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What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?

...care professionals may have access to support resources through their professional bodies and employing organisations. Students will have access to support resources on their university website. FGM specific resources The National FGM Centre Support Clinics https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/national-fgm-support-clinics/ NSPCC
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Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...cared for neither. Instead he spent his days walking about in a threadbare cloak, simply talking to people. He attracted an entourage of eager young men hoping to learn from him, and perhaps to gain some notoriety from being seen with him. But he refused to be called a teacher or to accept any payment from them. His views about religion were odd too. He didn’t seem to...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...care for. But I don’t think we do because radioactive waste is not top of the agenda in terms of the nuclear debate in this country. What's top of the debate is saving carbon, all this sort of stuff. And in terms of the nuclear debate in my view, nuclear is probably as an industry ultimately doomed. But I think the point I would want to emphasise above all is that we...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...cared for then, though since I have become infinitely indifferent to it. At this time he desired that I should write, not so much with the idea that I could produce any thing worthy of notice, but that he might himself judge how far I possessed the promise of better things hereafter. Still I did nothing. Travelling, and the cares of a family, occupied my time; and study,...
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How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...Caring for a family member The good thing about disclosing the reasons behind a career gap are that you are under no obligation to reveal everything. It is always easier to explain gaps in detail later in interview situations rather than on your CV. Sometimes the bare minimum is sufficient but that’s only true if the reasons you have given are satisfactory and positive....
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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...care about the digital world, viewing it perhaps as a waste of time. Yet whether we are aware of it or not, digital information is flowing constantly around us. Consider a computer that is connected to the internet – the one you are using to study this course, for example. This may be a computer you use at home, in a library or at work; you may use it on the move or in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
History & The Arts

Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

...adult, he felt that he could never live up to Johnny Castle’s ‘vision of almost-perfect masculinity’. Naish also presents the universality of the film in its evocation of family holidays and the awkwardness of approaching a potential love interest, both of which he compares to episodes from his own life growing up in Britain. The essay is an absorbing account of his...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...adults, the wingless males, which develop first, visit the growing females, fertilise them and, as their dying act, tunnel out of the fig. When the females grow to maturity, they work their way out of their growth chamber, picking up pollen from other flowers, and exit through the holes left by their male siblings. Seeds develop in the pollinated flowers, the fig matures...
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