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Julia Jane

Yinka Shonibare`s The Swing in relation to theories of Metaphor and Conceptual Blending

Shonibare`s `The Swing (after Fragonard)` 2001 Extract from an essay written January 2014 In 2001, British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare paraphrased the traditional Fragonard ...
Philip

KNOW YOUR INSTRUMENT (AND TUTORS DO YOUR JOB)

I met a new student last night, and as I do with all new students, the focus of our session was for me to discover what their understanding of guitar was. Along the way, a very famili...
Samuel

Perspectives of Education Inequality

Constructionist and Network Theory perspectives of Education Inequality Introduction In `Methods of Discovery` (2004) Andrew Abbott shows how dramatically different the social ...
Matthew

Was the 1848 Revolution in France a Complete Failure?

A. J. P. Taylor's often quoted assessment of the revolutions of 1848 as a turning point which 'failed to turn' typifies the notion of failure that the year 1848 evokes. In France, as...
Matthew

Can the French Revolutionary Wars be described as an ideological conflict?

The expectation of the Legislative Assembly, when it declared war on Austria in 1792, was a brief and victorious campaign. The number of wars, revolutions, and insurrections which fol...
Jack

Bloody Sunday`s and Good Friday`s.

The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act was implemented by the British government in 1974, mainly in response to increasing tensions in Northern Ireland and the rise of...
Jack

`Mothers, monsters and whores`

Many have declared the 21st century as the 'century for the woman' (UN Women, 2011), and indeed, in many respects it has been, so far. With regards to human security, much more attent...
Jack

Theoretical accounts of great power politics/world politics.

The flexible nature of neo-Gramscian hegemony Neo-Gramscian hegemony, in stark contrast to HST yet with some remarkable similarities, asserts that a hegemon assembles a hegemonic ...
Peter David

A Mathematician`s Apology

A Mathematician's Apology. That is the title of a book by G H Hardy (Professor of Geometry in Oxford 1919, onwards and Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge 1931, onwards). In the ...
Kellie

Creative Writing

When I am all alone in bed I think of you and her and then I am dead. You are happy in new lover`s arms, thinking only of you and her intertwined, thigh to thigh, palm to palm...