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My Languages
The difference between how people speak and how they write is something that has always quite interested me.
September 15th, 2010 at 03:08pm
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Everyone's At It: Mental Illness.
Everyone seems desperate to have a mental illness. How often do we now hear the eagerly spoken words, "I have bi-polar disorder" or ”I feel like I might have this wrong with me…” My entire generation is fast becoming a wave of hypochondriacs, with thousands of young adolescents full of false ideas of mental illness and depression.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:45am
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The Futility Of Buying School Uniform
I know it sounds stupid, but this is what I'm writing about this week. "The situation is quite bizarre when you consider it. We were in a place which we did not want to be in, spending money we perhaps couldn’t really afford to, on an item of clothing I didn’t want to own or wear - and for what?"
April 20th, 2008 at 07:59pm
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Teenagers Are Not Pieces of Meat
There is an overbearing message shoved down our throats week in, week out. That constant insistence that you can do better; you must do better. This would be a good message if it was there to encourage and support young people, but instead it often comes off as more of a threat. The great message might as well be simply “failure is not an option.”
April 13th, 2008 at 08:39pm
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Objectification - Acceptable?
Even though we live in a culture where we can fly through the sky, go deep sea diving and condemn one another, human beings still do not treat each other with full respect. People are judged and admired because of their physical appearance.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:37am