Personal Statement
Please include a personal statement about why you are applying and what you feel you can contribute to the program. Your statement should be a minimum of 500 words and include the following information: Why would you like to attend this Oxbridge program? Please tell us about your academic and extracurricular interests. Be sure to include your current, unweighted grade point average (GPA) or your school's equivalent. What interests you about the Major and/or Minor/Workshop courses you intend to pursue? What do you feel you will contribute to the program? Feel free to share any additional details that you feel may help our Admissions Team understand why you are a good fit for this program.

so can someone help me cause I'm not sure how to write this on a way that is convincing​

Answer:

When I saw Gatz, John Collin's eight-hour interpretation of The Great Gatsby, I noticed that Fitzgerald changes the color of Daisy's hair every time he describes it. It is "like a dash of blue paint", "yellowy" like her daughters, and then "dark, shining". Perhaps Fitzgerald believed that Daisy, a character so transient that her love fluctuates from one man to another within a page, was too contradictory, too whimsical to retain a fixed appearance. For Gatsby, she is a dream, an ideal guaranteed to disappoint and as our view of her changes so does her hair. It is small details, a single word that changes the meaning of a passage, which make me love English Literature. In An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Yeats writes "I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above" and then later "a lonely impulse of delight drove to this tumult in the clouds". The pilot, who had been looking up at the clouds that are "above" him, is suddenly "in" them and we get a powerful sense of his ascent with only the use of two prepositions.

Podcasts of lectures given by Helen Vendler on poems such as Sailing to Byzantium and Among School Children inspired my interest in Yeats but the Romanticism that was so influential in his earlier work also fascinates me. In She Walks in Beauty Byron describes the light that "one ray the less" would have destroyed the grace that effuses both the trees and the face in his poem. I love the idea that the woman is made beautiful by light - that nature has the power to "mellow" a face or "solemnize" the mind as Shelley writes in Frankenstein. I also became interested in the lives of the Romantics after watching the plays Bloody Poetry, Mary Shelley, and the film Bright Star.

It was through Bright Star that I discovered my favorite poem Ode To A Nightingale - the sense of "drowsy numbness" allows us "to dissolve", like the narrator, and travel "through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways" until we are "upon the midnight" with the nightingale. The same sense of "dreamy divagation" is present in The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop and in both cases after being lulled by the gentle progression of the poem we are quickly awakened: Bishop "stops with a jolt" and Keats asks "do I wake or sleep?" I am looking forward to comparing literature in this way on a university course.

Attending my school's feminist society has inspired me to question the portrayals of women in literature. King Lear blames his wife for the wickedness of his daughters, Austen's Lizzy flaunts convention so successfully that she attracts a millionaire and marries him, Bella is referred to as "the lovely woman" throughout Our Mutual Friend, and Sonya is dismissed as a "sterile flower" when Nikolai abandons her in War and Peace. I am currently reading Middlemarch, which with Eliot's realistic heroines and flawed male characters, seems indicative of a radical change in the way in which women were being viewed both in literature and outside of it.

I have been strengthening my analytical skills with the creation of a blog in which I review the books I have recently read, such as Catch 22, A Picture of Dorian Grey, and The View from Castle Rock. This was especially beneficial when participating in an exhibition at the British Museum. I was part of a project in which we were asked to respond, through descriptions and sketches, to the construction of a new northwest wing of the gallery. I am interested in combining English and Art further and so would like to spend a year doing an art foundation before returning to academic study. Volunteering in the SEN department of my school has also had a profound effect on the way I view English Literature; many of the teenagers I work with find reading challenging and often struggle to express their opinions. By reading and discussing novels with them I realize that I am only just beginning to appreciate English Literature and am excited about expanding my knowledge on a university course.

In paragraph 3, why is Nixon explaining how his wife was never on payroll?
A) he is using logos by stating facts and data to support his claim that she would be paid
B) he is using Latinos to try to get an emotion reaction from the audience
C) he is using o this by stating facts
D) he is using ethos to establish credibility and gain the trust of the audience

When using the phrases like `there is, there are, here is, and here are', one should make sure that the subjects and verbs agree.

Select one:

a. False

b. True​

I have this question and i dont know what it means
"What does it take to prevail in a difficult situation?"

the bottom one please i'll give you 20 points

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read the story and and tell me the (literary devices)

the story name
Fern Hill
DYLAN THOMAS-1914 -1953​

Describe the last kind thing that you did for someone. How did it make you feel?
What motivated you to do it? Do you think it matters what motivates us to be kind? Why or why not?​

What central ideas are prevalent in both Common Sense and Washington’s “Farewell Address”? How does each text address these central ideas?

Which statement MOST accurately contrasts the portrayal of the bears in each story?
A)
the smallest bed in the Goldilocks tale.
B)
The bears in the Goldilocks story are a family, but the bears in "Scrapefoot"
are merely described by their size.
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The bears in the "Scrapefoot" story are a family, but the bears in the
Goldilocks tale are merely described by their size.
D)
The bears in the Scrapefoot story scare the fox away, but the three bears in
the Goldilocks tale welcome her into their home.

Describe two tips and tricks that will help you write an organized rough draft easily and efficiently

Please help me !!!!!

who ever does this firs i'll mark them the brainlyest

Is the answer correct yes or no .If it correct write it correct if it wrongs write the correct answer.

Assessment Preparation: Sentence Completion Chapters 1-3 Answers?

Motorsport Yeah,
Put That Thing In Sport (Skrrt, Skrrt)
Shawty Bad, (Bad)
Pop Her Like A Cork (Pop It)

Life is like 2. A dense forest seems like 3. Memories act as 4. Love is 5. School is 6. Pets are
Can someone give me some Similes and Metaphors for them? Thank you!

Which physical feature makes up the eastern border of Europe?

the Alps
the Atlantic Ocean
the Ural Mountains
the Mediterranean Sea

Haley: Would you get a move on? Are you deaf?1
Kenneth: I'm going! Would you just wait a second?
Haley: Sorry, but I'm just anxious to meet Francis. I think he gypped some of my tips from last night?
Kenneth: What? Francis wouldn't do that! He always splits the tips between the wait staff fairly. Besides he's
Catholic. He would never steal.3
Haley: Right, because you wouldn't say anything at all to defend your best friend.
Kenneth: I wouldn't!
Haley: You're a guy, Kenneth. All boys stick together. It's a part of your code or something. 4
Kenneth: Now you're just being unreasonable. I guess you can't help it. You're young after all.
Haley: You're one month older than me!
What type of biased language can be found in Line 3?
5
а.
ability
b. race
C. ethnicity
d. religion

Read the passage below.


In the 1920s, during a period known as the Jazz Age, jazz music became popular. Another feature of this period was a dance known as the Charleston, which became popular among the younger crowds.


What is the purpose of the continuation signal word “another”?


to show that jazz music, but not the dance known as the Charleston, was popular during the Jazz Age

to show that the Charleston was popular during the Jazz Age, but only when accompanied by jazz music

to show that both jazz music and the Charleston were popular during the Jazz Age

to show that the Charleston and jazz music were only enjoyed by younger crowds during the Jazz Age

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Write an essay explaining whether or not kids should do extreme sports?Please help I am not good at essays

Make the present simple, positive, negative or question:

1. I______(be) in a café now.


2.________(she / play) tennis every week?

3. They________(go) to the cinema every Wednesday.

4. _________ (she/be) a singer?

5. You______(find) the weather here cold.

6. _______(they/be) on the bus?

7. Lucy______ (ride) her bicycle to work.

8. Why_____ (he /be) in France?

9. I_______(not/play) the piano often.

10. It_____(not/be) cold today.

11. We____(be) from Portugal.

12.______(we/make) too much noise at night?

13.Where____(Harry / study)?

14.______(it /be) foggy today?

15. We________(not/be) late.

How does the skin protect the body against illness? Select two options. The skin produces sweat and oil. The skin acts as a barrier. The skin identifies and coordinates an immune response. The skin produces mucus. The skin causes the body to produce antibodies.

Haley: Would you get a move on? Are you deaf?
Kenneth: I'm going! Would you just wait a second?
Haley: Sorry, but I'm just anxious to meet Francis. I think he gypped some of my tips from last night?
Kenneth: What? Francis wouldn't do that! He always splits the tips between the wait staff fairly. Besides he's
Catholic. He would never steal.3
Haley: Right, because you wouldn't say anything at all to defend your best friend.
Kenneth: I wouldn't!
Haley: You're a guy, Kenneth. All boys stick together. It's a part of your code or something. 4
Kenneth: Now you're just being unreasonable. I guess you can't help it. You're young after all.
5
Haley: You're one month older than me!
What type of biased language can be found in Line 5?
а. religion
b. gender
C.
age
d. ability

What does the word module mean as used in this excerpt? The 2000 study, also done with MRI scanners, found a change in the shape of the cabbies' hippocampus, the brain module where new memories of place are stored. command feature section width

You have read a scene from the play Pygmalion. Think about what might happen next and how the scene would change if it were written as a story.

Write a story that tells what happens next, using one of the characters from the scene as the narrator. Use what you have learned about the scene’s setting, conflict, and characters to create your story.

How can we write the wrongs of the past?

Which quotation from a Shakespearean sonnet is couplet

White Dolphin summary chapter 7 - 8

What is Zinsser saying about who generally writes the weakest sentences?

Answer the reflection question in a well-thought-out paragraph or two.
Reflection question for “Why Read Shakespeare?”
Which is more important—that literature teaches readers about life or that understanding life helps readers understand literature? Explain by discussing the interplay between literature and your own life.