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Grammar Guide pt. I – Glossary of Terms
Grammar is hugely important in any language, not only in speech but also in writing. If you want to learn a new language then it is important that you know and understand how your own language’s...
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Journalism 101: Language Analysis
The most fundamental aspect to Journalism, and a skill that is drilled into students of the field before anything else is language analysis. Why? (you may ask). Simple: because journalists are required...
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How to Write a Language Analysis Essay
This post is an extension to my previous guide: Journalism 101: Language Analysis. The ability to analyse how language is used to persuade an audience is critical to any journalist; it is also handy...
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My Journey Into Aokigahara Jukai (青木ヶ原 樹海) – The Suicide Forest
Disclaimer: Firstly, there are a lot of images and videos in this post, so I had to break it up into 10 pages to save loading time – you will see the page numbers on the bottom just before the comments...
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William Burroughs Interviews Jimmy Page [1975]
In 1975 a legendary encounter occurred; Jimmy Page, the lead guitarist of the blues rock band Led Zeppelin, was interviewed by William Burroughs – counter-cultural icon of the 60s beat generation, and...
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Be Here Now: Book Review
“Embrace the 10,000 Beautiful Visions” Be Here Now (1971) is a classic text on Hindu spirituality that bloomed open like a lotus flower in the wake of the hippie movement. The seed for this book was...
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The Last Question
The following short story, written by the famous science fiction author Isaac Asimov, is a gripping tale of Man and Machine’s evolution of consciousness, and their place in the infinite yet impermanent...
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Zen Story: The Tiger and the Strawberry
The story I’m about to tell you, originally told by the Buddha in a sutra, concerns a Zen Master who, while out walking one day, is confronted by a ferocious, man-eating tiger. He slowly backs away...
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Psychedelic Mushrooms and You
Beautiful cluster of psychedelic mushrooms – picture taken with my trusty Canon S100. DISCLAIMER - This guide is in no way meant to advocate the use of illegal drugs; it exists solely to spread an...
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The Only Dance There Is: Book Review
The book I am reviewing – The Only Dance There Is – is a compiled transcription of two lectures Ram Dass gave to a room of psychotherapists in the early 1970s. The first lecture was at the Menninger...
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Prometheus Rising (1983)
Prometheus Rising (1983) by Robert Anton Wilson is a mind-blowing neuropsychological manual on how to reprogram your own brain. The book combines Timothy Leary’s Eight Circuit model of consciousness,...
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Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga (1985)
‘Hammer of the Gods’ is the cult classic Led Zeppelin biography, famous for its unflinching portrayal of the band’s legendary exploits with groupies, orgies, violence, hotel destruction, black magic,...
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By reading this week’s reading, one can denote that it is a chapter out of a Media Studies book written by a man named Nick Lacey. You can further denote that it is in fact a chapter out of a...
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Extract analysis is when you take an extract from a film, book or a play, and you analyse the selected text and put it into context. Extract analyses are a great way to to hone your writing skills and...
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The most fundamental aspect to Journalism, and a skill that is drilled into students of the field before anything else is language analysis. Why? (you may ask). Simple: because journalists are required...
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A plot is the skeleton of a story, and is therefore essential to any work of fiction. If you plan on writing a story without a plot, don't even expect your mother to read it, yet alone the rest of the...
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