I hold a large issue with defining intelligence based on memory recall. The education system is built on moulding capabilities on how to learn information for recall later on in high-pressure circumstances.
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This is a new era of people seeking work-life balance and wanting to move away from the stressful life of the Big City – the packed train commutes, the rush-hour, the traffic jams. What is there to miss anymore?
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Every industry has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, returning to work after a holiday, annual leave or even a long weekend can have an impact on your mental health and routine, so how are we supposed to prepare to return to the 9-5 seamlessly now?
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The beauty of being a woman as the French say, ‘of a certain age’, is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.
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Vegan and cruelty-free beauty is trendier than it’s ever been. The vegan cosmetics industry is predicted to be worth $20.8 billion by 2025, with millennials acting as the driving force, according to a report by Grand View Research. Yet despite these statistics, an alarmingly large group of us still don’t go vegan or cruelty-free when it comes to pampering ourselves. But why is this?
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Tabloid headlines in the last six months have painted a broad picture of malicious intent by China to spread a deadly disease globally. Examples include a headline by The Sun: “DEADLY SECRET: China ‘found coronavirus strain SEVEN YEARS ago and sent it to Wuhan lab to study but said nothing after pandemic’
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The last twenty-nine years have been rough. So why am I so nervous to turn 30? Surely, I should be ready to turn my back on the last decade, knowing that I’m coming out of it in the best place I have ever been, for both my mental and physical health. Yet I am terrified that I’ll wake up on October 5th, a failure.
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For most, the pandemic has ruined our resolutions, prevented our pledges, and thwarted the 2020 vows we wrote down in our iPhone notes whilst nursing a new year’s hangover. (1. Never drink again). Holidays have been hindered; weddings wavered; resolutions reset.
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You don’t tell him how you can’t understand why you ‘forgot’ to revise for your GCSEs last summer, so only got 4 A’s when you were told you would get at least 9. That most days you physically freeze when the bus to college comes; your arm refuses to raise to stop the bus, so you watch it drive past your stop and disappear around the corner, then dejectedly walk home and watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air VHS’s all day, feeling really bad because you fucked up again. You care deep down, although your lecturers think you are a lost cause and there is talk of kicking you out of college.
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One thing that also increased over August, apart from customers and the layers of hand sanitizer on my hands, was the amount of catcalling myself and fellow waitresses faced.
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Living in County Durham is a privilege in the way that there are so many different routes and walks nearby, particularly near my village which is an hour walk from Beamish woods. So, what has my experience with the ‘great’ outdoors been during lockdown?
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The Everyday book club also made it to another one of my reads: My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante. Who would have thought a book about friendship, that was so revered in the media would prove to be so incredibly divisive?
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I have been called on to exclusively handle President Trump’s PR in the run up to the election. It’s a long story, but it involves a wrong number, a dynamic lie, and a bribe.
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I’m embarrassed to say it: I’ve seen more of Australia than I have my own home country. Go ahead - a ring that bell and shout ‘shame, shame, shame’ for all to hear. It’s just that here wasn’t as interesting as abroad, although the UK does have so much to offer.
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The royal family has a convoluted existence: their identity is made up of perceived grandeur and a history of pain, power, and political manipulation. According to the official website of the royals, one of the most important roles of the royal family is to help “strengthen national unity and stability.” Whilst this might be the case, it in itself births its own issues.
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After years of putting up with me talking about penguin knees, grass screaming, the anomalies of statistics and much much more, he suggested I find an outlet “If you find it interesting, why do you think no one else will?”. So here I am giving it a go; the first “random blurb I blurted out to him – “Have I ever told you how cool crocodile hearts are?”
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Water is the basis for a lot of the world creation myths, from the creation myths of Mesopotamia to Bakuba Creation myth of Africa. Water is not only a place of creation though; it is a dangerous force of which the human and animal kingdom alike have respect, and be wary of.
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Throughout her career Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an established campaigner and advocate of women’s rights and gender equality rights until the end. Before she died, she commented that her, ‘most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.’ She was so close to getting that wish.
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The United States election is on the 3rd of November, and at time of writing that is 45 days away. For Conservatives, it is 45 days to shore up a Conservative majority on the Supreme Court. For liberals, 45 days to secure the legacies left behind by Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The stakes could not be higher.
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I’m trying to think of everything I would have wanted to say in the moment when the door is closed. Everything that mum or dad will be unable to say in the moment because they’ll be orbiting the room trying to keep busy with bedding and Tupperware before the last goodbye.
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