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Behind the Pageant Stage: A talk with Miss Wales finalist Sioned Murphy

Sioned Murphy is 21 years old, in her second year of studying Business Management at Cardiff University and currently working in Robotics on an internship. With over 2000 women applying to take part in Miss Wales, she is delighted to have made it to the final 37, representing her hometown ...
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Category: Interviews Society & Lifestyle
Wonder Women: Hollywood and the Representation of Women in the Current Industry

There was a time recently when it was basically impossible to hear anything about Hollywood without there being some sort of discussion about gender. This past year has seen the powerful #MeToo movement come to the forefront, in the wake of film production giant Harvey Weinstein – amongst many other ...
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Category: Feminism Film LGBTQ+ equality Media Society & Lifestyle
Britain’s Big Issue with the Roma

A number of preconceived ideas potentially spring to mind when you hear the words ‘Roma’ or ‘Romani’. Many associate ‘Roma’ with a prejudiced narrative about antisocial gypsies who leach off social services. Others mistakenly think that Roma is simply an abbreviated way of speaking about Romanian people. ‘Roma’ in fact ...
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Category: Society & Lifestyle UK Politics
Generation Xanax: How the post-modern hip-hop scene is a threat to the lives of its listeners

Music has always been more than just what you hear in your headphones. A genre of music is also a genre of movement, a genre of style, a genre of trend. And, where there is a trend there is a following. Mod music was a movement – your Uncle Tony ...
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Category: Drugs Featured Mental Health Music & Film Music from Abroad rap and grime Rap and Grime Society & Lifestyle
Till Swipe Do Us Part

Alice Hall explores the pitfalls of modern day dating. There was once a time, hidden deep in the marketing archives of match.com, when the girl in the camel-colored duffel coat locked eyes with the dashing commuter over the sepia-washed platform. The rest is history. Said man and woman fall ardently ...
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Category: Dating Society & Lifestyle Uncategorized
Why Aren’t we Promoting Healthy Bodies in Female Modelling

I would like to start off this article by saying that both fat-shaming and skinny-shaming are wrong. Telling anyone that they’re not beautiful because they don’t fit in with your idea of beauty is a special kind of stupid, for we come in all different shapes and sizes, colours and ...
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Category: Society & Lifestyle
DISS. Recommends: Top 5 Books To Read On Your Travels

The Art of Happiness – Howard Cutler & Dalai Lama How to be happy? This is a question that will no doubt be on your mind throughout your life. If you have ever wanted a glimpse into the mindset and practices of the Dalai Lama, this is the book for ...
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Category: Diss Education Society & Lifestyle
The science of the meme: a conversation with ‘dankmemes4homecountiesteens’

Memes have been at the very epicentre of millennial social media scrolling for the last few years. If you are unfamiliar with a ‘meme’, then this article is a good place to start (and maybe finish). In Richard Dawkins’ 1976 best-seller, “The Selfish Gene”, he coined the term ‘meme’ – ...
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Category: Science Society & Lifestyle Technology
Neymar Jr: the transfer that made me question my love for football

I have loved football all my life. I have played since I was 4, watched since I was 5 and checked the football news every day since I can remember. The sport, in short, has been my life. I get excited every weekend when matches are on – it’s what ...
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Category: Featured Society & Lifestyle Sport
How Much does a Degree Actually Mean?

When you hit 6th form, you’re suddenly faced with the dilemma – whether you should go to university or not. It’s a question that has been asked more and more frequently over the years, until now it is more unusual to opt out of going to university than it is ...
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Category: Society & Lifestyle