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interviews

It’s never too late to be a student again

A mature student discusses her experiences at university

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other works

The significance of conflicting feelings in representations of war

Patriotic and imperial impulses jostle with anti-war sentiment. Discuss the significance of conflicting feelings in representations of war in The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Man of Feeling

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other works

The effect of sound in Hitchcock’s films

How does the use of sound in Hitchcock’s films contribute to their overall effect?

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other works

Theatre and crime: Measure for Measure as an act of treason

Griffiths states that “the worlds of crime and the worlds of the dramatist…regularly overlapped on the page, stage, and street”, and Measure for Measure is known as the ‘problem’ play

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other works

The intersection of Shakespeare and crime in relation to sex

An interrogation of the intersection of crime and sex in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

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other works

Representations of illicit female sexuality in fiction

How is illicit female sexuality portrayed in Fifty Shades of Grey and The Children’s Hour?

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other works

Music as cultural resistance

Cultural resistance in the albums What’s Going On and To Pimp a Butterfly

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lgbtq+

I am pansexual

I never felt an urge to officially come out, but in honour of National Coming Out day it seemed appropriate to write something. So this is me, declaring I’m pansexual.

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lgbtq+

Conversion therapy in the UK

Conversion therapy in the US is often brought up in the media, but I have rarely heard of the practice in the UK so I decided to research

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opinion pieces

The problem with WeightWatcher’s Kurbo

WW, formerly WeightWatchers, launched a new health app for children called Kurbo, and as someone with an eating disorder past, I find it hugely problematic.