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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...educational level or ethnic background and so on, but also things like disenchantment with political authority, sense of powerlessness, political cynicism, authoritarianism or alienation from society. They have also looked at personality factors and aspects of cognitive functioning (resistance to disconfirming evidence, tendency to circular thinking, attributional styles,...
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Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...educational environments and future offending. Research statistics indicate that 65% of boys with a parent in prison are more likely to go on to offend, although this data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between parental imprisonment and childhood experiences. Despite such findings, children are not systematically identified and recorded when a parent...
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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...education/university-nursing-applications-fall-again-to-lowest-in-five-years-18-07-2024 Clayton-Hathway, K., Griffiths, H., Schutz, S., Humbert, A.L. and Mcilroy, R. (2020) Gender and Nursing as a Profession: Valuing Nurses and Paying Them Their Worth. Finkelman, A. Kenner, C. (2013) ‘The Image of Nursing: What It Is and How It Needs to Change’, In Professional...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...education. The general poverty of the countryside meant that the market for industrial goods was small and growth discouraged. For example, 40 per cent of Hungarians were poor peasants who lived at a minimum level of subsistence and considered the most basic items such as shoes and clothes a luxury (Aldcroft, 2006, pp. 175–7). R.J. Crampton adds that often any surplus...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...education, or to the writing of a book. I ought to know why I should do that. So long as I did not know why, I could not do anything, I could not live. Amidst my thoughts of farming, which interested me very much during that time, there would suddenly pass through my head a question like this: ‘All right, you are going to have six thousand desyatinas of land in the...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...educate themselves in the realities of racial discrimination against various groups and about the various aspects of individual and institutional racism, that is radical discrimination that has become established as normal behaviour within a society or organisation. If we can acknowledge that racial prejudice and discrimination exists within the systems of our society and...
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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...education projects. REBECCA DALE I think it’s really good for the children to come and see what’s around, see whether they can get other forms of energy without draining too many resources. BOY 1 Now, who wants to have a guess at how many houses each turbine can power? Yes? STUDENT 60. BOY 2 Higher. A lot higher. BOY 1 Higher. [MUSIC PLAYING] BOY 1 Each one of these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...education to be accessible to and affordable for all Americans. Although Sanders is 74, his support base currently consists mainly of young people, only 20% of whom voted in the 2014 elections. This is a major electoral constituency which the Republicans have simply ignored, and which other Democratic contenders including Hillary Clinton have failed to attract in large...
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