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It goes without saying that the most famous tale of forbidden love in the Western canon is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. However, whether you consider it the archetype of love’s self-sacrifice or a prime example of teenage hormonal idiocy is another story altogether. Broken down, the plot is pretty simple: boy meets girl, boy woos […]

The current era is a challenging professional time to be entering the workforce. The age old path followed by the parents of the youngsters today – get a couple of college degrees or learn a professional and technical skill, then get a relevant job and stay in the same place for an entire career – […]

Ivy League schools look for careers, not another “I went to Sri Lanka to build homes” college essay Very very important. Just because you went to Africa for 2 months to promote AIDs awareness does not make you a global citizen. It does not make you a committed public servant. You need to show more […]

Airbus Industrie, a consortium of European aircraft manufacturers which had provided the first serious competition to the US with its original widebody, twin-engined A-300, had quickly concluded that its success could only be attained with an expanded product line capable of fulfilling several payload and range needs. Subsequently added to this “family” of airliners had […]

Doing well in HSC sciences requires a slightly different approach than HSC maths or English subjects. HSC sciences, like Chemistry, Physics and Biology, place a heavy focus on the syllabus. Detailed knowledge and familiarisation of the syllabus is very important. TIP 1: Know the syllabus Knowing the syllabus very important. Firstly, all HSC science exams […]

Here is a top 10 list for test prep, college admissions and college applications during the summer before your senior year. The list also should help students before they apply to colleges: (1) Obtain college applications: Print off all of the college applications from every school you’re interested in. Even if you are using the […]

Becoming parents is normally greeted with much happiness and excitement. It is a time of rejoicing, of anticipation and fulfillment. Even film stars, whose marriages are notorious for their brevity, sport their ‘tummy bumps’ as a badge of honour. Kate Middleton’s pregnancy had the Royal family smiling and the Media drooling over such a newsworthy […]

I Increasing demand on existing Boeing 727 routes, which often eclipsed the capacity of even the stretched, -200 series version, coupled with advanced technology, dictated the need for either a larger variant of this venerable tri-jet or an altogether new design. The first attempt, adopting the former approach, had featured a fuselage sufficiently stretched to […]

Believe it or not, but there are many ways public speaking is likely to make a difference in your life. It improves our personal growth, how we communicate with others, the level of our career, how we present ourselves, and many more reasons. By learning how to effectively speak in public, you’ll be able to […]

Scholarships that require essays offer you the opportunity to stand out from the pack and make an impact on the reader. If an essay is ever optional, always, always include it! By choosing to ignore a request for an essay, it shows the application-committee or reviewer you really did not want to put the work […]