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  • Superbowl LVII

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    It’s that time of year again. I missed most of the American Football season, so I watched a few highlights of the Playoffs. Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is a genius and a worthy successor to Tom Brady as one of the greats in that position. The Eagles’ quarterback,…

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  • Zoom

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    One of my favourite possessions is my DSLR camera. I am still learning how to get the most out of it, particularly the manual settings. Living in Belfast we are flanked by mountains on the West and hills to the East. Our view of the mountains is superb. The changing…

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  • Psychological Research Methods

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    Playing catch up, but getting there. There is an interesting discussion in my cluster group forum that suggests research topics, and then asks how you would carry out the research. The thread I have been following was How do babies react to loud noises? Obviously, experiments with babies are fraught…

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  • Oh what a glorious morning

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    and oh what a glorious day, as the song goes… everything’s going my way. Essay and essay plan written, catch up plan drawn up for Psychology and chores done.

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  • Frustration

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    Up early so I have an opportunity to catch up with my studies. Conceit…no, that’s a poetic device popular in the 17th century although one such conceit is called Petrarchan conceit so I’m assuming Roman origins. Coffee drunk, dishwasher unloaded, croissants in the oven, but where is my favourite pen?…

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  • Back to winning ways

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    Ulster rugby fans have been rewarded for their loyalty after a run of losses recently. Last night’s home game against the Stormers showed what they can do against tough opposition. Their number 8 has been consistently good and against his fellow countymen he performed well. The backs moved the ball…

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  • Sleep

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    Sleep deprivation is useful if you happen to be a torturer or masochist. I dream of languishing for eight hours or more in restful sleep. Or I would if dreaming was a memorable state for me. I like fresh air in the bedroom even if it’s freezing outside. Blackout curtains…

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  • Poetry devices

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    My course has given me some knowledge about reading poetry and the traditions that stretch back to Aesop’s Fables. Lovely words like enjambment, metonymy, alliteration and assonance now trip off my tongue. Metaphysical metaphors, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism all feature in our course material as we study Paul Muldoon’s anthology of…

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  • Playing catch up

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    A new year without resolution, except a belated attempt to get sufficient studying done in order to submit my next assignments. Will it be compare and contrast two poems (Bat and The Bear) or a bit of creative writing? I have got two weeks for this assignment so I will…

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  • What price truth?

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    Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s involvement in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission gave a Christian interpretation to the word reconciliation. Hate the sin and forgive the sinner may not have been the intended meaning by the Commission, but the coming together in peace to resolve differences was less apparent. Did it…

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