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Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?
History & The Arts

Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?

...creatively preoccupied with ideas and images of doubleness, death, rebirth, and reinvention. The young Plath, like the teenage Swift, was an obliging All-American blonde, who coyly posed for cheesecake shots of swimwear fashions for the Cambridge University newspaper Varsity in 1956. It was this unthreatening image that she was later to violently reject in famous poems...
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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...easily fall into a facile nature-nurture debate. Probing athlete’s biographies alongside research can reveal fascinating and varied routes to the top. And there are few higher (or further) athletic achievements than that great leap in 1995.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...your geographical thinking to work by examining how places that are meaningful to you are changing in these turbulent times. Credits Data and its representation in this OpenLearn page derives from the ESRC-funded project entitled Manchester, The Centripetal City led by Adam Leaver, Rich Goulding and Jon Silver (ES/V002597/1). It is used under a Creative Commons license....
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From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...creatively and consider how I could utilise my nursing skills and my love of teaching in a role that suited my new lifestyle. I know fairy godmothers only appear in Cinderella but once again the OU saved my life! At this point in my life, my boss Mags was my fairy godmother. Due my own journey, I can emphasise and have the time to listen, mentor, and do whatever I can, to...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...creatively, proactively and with vision while encompassing the needs of individuals, groups and organisations. To find out more about these intelligences you might like to look at: These six intelligences will drive smart leadership in disrupted times | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Social intelligence is often linked with the use of emotional intelligence. This...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...creative and innovative thinking that learns from the failings of the boys’ system. There has undoubtedly been much progress in the women’s game since 2022. Some change has happened quickly, while other changes are still taking time. Without question though a successful defence of the European Championship this summer will be a great help and contribute to even more...
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Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...write each value as the symbol x plus a subscript number in brackets, where the subscript number shows the position of that value within the ordered batch. Figure 2 shows the 15 prices written out in ascending order using this subscript notation. [Described image] Figure 2 Subscript notation for ordered data The lower extreme, uppercase E subscript uppercase L end , is...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...write some notes in the box below. If you have difficulty differentiating the different bars on the bar chart, please see the further description below. . Further description The figure comprises a set of statements numbered from 1 to 12. You are required to provide an answer for each statement for your view of both your ‘line manager’ and ‘senior management’ by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs