Some of the most profound questions that arise after reading the fourth book of Gulliver’s Travels are: What message is Swift trying to convey with the Houyhnhnms? Are they satiric figures or do they represent an ideal to which humans should aspire? Or is it something else entirely? James Clifford gives an account of a […]
Lolo Fernandez: A Footballing Genius – A Biography
Lolo Fernandez: One of Latin America’s Most Popular Footballers Throughout his 12-year career with the Peruvian side, between 1935 and 1947, Lolo Fernández was not a World Cup player such as Obdulio Varela of Uruguay and Brazil’s Leonidas da Silva. Despite all this, he is still an inspirational leader in the history of Peru’s soccer. […]
Family Relationships in "A Doll’s House"
Torvald Helmer, one of the main characters of the play, is somewhat “righteous.” He prides himself for earning a comfortable living for himself and his family, and for earning a high status in society, all through honest, hard work. His wife, Nora, is a moral woman, so much so that in the opening of the […]
Advantages of Poverty – Book Review
Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist who amassed a great fortune toward the end of the 19th century and then gave most of it away. Many American cities still have a Carnegie library donated by this philanthropist. By the time he died in 1919 he had given away millions of dollars. He had long held […]
The Importance of Studying Zoology
Zoology is the aspect of science that deals with the study of the animals’ evolution, habitat and behavior. Many students wonder why they need to study zoology. It is a branch of science that does not have anything to do with people so they are left wondering why they have to learn it. 1. The […]
Hypnosis for Students – New Study Aid or Unfair Advantage?
Ask most college students if they have experienced hypnosis, and they’ll tell you about a hypnosis show they saw in high school or college. It was funny, and intriguing, but they haven’t thought about it since. Yet hypnosis can give students far more than entertainment. Some know this personally. They’re just not saying much about […]
Pros and Cons of Distance Learning This COVID-19 Pandemic
It is now over a week for our blended teaching/learning situation amid this trying time where everyone is having challenges coping with different tasks. As a classroom teacher then, now online guide to my select and lucky angels, well, everyday hurdle has been tough, challenging and, sometimes, taxing to the psyche. Yes, not all my […]
Gestalt Therapy And Hypnosis
The Gestalt approach to therapy can be termed “phenomenological-existential” as it is concerned with an awareness of the here-and-now, working away from concepts and towards pure awareness (Clarkson, 1989). By the client becoming aware of their thoughts, feelings, etc the goal is for the individual to achieve insight into the situation under examination. As Yontef […]
10 Top Tips to Improve Your IELTS Score
So you’re thinking of taking the IELTS test and want to maximise your score? Here are my top ten tips based on my many years of teaching IELTS to a variety of students in different countries. They are presented in no particular order. Top Tip One Prepare, prepare, prepare….yes, I know it sounds obvious, but […]
Alpha Beta
This is a journey across languages along the bumpy road of speech and spelling with discoveries to save English from Babbles of Babel. Discordance of spelling and pronunciation caused much irritation among great authors. Spelling reforms of American English angered Mark Twain. He said that it is replacing one inadequacy with another. George Bernard Shaw […]