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Call Me by Your Name: How André Aciman explores gender, sexuality and religion through a coming of age text
Get PDFThis article review explores how André Aciman represents a young American-Italian Jewish teenager, Elio, and his awakening sexual desire for Oliver, a 24-year-old male who also shares the same cultural and religious background in the early 1980s. The themes I will be discussing are gender, sexuality and religion in relation to a coming of age genre. Further, I will be discussing how Elio and Oliver come to awaken this sexual desire for each other despite the relationship being a taboo in their culture and the inappropriate relationship that blossoms as Oliver is a doctoral student who is working as an intern for Elio’s father. Finally, in this article review of Call Me by Your Name, I will examine Elio and Oliver’s resilience opting to stay together against all the odds
The significance of gender and sexuality in Coming of Age experiences in Okechukwu Nzelu’s The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney and A.S Byatt’s Still Life
Get PDFAs the female protagonists of The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu and Still Life by A.S Byatt have many differences, such as race, family dynamic, and the contexts of their contemporary societies, this article, which is mainly focused on gender and sexuality, examines the extent to which there is a difference between their ‘coming-of-age’ processes. Nnenna Maloney is a 17-year-old attempting to figure out a multitude of things about herself, whereas Frederica Potter is trying to navigate the world of Cambridge University. This article is an exploration of the two characters’ coming of age experiences as women and in terms of exploring their sexuality, in order to determine if there are constants in those experiences, which are not affected by growing up in particular circumstances.
 
Top Trumps- Gym Stereotypes
No full textApplicable to the fitness section of the magazine.
A short and humorous piece, intended to lighten the tone of the rest of the fitness section due to the heavy content of my main article. Includes images and comical descriptions about 4 different types of people everyone will encounter at the gym. Presented in the form of top trumps
Cash and class: How does wealth affect \u27coming of age\u27 in Jane Eyre
No full textJane Eyre was written in August 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. It is classed as a Bildungsroman novel. This means that it focuses on the ‘coming of age’ of the character Jane Eyre who the book is named after. Jane Eyre starts off life as an orphan and is incredibly poor, the story follows her life growing up until she eventually gets married to the wealthy Mr Rochester and in turn becomes an adult and ‘comes of age’. The purpose of this study is to discuss and discover to what extent Jane Eyres financial situation and her class affected her coming of age. I will be analysing the text and therefore Janes life. I will look at her development as a person at each stage of her life I.e. when she is an orphan .I will look from a Marxist perspective to discover which trials and tribulations Jane faced due to her poverty and in addition which aspects of her growing up were not affected by her finances. 
How is teenage pregnancy portrayed in Okechukwu Nzelu’s novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney? How has teenage pregnancy changed today? Key Words: Teenage, pregnancy, UK, 1990, society, Okechukwu, Nzelu
No full textThroughout Okechukwu Nzelu’s novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, teenage pregnancy plays a significant role. My article aims to inform readers of the struggles that young, pregnant women faced in the 1990s. Teenage pregnancy is a complicated coming of age issue, and so my article aims to break through the barrier of ‘awkwardness’. This allows people of all ages to read and discuss. My central discussion in this article focuses on the similarities and differences between teenage pregnancy in the 1990s and today’s society. Societal attitudes have changed, and the support that these women receive has improved significantly, although we still have further improvements to create
Adolescence in 1970s Britain: Examining the effects of conflict in contemporary culture in The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe
Get PDFJonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club primarily focuses on the lives of three young schoolboys growing up in 1970s Birmingham during emerging youth culture and civil unrest. Utilising the contextual factors of the backdrop, Coe presents the subtle implications this conflict has in the development of the main characters in the narrative as the characters move toward adolescence. The consequences of political unrest and extremist ideology emerging in Britain play a clear role in the irreversible shaping of each character’s disposition and social status within society, as their community echoes the conflict in the greater macrocosm of culture across the country. The aim of this article is to present Coe’s use of contextual factors to portray the impact of both explicit conflict and underlying issues in the maturation of characters in the novel. To this end, issues centred on racism, xenophobia and social progressivism are to be discussed and analysed throughout the argument to determine the true extent of how conflict shapes the lives of the youth as they come of age.
 
The Do\u27s and Don\u27ts of a Deadline Diet
No full textThis article recommends food for students to consume during deadlines - a period of time in which the average individual is usually confined to the library for long periods of time. Addressing the downfalls of unhealthy eating during periods of high stress and large workloads, the article suggests healthy food alternatives and the positive effect these can have on our academic performance.