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The Arab Spring Movement sparked a key realisation for me. I consciously recognised the privileges I had been granted growing up in a democratic country and I came to understand that free and fair systems are still not practised worldwide. Whilst democracy, free enterprise and human rights have flou

I believe that the primary purpose of education is to improve one’s ability to recognise and appreciate value. I have found linguistics and philosophy to be two of the greatest means to this end. Linguistics, because language is our primary way of expressing ideas. And philosophy because it is the t

Literature has always been central in my life. My drive to pursue English academically was sparked at the age of fifteen, when I read Les Miserables and was enchanted with Hugo’s vast narrative, a profound panoramic portrayal of love in all its forms. Since then I have been fascinated by how writers