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Power and people in ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Power and people in ancient Rome

...how are we to get a sense of what the structure felt like to be inside? Baths of Caracalla In Rome, water was not only a necessity but used as a cultural symbol. The Baths were an important source of civic pride. Baths of Ostia The chief port of Rome provides another insight into town life, and the number of Baths suggests the importance of bathing as a social activity....
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...interactions with other people, providing a template to make initial sense of new encounters: “No variables have more far-reaching effects on personality development than a child’s experiences within the family. Starting during his first months in his relation to both parents, he builds up working models of how attachment figures are likely to behave towards him in...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...social and economic status compared to Catholics, they still endured economic and religious discrimination at the hands of the politically dominant Anglican Ascendancy class. They especially resented having to pay so-called tithes, a form of taxation, for the upkeep of the established Anglican church (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013, p. 98). Most Presbyterians, because they did not own...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...interaction with white police officers experienced as boys, hugely negate attitudes toward the police as these Black boys grow to adulthood. The Metropolitan Police Service Black Police Association (MetBPA) presented the following statement in the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (1999): that ‘A second source of institutional racism is our culture, our culture within the police...
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CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...social conditions would fundamentally affect the buildings of the future. The Declaration also asserted that as society became more industrialised, it was vital that architects and the construction industry rationalise their methods, embrace new technologies and strive for greater efficiency. (Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...social views regarding this new inward migration trend including a focus on refugees, asylum seekers and those from Ukraine. This period in time is not aligned with a wealthy prosperous Ireland like the Celtic Tiger years were, where there was plenty to go around for all, with deepening economic tensions, and many Irish living pay cheque to pay cheque and struggling to...
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...social interaction. Reflecting on this as a teaching experience, clarifies how students should tell a story. Groups whose presentation lacked a storyline or plot gave presentations closer to the tutor’s example teaching activity. It is important to encourage students to identify plot, character, aim and obstacle. This process not only benefits the students, but also...
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Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...Social Attitudes Survey shows the true extent of concerns about immigration. Clear majorities thought migrants were having a net negative effect on British schools and the NHS. This was an area where there was substantial agreement between people with different levels of education. Another area in which the public was even more of one mind was in their awareness that the...
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