Taking Chemistry? This one’s for you: Professor Igor Larrosa’s Study on Ruthenium as a Catalyst in C-H Activation Reactions
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 If you take chemistry in the IB, you have probably covered kinetics. However, what the…
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Power of Protest: William Blake’s Poem ‘London’
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 Within his work “Songs of Experience” published in 1794, but written around 1789-1790, William Blake…
John Donne’s Poem “The Blossom”
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 One of the most notable poets of the 16th century, John Donne, was born to…
Have you read Austen’s “Persuasion”?
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 Jane Austen’s last novel, written during her sickness and published after her death in 1817,…
War and Peace – a Historical Fiction
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 When one hears of the book “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy, usually the first…
A few thoughts: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a classic published in 1848 by Anne Brontë, under…
The Time Travel Diary
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 No one believed me when I told them it was possible. They had said I…
Sleepless nights
Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 Is it possible to dream of not dreaming? Tea never had trouble sleeping when she was…
The story behind this year’s musical: Mary Poppins
By Dariga Atayeva, Year 12 After many months of hard work, actors for the secondary school’s musical Mary Poppins finally…