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“Too Close to Call”: How Biden’s Re-election Bid is in Grave Danger
“It’s a two party system, you have to vote for one of us!” are the wise words of Kang and Kodos in The Simpsons 1996 episode ‘Treehouse...
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A Storm in a Teacup? Climate and the 2024 United States Presidential Elections
If there is a holiday which President George W. Bush is unlikely to forget, it is the one he took during August 2005. On the 29th of that...
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Gathering Dust: What makes a classic?
What makes a classic? As an answer – or to avoid the rather puzzling question – you might name some: Anna Karenina, Nineteen Eighty-Four,...
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New Historicism: The case of T.S Eliot’s Waste Land
What is most interesting about “The Waste Land”, is its relentless reliance on elements of the past. Of course, as much could arguably be...
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Literary travels with The Lobster: Verses of Valour and The Somme
April is perhaps the best month to drive around the battlefields of the Somme. Whilst not experiencing the ‘Rain, midnight rain, nothing...
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Anatomy of a Fall: The Fine Line Between Truth and Fiction
I have spent the past three years searching for an easy answer to the question, ‘How does one write?’. I yearn to find some way to cheat...
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The Impending Fiasco of the Parisian Olympics
As with most Olympic Games, the United States made a clean sweep of the 1924 edition. Yet the real victors of the competition might well...
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Claws in Crisis: Galadriel Daufresne’s Lobster Comedy Sketch
INT. WATER TANK - NIGHT We see a shot of a boat. Cuts to a water tank in the boat's restaurant with two lobsters, LOBSTER 1, who's the...
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From Rags to Riches: The Rise of the Lobster
Have you ever wondered why lobsters are commonly associated with wealth? We certainly have. Why is it that in Hemingway's A Moveable...
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