Confidence. Moving, speaking, living with confidence. For a long time this was an impossible task. Stop, breathe, lift your shoulders. A mantra of my intermediate years. This wasn’t something that could be just labelled as ‘introverted’. I believe there was a reason behind my lack of confidence. Growing up with an older brother and sister, I […]

In Luc Besson’s 2011 film The Lady there are various film techniques used throughout the film to place ideas in the viewer’s mind. Right from the first scene set in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 we see heavy use of film techniques with the goal in mind of explaining to us- the viewer- what is going […]

Confidence. Moving, speaking, living with confidence. For a long time this was an impossible task. Stop, breathe, lift your shoulders. A mantra of my intermediate years. This wasn’t something that could be just labelled as ‘introverted’. I believe there was a reason behind my lack of confidence. Growing up with an older brother and sister, […]

Distress clouded my mind as I put on my battered armour. I sat alone; gazing over the courageous Scottish Army as their armour shone and glittered like stars in the night sky about to be stained by the blood of dawn. Brazen comments went back and forth the brothers like chirping birds. Let them be […]

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