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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...family having breakfast together traditional serpme kahvalti to celebrate Eid-ul-fitr.] Eid-ul-Fitr is the festival which marks the end of Ramadan. It is a joyous occasion and a day of true thanksgiving for Muslims. The day begins with giving to charity and prayers in the mosque, and thereafter they share celebratory meals with family and friends and exchange gifts. As...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...family left behind in Damascus makes it hard for her to concentrate. Her father, a man in his mid-40s, is similarly committed to learning German and establishing a future for himself and his family in Germany. Even so, he frequently misses his German language classes because they clash with appointments at the immigration authorities. It is only through these appointments...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...family home is a sawdust-filled clear plastic container, one of hundreds stacked up in a rotating system of shelves. These are the “control” mice used by Christakis and neuroscientist Nino Ramirez, and their team, trying to understand the impact on young brains of being exposed to fast-paced media. Across the corridor an experiment is underway. One of the mouse...
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What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...history, and certainly less than it was for the war-torn first half of the twentieth century or most of the ideologically divided decades of the second half. It is incomparably richer than at any other stage of its development, and seems to enjoy unparalleled prospects for concerted growth and harmonious economic development. Nevertheless, the nature of this new Europe...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...family and everything. And then I just got ill. Yeah, so I lost everything, really. Three years ago Louis developed serious mental health problems and had to give up work. LOUIS: I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression. And I sort of … sorry. Anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress with a personality disorder also, as well. NICK: After 10 years of being a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...history, the United States privileged immigrants who were Protestant and white European. As historian William van Vugt points out, in a chapter on American immigration before 1870, British Protestant migrants were generally viewed as ‘invisible immigrants in the sense that they had a comparatively rapid assimilation and were not seen as true foreigners’ (van Vugt,...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...family, occupied my time; and study, in the way of reading, or improving my ideas in communication with his far more cultivated mind, was all of literary employment that engaged my attention. In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbours of Lord Byron. At first we spent our pleasant hours on the lake, or wandering on its shores; and Lord Byron,...
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What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...history and the challenges involved in reshaping human individuals so as to live differently, within planetary boundaries, in a new historical period defined by the ending of fossil fuel Modernity (Hollway, Hoggett, Robertson and Weintrobe 2022). It recognises the political, cultural and social factors that also govern our thoughts, emotions and behaviours in relation to...
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