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Why The Blogging World Is Only Just Getting Started
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Memory and Migration: An Analysis of Identity and Nostalgia in Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven and Head-on
In this essay I examine the effects that the experience of migration has on memory and how this matter is portrayed...
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The Bradbury
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Sigmund Freud in his New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis quotes ‘when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ‘male or female?’’ Therefore, is it possible to make a binary distinction with ‘unhesitating uncertainty’ or do the gender and sexual identity have a deeper meaning and less […]
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If you type the word Renee into Google the first two suggested searches are “Renee Zellweger face” and “Renee Zellweger surgery” – a testament to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of articles, comments and think pieces that have been written about the Oscar winner, and three-time nominee’s, appearance since her return […]
Read more ›Limitless: The Limits of Biohacking
The new CBS series Limitless, an adaptation of the 2011 film of the same name is a an unabashed forerunner of the pill popping bio hacking lifestyle of the new millennium. An episodic crime solving backdrop is used to convey how much better a person can perform in life enhanced […]
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