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The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...community that refugees are our fellow human beings and are an enrichment to society.” The refugee team is funded by the Olympic Solidarity Programme, created to assist those National Committees in need of organizational resources and training support. The Solidarity Programme already supports more than 1,700 athletes from developing countries, in addition to the...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...community in the world? It is the fashion of the present age to underrate the influence of individual character. For myself, I have ever rejected this consolation of mediocrity. I believe that everything that is great has been accomplished by great men. It is not what witnessed at Munich, or know of its sovereign, that should make me doubt the truth of my conviction....
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...communications technologies; contact with other world languages) and pressures internal to the language system (e.g. the continuing impulse towards an efficient, symmetrical sound-system; the avoidance of grammatical ambiguity). We need not fear or resist such change, though many people do, since the processes operating now are comparable to those which have operated...
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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...community in films such as the Stephen Frears' directed My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985.) Dearden then addressed the highly controversial topic of legalising homosexuality following on from the Wolfenden Report in Victim (1961). [Close up of a cameraman] Another strand in the documentary realist tradition was developing in the mid-50s: that of Free Cinema with short...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...communication between individuals and their contextual meanings. Document analysis evaluates electronic or physical documents to understand their meaning. Multimodal analysis analyses data that combines multiple forms, such as a video with moving images, audio, and text. Mixed methods can combine different data collection and analysis methods in many ways. For example,...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...communicator’), but also have unconscious positive or negative beliefs about themselves (‘I will never be good at...’ ‘I cannot succeed because I am.../have...’). What is especially interesting is that it is possible to present a positive self-concept (how we perceive and evaluate ourselves), whilst ignoring or not recognising the influence of negative...
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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...Communication - open up conversations about any worries they might have Be honest – sometimes you may need specialist help to protect your child Consider also contacting one of the key charities working to protect children such as Barnardos, The Children's Society or the NSPCC as well as any local agencies that may be able to help. The sooner you get advice the quicker...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...community. Whiteness was a widespread, self-styled form of transnational racial identification, an explicit and deliberate mode of subjective identification that crossed national borders and shaped global politics. It has only relatively recently lost its voice and come to be seen as the defining characteristic of political extremism, the atavistic trademark of the...
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