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Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...migrate to the poles and accumulate there in a permanent deep freeze. Our Moon may therefore be witness to billions of years of history of water and other important molecules in the vicinity of Earth. "The Moon still holds many mysteries." Meanwhile, scientists had been continuously honing their analytical techniques in the laboratory, performing ever more sensitive and...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...the Tate by videolink from Greece to co-create songs and poems on themes of belonging, togetherness and migration on the spot. Our workshops attracted audiences from Germany and France with visitors from London and included musicians from Greece and Play is Hope project. These workshops created new artworks based on the connections built around solidarities with refugees....
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A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West
OpenLearn Ireland

A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West

...migration within Ireland that took the place of some of the traditional emigration from Ireland, so the West still experienced a loss of population. "The factor most closely linked with emigration and decline was employment, so saving the West meant creating jobs in the West." As a result, in the mid-1960s the government sponsored Industrial Development Authority (IDA)...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...migrate to the colonies would not have been taken lightly. The sea passage alone took an average of six to eight weeks and was an expensive undertaking. Many of those from poorer social groups, including some Catholics, found that they could only afford the journey through indentured servitude. What was indentured servitude and what role did it play in Irish emigration?...
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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...migration - ‘Oh, what joy to see you again.’ Just one line from a folk song on a very familiar theme, to be found in traditional Irish music, can help us imagine the magnitude of the decision to migrate, especially if forced by hunger, oppression or fear. The line is written by a father to a son. They both know they will not see each other again. Like many topics in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...migration in the text as well as Selvon's treatment of memory as a vital part of the migrant's experience...This free course concentrates on Sam Selvon's twentieth-century novel, The Lonely Londoners. It considers the depiction of migration in the text as well as Selvon's treatment of memory as a vital part of the migrant's experience....Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal
Nature & Environment

Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal

...migrate to Saint-Louis often find it difficult to secure a place to live that is not at risk of flooding. Many people moved to Saint-Louis during an earlier period of drought when the risks from flooding seemed low. But flooding now occurs more regularly and with anthropogenic climate change the problem is almost certain to worsen. Mayor Dieye has organised the building...
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Article 10 mins
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...migrated to the city or were born in the two decades after India’s economic liberalisation in 1991. Delhi conjures up metaphors typical of the urban: modernity, prosperity, worldliness and liberal lifestyles on the one hand and corruption, crime, violence, ignorance and racial conflict on the other (for studies on Delhi’s contemporary urbanity, see Sundaram, 2010;...
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