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Link to the Past – Dark Chronicle

We all have one title that forces us to throw absolute objectivity out the window, in order that its status as our favourite can be forever preserved. Mine is none other than Level 5’s Dark Chronicle, sequel to their earlier Playstation 2 venture Dark Cloud, and my recent replay cemented...
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By , Dec. 9, 2017

Hip-Hop Weekly: Political and conscious hip-hop

Hip-Hop, or music in general, can be used as a platform to express feelings and thoughts on situations in daily life. Songs like Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Hiiipower’ and Jay-Z’s ‘The Story of O.J.’ use their beats and rhyme to express an ode to historical black leaders in America, as well as...
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By , Dec. 8, 2017

The underrated value of non-fiction

If we walk into any bookshop today, we’re faced with a huge array of reading material to delve into, the shelves encompassing whatever our hearts desire. Having recently moved away from fictional novels and instead beginning an exploration of the genre of non-fiction, I’ve found myself feeling as though the...
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By , Dec. 7, 2017

Why 16 and 17 year-olds should have the right to vote

Hearing some of the arguments being made against lowering the voting age, you would think 16 and 17 year olds were incapable of independent thought or speech. They are often being talked about rather than talked to. ‘It is only natural’, asserts Henry Hill of the ConservativeHome website, ‘that people...
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By , Dec. 7, 2017

Sawing open the horror movie genre

With the recent release and box office success of Jigsaw, the eighth movie in the Saw franchise, it seems that gore-based horror — a.k.a. ‘torture porn’ — is still alive and well as a genre. The Saw series, each film of which centres around a group of people who must...
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By , Dec. 7, 2017