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Friendships are complicated, full of conflict, love and, hopefully, lots of fun. They encouraged the sexual escapades of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and the riotous drinking excursions of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragically the relationships between literary women have been side-lined …
I am not usually one for sentimental blog posts; emotions can be tedious and robust motivators for the academic drives but messy to express amidst robust research and detailed critical thinking. Kate Hannah’s and Dr. Madhavi Manchi’s lectures impacted the idea that...
Sometimes I fall down the existential rabbit-hole. As a child, the world seemed relatively unproblematic. Politicians fought and made threats, but counteracting forces balanced them out. Scientists made new advances almost regularly. I always thought the world was...
But we have had many anthems and this one was so important to my mum and therefore to me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptW7zOPX2E Vale Helen Reddy
Tension between the celebration and criticism of war is advanced by motives informed by oppositely different experiences of the same shared history. Especially in a multicultural society that has been framed by colonial values, such diversity is necessary to adequately represent minority perspectives within dominant institutions.
I am interested in the Auckland Domain for several reasons. Personally, it is a place which holds many dear memories for me: Befriending the swans at the pond, visiting the memorial, the museum, Wintergarden, or just going out for drinks at Wintergarden’s Café. Before...
After Jeremy Armstrong’s lecture, something that stuck with me was his initial description of Eastern vs. Western war during his recorded lecture. From what I understand, this initial 10 minutes of his talk was a presentation of the ‘stereotypes’ that these terms...
I recently watched the film The Remains Of The Day. Although my love for Hugh Grant served as my motivation to do so . It struck me as a possible film within which to explore our theme, conflict in context. The Remains Of The Day follows Stevens, a devout Butler in...
If I asked you to picture a war movie, what is the first thing you envision? It could be the gritty realism of Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front. You may picture a class of naive young men thrust into a desolate wasteland strewn with wire and bodies....
Humans, as a species, are a peculiar one at that. A species overly aware of their own mortality and place in the universe, consequently bent upon obsessive overthinking, and because of this we’ve found ways to fabricate our own reality in a harsh world. We’re...
It is easy to think of war as a past tense. While we aren’t exposed first hand to current situations like war in Afghanistan, we can recognize this horror across media and news updates. Then we can turn the tv off and look away. We don’t need to look any...
When I was 15, my family went on a holiday to America. It was here that we visited the site of the Twin Towers to acknowledge and remember the past. I often look back on this memory, especially around this time of year, and consider how ignorant I was at the time. I...