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...
AARUSH LAL Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations most attached to liberty to repose. To be more safe, they become willing to run the risk of becoming less free.” - Alexander Hamilton The noun “prisoners'' is one of an intriguing etymology. It is most often thought to be derived from the 12th century French noun prisoun, a term commonly translated to obtain the meaning of a state of captivity, and therefore a state of being viewed today to be heavily linked with confinement. Yet, in a nation with a prison population as vast as the United States’ one, perhaps the most intriguing paradox is that of what so many individuals are being confined from. Perhaps most notably exists a confinement away from an ability to nurture and have a positive impact on others in the nation, one away from th...