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Social Media: Human Commodifier Par Excellence
Social Media encourages the homogenisation of human sentiment, reducing individual emotional nuances to shallow clickable responses. Our capacity for rich and individual responses to our fellow human’s expressions, has been disgracefully crushed into a box the size of a like button, (or the marginally more ‘nuanced’ emoji). Is it not tragic that perhaps the majority of humans appreciate other humans' creations through the clicking of generic buttons? Facebook introduced the l

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Towards Cooperation
A playground fight gets out of hand, punches are thrown. It calms down. Another fight breaks out the next day, heavier punches are...

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Forests Breathe
You’re walking down the street and you are shocked to notice that your local grocery shop has been demolished, and all the bricks,...

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Check!
Where do you find forks, skewers, revealed attacks, queen sacrifices, checks, kings and castles? In a game that has existed for almost...

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Concrete Objects
Did you know that 79% of named statues in London are men? Perhaps that doesn’t come as a surprise to you knowing that women could only...

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The Magic Tambourine. Part One.
One cold, sunny, November day, Lucy was walking down a dirt road and found a tambourine covered in mud. She looked around her, no one was...

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The Best Hot Chocolate Ever
Xocoatl is the original word used for that marvellous bean that is popular all over the world. It comes from the Nahuatl language, spoken...

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SEO Writing Bashing
SEO writing, it’s all the rage for businesses looking to increase visitor traffic to a website. But does it get in the way of language...

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When Love Holds It
Look - What happens to the scale When love holds it; It stops working. - Kabir How much judgement do we contain? Of ourselves and others,...

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Music - the food of love?
If music be the food of love, play on - Shakespeare It would be difficult to locate a corner of this world where music isn’t enjoyed or...

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An Article on Articles
Student: I went to beach today and found shell, it was such beautiful day. Teacher: you're missing three articles in this sentence....

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Beach Trip
I'm here. I'll be out in 2 minutes. My blue backpack has my towel, the old man's black jumper and my green water bottle. I lock the glass...

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A Poetic Sojourn
The trees are swaying sweetly in the breezy breeze and the beautiful birds are sweetly tweeting among the leaves. Have you ever tried to...

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How to Use English Burst
This is a guide to help you get the most out of this website. We'll explain what is on offer here, how you can maximise your learning,...

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Throwing Lemons
I threw a lemon at an impertinent bitch the other day. I picked the beaming yellow thing off a roadside tree, fresh lemony aroma bringing...

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