by swatt3 | Sep 13, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems
Lorrie Hammerton, 2018 Do you wake up in the morning and check your smartphone as if it’s the morning newspaper? Do your fingers need to compulsively tap and swipe like a smoker needs to light a cigarette? Smartphones have become a digital appendage....
by swatt3 | Aug 7, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems
Karlie Rose Pogson, 2018 When Australian Olympic skier Jacqueline Cooper complained that all Chinese athletes “look the same” you might have been appalled. Or perhaps it was the treatment by Australian cricket fans of England’s batsman Moeen Ali that prompted you to...
by swatt3 | Jul 31, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems
Marissa Novak, 2018 Facebook has over 1.23 billion active users. On top of this, our younger generation does not know a world without the Internet (Blease, 2015). Answers are at their fingertips and the entire world is accessible from their bedroom. Popularity...
by swatt3 | Jul 24, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems, Uncategorized
Tony Stringer, 2018 The internet and social media are clearly a threat to social norms. When renowned English poet and decorated soldier, Wilfred Owen (1917), wrote his famous poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, he made veiled references to the weaponised products of the...
by swatt3 | Mar 6, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems
Clementine Scott, 2017 In our fast-paced western society, there are countless reasons to stay up late – social occasions, that elusive chance to wind down from unendingly busy days, finishing off that to-do list or even an inability to fall asleep. Unfortunately, with...
by swatt3 | Feb 28, 2018 | Opinion piece, Real World Problems
Taryn Hayhurst, 2017 Experts in Australia suggest that an hour to two and half hours of high intensive exercise each week are recommended for adults wishing to maintain a healthy lifestyle (The Department of Health, 2014) with 56% of us being entirely inactive or not...
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