Let me ask you 2 questions: 1) Is it offensive to call someone 'fat'? Yes/No 2) Is it offensive to call someone 'skinny'? Yes/No If your answer isn't 'yes' for both questions, I urge you to think about it and answer again. If you still don't come out with 2 'yes' results, I would like …
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The popular ITV show is now on its fourth season, and it doesn't seem like this will be the last. Nearly 3 million people watched the launch episode of the new series, with many young people tuning in to see the antics of these 20/30 year olds. But what does Love Island reveal about the …
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Instagram was launched in October 2010. Originally, it was just a sweet little app to upload photos of your dog smiling, or a cake you made for your nephew's birthday. No one cared too much if you just uploaded it, or put a cute 'Nashville' filter over your photo. When I joined Instagram in 2013, …
Earlier today, I went onto the BBC Radio 4 page to see if there would be any clips useful to me as an BA English Literature student. However, what I found instead was a clip labelled 'How many millennials does it take to change a lightbulb? Many.' As it was only almost 4 minutes long, …
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The 1960s in Britain and America was a great time of change for women. Contraception came in, and in 1967, the Abortion Act was introduced. It was also a time when the oral contraceptive pill emerged on the market for public availability. This was to allow people to get contraception readily and easily, and even …
When it comes to starting university, it is both exciting and nerve-wracking. Unless you know someone from home who is going/goes there, you will pretty much have a blank slate in terms of friends. This is hugely different to the school environment, where there's a mix of people that you went to nursery with, people …
