Äkta Hjärtan: How it Stands the Test of Time
By Cormac Stephen Synnott, Year 12 Released in 1991, Perssons Pack’s album Äkta Hjärtan was a quasi-immediate success. Soon becoming…
Category: The Arts
The Ethics of Portraying Real-Life Events in War Films
By Hermione Silver, Year 12 War films, perhaps more than any other genre, attract intense scrutiny from audiences and critics…
Are fairy tales still useful today?
By Roxane Liguti, Year 12 When I was a child, until I was ten, I always wanted my mother and…
How does jewellery reflect social status and beauty?
By Taima Al-Habal, Year 12 For many years, Cartier has been a trademark and beacon of luxury jewellery. It was…
What can everyone agree on?
By Victoire Heyworth, Year 12 If a statement were to be put in front of everybody, 8 billion people, what…
Power of Protest: William Blake’s Poem ‘London’
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 Within his work “Songs of Experience” published in 1794, but written around 1789-1790, William Blake…
John Donne’s Poem “The Blossom”
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 One of the most notable poets of the 16th century, John Donne, was born to…
Have you read Austen’s “Persuasion”?
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 Jane Austen’s last novel, written during her sickness and published after her death in 1817,…
Is “The Secret History” a good book?
By Pablo Briens Montero, Year 12 As part of my February break reading, I came across The Secret History by…