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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...becomes associated with ‘being White’ and/or ‘being English’. [Dad, Mum and child] Where do children learn about ethnicity? There are many different ways in which children come to learn about ethnicity and consequently to develop a sense of their own ethnic identity. Parents and the immediate family will obviously tend to have a strong influence on children’s...
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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...become Caliph in 656 CE. Five years later, however, Ali was assassinated, and Mu‘awiya took control of the rapidly expanding Muslim empire. Mu‘awiya, like Muhammad and Ali, also came from Mecca, but he belonged to a different clan, the Umayyads. Some Muslims regarded Mu‘awiya as a usurper who had no right to rule. Muhammad’s daughter Fatima had married Ali, and...
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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

...becoming aware of the exploitation of children across the nations and regions of the UK although the targeting of our children and young people may take different forms depending on where you live. If you were to ask children and young people, they would describe child criminal exploitation as ‘when someone you trusted makes you commit crimes for their benefit’ (young...
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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...become a global pandemic. Here's a guide to what you need to know about the disease...[A public health announcement about dengue and yellow fevers in Paraguay] A public health campaign about Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever in Paraguay What is yellow fever? The NHS explains the basics of the disease, including what to look for: Yellow fever is a serious viral infection that...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective, but I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective of how I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...become Sir Humphry, inventor of the miners’ lamp, President of the Royal Society and domineering genius of British science – stripped to the waist, placed a thermometer under his armpit and stepped into a sealed box specially designed by the engineer James Watt for the inhalation of gases, into which he requested the physician Dr. Robert Kinglake to release twenty...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...becoming the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy’s ancestors came to America from County Wexford during the Famine. He took pride in his Irish heritage and received a rapturous welcome during his visit to Ireland in 1963, just five months before his assassination. [This photograph depicts President Kennedy’s motorcade in Patrick Street in Cork city on the...
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