Category: Adult

Two Birds, One Stone

It’s a no brainer, I totally agree. I mean why do you think that people in relationships fight? Huh? They just won’t care to understand each other and the matter at hand. All they care about is telling each other how they are feeling. Hitting up one with that “first of all, I’m not the

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What has the opening of a school door got to do with the closing of a prison?

Shakuntala Devi said and I quote “education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It is about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life”. According to Merriam- Webster, a school can be defined as an organization that provides instruction: such as an institution for the teaching of children, a

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The Incredible Injustice of Turkey’s Continued Denial of the Armenian Genocide

The Armenian genocide occurred a century ago, but the continued denial of it by the Turkish government still has consequences. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” On April 24, 1915 Ottoman Turkish authorities arrested 200 Armenian intellectuals and business leaders across Western Armenia (present day Eastern Turkey).

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Pandora box of uncertainty

Stephen R. Covey’s quotation is indeed a pragmatic insight into human being’s innate behavior. Starting from me, most people get annoyed by such kind of act. After a long tiring commendable argument to convince someone, I end up facing another insurmountable counter-argument which fades up my hope of changing his outlook on the subject matter.

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On Boats

1. I am 17 and I already know how patriarchy works. I do not have the word “patriarchy” in my arsenal of words. There exists, at least in my head, no equivalent in Shona or Ndebele. But, I know that for my mother to allow me to make a decision, I need my uncle’s help.

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Does education prevent, or facilitate imprisonment?

Everybody wants to enjoy an easy life but problems and decisions are part of our daily routine no matter who you are. When faced with the hardships of life, decision making can be the vital element in avoiding or solving the crisis ahead. Sometimes, those decisions might not seem the best nor the safest options, but they may in the

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Silent Noise

One of the things I have come to understand is that the world is full of silent noise. Everyone wants to be heard but no one wants to listen. In the end, we end up making a lot of noise without passing anything across, hence ‘silent noise’. Silent noise is a product of a world

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The Love of Children

We love our children naturally. They are the part of our flesh and blood. They resemble us and carry forward our legacy. It is only natural to think about them. It is only instinctive in living beings of some sizable intelligence to care about their young ones. Our protective instincts come into play with regard

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Education: The Antidote to Contemporary Criminality

Victor Hugo, a renowned French poet, novelist, and dramatist once said ‘he who opens a school door, closes a prison’; his wise sayings, well-founded in the roots of contemporary social studies focused on the study of crime and criminality. Hugo, being a Romanticist, was focused on the conservative cultures and norms that advocate for harmonious

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Listen to Understand.

Each person in this world has created their own universe around them. We are the “sun” of our own universe. The rest are just the minor bodies revolving around us, and we have the moral obligation of enlightening these bodies.   We are undoubtedly the most important person in our respective universes.  Our survival instincts have

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Schools and Prisons: More Closely Connected Than We’d Like to Admit

I understand Victor Hugo’s idea that “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” and I appreciate the perspective from which he speaks. When majority of the population struggled to maintain basic necessities of life because a select few held the power and wealth, he viewed education as a way to gain traction in

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Destiny’s Door

It is such a sobering thought, to know that a child’s future is so often pre-determined. To sit at one’s armchair and play the oracle, in possession of full knowledge of this creature’s tomorrow. It makes one feel somewhat powerful, does it not? That by simply looking around the environs of this new member of

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When Justice is Hung by a Thread

It is no wonder why an act of injustice committed in a corner of the world reverberates with a multiplicity effect in the wider world. The logic is not far-fetched. Both the beneficiaries and the victims of injustice carry the guilt and stigma respectively along with them everywhere they go, rubbing it off onto others.

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Heart is the art of listening

The other day a man began talking to me at a coffee shop. He seemed hungry so I shared a little something with him and he began to talk, breaking for small moments to have a sip of coffee but quick to begin again, with no chance of me to really respond. The first thing

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The Prison of Values and Character

A superficial first read of Victor Hugo’s statement: “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” might lead one to surmise that the sole reason law offenders get convicted of crimes is lack of affordable and accessible education. On a thoughtful second read one cannot but unveil its couched feeble premise. Long before organised

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Putting your child in a boat

  Discuss the following excerpt from Warsan Shire’s poem Home: “you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land”   An obvious option is to discuss this within the context of the poem and its related economic, political, humanitarian and spiritual drivers. Or,

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I listen, therefore I am

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says Sānsī ér hòu xíng, which literally translates to “three thoughts and after act“. In modern-day English, this can be interpreted as “think thrice before you act”. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. Often, especially when we

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