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How Brexit Is Giving Rise To A New Wave Of Language Wars
History & The Arts

How Brexit Is Giving Rise To A New Wave Of Language Wars

...change was being suggested which would have removed ‘all French words‘ from the cover of the document. According to the petition calling for this, the leave vote was a clear sign that people wanted to ‘Take Back Control. Control of their borders, their culture and their language’. And given that French is an EU language, so the argument continued, it should have...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...changing public and private loyalties. Above all, this is reflected through the question of espionage when the activities of one prompt considerations within the group on the meaning of loyalty. In his novel Williams gets to the heart of human vulnerabilities at moments of competing loyalties. The CCIG-funded 'Loyalties' seminar at Kellogg College, Oxford, set out to...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...changes, and ‘landscape qualities’ which encompasses a process of ‘mapping the relative contribution that different features and characteristics make to the landscape’. To take the latter ‘landscape qualities’ section as an example, in one sense this is a somewhat mechanistic process of sub-dividing the National Park into ‘types’ of area, such as...
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Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...changes. When I isolated the assessments of people who didn’t grow up in the UK – and for whom English is a second language – the neat and predictable pattern largely disappeared. For this group, Brian did not sound so posh. In fact, Clarrie was identified by some as having a posh voice, along with Emma and even Eddie. On this and many of the measures, the results...
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LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...changes, which means that sexual orientation and gender reassignment are protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010. This means that it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of their sexuality, whether they are lesbian, gay, bisexual (or heterosexual) and a person cannot be discriminated against because they are transgender. But despite this social...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...changing her mind by speaking to another more experienced nun. Transcript El Quijote “En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme…” (“Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember”) is one of the most famous first lines in Spanish literature. It belongs to El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1605 and 1615),...
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15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...changes in sexual attitudes over the years, but what are the views of the ‘average’ British person in terms of sex? This sexual attitudes interactive explores how your views compare to the majority. 11: In mathematics the number 15 is a lucky number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number and a pentatope number [A number of maths symbols drawn on a board] If maths...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...change of context and environment. One further radical alternative to prison would be to develop ‘intentional communities’ where wrongdoers – and perhaps their families if they so wished – could be relocated to small villages in sparsely populated areas, such as in the northern parts of Scotland. Here they could learn new skills, develop more pro-social attitudes...
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