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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...phrase, depression. 1889: adolescence started to become recognised as a distinct stage of life, and puberty was recognised as a significant ‘cause of insanity’. Maxime Durand-Fardel (1889), another doctor who was a pioneer in psychiatry, highlighted the existence of suicide in children. 1919–1930: educationists such as sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan (1919) and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...types of documentation would be needed to establish that people were who they said they were. It could be a birth certificate, a notarised photo, a mother's birth certificate or letter of naturalisation, or something to show a person's not on bail or wanted by the police. C. What is being delegated by the use of a passport? In the front cover of a British passport, you'll...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...types of organisations have to get involved, maybe social services, the doctors, and it does have a massive downfall on people because of their self-esteem as well. If they become unemployed – from my experience of speaking to people – they find it hard to get the self-esteem to get back into what they want to do again. And they lose a lot of confidence. KATIE ROWELL:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...de lait, which encouraged mothers to breastfeed, gave out free milk to those that could not, and provided free regular medical examinations to check on babies’ development. Charities also provided free meals to pregnant women and the mothers of small children. To improve the health of older children, municipal authorities set up school canteens to provide free and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...type of Shakespeare's best. As impartially as possible, I will endeavor to describe the contents of the drama, and then to show why it is not that acme of perfection it is represented to be by critics, but is something quite different. The drama of "Lear" begins with a scene giving the conversation between two courtiers, Kent and Gloucester. Kent, pointing to a young man...
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Article 15 mins
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...type of nurturing (maternalistic) role is a traditional one for girls and women. For young girls listening to this song, it enforces the cultural message that their role is to stand by, support, nurture, and comfort their man. The lines ‘She makes me come alive, And makes me wanna drive’ suggest that the girl’s sexuality excites the singer and causes him to drive...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...types of calculations appear to have been carried out by means of them. As well as squares and reciprocals, there are multiplication tables, tables of cubes and cube roots, tables of the sums of squares and cubes, combined tables where several of these are present, tables for working out compound interest, tables of weights and measures, and others. Numerical tables seem...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...types of cloth were considered more suitable for women. Kente is associated with high office, and some designs, involving extreme skill to weave, are exclusive to the Asante chief (the Asantehene). We were told that African-American students wear kente for graduation in national colours (black, green, and burgundy). A design called Obaa Kofo Mmu Man (meaning ‘One man...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs