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Many of you may be wondering how it is that I claim to know the impossible: what Freud really thought. The truth is, of course I don’t. It’s fun to…

The years preceding the American Civil War were rife with tensions between the South and the North. The abolitionist movement was gaining popularity, and slaveholders were being increasingly criticised. A…

”Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it”, said Stephen Leacock. He probably stated an undisputable truth as we…

The frontal lobes are considered out emotional control centre and home to out personality. There is no other part of the brain where lesions can cause such a wide variety…

The former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger once said, “No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of…

I am Mariam Hanafi, and I plan to keep it that way even after I marry, although that’s not going to happen for a while. I’m now fifteen, doing my…

When the Julio-Claudian dynasty crumbled and civil war ensued, one man was able to gain control of the empire and to cement his position sufficiently to found a new dynasty….

This essay will examine language use and sexism. I will discuss what the terms signify and demonstrate how the dominant ideology of our society affects language choice. The issue is…

Poverty and migration are both complicated, multi-faceted concepts which can be caused by, and affect each other. There are many definitions of poverty in use, but the most common meaning…

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing the things men have…

Before we are able to consider whether or not it is an advantage of Descartes substance dualism that it allows the possibility of life after death, we must first grasp…

1. A Fortunate Life composed by A.B Facey is a reflection of a lifetime that most would hope to forget. In complete contrast Piano a poem written by D.H. Lawrence…

“I cannot but take notice, how at another time I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was, but now the case is changed; I…

The subject of this essay shall be, as stated above, an examination of the ways in which the urban property markets influence the patterns within cities. Such markets are not…

In today’s business world contracts play an essential role – therefore it is of great importance to know what a contract is, how it is formed and what elements it…

The sequence I have chosen for my analysis is from “American Beauty”. I am going to look at the ending six minutes of the film. The film itself is based…

Director Curtis Hansan reaches his audience through stars of the film Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Kim Bassinger, and Brittany Murphy. The main target audience would be fans of Eminem, as he…

In this, his directorial debut, writer director, Kenneth Logernan, brings us a truly honest, yet sensitive story. It is an indie film which combines all the necessary ingredients, without failing…

In his essay ‘Introduction to Film Studies’ (Oxford Guide to Film Studies), Richard Dyer draws a distinction between two main approaches which have been developed: the ‘formal aesthetic’ and the…

To have free will is to have at least two choices fully open to us when we have to choose and also not to be forced into this choice. Free…