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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...education/university-nursing-applications-fall-again-to-lowest-in-five-years-18-07-2024 Clayton-Hathway, K., Griffiths, H., Schutz, S., Humbert, A.L. and Mcilroy, R. (2020) Gender and Nursing as a Profession: Valuing Nurses and Paying Them Their Worth. Finkelman, A. Kenner, C. (2013) ‘The Image of Nursing: What It Is and How It Needs to Change’, In Professional...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...technology here. It would give – it was part of the necessary mix because you needed base load power. We've got to keep the lights on. We’ve got to save the planet. All those sorts of buzzwords were going around. And there was deeply embedded a nuclear lobby, which I think was powerful. The discourse was pro-nuclear. There was a sort of political inertia and therefore...
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The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...education and political science at University of California, Berkeley. García Bedolla’s research interests center around the civic engagement, community activity, and educational success of ethnoracial groups in the United States. She is author of Latino Politics. [Donald Trump] Donald Trump: If he's not invited to the party, he might go alone Trump issues a warning...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...education, or to the writing of a book. I ought to know why I should do that. So long as I did not know why, I could not do anything, I could not live. Amidst my thoughts of farming, which interested me very much during that time, there would suddenly pass through my head a question like this: ‘All right, you are going to have six thousand desyatinas of land in the...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...educate themselves in the realities of racial discrimination against various groups and about the various aspects of individual and institutional racism, that is radical discrimination that has become established as normal behaviour within a society or organisation. If we can acknowledge that racial prejudice and discrimination exists within the systems of our society and...
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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...educational reasons; however, a large number also came as part of a ‘pilgrimage’. Interestingly, this response came, almost without exception, from international visitors. Well it was this good reputation about its great history, about the Highlands. We … wanted to see the battle, the battlefield. We've been told it's a very important place for the Scottish people....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...education to be accessible to and affordable for all Americans. Although Sanders is 74, his support base currently consists mainly of young people, only 20% of whom voted in the 2014 elections. This is a major electoral constituency which the Republicans have simply ignored, and which other Democratic contenders including Hillary Clinton have failed to attract in large...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...technologies are changing and poorly understood; alliances, preferences and perceptions are changing; problems, solutions, opportunities, ideas, people and outcomes are mixed together in a way that makes interpretation uncertain and their connections unclear. (March, 1982, p. 168) The garbage-can metaphor describes the messy, complex and disordered way in which, at a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs