On the 6th December 1989, a young man with a firearm went into a college classroom at the École Polytechnique, Montreal, and killed 14 people and injured 10. The 25 year old, named Marc Lépine, had previously been denied admission to the college for engineering. Once he had found out how many women had gotContinue reading “Montreal Massacre”
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Male Suicide
“Man up!” What does it mean to be told to “man up”? To act masculine? To not show emotion? To not cry? To be strong for your family? To provide for them? In 2016, there were 5,965 suicides registered in the UK. Men accounted for three-quarters (4,508) of these deaths. In 2017, there were 5,821Continue reading “Male Suicide”
The Vietnam War
In the past few months, I have been very interested in historical wars. By not taking history for GCSE, and taking geography instead, I feel like my knowledge of history is limited to year 9- which consisted of brief lessons in the two World Wars. However, as I study politics at university, and have beenContinue reading “The Vietnam War”
