The evolution of R&B: from the 90s to now - The Boar
Nov 13, 2020 · R &B, along with hip-hop, are arguably the two biggest genres of contemporary mainstream music. Nowadays they are arguably interchangeable. Their rise to becoming the most popular genres amongst our generation is an almost 50-year journey beginning in the 90s and culminating with the stardom now enjoyed by prominent R&B artists, such …
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What is the relationship between science and politics?
Feb 11, 2021 · Science and politics may initially appear mutually exclusive. Politics is based around subjective biases and ideologies that will invariably have a mixed relationship with scientific evidence. Similarly, politicians in democracies naturally want to win re-election to maintain power, so have the tendency to shape their policies around what ...
How ‘Rent’ revolutionised modern theatre - The Boar
Sep 15, 2020 · Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspired by Rent and the unconventional use of contemporary music in musicals. Unfortunately, Rent is not as popular as Hamilton today. Rent tackles social taboos and tells the stories of artists with HIV/AIDS who struggle to pay their rent in New York City. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1996 and has been performed ...
Should exams be abolished? - The Boar
Feb 8, 2021 · Should exams be abolished? or young people, exams, like death and taxes, were once certainties of life. That was the case, at least, in a society that couldn’t have imagined a pandemic shutting it down and forcing it to adapt as radically as it has. The alterations coronavirus has forced us to make have allowed us to see what is possible that ...
Is language learning an innate ability? - The Boar
Dec 7, 2020 · By demonstrating that we are born with an area of the brain ‘prewired’ for language learning, we know that it is an innate, biological process, and not something we learn entirely from scratch. Before our improved understanding of the brain, thanks to new technologies, linguists theorised that languages were entirely acquired from our ...
What is the Bootstrap Paradox? - The Boar
Oct 12, 2015 · In the opening to ‘Before the Flood’, Peter Capaldi’s Doctor gives us a quick run-through the Bootstrap Paradox, one of the most famous paradoxes in time travel. Trying to picture the problems this paradox causes is a challenge that forces us to reason out the intricacies of time travel. So what exactly is this paradox, and what is the ...
Should governments be able to limit population growth?
Nov 13, 2020 · T he global population is increasing by around 1.5% per year. If this growth rate continues, in less than half a century the number of people who live on the planet will have doubled. Various countries have attempted to control population levels over the past century, but in recent years, it has become enmeshed in debates surrounding climate change.
Why ‘Crashing’ deserves better than to be Phoebe Waller Bridge’s ...
Sep 5, 2021 · Comparisons to Friends have been made and they are both apt and misjudged at once: Crashing is more realistic (those apartments are far too nice for the area the friends live in and for what they earn), ruder, drier, sexier and possibly even funnier. Waller Bridge lends a quirky yet true to life twist to a tried and tested sitcom formula, but ...
John Powell’s greatest contributions to cinema - The Boar
Dec 2, 2020 · Powell joins a very small list of composers who’ve contributed to the Star Wars universe, and he runs with it – his score is full of energy, and is far more exciting than the movie it supports. Honourable mentions: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Kung-Fu Panda (2008, with Hans Zimmer), Antz (1998, with Harry Gregson-Williams), Rio/Rio 2 (2011 ...