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kirandeepkaur156
Mar 6, 20232 min read
About that "Periods" photo that broke the internet!
7 years ago during women’s history month, when Rupi Kaur, Canadian poet, took this photo for a university project where she was tackling...
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kirandeepkaur156
Mar 6, 20231 min read
Overcome Failure
We are so afraid to make mistakes. We’re under constant pressure to do everything right, and if we don't, we end up beating ourselves for...
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davide.pafumi
Mar 6, 20232 min read
By Night, a Street, a Lamp, a Pharmacy
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Symbolist movement in Russian literature....
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Barbara Bordalejo
Mar 6, 20232 min read
West of the West
During my first year of university, the Venezuelan government proposed changing the high-school curriculum, including ditching the...
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frankonuh
Feb 28, 20232 min read
The Dialecticality of NE
Nigeria possesses a distinctive linguistic topography attributable to its over 500 indigenous languages. However, English is a widely...
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davide.pafumi
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Grünbein's Cranial Base Lesson
Schädelbasislektion (in English Cranial Base Lesson) consists of five stanzas each consisting of eight septenaries with cross-rhyme...
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khalid
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Learning Objects to Open Educational Resources
The terms are recent historical issues because of the advent and the availability of new internet technology and its intervention. Wayne...
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frankonuh
Feb 22, 20231 min read
The Wailing Silence of the Chibok Girls
The plight of girls in northern Nigeria is a recurring issue that continues to linger. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which began in...
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kirandeepkaur156
Feb 22, 20232 min read
One is not born rather becomes a woman
Immensely blessed to have an Indian society where the length of skirt fathoms the character of a girl, where the red stains of paan on...
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kirandeepkaur156
Feb 16, 20232 min read
Why is there a gap between Humanities and Human Language Technologies?
As schoolchildren, we are being taught that studies related to human society and culture are coined as Humanities or arts whereas the...
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morganpearce3
Feb 14, 20231 min read
Some Creative Writing for a Change
I know it isn't the usual blog post, but I thought I would attempt to post some creative writing that I did a little while ago. I used to...
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davide.pafumi
Feb 13, 20234 min read
Critique of the Critique of Critical Discourse Analysis
Up until now, scholarship around discourse has been divided into two distinct approaches: "non-critical" or "descriptive" Discourse...
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khalid
Feb 12, 20232 min read
International Mother Language Day
The 21st February is our pride and courage. The day, February 21, 1952 and the martyrs of the day in Bangladesh make us remember that we...
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khalid
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Intrusion of English on Bengali
I raise a debatable topic. The relationship between Bangladesh people and English is deeper than usually measured in the scale of the...
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ngsmith49
Feb 6, 20235 min read
Some Practical Experience
In a certain land, in a certain kingdom, that is what they say in old Russia... January gone, the shape of my semester is turning out to...
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frankonuh
Feb 6, 20233 min read
Echoes of Resistance #1
The Aba Women's Riot of 1929 represented a pivotal moment in the history of Nigerian women, as well as in the wider context of Africa....
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Barbara Bordalejo
Feb 5, 20232 min read
Tell Me What Ink You Use to Draw Your Experimental Animals, and I'll Tell You Who You Subjugated.
Thanks to the paleography class, I have been thinking a lot about handwriting. I have not yet recovered from the shock of learning that...
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davide.pafumi
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Hijos de una Gran Chingada Madre
This story comes also along with a very agitated week at the UoL in which we saw the strong contraposition between unreconcilable...
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ngsmith49
Jan 29, 20234 min read
The Importance of Fidelity in Adaptations
It isn't. Or, it is and it isn't. The beginning of Linda Hutcheon's textbook 'A Theory of Adaptation' discusses the key concept of...
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davide.pafumi
Jan 28, 20232 min read
On the Challenges of Literary Interpretation
Recently, conversating about a paper I was preparing for a conference with my professors. The paper dealt with an unorthodox...
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