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Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...children of Oedipus (her siblings are Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices). A loyal daughter, she guided the blind Oedipus into exile before he died, and she’ll be equally faithful to her dead brother Polyneices. Oedipus was king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. He is famous in Greek myth for unknowingly killing his father (Laius) and marrying his mother (Jocasta)....
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Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...research into health-care organisations. This concern is rather out-of-step with much current debate in my field. Discussion of volunteering in health-care organisations almost always mentions the thorny political issue of (paid) job replacement but rarely discusses the risks of public activism being diverted, or blocked, by the dominance of volunteerist models of...
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Being a boy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being a boy

...contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere...[The family are dining together at a table] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...research guide, Queering Glamorgan, which despite its title includes a methodology that can be applied anywhere. The book, A Practical Guide to Searching LGBQIA Historic Records, is also useful as a toolkit in research techniques. When you apply this methodology, you start to see small stories appear. Many of them appear in the pages of newspapers past as fillers, those...
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A Letter to Earth
Nature & Environment

A Letter to Earth

...children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must remember that you are not a gift from our forefathers, nor is it a luxury to be revelled in. We are conscious that with privileges come responsibilities and we will take our responsibilities seriously. This is our promise to you. Yours lovingly, The Earthlings The original Earth anthem in Hindi: ये भूमि...
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Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...research into rapport, much of which has been carried out in a policing context. As soon as two people are in a room together, they are communicating in some way, albeit perhaps non-verbally. Imagine the following scenario: you and your colleague, Jim, are in a meeting room at work together, the first two people to arrive for a meeting. You are busy trying to answer...
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Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...Children of Arras Even the poor survivors of the devastating districts will have their Christmas dinner. I know of one underground refuge in Arras where some happy children will be assembled and fed. There is a pathetic little Christmas tree in one of these cellars of Arras - a tiny, stunted handful of green, decorated with three or four candles - that has been procured...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...children being affected. Secondly, it reduces the inequality between Londoners and those living in lower rent regions. Until now London has been disproportionately affected, but under the new regime affected households in the North East—the region with the lowest average rents—tend to be similar to those in London with the lower cap offsetting much of the differences...
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