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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...caring professions (e.g. nurses and teachers) became exhausted while dealing with the chronic strain associated with their roles. They reportedly felt ‘burned out’. The workers reported emotional exhaustion, a loss of empathy towards their clients and feelings of being inept at work. Research into athletic burnout commenced in the 1980s, four decades ago. Three broad...

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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs

History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...care haunt me, I throw it off the scent in Spenser's forests, or seek refuge from it among Shakspeare's men and women, who are by far the best company I have met with, or am like to meet with, on earth. I am sitting at this present moment with my curtains drawn; the cheerful fire is winking at all the furniture in the room, and from every leg and arm the furniture is...

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Article 10 mins

Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...adults all can be functional simultaneously. SAQ 3 Reread LoM p. 29 and p. 122 to identify two very different herbivores that exploit this delayed eruption. Write a few sentences to explain how they do so, making clear the similarities and the main difference between them. Answer The two animals are the kangaroo, which is a marsupial, and the elephant, a placental mammal....

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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs

History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...adult male works a loom.] Figure 1 Cottage industry: textile production often took place under what is frequently termed the ‘putting-out system’ in a semi-domestic setting, with female spinners and male weavers manufacturing cloth. This image, titled ‘The art of stocking-frame-work-knitting’, comes from volume 7 of the Universal Magazine (August 1750). Many...

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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs

Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...adult children [Marion Parker with Nicola as and a child and her brother]Marion Parker with Nicola (author) and her brother In 1989 when my mother joined the railway, I was only 1 year old and my brothers were 2 and 13. My father was studying for a full-time degree, and later became a full-time Health and Safety Executive. Reflecting over the years my Mum can’t believe...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional voice calls at all. Instead, our phones are used as mobile computers, for checking...

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Article 10 mins

History & The Arts

Global English

...adults are learning English in the workplace or in their free time. A 'wave of English' is now building up. Within a decade nearly a third of the world population will all be trying to learn English at the same time. But looking further ahead, the wave of learners may subside almost as quickly as it came. If the project to make English a second language for the world's...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...for a party or group other than Labour, or opposed to Labour” is enough proof to have you expelled, then we had all better be careful about praising so much as the individual policies of another party. That could go for Liz Kendall’s supporters just as much as Jeremy Corbyn’s. This article is a personal viewpoint, and was originally published at OpenDemocracy....

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