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I am currently into my fourth year studying a part-time BA Hons Degree Literature and Creative Media. I also teach and write part-time, eventally planning to make writing the more central part of my career. Feel free to browse my articles and to send comments

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Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms What it takes to wake a generation: 4 of 30
Tragedy and horror bring us closer together as a nation. Though perhaps the real tragedy is that once the dust settles we go on living as normal. The day Princess Diana died the world woke up in shock. It not only brought together a nation, it brought echoes of sympathy and feeling from across the entire globe. When the te... More..
Entertainment > Movie Genres The best horror movies: 4 of 29
There seems to exist within the human psyche a strange, intoxicating need for being frightened at a distance. This is what horror movies offer us, a simulation of fear, but protection from the object behind the fear itself. We place ourselves in the path of those being chased by mad men in masks, or those left alone in a haun... More..
Sports & Recreation > Running Common running mistakes to avoid: 2 of 14
Running is one of the most challenging and physically rewarding of all sports. It is one of the most effective and simplest ways to build aerobic stamina. For anybody interested in keeping fit or physical sport of any kind, running should be at the heart of all exercise programmes. However there are common mistakes that many ... More..
Sports & Recreation > Running How to prevent running injuries: 2 of 14
Running is an extremely physically demanding sport which places a lot of strain upon the body. The joints and muscles are under constant pressure as the runner pounds the pavement, over and over again. With this in mind injury is something which most runners come across from time to time despite taking precautions, but for th... More..
Food & Drink > Cooking Desserts How to rescue a failed apple pie: 2 of 14
For me there is no better dessert than hot apple pie served with delicious vanilla ice cream. I don't think you can beat the combination of hot and cold in the dessert world, and there is nothing better than freshly prepared, homemade apple pie. The trouble is that apple pie can be a little tricky to make, or to be more ac... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips How to write a petrarchan (Italian sonnet): 1 of 7
For centuries the sonnet form has delighted discerning audiences with its compact poetic form and its overt expressions of courtly love. For generations poets have used its form to subvert meaning for a variety of reasons and causes. Today, the sonnet is rarely used seriously, and to the wider public outside of the field of l... More..
Entertainment > Musicians & Bands Band profile: Black Sabbath: 1 of 7
Black Sabbath was born on February Friday 13th 1970. Their self-titled album would shock the very fabric of music forever. This is no exaggeration. For every rock/metal band around in the world today, all of them owe their creation, in one way or another to Black Sabbath.The first incarnation of Black Sabbath and by far the m... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: If, by Rudyard Kipling: 1 of 7
Amongst the most famous poems written in the English language is Rudyard Kipling's ever popular piece "if." It seems to have entered into the public's general consciousness in ways that other poems have not come close to. The timeless appeal of the passing down of knowledge and wisdom from father to son is immediately recogni... More..
Food & Drink > Beer (Other) What you should know about stout beers: 1 of 7
There can't be many people in the world who haven't tried Guinness. Think of Guinness and you think of Ireland, the beautiful emerald isle, the warm and friendly people and the lively uplifting music. Every time I drink a Guinness I cannot separate my warm memories from my various trips there, it seems that each sip of the bl... More..
Food & Drink > Beer (Other) The importance of beer in British society: 1 of 7
The good honest ale. The cornerstone of British society, it has become so much part of the British culture and its history that most people don't even realise it. It slips along as part of our daily life as if unseen, and it has always been this way. Most people who think of British culture think of the red buses or the black... More..