently read and point out characters and lines that connect with the theory of Shakespeare being the Earl of Oxford. Starting with the basics, let’s compare the ages and life histories of “Shakespeare” and the Earl of Oxford. When looking up Shakespeare I discovered that he has three kids, which I did not know, but all three…

control-deck of the Starship Enterprise. Soon, I’m looking down at Scientology’s Oxford Capacity Analysis personality test: 200 often strangely worded questions, ask how I “feel RIGHT NOW” about a disparate range of issues. "Does an unexpected action cause your muscles to twitch? " "Do some noises ‘set your teeth on edge’?" "Do you browse…

Charles Demuth, called “Deem” by his friends, was the only child of Ferdinand and Augusta Demuth. When Charles was four, he fell and broke his hip. While he was bed-bound because of the injury, his mother presented him with his first art supplies. It was then that his love for art began. Charles' injury caused him to become lame. He was close to both parents, but especially to his mom because of his physical frailty. When Charles was at school, he hung out with the girls because they were not…