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Most modern poetry is unappealing to readers and listeners alike because it is so often obscure and difficult to follow. It is written in free verse (or prose-poetry as it should be more accurately called) — a hybrid form of writing which is neither prose nor poetry. By turning their backs on the traditional skills …
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A British reader has asked me about the background of the riots in Baltimore. This is my take: From the 1960’s the lot of the average African American appeared to be improving. But once globalisation began, so began the the collapse of most of the good things done for the community. Baltimore used to be …
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An elderly couple have turned their home into a school for bullied children. Fred Morgan, 94, and his wife Vivian, 72, decided to devote their retirement to helping the victims of bullying after reading about a young girl who’d committed suicide. The couple converted their ten-bedroom house in Warwickshire, England, and now have 20 pupils, …
In 1954 J. B Priestley coined the word admass: the creation of the mass mind, the mass man. Admass man was blinded by the dazzling array of consumer goods offered by the consumer society, his senses dulled by the bland rapidity of modern communications and the pervasive pressure of advertising; he lived, Priestley thought, in …
Google has almost 90% of the global search engine market. Gmail is the second most used email service after Hotmail. Google’s mobile software, Android, has 76% of the smartphone market. Google-owned YouTube is the overwhemingly the worlds largest online video company. Google itself is by far and away the biggest online avertising company in the …
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