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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...managed by women and sustained by women.’ These societies were started to campaign and fight for the vote. Their members were focused and hard-working, and they were also colourfully minded and inspired, looking both to the past and the future, as they held their banners high. Interested in learning more? Think you might be interested in taking your learning further?...
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...languages, Richard also has studied more than 30 others. Richard is a Languages Director at The Social Element, a company that specialises in global social media management, where he works with global brands running multilingual social media projects. He is the co-founder of the Polyglot Conference, an annual event that brings together polyglots from around the world....
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...managed by the simple process of using a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Those deemed ‘fit for work’ are denied benefits. Between May 2010 and February 2013 just over 2 million people had WCA’s. Of those, 40,680 were dead within a year. The ONS is careful to point out that as the cause of death is unknown in most cases then it is not possible to infer a...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...managed to survive. So not all the evidence points the same way, does it? JPG: Absolutely not, it is true that some coral species have some resistance mechanisms that enable them to withstand this warming and acidification, but in this study we did an overall review and found that overall the impacts are very negative, even though some species are able to withstand those...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...management’s position as fundamentally a concerted ‘divide and conquer’ attack by local government employers to attempt to broker local deals and, as a result, cap the already meagre wages of the majority of nursey nurses (at the time starting at £10,000 per year rising to £13,800, The Guardian 2004). What was also writ large was the undermining and undervaluing...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...manager has made an initial decision or judgement then this provides a mental anchor which acts as a source of resistance to reaching a significantly different conclusion as new information becomes available. It is what happens when one has made a snap judgement and then disregards feedback that is inconsistent with this position. This bias can affect judgements about...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...manage their illness. Although previously recommended mainly for individuals suffering a heart attack or coronary artery bypass surgery, the programs are increasingly recommended for those suffering heart failure. Unfortunately, a synthesis of available information shows that, in the US, men were a third more likely to be enrolled in these compared with women. This could...
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The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...management. Workers had to be woken by ‘knockers-up’; shifts needed to be measured by a factory clock. As the industrial economy and its transportation network became more and more complex, bulky raw materials and finished products needed synchronised services from canal companies, mail coaches and, later, railways. For railway passengers, especially, the use...
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