University College, Oxford

of expression used by teenagers to communicate swiftly with their friends. Mostly, it is grammatically incorrect and filled with abbreviations. C. Miles (2012), a contributor for the Deseret News and student of English Education at Brigham Young University in Idaho explains that textspeak is the new Newspeak that Orwell conveyed in his novel 1984. Miles proves this to be true by researching the usage of shortened terms and made up words that don’t make sense in SMS. They are conveying the…

Unstained by the cruelties of reality, Adam and Eve had a wonderful life. They had animals, gardens, each other, Alpacas, a tent, the sun and moon, the Oxford English Dictionary, and a newfound attachment to the word incandescent. Reading from the Oxford English Dictionary, they learned the Latin origin of their new favorite word, which was derived from incandēscĕre, which means to inflame, warm, and glow, and Candēscĕre, which means to become white…

In a rather secular Europe in the 1850s, muscular Christianity and Sports were used as a tool to reinspire a new kind of faith in the youth of Europe. The movement, gaining a great deal of momentum, was quickly spread to the rest of the western world. However, afterwards, in America, there was a revitalization in this concept as a response to a loss of faith, a revival which lives on to this day, however different from its original inspirations. In James A. Mathisen’s article, :"Reviving…

“William Shakespeare of Stratford could not possibly have written the plays and poems ascribed to him, for a number of reasons. One was that he apparently did not have an education and experience necessary for their composition, having never attended university, and never traveled abroad” (Edmondson and Wells 23). Plays during his lifetime were of great value and taken seriously. Civilians felt as though it was their civic duty to involve themselves in the theater or to at minimum go and watch. …

It was written by Keir Cutler on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship website. This website is reliable because it is dedicated to Shakespeare and researching the topic of true authorship. First, Cutler says that there is no evidence to prove that William Shakespeare was a writer, only an actor. All there…

Throughout history many people are surprised at how some things that may have been thought to be stereotypically boring actually have a very interesting back story. The story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a very interesting and peculiar story. The Oxford English Dictionary is the reference point for the entire English language so its impact on society is overwhelming. The impact of this dictionary can not be measured in any way as it is that important to the English…

Service can be defined in many ways and by many actions; personally, I view service as helping or doing work for someone, especially work that one may not be used to doing in everyday life. Volunteer work is truly my idea of service, mainly because of the fact that no charge is incorporated into the work, keeping it centered with good intentions and pure motives. I applied this exact attitude towards my work for UIndy’s Super Saturday of Service, specifically when I was sent to South Circle Farm…

dotted with students of varying ages and ethnic backgrounds.Higher education’s evolution in America can point to many major areas of change, governance, curriculum, funding, diversity and content delivery. Birthed in medieval Europe the early college 's curriculum consisted of the trivium – grammar, law, and rhetoric. There were schools…

Curriculum in Post-Secondary Education Throughout the 1700s, nine colleges (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, and Columbia) were founded throughout the thirteen original colonies for religious purposes. While each of these colleges were either secular or had different religious denominations, all of these colleges had their curriculum modeled after that in the English college system. This curriculum included instruction in subjects…

that college is a surefire way to strive for the American Dream. College is a post-secondary institution that allows for people to nourish their minds in diverse fields and jobs. Topics learned in college range from an algebraic accountant to a barbaric zoologist. The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, exuberantly demonstrates the necessity of college towards one’s success: "It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That’s why I can’t really call myself an Oxford…