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Kashvi
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
The Lolita Trend
Trigger warning - Manipulation, Pedophilia Lolita is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov which was first published in Paris in 1955. It...
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Aditi
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Matrix: resurrected or not?
True to its name, the beloved Matrix franchise had been “resurrected” for an encore performance last December, nearly twenty years since...
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Rohan
- Feb 10, 2022
- 4 min
One Year of President Biden
It’s been a pandemic, inflation, hot mic, and progress filled year—let’s review. In June, I gave Biden a 51/70 for his work as President...
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Aarushi
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
Hong Kong's Hamsters: Panic or Precaution?
It was only two years ago when the first COVID-19 case had been reported in Wuhan, China. Back then, it was breaking news. Now, it’s the...
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Tarini
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
Love-40 to the Australian Open Crowds
This year’s Australian Open was full of controversies. Before the tournament began Novak Djokovic’s deportation from the Land Down Under...
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Sahib
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
The Eternals Film Review
The Eternals scored only forty-eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes - much less than the number scored by the previous Marvel Cinematic...
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Aditi
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Prince Andrew scandal
Most of you have probably heard about the media flurry that has swept up the royal family since the infamous interview in 2019 in which...
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Rohan
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
Interview with Aidan Kohn Murphy
Thanks to social media, teenagers have been given an incredibly powerful tool in politics – a voice. As the changing of the political...
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Ariel
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Schrödinger's cat: dead or alive?
Is Schrodinger’s cat dead or alive? It’s both! At least until the box is opened… Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment created by...
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Tamara
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Religion: Why do we believe?
How do people change from doubt and disbelief to full devotion? This is commonly explained through Swinburne’s principle of credulity and...
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Grayson and Kimi
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
It Ends With Us
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover has become a national phenomenon ever since the book went viral on BookTok. In fact, it has become a...
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Vittoria
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Prison Reform and Why it Matters
When a person is convicted of a crime and found guilty, they are consequently sent to prison in the hopes that their behaviour will be...
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Ariel
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min
Sixth form Review
My best piece of advice to you: don’t take IB unless you really want to. Hey year tens and elevens, this editorial will be a review of my...
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Shashank
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
Dissociative Identity Disorder: What is It?
What is it? Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID, is a mental health condition where people have two or more identities. What are the...
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Tamara
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Feeding the World Population
The world’s population is expected to rise to 9.6 billion by 2025. That is an extra 2 billion mouths to feed from where we are now. The...
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Dorothy
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
The Rat King Phenomenon
A rat king is a intertwined group of rats bound together at their tails by hair or sticky substances like sap or gum. Very few instances...
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Keanna
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Fractured Movie Review
The Netflix movie Fractured, uses incredibly weird yet compelling storytelling. The movie is centered around a man, Ray, and his family,...
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Tamara
- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
The Simulation Hypothesis
“Is this all real? Or is it just happening inside my head?” Look at the way we've progressed in the simulated worlds we create in our...
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Rohan
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Why Israel is being misrepresented
The US House of Representatives has passed $1 billion in funding for the Iron Dome – a defence system used by Israel throughout the...
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