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A CALL TO CREATIVITY

Hello and welcome to The Looking Glass, WBGS' very own Academic Blog.  This year we are planning to breathe new life into this amazing blog as the Academic Head Boy team for 2025- 2026! However, at the Looking Glass we need your help to catapult this blog into it's GOLDEN AGE.  We need your articles, your essays, your opinions and your finest work to MAKE THE LOOKING GLASS GREAT AGAIN! If you have read something interesting or watched something that sparked a thought on social media -  WRITE ABOUT IT! If you entered a competition, however big or small - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you are interested in a specific field, issue or period - WRITE ABOUT IT! If you have produced artwork, a piece of music or creative writing - WE WILL PUBLISH IT! Your creative skills have been called to action - now we must muster to create, discover and explore.  You are the creative minds of the future. The Plato's, the Newtons, the Angelo's, the Nietzsche's. This is your calling.  This is Y...
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T h i s i s w h y I w r i t e

BEN BUFFERY This essay won the 2020-2021 edition of the History of Totalitarianism Essay Competition “The more strictly you will adhere to nothing but the facts, relating them without comments the more valuable it will be” So, I will try… but we were not made of wood.. Not to say of stone.” Witold Pilecki
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The 2020 US Election

  NATHAN TRACEY The Democratic primaries in 2019 and 2020 were an interesting spectacle, taking place against the backdrop of the divisive office of Donald Trump, with many candidates trying to position themselves as the ‘anti-Trump’ option. If anything, the process showed that Trump has maintained a tight grip on the media and the Democratic establishment. All networks and debates have featured questions relating to him, his policies, or his election chances. In total 29 major candidates announced their candidacies for the primaries, the largest field of candidates since 1972. Some candidates, such as Andrew Yang, announced their candidacy in November 2017. The front-runners in the race included Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg. One late entrant, Mike Bloomberg, took a controversial stance by not campaigning in the early voting states of New Hampshire and Iowa, instead focusing on states that announce their result on Super Tuesday...
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Be the Light in the Darkness: Holocaust Memorial Day

RORY CONBOY Light has been associated with hope for thousands of years; the two habitually intertwining whenever comfort and encouragement are in need of distribution. Hence the old saying, ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’, a metaphorical beacon of hope. Yet the commonality of such a maxim in turn verifies the existence of an ever present darkness, forever germinating in such an ominous fashion. The 27th of January marks Holocaust Memorial Day, this year projecting the theme ‘Be the light in the darkness’. While the words ‘Holocaust’ and ‘light’ seldom meet, and possess drastically different connotations, this ‘call to action’, if you will, should not be interpreted as a naive and distasteful neglect of the ‘darkness’ surrounding genocide. Rather, it is encouragement to actively strive to confront prejudice, whatever form it takes and wherever it is encountered.
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