solidarity
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton The word ‘friend’ comes from the Old English frēond, meaning ‘loving one’, ‘friend’ or ‘relative’. This word ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root prī-y-H (‘to love, to like’), which is also the root of the word ‘free’. Therefore, it can be said that the core meaning of ‘friend’ has always not only been tied to the concept of love and affection, but also has relations to the idea of ‘freedom’. The concept
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Bentley At seventeen, in the Reina Sofía Modern Art Museum, I stood before an 11 foot tall, 25 foot wide painting – the monochromatic, cubist work of art that depicted the brutal massacre of thousands in 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. A room dedicated to a singular painting,
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot Throughout time and around the world, women have always suffered more than men. It has generally been men in power, men instigating and fighting wars, men making laws while women were at a disadvantage in status, education, marital rights and, more recently, in the workplace where they have had to combat unequal
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