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Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...communities would continue to face injustices and discriminatory laws for generations to come. Harriet Tubman in Retrospect The immediate post-war years treated Tubman badly – she was refused a military pension, and was left poor and still illiterate. However, her finances and public recognition improved dramatically when her admirer Sarah Bradford published an account...
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After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...community, were maintained by the British. British troops remained stationed in Egypt, and Britain reserved the right to increase troop levels during a state of war. The events of 1919 in Egypt show how the First World War played a crucial role in affecting the country’s history after the war ended.The interwar years saw a political dance take place between the British,...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Community for the “Crimes against Humanity of Native Genocide, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and a racialized system of chattel Slavery”. The Committee developed a 10-point plan, calling for: Full apology Repatriation Indigenous people’s development program Cultural institutions Public health crisis (action) Illiteracy eradication African knowledge program...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...communicating it. And I think maybe the big error is that we have overlooked for too long the need to communicate that excitement between different groups, and that’s actually an integral part of what they want; it’s not just watching it once and saying thank you, or being happy sat on your sofa; they actually want to get it, to receive it and then bounce if off their...
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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...communities who haven’t had the tools to communicate the messages they want, the stories they want to tell before, so you’re giving them the kind of kit of parts to tell their own stories and not the stories we want to tell about them, but the stories they want to tell themselves. And that content is very hard to get hold of and it’s resource-intensive and expensive...
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...Communicate?'. View document Click this link to go to Science Across the World. Activity 3 In this activity you look at and test ready-to-use classroom activities that bring a global perspective to the science curriculum. First, choose three activities from the resources above. These include articles on housing in Saudi Arabia, the effect of obtaining resources required...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...communal issue and a public administrative matter. For example, there may be enormous pressure on beds in a ward where someone is dying – the pressure for the administrators of the hospital is to have a high turnover of patients to ensure that targets for treatment are met. One result of this is that people who exceed the medical expectations of their prognoses become...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...communities in which they operate, and so on? Questions to which Alex Oliver should know the answers: he runs The Forum for Philosophy in Business at Cambridge University. Audio Text David Edmonds: This is Ethics Bites, with me David Edmonds Nigel Warburton: And me Nigel Warburton David: Ethics Bites is a series of interviews on applied ethics, produced in association...
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