The Oxford Student – The Oxford Student
WEBCameron Samuel Keys. For two weeks in September, 25 Palestinian medical students from the West Bank and Gaza swapped their usual lives for an intensive training course in Oxford. For the second year running, the OxPal summer school has arranged for a cohort of medical students from Palestine to fly to Oxford and facilitated “a crash course on ...
Book Review: ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway
WEBNov 10, 2019 · Hemingway published ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ in 1952, and it was to be his last major work. It is easy to see the parallels between the old man in the novel, called Santiago, and Hemingway. Santiago suffers from bad luck in his old age despite being a great fisher in his youth. Hemingway had been trying to reclaim the literary success of ...
Twink culture and body positivity – The Oxford Student
WEBApr 11, 2021 · Twink culture and body positivity. Image Description: Two men kissing at the Baltimore Pride Parade block party 2017. TW: Body Image, Eating Disorders. From an outside perspective, the idea of the ‘twink’ can be something of a joke. It helps non-LGBTQ+ people to neatly categorise queer people into more easily understandable stereotypes ...
Debate: Private schools shouldn’t be abolished - The Oxford Student
WEBOct 15, 2019 · Debate: Private schools shouldn’t be abolished. For many on the left, private education is indisputably negative. Without question, the existence of private schools contradicts social justice. They afford some children access to better education by virtue of their parent’s income, bastions of privilege that work to perpetuate social inequality.
The Fresher's guide to Oxford's libraries – The Oxford Student
WEBAug 19, 2017 · The Fresher’s guide to Oxford’s libraries. Lizzie Shelmerdine. Oxford libraries: we love them, and then quite quickly hate them – usually around the time that the first reading list hits. Having admired the glory of the Radcliffe Camera on the open day, you’ll soon stop Instagramming it once it comes permanently seared into your retinas ...
Should song lyrics be considered poetry? – The Oxford Student
WEBJan 27, 2014 · Harry Chancellor: The song lyric relies on its musical backdrop. In this sense it is distinct from what is conventionally termed ‘poetry’, as the strength of a poem is conveyed through words alone. Nevertheless, I believe similarities between song and poem can be drawn. Both rely on being spoken aloud; on rhythm, flow and scansion.
In Conversation: Alex J. O’Connor, Cosmic Skeptic
WEBJan 18, 2020 · Image Description: Alex J. O’Connor Alex J. O’Connor is the founder of the Cosmic Skeptic YouTube channel, podcast and blog, and his work is dedicated to the open discussion of philosophy and religion. He is an experienced public speaker, debater, and interviewer, and has over 300,000 YouTube subscribers. He also finds time to study at the University of Oxford. You are known for your ...
The benefits of online communication – The Oxford Student
WEBApr 5, 2020 · Staying at home has been onerous for many, and we’re all starting to miss the once ostensibly small but now perceivably luxurious activities that would assumedly come with the return home for the vac. There are many parts of the pre-COVID-19 world for which we all feel saudade; activities as futile as a stroll around the grey and rainy block are sunlit in our memories (which feel much more ...
Debate: Private schools should be abolished - The Oxford Student
WEBOct 15, 2019 · The abolition of private schools would not only be levelling the playing field, but would provide poorer students with a fundamental level of education that they have a right to, yet whom are priced out from it under the current education system. Around 40% of students at Oxford are from private schools, in comparison to the general population ...
The problem with feminism – The Oxford Student
WEBOct 24, 2020 · The narrative surrounding feminism is dripping with horror stories of so-called ‘feminazis’ wishing for a world free of men and mockeries of a line of women waiting to jump on the opportunity to wrongly accuse unsuspecting men. As ridiculous as these stereotypes are, tabloids are all too eager to push feminism into the forefront for all the ...
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