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Sue's Blog: Obesity
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Saturday, 27 August 2011. We now have abundance and easy access to tasty food in mammoth quantities. The result is that we have become a nation of gluttons, encouraged by the food industry and supermarkets. If people were suffering rationing now there would not be an obesity epidemic – so it is all down to availability and portions sizes. Smaller plates and bowls might help. What do you think – should people be allowed to get fatter and fatter? Is obesity a matter of our own personal responsibility?
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Sue's Blog: Endings
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011. Yesterday was a full moon – a time of endings. A group of us met in our university coffee shop. It felt like it would be the last time we would all be there together. It was strange and sad to see the freshers clutching their welcome packs and getting their photos and computer passwords sorted out. We felt like unwanted old chicks tossed out of the nest to make way for the new ones. Posted by Sue's Blog. 13 September 2011 at 12:20. Good suggestion - thanks for that. Sorry, Eng...
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Sue's Blog: Reading list for MA
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Thursday, 28 July 2011. Reading list for MA. I promised my friends at uni that I would let them know, via my blog, what happens on an MA course in creative writing. Well – here is the reading list. I’ve just spent a fortune at Amazon and have had to rearrange my home to accommodate the mammoth delivey of books that I am now expecting. I was warned there was a lot of reading to do – they weren’t joking! Borges, Jorge Luis, Labyrinths, 2000. Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities, 2002. Booker, Christopher, The ...
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Sue's Blog: What can society do?
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011. What can society do? People are asking themselves what has gone wrong with our society to spark the riots we have seen over the past few days. I was horrified by the total callousness of these 'rioters' who stole from an injured man and left him there. They reminded me of the worst type of school bully - showing no compassion for others and swaggering off with their cronies. What has caused their lack of morals and compassion? What can be done to stop the rot? Ive got a few peo...