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A Legend worth Living Of the many prominent English writers in recent history, one that certainly stands out is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. A specialist in Old and Middle English at the University of Oxford, Tolkien is remembered as professor, scholar, and storyteller (Doughan). Particularly, his series The Hobbit, as well as its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, earned him great fame and success. Honored by many and loved by literally millions, Tolkien’s work is often considered the greatest of…

novel, “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story” by Timothy B. Tyson highlights a time when segregation was a major issue in areas such as Oxford, North Carolina. Although segregation had been outlawed due to the court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whites still viewed African Americans as lesser people. The town of Oxford is a very racist town that does not want to integrate blacks into their every day lives, but they get a new preacher at their…

The first claim that Shakespeare may not have written the plays and sonnets came in 1785. These claims came forth by an Oxford scholar by the name of James Wilmot. Wilmot, who lived near Stratford-upon-Avon, began to search for local records that would’ve proved Shakespeare’s authorship, but came up empty handed. There were not many documents on Shakespeare back then since…

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to fertility control to aid in a country’s development. Bibliography Mustapha, N. (2009). Socioloy for Caribbean Students. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers. Scott, J., & Gordon, M. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. Oxford University Press. Oxforddictionaries.com. (2013). Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Macmillandictionary.com (2009-2013). Macmillan Dictionary. Macmillan Publishers Limited. Thefreedictionary.com (2013). The Free Dictionary by Farlex. Farlex,…

conflicts and his crazy drawings made him famous. He was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2,1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Theodor went on to graduated from Dartmouth college in 1925. He then studied at Lincoln college of Oxford University. After dropping out from Oxford, he traveled throughout Europe, mingling with other Americans in Paris. He eventually returned to New York , Seuss spent fifteen years in advertising before joining the army and making two Oscar-winning documentaries,…

(Oxford) According to Oxford, this inventory was in the high thousands. (Oxford) This earned him the nickname “Thief of Bad Gags.” (Oxford) He also emulated other comedians to develop his “fast-paced monologs.” (Wertheim 58) Further, he imitated other famous individuals like Carmen Miranda who was a “Brazilian singer.”…

dust jacket says that Edwards “followed the Oxford undergraduate course originally devised by Tolkien,” which would have required mastery of Old English and Middle English philology as well as Anglo-Saxon and Medieval texts through Chaucer: the very matters which occupied Tolkien’s professional life. Edwards is also Catholic, and has published works on Catholic Traditionalism and the Reformation, and has some experience working as a researcher for the Oxford…

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Penicillin was one of the first antibiotics created and used on the population. Sir Alexander Fleming changed the world of medicine not only in his days but also in present-day society. Penicillin was one of the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century, as antibiotics are one of the highest prescribed drugs in the world today. Penicillin is responsible for preventing the spread of infectious disease, and for improving military medicine. While revolutionizing the study of medicine,…