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Thursday 25 June 2009

My final exams finished nearly three weeks ago, and thus also my Oxford career. Something which occurred to me as I prepared for Schools was how most of my various papers were linked chronologically. So, after I finished, for want of much else to do, I sat down and made a timeline of the things I studied. This is probably of no interest to anyone other than me, but there you are.

Timeline of content for my Final Honour School
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What you can see from the timeline is that there is a gap where I studied nothing between the 5th century B.C. and the 1st century B.C., and the a shorter gap between the end of my Medieval French paper (1530) and the 17th-century portion of my Ancient and French Classical Tragedy paper. Otherwise there was always theoretically something

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  1. Something is rotten in the airport of Heathrow

    Tuesday 1 April 2008

    The recent chaos at Heathrow brought about when the new Terminal 5 opened to passengers last Thursday has shot the airport to people’s attention across much of the world.

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  2. A tale of Swiss bureaucracy

    Tuesday 30 October 2007

    In case you didn’t know, I am spending this academic year as an ‘étudiant libre’ at the University of Geneva. Since I am studying Modern Languages (French, in

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  3. A trip into the Outback to take some photos

    Wednesday 24 October 2007

    I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and

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Wednesday 22 April 2009 #

You heard it first in the Wall Street Journal (a month ago): be prepared for the great Scrabble points-slump. Rumour has it that Boggle is prepared to work on a points-stimulus package, but that has met with mixed reactions within the games cupboard.

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Five ways in which the iPhone game Flight Control differs from a real-world job in Approach Control

Sunday 19 April 2009

  1. In the real world planes can’t do hairpin bends over the end of the runway at which they are about to land.
  2. In the real world planes can fly at different altitudes with more of a distinction than just ‘on the ground’ vs. ‘in the air’.
  3. In the real world aircraft don’t just magically disappear less than a second after touching the ground.
  4. In the real world when two …

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Tuesday 31 March 2009 #

For example:

“‘O tempora, O mores’? O give it a rest.”

 

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Essay: Linguistic commentary on longer late-Latin texts

Monday 9 March 2009 #

“Using Rohlfs’ texts 2 [Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis], 13 [extracts from the Peregrinatio Egeriae], and 20 [extracts from Caesarius of Arles], compare and contrast the value of these texts for the Romance linguist’s understanding of Latin syntax and/or semantics.”

Paper:
Romance Philology
Due:
12 March 2009 Complete!

Essay: Classical Tragedy Comparisons

Monday 2 March 2009 #

“Compare the stagecraft of Racine and Euripides.”
You should examine in detail Racine’s Andromaque and Iphigénie and Euripides’ Andromache and Iphigenia at Aulis, looking out particularly for their use of scenery, exits and entrances, costume, properties, movement and gesture.

Paper:
Ancient & French Classical Tragedy
Due:
10 March 2009 Complete!