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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...becoming less welcoming as its own people struggle to make ends meet. This Saint Patrick’s Day will be celebrated in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but with it is an undercurrent of an identity crisis, after half a decade of anti-immigrant protests across the island in almost a dozen towns and cities. Saint Patrick, a migrant, a slave, stricken by...
Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...becoming a witch? Joining the witches is Tomasin’s last, desperate resort and it places her forever on the outside of a patriarchal social system in need of reform by and for its female members. More than this, Tomasin becomes one of the gruesome hags who have murdered her baby brother. In this respect, The Witch echoes old misogynist fairy tales, which often feature...
The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...becoming more progressive, the current findings do not fully support this claim. Instead, evidence suggests that, while Biles received support on social media, the reaction was hardly overwhelming in her favour. Conclusion The case of Simone Biles raises concerns about the media’s responsibilities regarding athletes’ mental health. Reporters should consider how their...
‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...become a focal point for the Black Lives Matter movement, with athletes serving as some of the campaign’s most vocal advocates. Despite the country’s racial diversity, most sports fans in America are white. By challenging race issues, black athletes are thereby resisting the powerful position and threatening the distraction that many seek from sport. According to...
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods quantify it using probability. The process begins with a prior distribution, representing beliefs before observing the data. The likelihood captures the information from the observed data. These are combined to produce the posterior distribution, which reflects updated beliefs after considering the...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...students attending selective schools can benefit from the experience, average performance across all students in areas served by such schools is not enhanced. The chancellor also announced a long overdue and welcome tidying up of vocational and technical qualifications, replacing more than 13,000 qualifications by some 15 new T levels. Here the devil will be in the detail...
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...OU offers...Psychology around the world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing understand how early life experiences impact infant development,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...becomes positively charged and the other becomes negatively charged. This causes the electrons, which are free to move, to travel through the wire towards the positive terminal of the battery, where they are removed. At the same time the negative terminal supplies more electrons to the wire. Within the battery there is a net flow of negative charge from the positive...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs