by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Education Articles
It is interesting to compare the classic film Dead Poets Society to the film we considered in a previous article, Grease. Both were set in schools in America, following teenagers as they searched for their identity; one was set in 1958 and the other in 1959. Both...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Standard People
The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John, was made in 1978 but was set in Chicago in 1959, and set out to portray teenagers struggling to come to terms with their identity amid the pressures of...
by admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Sports Articles
“Many a true word is said in jest”, as the saying goes. During a fun game of ‘Trivial Pursuits’ with various pupils seated on the ground around the board, plus the housemaster’s dog sleeping at the housemaster’s head (as he reclined on the floor), the teacher jokingly...
by admin | Jan 3, 2025 | Sports Articles
When it comes to sermons, there are some classic and extreme responses! In some churches, the congregation sits silently throughout the whole sermon, absorbing the message or dreaming of their lunch, it not being easy to determine from the look on their faces which is...
by admin | Jan 3, 2025 | Education Articles
Ken Robinson, a legend in the educational world, once mused in one of his brilliant TED talks (available on YouTube and extremely worth viewing) that we probably have never thought of William Shakespeare, the greatest ever playwright, having a father or of Shakespeare...
