Archive for 2015

Sexualities

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So sexuality is quite possibly one of the most bizarre and complex concepts in our society. (Keeping the tone equally as deep and severe as always). Such complexity is perhaps why it astounds me that one sexuality is assumed for the entire population of the planet and a person is required to state otherwise. Within sexuality we are

The R****** Crisis

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I've wanted to talk about the refugee crisis (REFUGEE. Not migrant. Although I'll probably talk about where I stand with that in a bit.) for a really long time. And how it has literally become so stigmatised (hence the snazzy title) and created such a vile moral panic that it makes me want to scream repeatedly at a

Curing a Reading Slump

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I, of all people, know how hard it is to a) make time for reading and b) pick it up again after you haven't for so long. At the stat of this year and briefly in the summer I hardly read at all and couldn't break out of that slump for quite some time. You need to find

Books I Want To Read Before I Turn 18!

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I would be lying if I said this wasn't more for my own reference than anything else. In the next just under 2 years I want to have read all of these... if that is a completely naive and unattainable aim then I'll limit it to 3/4 of the list. In no particular order and all that... (By

A Handful of Quotes (+ my first rant-free post!)

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Ok wow. In desperation to do at least one post that isn't based completely on bloody education, for once I figured I would just discuss some of my all time favourite book quotes. For anyone who has spent about a week in my company, you'll be able to guess at least half of the books these quotes will

(Another) Rant?

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EDIT 21/10: Since writing this I think that it came across a lot harsher than I intended. Shockingly, I really do enjoy school. Don't hold me to this, it was a spur of the moment anger thing and I don't believe all of these things, especially not to the extent I gave the impression of. It seems a

Notes To Self + A Small Train of Thought

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As time passes I'm regretting more and more putting blogging as my DofE skill. Not because I have a lack of things to talk about, anyone that has had any contact with my in any way whatsoever will understand that could never be the case. But it's very hard to translate verbal language into coherent sentences that enforce

What We're Not Being Taught

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So I was thinking the other day, having been asked to do an assembly on a topic of my choosing, about the awareness spread concerning gender and sexuality within school curriculum. This provoked me to consider how much exposure my school personally has allowed for either of these topics and I realised that, in my recollection, we have

The Flaws of the Education System

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The thing with the education system is that your fate is pretty much decided by the age of 6. Even before that, academic achievement is limited by predetermined factors like your class, gender and ethnicity. Take class, for example. Arguably, your standard comprehensive state schools uphold very middle class values through the standards by which the school is

Words: A Creation of Humanity

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Humans are the epitome of intriguing. Words themselves were created by humans (and continue to be created to this day), are spoken by humans and used by humans to hurt or to cherish, to hold the smallest and most irrelevant of conversations or to settle life-threatening disputes. Words in one area take the definition of words in another.

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