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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...Social Sciences courses Setting the scene In the summer of 2022, talk of strikes taking place or being threatened across a number of airlines using UK airports was a staple feature in the media. Strikes by airline workers are not in 2022 ‘news’ as such. We have become used to hearing of industrial action in the sector, not least involving staff working for the UK’s...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Social Sciences courses. Background On Tuesday 25 October 1955, members of the General Iron Fitters Association at Rolls-Royce in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, took unofficial strike action. By Thursday 27 October, workers in various unions at other Rolls-Royce plants in the west of Scotland, at East Kilbride and Hillington, had joined them (BBC Newsreel, 1955). Altogether,...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...social scientists such as Merskin reveal how rationalisations such as the 4Ns circulate through the media. To take one example, The Lion King film is famous for its song ‘Circle of Life’. The circle of life is also a crucial ideological message in the film: Simba’s father Mufasa legitimates ‘meat-eating’ for the young lion, and vicariously for the young...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...social and economic factors. The video emphasises the need to find a ‘middle way’ in understanding complex situations and, while acknowledging that religion may well still be a relevant factor, not just assume a simple link between religion and violence. Transcript Testing the role of religion in violence You’ll now explore the issues further, thinking in particular...
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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...social cohesion and job creation. Yet, more importantly organisations must adopt standards of good governance. Coincidentally one of the key recommendations from the ASCI report is train and inform: make the most of the human capital. We hope that the associations start to invest more in their coaches and their development so that at the next AFCON 2023, Gold Cup 2023 and...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...social justice movements to consider where human suffering comes from and how it might be addressed (e.g. war, discrimination, our impact on the environment, the treatment of refugees, austerity measures, etc.). attention training ethical mindfulness a. attention training b. ethical mindfulness The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1g here Building...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp) are part of a trend over the past few decades towards more informal communication, resulting in a more conversational style of writing than used to be the case. In this way emojis are an example of the way that human communication adapts to the contexts and technologies with which it’s used – a process which...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...social superiors. Click below to open ‘The Lower Orders’ (21 pages). Make sure to open the link in a new tab/window so you can easily return here. thelowerorders.pdf629.9 KB PDF document...Welsh history and its sources: 2.1.5 The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century - This is the introductory essay to the volume The Remaking of Wales in the Eighteenth Century....
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs