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    poverty.Oxfam stands for Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.For the first time the creators of Oxfam met together in October 1942 in Oxford, to discuss with the government the opportunity to decrease(reduce) the allied blockade of occupied Europe and cover feeding of imperative alleviation key to civilians.Oxfam was created with 8 various members the(famous) powerful one was Jackson-Cole a London businessman(Web Cache,N/A).This became now Oxfam GB and still based in Oxford, Oxfordshire.Oxfam GB started

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    Technology Commercialisation Assignment 1: Identify and Plan an Opportunity Identifying the product opportunity Software Scores English Language Students is a new learning-language software developed by Oxford University and is controlled by Isis Innovation. The software was made to measure the student’s performance accurately despising any accent, using a new method that is able to recognise what is more important for the understanding of each word. English is the most important language in the

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    associated in some common function. The ancient Roman craft guilds were called collegia. The closest parallel today is the corporation, a business organization chartered by a government.  During the Middle Ages students at the universities of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge found it convenient to rent houses and share expenses instead of living in private apartments. By the 13th century these “houses of scholars” were becoming legally recognized corporate institutions.

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    Oxford University is one of the oldest Universities in existence. It is located in Oxford England about 50 miles northwest of London and is the oldest University in England. Oxford University is important because it is vital to not just people in England, but to the whole world at large. It has been first and foremost in setting standards for teaching and learning. Oxford has been known for exceptional communication skills which were needed in trade between countries and smaller entities for

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    Jude the Obscure and Social Darwinism         Jude the Obscure is indeed a lesson in cruelty and despair; the inevitable by-products of Social Darwinism. The main characters of the book are controlled by fate's "compelling arm of extraordinary muscular power"(1), weakly resisting the influence of their own sexuality, and of society and nature around them.   Jude's world is one in which only the fittest survive, and he is clearly not equipped to number amongst the fittest. In keeping

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    people look at you as if you're dirt. December, January and February are the darkest and coldest months of the year. For you, it means turning up your heating, putting on an extra layer of clothing, or making more fires. But for anyone living on the streets, it is horrid. They don't have a roof above their heads, or a warm blanket to snuggle into. We only know how cold the day gets, but imagine the nights! The noise, the weather, the dangers... nothing is safe. Most humans believe that all homeless

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    How to understand ‘decline’? It is always a question how to conceptualize something so inevitable; as inevitable as prosperity. But of whose decline is the question? Before going deeper on the subject matter, it becomes thus important to introduce the characters of the story and those norms that give them substance. In this case the actors will be nations. But as nation we shall not mean the set of those who have an imagined idea of belonging to a certain territory, customs and history (Scaritt,

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    first arose in the 1970s; since then the animal rights movement has gained momentum and a considerable amount of followers “Animal Rights.” Organizations like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) hold demonstrations and protests in the streets and outside businesses to denounce the maltreatment of animals. There are two sides on this issue, those who believe that the life of an animal is inferior to that of a human’s and those who deem that animals deserve to have a life free of human interruption

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    in regard to their place in the world? With their rows of letters and series of words, what could they represent? How do people see these bounded pieces of paper? In a very general sense, they represent a type of art. "Art", as defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary, is "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination . . . producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power." The majority of people would accept this as a good idea of what

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    would have thought the little girl would’ve died because of how the poem is written in a song like structure. By introducing the poem, the protagonist asks her mother a question: “Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?” (Randall 1- 4)

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