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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?

...become nurses and join a highly skilled and valued career. Let me explain. From a public perspective, navigating healthcare can be difficult, including understanding the roles and responsibilities of the many health professionals (Garcia, 2020). People rely on schemas (or cognitive representations) to aid understanding, often drawn from stereotypes. If a person has...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...becoming carbon neutral and are aligned with the targets set by the Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 2°C. In comments made during the build-up to the Milano-Cortina games IOC President Kirsty Coventry confirmed that the IOC are considering moving the Winter Olympic Games forward to January as a means of reducing the challenges associated with warming climates...
Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...become aware of this, you can work to deconstruct it, and to promote a different configuration of values and beliefs for mainstream society. You can shift the meaning of words and, through this, recreate society. There’s a very big difference between what an artist like Helen Cammock does and what populist politicians and their supporters do, of course. Politics tends...
What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...become isolated, or because the people they know are not comfortable talking about emotional and mental health issues. Watch the video below with Dr Jonathan Leach, as he explains what you can do if you're experiencing mental health issues. Transcript So what can you do if you are worried about your own mental health but don’t have the social support you need? 1: Try...
Starting your small business
Money & Business

Starting your small business

...becoming self-employed...Starting your small business is an introductory course for anyone who has recently set up a business or anyone who is thinking of setting up a small business or becoming self-employed. The course covers topics including structures, customers and responsibilities and looks at the common features shared by successful small businesses, as well as the...
Autism quiz text
Health, Sports & Psychology

Autism quiz text

...become completely free of it as adults. However, in some cases the pattern and severity of symptoms changes radically. The adult may become much less affected by certain symptoms, though social difficulties are likely to continue. 12. People with autism all have below average intelligence Is the answer TRUE, FALSE or DEBATABLE? Answer... FALSE While some children and...
When is the best time to water during a heatwave?
Nature & Environment

When is the best time to water during a heatwave?

...become a perfect oasis for rest and relaxation. But as nice as the hot weather might be, extreme conditions and record-breaking temperatures can wreak havoc on your plants. There’s of course no question, that when it’s hot, plants will need watering, but knowing when’s the best time to do this can be tricky. Evening watering gives plenty of time for the water to...
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...become part of the background of our lives, until today when it is extremely unusual to find someone who has neither a home telephone nor a mobile phone. Just as the telephone changed from a status symbol to become simply another piece of the modern world, so the computer has made a similar transition...Introducing computing and IT: 1.2 The computer - There were very few...
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