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Captain Marvel’s Legacy: Just A Bit Lame
The fact of the matter is, 2019’s Captain Marvel is a cultural icon. With its iconographic imagery, it’s inspired girls everywhere and invoked the ire of many who view the movie as a misandrist conception of heroism. As the sole female-centric movie in the MCU, its impact is still being felt months after its release,…
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Collegian On Holiday: Recommended Articles, Books & Podcasts
Articles What It Takes To Put Your Phone Away, Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker, Student writers reap the relevance and urgency of this topic all the time; the product is often a neat self-dissection which kneads at our still-malleable attitudes towards Snapchat, and is confined to the fractious conflict between schoolwork and social media. And…
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Inside The Rebuilt Mansfield House
For the first time since its conception in 1983, Mansfield House will have a non-prefab home to call its own. The finishing touches are currently being applied in preparation for an official opening which is due in Term 3.
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Moore Masculinity? A Flippin’ Story
Two men flipping a 93kg tractor tyre non-stop for 24 hours. What could be Moore masculine than that? Renown throughout Macleans for his big smiles, positive energy and an excellent beard — PE teacher and Rutherford Deputy House Leader, Mr Moore wants to set a new Guinness World Record; flipping tractor tyres. Along with his…
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Two Words, Many Opinions
‘The Last Word’ are the final section of school assemblies, where a senior student of the school gives a speech about a lesson they have learned and leave the audience with something to think about before the Friday school day starts. Mental Health, two words, many opinions. Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, PTSD, and more. One…
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New Places, New Minds
It’s hard to start again. To pack up everything and move to a different place, far away from what you know. But what about starting again, without changing physical locations? My 2019 New Year’s Resolution was that I would finally work on becoming a better and new person. ‘This is the day, the day that…
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Multiple Personalities: A Curious Little Phenomenon in Multilinguists
When I first began to use English and Chinese for equal proportions of my everyday speech, I’d constantly have the thought, “oh, I wouldn’t say that when speaking Chinese” — this would normally happen every time I argued with my friend in a class discussion using English. This strange phenomenon was an unexplainable mystery until…