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Want a Pulitzer? Write About Death

Louisa Leontiades | Posted 07.04.2013 | Home
Read More: Death, Social Commentary, Nicolas D Sampson, Pulitzer Prize, Love, Ernest Hemingway, Culture, Home News
Louisa Leontiades

In fact our morbid fascination with death has been created and recreated in countless different ways. Death has power. It's the number one box office draw. It's why the media concentrate on tragedy. It's why the soap operas kill off a major character to get Christmas ratings.

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Things A Grump May Not Appreciate!

Sammy Sultan | Posted 14.03.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Funny, Lifestyle, Humour, Life Lessons, Morals, Ten Commandments, Life, Feel Good, Things to Avoid, Amusing, Carpe Diem, Life Coach, Happy, Ranting, Social Commentary, Comedy, UK Comedy News
Sammy Sultan

There used to be show on television I would have been perfect for, Grumpy Old Men. Unfortunately, or indeed fortunately, I am only 23 years of age. Nevertheless, here is a list of the things I feel people must not do.

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56 Up: Because Real People's Lives are Interesting and Important

Ruth Stevenson | Posted 24.07.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: UK, Market Research, Television, Documentary, Reality TV, Social Change, Research, Social Commentary, UK Entertainment News
Ruth Stevenson

I can't get enough of the 7 up series, a TV documentary following a group of people across the course of their lives. The first instalment was in 1964, when a group of 14 seven-year-olds from different backgrounds were selected to participate with the original premise "give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" and "the union leader and the business executive of the year 2000 are now 7 years old."

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Premium Economy is an Oxymoron

Sammy Sultan | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Funny, Holidays, Plane, Business Class, Economy Class, Travel, First Class, Delta-Premium-Economy-Seats, Social Commentary, Comedy, Flights, UK Lifestyle News
Sammy Sultan

I fly economy. I am neither proud nor dismayed by this fact. It is the way of the world: your finances dictate where you sit on a plane. That said, on...

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