30Sep 2017 by Andrew P No Comments

Fake News

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Recently I was reading about how Russians had supposedly influenced the Brexit vote and the US election. There are lots of conflicting stories about this and it got me thinking about fake news. Fake news is a type of journalism consisting of deliberate misinformation. The idea is that it is written to mislead readers in order to damage someone or something’s reputation or for someone to gain politically or financially. Fake news is often written to invoke feelings of outrage in readers. By doing this, readers will likely form strong opinions about something and will do what the author of the article wants them to do. Fake news is a big issue at the moment thanks to controversies surrounding Donald Trump, but people seem to forget that fake news isn’t…
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17Sep 2017 by Andrew P No Comments

World War One and the meaning of the Poppy

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World War One began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. People hoped that the war would be over by Christmas 1914, but it ended up becoming a huge atrocity that lasted way longer than anyone thought it would. The total number of both civilian and military casualties is estimated to be around 37 million people, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history, To honour those who had died in the war, we wear Poppies every year on the 11th of November, the anniversary of the end of the war, but why Poppies? What do they represent? Red Poppies naturally grow in conditions of disturbed Earth in Western Europe, and as a result of the conflict going on, the earth was disturbed and poppies began…
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