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Oxford

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March 30th 2009
I am taking a class for study abroad students called British Life and Culture. We get to take field trips to historic and cultural sites in England. Unfortunately then we have to write an essay about it. So recently, I went to Oxford with this class. I really enjoyed Oxford. It was a sleepy little academic town in a very pretty and green part of England. Oxford University is the oldest Unive ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more