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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...history. Out of the unknown Witches, werewolves and spine tingling spectres were not foreign to the ancient world. Open University students of Greece and Rome get to read about dangerous spellbinding crones in the original Latin (for instance on the language module Continuing Classical Latin). The avid letter-writer Pliny (2nd century CE) relishes relating an episode...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...histories such as How to Survive a Plague, United in Anger and It's a Sin show us that HIV stigma, and the response to it were messy, political, confrontational and often theatrical. However, in the intervening decades, the concept of HIV stigma has itself been transformed: HIV stigma has been metricised. Like all diseases, HIV has bio-medical, interpersonal and...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...history of philosophy are going to receive favour over others. Hume's clear prose style, scientific outlook and rigorous logic will be preferred to Rousseau, with his appeals to the emotions and grand rhetorical flourishes. From this perspective the six philosophers on our Journeys are not representative of the subject (although Wittgenstein, as always, is a special...
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Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...History students) then an internet search wouldn't be any help at all. To answer the question in the title to this article, we'd get a more accurate result by searching a collection of student writing such as the British Academic Written English or 'BAWE' corpus (pronounced 'boar' like the animal). This corpus contains not just essays but also lab reports, case studies,...
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How home educators access exams
Education & Development

How home educators access exams

...History syllable by the age of 14 is not unheard of. Once they have found their passion, they do not need to wait to be 16 to take an exam. Taking an exam in a subject takes much preparation beyond choosing the subject. [Photo of an empty exam hall] Choosing the examining board England has four main examining boards: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. Each examining board decide...
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Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing
Science, Maths & Technology

Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing

...history of the Moon - stretching all the way back to when it was formed around 4 and a half billion years ago. We’re able to unlock its secrets by cutting it up into very thin slices - which you can see in great detail under this virtual microscope - which you can click onto at the end of the video. It is a very intuitive tool so please experiment with it. These are...
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Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...history to be the first woman to win Olympic gold in boxing before going on to win Commonwealth gold in 2014 and repeating her Olympic success in 2016. Her prowess both in and outside the ring continues to provide inspiration to many, especially those within the LGBT community. Providing equal inspiration to those within disability sport, Hannah Cockroft, born with...
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Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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