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Syria

I’ve always considered this blog a personal conduit for my expression and thought and oftentimes I say how I feel. However, I find myself in a predicament of wanting to say so much and also being speechless. Today Theresa May said that the ‘international community isn’t going to stand by and allow chemical weapons to be used with impunity’ when referring to the decision by the USA, Britain and France to launch air strikes to degrade the Assad regime in Syria and help the rebels. I can’t believe that such a decision was made, I can’t believe the level of hypocrisy involved and I can’t believe the situation as a whole. Let me start by saying that this is not an Assad appreciation post, nor is it an attempt to show anything but sympathy to those in Syria who have suffered due to his regime and monstrosities. Assad has always held one ideology in his mind; one to garner and hold onto power. He is guilty. He is a terrorist. He is wrong. My issue isn’t that he is wrong...
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Social not so much Media

Social media is defined as “ websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking”. It’s all the frenzy nowadays, we’re being surrounded by it and its frankly taking over. We live in an age that we can effectively communicate 24/7 with people all around the world about matters that would’ve been previously lost on us with people that we didn’t know exist and with demographics that we simply wouldn’t be inclined to talk to before its inception. The creation of Facebook came in the dorms of Harvard university where a young Mark Zuckerberg got home from a date and set up a small website as a basic messenger with user profiles. This then turned into a network that was shared with universities around Harvard and then finally became the world’s largest social network, so large in fact that a 3% drop in its share prices meant a £2.9 billion loss. The idea of social networks is one which is extraordinary for it can be used by diff...

Who are You?

Gender has always been debated as an issue and as a term . The UN defines it as “ the social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female and the relationships between women and men and girls and boys, as well as the relations between women and those between men”. It isn’t clear, right? I don’t understand it fully but I get the gist that gender is like a spectrum, one in which people can freely choose to associate themselves with whatever they feel most comfortable. It isn’t, however, the 72 options that Facebook insists of confining it to because it holds within those options “sub- spectrums”. There has been a debacle as of late as to the roles and definitions of such genders. Does one who identifies as a male go to a male restroom or to a female one if that individual has female genetalia? I understand why this may be an issue for some because it may be evasive to the privacy of those people in the restrooms. Men who don’t want to be seen by someone who they ...