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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...world go by, no A-levels to her name and having graduated GCSEs during COVID-19, feeling as if there was no academic future for her. ‘I felt hopeless, but now I’m about to begin my second year with The Open University, studying an open degree that focuses on Chinese, linguistics, and English literature,’ she enthused. It was starting that degree in 2024 that...
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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...world are you headed? Beginners' Spanish: Food and Drink Intermediate German: The World of Work Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink Get ready for beginners' French Go greener and help the planet We can all contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental harms which result from burning fossil fuels, and other day-to-day services. Here are some helpful...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...world and respond to it. He has inspired a determined, multifarious and playful approach to the process of finding a voice, contemplating fantasy worlds, investigating modes of performance and wrestling with the concept of identity. Bowie’s exploration of feelings of estrangement and his embodiment of alien creatures from the outer cosmos speak to all of us who, for...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...world are integrally linked. The empirical evidence for this linkage is now copious. For example, using the largest extant database on the status of women in the world today, my colleagues and I found that the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy or its ethno-religious identity. The best predictor of a state’s...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds.Raymond Williams’s early experiences in his village close to the Wales-England border were recurring themes in both his fiction and non-fiction...
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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...world mourns for Queen Elizabeth II] Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral after reigning for 70 years, Liz Truss wins the months-long Conservative leadership race to become Prime Minister, with her new cabinet being the most ethnically and gender diverse in history, and the Government controversially reversed England fracking bans to yield further energy...
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Am I In Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Am I In Control?

...world. Unfortunately, an individual's worth often passes unrecognised no matter how hard he tries The idea that teachers are unfair to students is nonsense. Most students don't realise the extent to which their grades are influenced by accidental happenings. Without the right breaks one cannot be an effective leader. Capable people who fail to become leaders have not...
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical information. To what extent can such texts offer any real insight into ancient Greek attitudes towards women? To answer this question we need to think about how we might approach reading an ancient literary source as evidence. First,...
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