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Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...religion, or a different nationality, a different language, a different home life, which makes it more difficult, and they face an extra challenge and barrier to getting on in school and continuing into higher education and into employment and so on. SAWA HUMAYAN Swansea is kind of, like, a diverse city, where people are from different countries, and having this community...

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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs

History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...religion; naturalize foreigners; dissolve marriages; legitimate bastards; attaint a man of treason, etc. Lord Bolingbroke, indeed, is of a different opinion, and affirms there is something which a parliament cannot do: it cannot annul the constitution; and that if it should attempt to annul the constitution, the whole body of the people would have a right to resist it. It...

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Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

Ashura

...Religions/Encyclopedia of Islam). [The Day of Ashura in Istanbul.]Young men mourn during the day of Ashura in Istanbul. Shi‘a Muslims also commemorate the 40th day after Ashura, Arbaeen, and in the days leading up to it huge numbers of pilgrims walk the 50 or so miles from Najaf (where Ali is buried) to Karbala where they take part in further mourning rituals for Husayn...

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Article 5 mins

Languages

I have an accent, (why) does it matter?

...religion, gender identity and sexual orientation are protected characteristics in the UK, accent is not yet. Accent by nature and by definition is something that is noticed by listeners. Some foreign accents, however, are perceived more favourably than others. In a study carried out in the US, French-accented English was generally perceived more favourably than Arabic- or...

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Video 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness

...religions too. Mindfulness can be achieved, like it has been for over a thousand years, via yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques. A practical tip: One way in which you can practice mindfulness is by setting aside some time each day to practice a simple exercise. For this exercise you need to sit silently and pay attention to the sensations of your breathing,...

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Article 10 mins

Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...religion and from archaeology to disease and warfare, and as a further example, many states in the U.S. have a specific soil that is legislatively established as a ‘state soil’, just like a state bird or flower. What is the status of soils today? Like most of earth’s resources, soils in all parts of the world are under threat. From the physical problem of compaction...

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Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...religion, and of a meeting-place to counterbalance the ale-house, even in the hamlets; but if a couple of old termagants were seen tearing each other's caps, it was a safe conclusion that, if they had not received the sacraments of the Church, they had not at least given in to schismatic rites, and were free from the errors of Voluntaryism. The breath of the manufacturing...

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Article 5 mins

Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...religion for almost two millennia. Second, from the Renaissance into the 19th century Latin also served as a transnational language of education and higher learning in universities across Europe and beyond. Persian provides another example: after Iran fell to the Arab invasion, Persian became the language of the army that spread Islam into Central and South East Asia, and...

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Article 5 mins

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