Faith
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Munazzah Chou, Farnham 20/20 vision is a way of saying a person can see perfectly. The events of this year have certainly allowed me to see some things more clearly. The average person is said to think over 6000 thoughts a day, but through much of 2020, I imagine that many of us may have…
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Aqeela Shanzay Zaffar, Glasgow 2020 has been a very shocking year for us all. Out of the blue, the Coronavirus pandemic gripped the world, millions of people got infected and sadly thousands passed away. This brought a drastic change in people’s lives, filled with financial losses, serious health complications and loss of loved ones. To…
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Nadia Ghauri, Oxford As human beings, it is in our nature to make mistakes. Forgiving them, by contrast, can be anything but easy. It is no wonder, then, that the poet Alexander Pope was to claim, ‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’1. The highest form of forgiveness, as Pope alludes, is exemplified by Allah…
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Sarah Ward, London Control. That elusive, enigmatic feeling which helps us to feel secure and confident in the world we build around us. Many people spend a large amount of time, money and energy searching for the feeling of control. You can see this human trait even from a child’s earliest experiences when they exercise…
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool Due to the economic impact of COVID-19, it is estimated 1.6 billion people are in “immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed”. In contrast, the number of billionaires in the world has reached 2095- none of whom, I would assume, will feel any impact on their economic livelihoods. Previous to the pandemic,…
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Dur-e-Shewar Anwar, Manchester On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern and life as we knew it began to change. The effects of this pandemic have been globally overwhelming with rolling lockdowns across the world, economic collapse in some of the…
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Sarah Ward, London Despite being born decades after, the iconic sounds of the sixties were the memorable backdrop to my childhood. On long car journeys, the only acceptable music came from my father’s cassettes containing the hit parade from his own adolescence. Today, many lyrics are still imprinted on my memory. And at this turbulent…
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