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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...write (Meaney, O’Dowd and Whelan, 2013, p.89.) Given their preference for life in the big cities, they were also adept at using the American political system to their advantage, especially in Irish dominated cities such as Boston, New York, and Chicago. Tammany Hall in New York, the headquarters of the Democratic Party, became synonymous with Irish political power in...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...write. The percentage of left-handed people in the USA has grown from around 2-3% at the start of the 20th century, to around 12% today. Handedness is known to be substantially genetically inherited, and there is no evidence that any genetic shift happened over this time. But attitudes did shift: social acceptance of left-handedness increased. Gender is not as simple as...
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...writing, music, art Checklist: your oxytocin 🤝 How to spot signs of not enough oxytocin? feeling lonely feeling stressed lack of motivation low energy or fatigue disconnect of relationships feeling anxious insomnia How to get more oxytocin? socialize physical touch have a massage have an acupuncture treatment listen to music exercise take cold showers meditate...
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...write it from a far more positive viewpoint, with the BAME community being present on all levels in the sporting world, and children getting equal access to sports, no matter their background. [black children with a football in their hands] Watch the following video, a presentation given during Black History Month 2022, which explores these issues further. [BHM 2022 - Do...
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...creativity, flexibility and cooperation there is also evidence that misplaced optimism can lead to rash decisions and risk-taking (Alloy and Abramson, 1979). Aversion and approach are facilitated by different emotions. Low and high mood may be useful in certain situations but may be very unhelpful in others...Emotions and emotional disorders: 2.6 The pressures of modern...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...creative, and make it visually interesting by using lots of different colours, or you can keep it very simple. Activity 2 Once you have decided on a method for creating your timeline, you should start by plotting the information you obtained from the video police briefing by SIO Lyndon Harris. This will start to form a visual representation of the information that is...
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...creative, political step to move the next one on. And right now this negotiation here in Bonne, preparing for Paris, is dancing around those issues but behind the scenes I see a lot of convergence about the need to be practical, the need to be relatively pragmatic in moving forward and I think that understanding, should it persist to the end of Paris will be what...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists reported the case of a patient whose dog constantly sniffed at a mole on her leg, on one occasion even trying to bite it off. The woman sought medical advice. Tests showed it was a malignant melanoma, almost two millimetres thick. It was removed, and she remained well. The second Lancet...