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Series name: Did you know? Episode name: The stories behind 2 bizarre archaic laws Purpose: mainly to entertain and also to inform the audience Audience: adults interested in British history Welcome to ‘Did you know?’ podcast series. This podcast episode is recorded by Mayya McManus, student of the Wirral Metropolitan College on the 6th of April 2016. Today I will be talking about the stories behind odd and outdated laws which are not urban myths and are still in force in Britain. Perhaps, you…

Why are crimes committed? Most people would say out of greed jealousy and anger. But we all get jealous greedy and angry so why don’t we all kill. The answer to that remains not in the heart, as most people to be, but in the mind. In 2006 the Bureau Justice Center did a survey and what they found shed much light on the mind (or lack thereof) a criminal. They concluded that estimated that 705,600 mentally ill adults were incarcerated in State prisons, 78,800 in Federal prisons and 479,900 in…

Fair Inequality or Entitled Right? Distributive justice is the economic framework within a society which determines the distribution of goods amongst its members. How goods should be distributed and to whom have been interpreted by John Rawls and Robert Nozick, two contemporary philosophers that share the belief that there is no practical form of equal distribution of goods within society, but disagree on what constitutes a true distributive justice when taking that into consideration. The…

In 1980, Robert Redford released his dramatic coming of age film that was nominated for 6 Academy Awards won four, including best picture and best director. Ordinary People is about a family dealing with the death of their son/brother. The film offers many perspectives on metal illnesses and how people deal with them and at the same time explores how our culture views mental illness. The film revolves around Conrad, who is the son of Beth and Calvin. Conrad’s brother died in a boating accident.…

Seven Characteristic Traits of a High Impact Hire 1. GRIT Start-up organisations are not only nebulous, but at the same time are fast-paced too. In such a new place of work, it is not uncommon for new joinees/hires to be the first ones to hold recently created job roles exclusive of comprehensible mandates. These new hires should be able to figure out how to carry out his roles and responsibilities in an efficient manner, keeping in mind the organisation’s goals while going at a fast pace.…

Profiling has captured the imaginations of Hollywood filmmakers and their audiences for well over a decade. Viewers are easily captivated by Sherlockian detectives who profile perpetrators with brilliant precision, making for bewitching plotlines and intriguing character developments. Yet experts are far more critical of this lasso-like investigative tool. Research suggests that investigators cannot simply walk into a crime scene, construct a profile based on whatever information is left behind,…

Robert Frost is a well-known highly acclaimed poet world-wide. During his lifetime, he obtained more than seventeen honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and England, and receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for his works. When Frost passed he was the most popular and famous American poet of the century, a cultural icon, and an esteemed literary figure of great influence (Bloom, Bloom 's Major Poets: Robert Frost 14). Frost’s life illustrates the reasoning…

Flashback: Pearls and feathers, bobs and glamour! Reality: I was sitting at the very back of my poor excuse of a high school’s plain old, bland “English 4” class in Levi mom jeans, a cropped top, and Chuck Taylors; except I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all. (Take One): Pouncing upon my sister’s Macbook Air, I was on a written escapade away from the Upper West Side’s public school nightmare and, instead, running up and down the catwalk at New York’s Couture’s 1956 Fashion Show! In a riveting, platinum…

the bar. In my opinion “crossing the bar” death is consider natural; the words “crossing” and “bar” advocates the cross of Jesus. Lastly, if we want to reach the afterlife we have to cross that bar by having an accepting attitude toward death. Robert Browning “The Lost Leader” (about Wordsworth) The poem reflects on Mr. Browning’s dislike toward Mr. Wordsworth’s desertion of the liberal cause. The first stanzas specifying the nature of his disloyalty and the second stanzas specifies a…

Your heart pounds in your chest as you run through the dark woods, trying your best to make it to your car or just to safety. You can feel him gaining on you, the sound of crunching leaves signaling his every move, but your legs just aren’t fast enough. You stumble over a conveniently placed log and fall to the hard ground. The tension builds, the unseen orchestra using more strings. Someone in the theater’s audience screams for you to get up and run. Out of breath, you try to scramble away only…