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Ahhh, good old New Year's resolutions. Now we all know that these seemingly solemn oaths are, more often than not, nothing more than optimistic rants as you stu...
“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth...
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India made history on Wednesday at 7.41am, local time when it became the first nation to successfully put a satellite into Mars orbit on first attempt, and the ...
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Naturally, the lion’s share of discourse regarding the ongoing Ebola epidemic has focused on the risks faced by humans. But we aren’t the only species of primat...
Chances are you haven't heard of the action-platform game, Conker's Bad Fur Day, as it was released on a Nintendo console. The Nintendo 64, towards the end of i...
On March 8 Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur at 00:41 local time with 239 people on board, it was scheduled to land in Beijing at 06:30. The ...
When you love reading there are very few pleasures in life greater than buying books. I, like many others have found myself spending money I genuinely haven’t g...
On the back of my Penguin Classics’ Fathers and Sons Turgenev’s hero is described as “one of the most remarkable figures in Russian Literature”. It continues “...
When you think of the word hero, who immediately springs to mind? I’m sure a majority of people will think of someone famous. An actor/actress, musician, sports...
Rebooting movies has recently become something of a new craze in the world of Hollywood. From successful blockbusters such as The Amazing Spider-Man and Star Tr...
Twice already this year Scarlet Johansson has taken roles in which she is forced to communicate with and observe humanity from the position of an outsider – fir...
Revolution as defined by the Oxford dictionary “A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.” The term has appeared througho...
Pubs have their own personalities and artifacts that give them character. Some are historic places filled with stories of ghosts and mysteries and others are mo...
As you may have figured from my other articles, I’m a gay man. Not ‘flamboyantly’ so, but nor am I a man’s-man either. I’m allergic to the gym, and I own skinny...
From the director of neo-noir film ‘Brick’ (Rian Johnson) comes ‘Looper.’ Starring again Joseph Gordon Levitt along with Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt the story ...
The Foals have been around for several years now and are always pushing the boundaries of their music. Never have they been ones to notice that a certain style ...
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University is a great time to go out, meet people, find yourself and create connections and friendships that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Well ...
Welcome to our Student City Travel Guide for Amsterdam! This series of article pulls together information from many different sources to help you decide o...
Proof reading someone else's work will never be a fun thing to do. It won't be a pleasant thing to do, it won't be satisfying and it won't even be useful to you...
I’m sure most of us have by now heard about the tragic Rana Plaza fire in the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka last month. I, like many other people, was horri...
We can be slaves to a number of tyrants and oppressive and exploitative systems, but slavery can exist in different forms, and slaves don’t always have to be li...
Is bikini season starting to seem all too soon? Are you starting to worry that that beach body you promised yourself at Christmas is still, well, hibernating? D...
Bad hair day? Nope... never heard of it.
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Guess who’s been learning some interesting things about early modern cross-dressing recently? That’s right, it’s me! I have to say that my current essay has bee...