University College, Oxford

for myself not anyone else. That day I went home and took a good look in the mirror. I realized that it was stupid of me to limit myself to one goal in my life. I told myself from that day on I will get my college education. Even if I do become a successful actor before I am done college I will still finish getting my…

His first civilian job was working for a famous dictionary organization, The Oxford English Dictionary. His work was mainly the history and etymology of words that were of Germanic origin. Particularly those words that began with the letter W. Shortly after this, he became the youngest professor at the University of Leeds. His job here was as a reader in English language. While at the University, he produced A Middle English Vocabulary, a piece of academic standard work that contained…

Honor means high respect, esteem, privilege. Honor to me means to both give and receive respect, strength, doing the right thing (even when it's hard), putting others needs above yours, holding yourself to your values and not harming others. There are many people who hold definition to honor...such as scientists, firefighters, soldiers, government officials (like the president). There is many people that are honorable, one of these people are Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was…

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the oldest of four children. When Faulkner was five years old, his father decided to move the family to Oxford, Mississippi. During his childhood, the adults around him would tell him stories about the civil war, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and his family history. A favorite tale among his family was of his great-grandfather, after whom he was named, who was a successful business man, writer, and war…

other joys included participating in the theatre, his love and talent for the fine arts only grew as he entered his later years. Having been out of school for a year, George met an Oxford student who encouraged him to pursue a degree. He followed suit, and finished his grammar schooling to enroll in Pembroke College at Oxford. Whitefield did not see the Lord’s work on his life at this time, but all of these events and hardships he faced led him to meet the Wesley brothers, John and Charles. The…

Javier Suarez 5working with people can be gained by simply going out in the world, rather than payingthousands of dollars to attend to college. Some students also rather obtain a well-rounded workexperience rather than a specific one, and attending to college is also not necessary to do this.Studying and reading books can give a person the knowledge that they are looking for rather thanhaving to pay for classes on topics they are not interested on. Paying for a book to then read andstudy is a…

The College of Education and Advancement for Academic Growth presents to you Abacus College. Abacus College is one of Oxford’s oldest established college in the UK which offers pre-university education. It focuses primarily on preparing its students for admission into UK universities. It prides itself on its thirty (30) years of experience in assisting students to accomplish their goals of being placed in British Universities across the UK. This is a small and friendly college which guarantees…

Former president of Boston University, John Silber, who was also ran for the position of governor for the state of Massachusetts, was an intellectual man. Even after his death, September 27, 2012, he left behind his legacy and had “Sherborn Street” renamed by the city of Boston, the “John R. Silber Way” in honor of him. John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and…

of approximately 60 students on a recent recruiting visit to the Texas A&M University insinuated by a selected few student from TAMU. A small group of approximately twelve white college students approached two African American students from Uplift Hampton Preparatory; a charter public school mainly of students of lower socioeconomic status, and minorities. The article went into detailed interactions of the group of college aged students toward the young group of students from the high school.…

Campus safety has always been a major priority for most colleges across the country. This unfortunately wasn’t the case for some universities back then. On April 16, 2007, a Virginia tech Senior managed to kill a total of 32 people on campus. Campus safety soon than became an important issue for universities around the nation and the outcome of this incident is best described as a “trigger for the growing number of campus safety resources nationwide”, said by Jill Castellano. As every year…