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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...troubling...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 3.2 Women musicians and the counterculture - While superficially renouncing monogamy, marriage, and the two-parent nuclear family, the counterculture reproduced traditional (even conservative) positions for women, as their roles – like their mothers and grandmothers before them – were to provide unpaid domestic and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...troubled emotions towards their real and potential homelands felt by young Jamaicans were shared as well by inhabitants of other Caribbean islands, such as Trinidad, the birthplace of Sam Selvon. As you work through the course, keep in mind Berry’s recollections of the hopes and fears of his Jamaican contemporaries and try to evaluate how far they are reflected in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...troubled experiment with the Euro Area. In its present form, the 17-member Eurozone may be destined to underperform the UK and US economies because of the limits it imposes on freedom of budgetary action, and the problems it causes for less dynamic members. To overcome these constraints, the Eurozone must pursue plans for deeper integration including a banking union which...
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Article 5 mins
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...troubled areas in these negotiations concerned access for European vessels to what would become UK waters, waters that contained sizeable stocks of fish and which are of major importance to a number of European countries. Access to these waters was a bargaining chip used by the UK Government to secure other concessions from the EU. However, how much would the UK have to...
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Article 5 mins
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...trouble sleeping, or loss of interest in usual hobbies. However, the diagnosis of a mental health problem is dependent on the identification of signs and symptoms being recognised as ‘unhealthy’ by medical practitioners. [Graphic of four line drawn heads from a side view and displayed as two above two. The top left head has a low battery in it. The second head has...
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Article 10 mins
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...trouble, a lot of trouble. It gives me something to do and if you’ve got nothing to do it ends up in trouble, doesn’t it, usually? PAUL [00.15] They don’t just look at you and think you’re a yob on the street and just brush you away sort of thing. He’s changed a lot since his early teens. PAUL [00.24] I was a handful at that age, um always getting into trouble,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...trouble was, earlier than I did, perhaps, but I saw it early enough for all practical purposes. You see, he was of an argumentative disposition. Therefore it took him but a little time to get tired of arguing with a person who agreed with everything he said and consequently never furnished him a provocative to flare up and show what he could do when it came to clear,...
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Article 5 mins
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...troubled by reports that as a nation their fondness for sugar and disdain for exercise will eventually bankrupt the NHS; there is considerable support for the idea that very overweight people should be required to lose weight before being treated. We agree that our poor dietary choices affect everyone, but at the same time we’re certain that we have a right to eat what...
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