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diagnosed with diabetes. She died in November that year and the boys became orphaned. John later mastered Latin and Greek. Sometimes he would make up his own languages. War started in 1914 and John didn't want to go to war right away. He returned to Oxford and worked hard. He got a degree in 1915. Soon he did have to go to war. John married Edith Bratt in 1916. John was sent to the Western Front. Four months past and…

Should Undergraduates specialize by Patrick N. Allitt is an essay about the differences of college education over twenty years. Patrick went to university of Oxford in England. The British meritocratic system, put in place after world war two. It was based around what skills a person had. The governing idea was intelligent were a national asset and the government was investing in them by educating them. Students food and lodging was paid in full and got additional money to pay for books and…

1.1 Communitarianism (a) Definition Communitarianism is the “doctrine that advocates a regime in which personal property is absent (it is distinguished from communism by its personal character).” (b) Source Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Kindle edition (Porto Editora 2013) location 47704. (c) Meaning This doctrine focuses on the community rather than the individual. Property does not belong anyone specific, but is to and is accessible to all equally - similar to socialism, different from…

The typical reader of fantasy literature wouldn’t expect to find symbols for Christianity in a book. But a reader of a work by C.S Lewis can expect just that. Lewis was a poet, scholar, and above all, one of the most renowned authors of fantasy literature during the 20th century. He was best known for The Chronicles of Narnia series, and specifically, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. He was a devout Christian and was a defender and teacher of the faith. His faith and life experiences had a…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of indignant is" feeling or showing anger at what is perceived as an unfair treatment." This word's history and etymology come from the late 16th century from two Latin verbs. The verbs are indignari, meaning "not" and dignus meaning "worthy" (Oxford English Dictionary). In Good Country People or A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannory O’Conner, the definition as presented in the Oxford English Dictionary does not fully apply to the…

Then there’s the whole other race factor: Is concern over “income levels” and “demographic change” just gloss for an underlying assumption—that neighborhoods go south when white people move out and black people move in. If that isn’t enough to roil the revitalization waters, this emerging shift in neighborhood policy rings all kinds of alarm bells about gentrification and social engineering. Baltimore has avoided such prickly issues for the last decade with a community development approach…

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pedagogue, and virtuoso pianist. He was born on October 22, 1811 and died July 31, 1886. For many years, up through the 19th century, he was regarded as the world’s best pianist. Liszt was renowned for his unparalleled piano technique. Liszt extensively toured Europe, celebrated as the world’s best pianist. Liszt saw both fame and fortune in his career. He died in Germany due to complications from pneumonia. Liszt was born in Raiding, Austria on…

The topic of Dr. Jeffres presentation was C.S. Lewis. The thesis centered on Lewis’s success despite adversity. Due to the format of the presentation, many of the key points of the lecture focused on important dates in Lewis’s life. One of the more notable dates that was discussed was the birth date of Lewis, which happened to be November 29, 1898. As was pointed out by Dr. Jeffres, Lewis was born in Ireland, which came as a bit of a surprise to me as for some reason I always believed he was…

Abortion is Murder and This is Why “Abort: One: To end a pregnancy early in order to prevent a baby from developing and being born alive: to abort a child. Two: Cause to end fruitlessley or prematurely. Three: Abandon or terminate” ( Student's Oxford Canadian Dictionary). Abortion is murder and should be treated as such and be illegal and charged for just the same as any other murder. I will be telling the facts to support why this is. Killing a person is murder, no matter how…

which were due to Rome. He won the favor of the king with his ideas like the ones he said in “his work [that he] denied the validity of clerical ownership of land and property as well as the papal jurisdiction in temporal affairs.” He also taught at Oxford as well as having a parish. As his ideas were attacked, he grew more aggressive and became more outspoken with his ideas. He preached against any ceremony not mentioned in the Bible, “he dismissed the whole structure of rituals, ceremonies,…