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What is crime?
Society, Politics & Law

What is crime?

...law. Specifically it is against the criminal law. In so doing the act will have certain aspects to it - it will have an aspect of criminal harm and it will have an aspect of criminal blame. Interestingly though, many people have questioned this legalistic definition. First of all this is because it’s always going to be partial and determined within a very specific and...
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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...Law and Culture Centre, they are instrumental in determining the way forward for the community. The website for the centre states, “Nothing that happens at Kapululangu can happen without the Elders.” Kapululangu’s Elders were born in the desert, and grew up and were trained in the Old Ways before the arrival of Kartiya/non-Indigenous people in their ancestral...
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Scots loch. [Anglo-Saxon Church carving St. Mary and St. Hardulph Church. Breedon on the Hill [Image: Walwyn under CC-BY-NC licence]] Anglo-Saxon Church carving St. Mary and St. Hardulph Church. Breedon on the Hill [Image: Walwyn under CC-BY-NC licence] OE, also called Anglo-Saxon, was not heavily influenced by the Celtic languages spoken by the native inhabitants of the...
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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...laws and customs of the country they live in...’ Another, however, responded that a good citizen is ‘someone who questions the rules to improve the lives of others’. These two responses speak to an interesting dilemma. Does being a ‘good citizen’ always mean ‘following the law’, or does it sometimes necessitate questioning and challenging laws? After all,...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...law, which is something that I had no comprehension of to begin with, and maybe have a very minuscule comprehension of now. I decided that I was going to follow his journey through the law courts. This was really interesting but also physically and practically very difficult, because you didn’t know when his hearing was going to happen. I couldn’t speak to his lawyers...
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...Scots fisher lassies’, and in this article Scottish herring women and girls will be used. From the age of 15 women and girls started gutting and packing the herring and travelled from the North and North East of Scotland as far south as Great Yarmouth in East Anglia for work. Scottish herring women and girls became an important part of the workforce within the fishing...
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What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...law, although challenges to the present position and to the law regarding assisted suicide are common. In the programme, Simon’s consultant says that very few people with motor neurone disease choose to go to Switzerland but, as you will have seen, you need to be able to afford to travel there and pay for the service. It may then be a question of not having the choice...
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Exploring Philosophy
History & The Arts

Exploring Philosophy

...laws? For some there’s an assumption that philosophy might not be relevant to modern life but Dr. Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University argues that many of us today are faced with philosophical questions such as these as we live our lives in the twenty first century. In this collection we ask academics to discuss these questions in...
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