There was a particularly emotional scene that brought tears to my eyes, and a large part of it was due to the actor's heart-wrenching performance as Frankie.
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Review | Everlife
I watched a student-produced play on Saturday, called Everlife. The play gave me some food for thought.
SGAG: More Than Just a Gag Account
By: Richelle Lum Most of us know of us know of 9GAG, a social media website and online platform used to share internet memes that feature current, popular trends. However, perhaps slightly lesser known is the Singaporean version of 9GAG, SGAG, …
Thoughts on: Sing! China
I am upset and not just because the show ended. Despite promising preliminary results during the semi-finals, Nathan Hartono, our home-grown talent, failed to become the winner of Sing! China, and was triumphed over by Jiang Dunhao, who was on …
Bells Tolling in Europe: Reflections On The Harvard World Model UN Conference, Rome
One Saturday evening, I heard bells tolling in the streets of Florence, Italy, just outside the Piazza della Repubblica. A pale blue sky, tinged with pink and orange, hung high above the narrow streets, flanked on both sides by tall, …
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Insights from Tehran
It was a fully immersive and comprehensive experience, and/but it requires an insatiable curiosity and stamina on the part of the participant in this programme. Despite the photographs of all the happy people, the intellectual pace was breath-taking.
Module Review: UQF2101H War and Democracy
The module has a deceptively simple overall question: Are democratic states less likely to go to war compared to non-democratic states? To anyone who answers “yes, duh!” (I know I did), there are at least three terms within that question …
Module Review: UQF2101E Quantifying our Eco-Footprint
UQF2101E provides various results and tools in mathematical modeling and sampling. Its main goal was to teach the students transferable skills and a scientific mindset. Thus, it focused more on the mindset of the scientific method and the underlying assumptions …
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Module Review: UQF2101G Quantifying Nuclear Risks
Like all QR modules, it covers mathematical concepts required in statistical analysis: probability and expected value, probability distributions used to model the occurrence of chance events, mathematical modelling, random sampling, regression analysis and hypothesis testing.
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Module Review: USE2312 Nationalism and the Arts
As the new semester kicks off, we're once again witnessing the revitalization of staunch "new sem new me" resolutions. However, while some of us might merely be going through the motions of university life last semester, for a group of …
