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Marco has graduated with a 2.1 in English Literature degree from the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has been writing professionally for two years, been published in countless print and online publications and uses Helium to spread his love of writing.

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Arts & Humanities > British Authors Is J.K. Rowling turning the Harry Potter series into dark literature rather than youth literature?: 3 of 15

It would be naive to confuse youth literature with a youthful writing style. The reason behind J.K. Rowling's success is her writing ability and its accessibility. Her novels are easy to read - they engage on a level that anyone can understand. The result is a misrepresentation of the novels themes. The Harry Potter series h...
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Falling Man, by Don DeLillo: 1 of 4

September 11th 2001 The day the world's innocence died. Globalised capital, telecommunications and freedom all came under attack. Falling Man is Don DeLillo's most recent novel dealing with the personal aftermath that accompanied the wider horror. In typical DeLillo fashion, he weaves a tale of individual suffering and urban...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Australia: 4 of 12

Lord of the Rings gave us New Zealand and 2008's Australia gave us, well, Australia. Baz Luhrmann breaks his seven year directorial drought to give us a sprawling epic of the most environmentally diverse country on the planet. Accompanied by an A-list cast, (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman provide the love interest), Australi...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Last Kiss: 3 of 9

Standing on the precipice of life, what would you do? 2006's The Last Kiss asks its audience that exact question. Michael (Braff) is your typical twenty-nine year old. He's got the girl of his dreams with a baby on the way and is still close with his childhood friends. As he approaches 30, he begins to think what any self re...
Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Over-analyzing literature: 3 of 8

Whatever happened to aesthetics? If we trackback to the Romantics, we have a collection of writers who were focussed on one aim: the appreciation of the world. As soon as Literature became a teachable subject, (which incidentally was only of late, when compared to Mathematics or History), it meant that there was enough criti...
Entertainment > TV Networks & Industry Disney's purchase of Marvel: Marvel-ous?: 3 of 7

With the global recession still biting hard, DisneyTM (DIS), the entertainment juggernaut, has managed to show that there are green shoots in the global economy. Backed by the recent revival of the worldwide stock markets, the $4 billion purchase of Marvel EntertainmentTM (MVL) has astonished financial experts. Have DisneyTM...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Children: 1 of 2

What if the apple of your eye came after you with a knife? Would you fight back or would you put it down to childish ignorance, and attempt to coax them out of it? The Children plays on such an issue with an unsettling outcome. Tom Shankland's directorial eye combines the harshness of winter with the possibility of violence ...
Computers & Technology > Internet Issues Discussion of the rising popularity of paid social networking: 1 of 2

No matter how a marketing department angles a new social networking site, it will struggle to tempt users away from the existing giants. MySpace has broken the 250,000,000 registered users barrier, while Facebook has already passed 175 million. There's little a new site can offer, (photos, videos, applications, and music), t...
Travel > Hotel Reviews Hotel reviews: Days Inn, Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C.: 1 of 1

Having finally deciding to travel to the US for five weeks, it was obvious that budget would be the major issue in the trip's planning. We didn't want to go down the hostel route, but on the other hand, we didn't have the cash to splash out on luxury hotels. Washington D.C. was our mid-trip stop and we finally settled on the...
Travel > San Francisco Hotel reviews: Hotel Astoria, San Francisco, CA: 1 of 1

Located at the gate to Chinatown, Hotel Astoria is everything you want from a cheap hotel. It's basic, but definitely fits in the cheap and cheerful category of hotels. We stayed there for six nights and were satisfied with what the Astoria had to offer. We'd opted for the slightly more expensive on-suite room and it's highl...