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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...family. Talking and listening to each child and finding out about their experience, understanding fears, likes, and dislikes makes it more likely that their pain can be managed effectively. To be effective, all four components need to happen with everyone at all levels playing their part. If all practitioners start using this framework together, it can contribute to...
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...family, friends and colleagues. But it is also shaped by people we don’t know personally – like the wider community, country and world in which we live. This changeability and interconnection make social science an interesting and exciting subject to study. But the same things that make social science interesting, can also make it potentially complicated and...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...history of English literature which accorded Marlowe the crucial groundbreaking role he plays in Shakespeare in Love. Changing views of the artist consolidated his integration into the literary canon. Viewed in the light of the biographies of romantic poets like Shelley (1792–1822), an avowed atheist, and Byron (1788–1824), surrounded through much of his career by...
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...families, or by a solitary fire like me, when they remember the light that shone over the poor clowns huddling on the Bethlehem plains eighteen hundred years ago, the apparition of shining angels overhead, the song "Peace on earth and good-will toward men," which for the first time hallowed the midnight air,--pray for that strain's fulfilment, that battle and strife may...
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...families are angry, too. But they'll get over it with Athena's help. Odysseus is in the clear and ready for life with Penelope, or another adventure. [MUSIC PLAYING] Video 2 Troy Story II: the Odyssey Despite the fact that the Iliad is a (very) long poem, Homer is remarkably concentrated on a single, fleeting episode in a much longer conflict. At the same time, he still...
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Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...history of what I've done and where I've been, and how I responded in each of those roles – start to consider the future and where I wanted to go. Narrator That was Jon James. In many jobs, career planning is formally structured. That's true if you are employed at The Open University. Mark Endean The formal career development appraisal process that we have encourages...
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...In a Republican controlled House, Gary Johnson, in theory, could be elected President with the lowest percentage of popular votes in American history, far less than John Quincy Adams’ 30.9 percent in 1824 or Abraham Lincoln’s 39.8 percent of the vote in 1860. Read at Raw Story: How presidential candidate Gary Johnson could ignite a constitutional crisis in November...
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...history is a good guide to the future – this assumption might be perfectly valid. Competitive forces would tend to favour those who rationally use the evidence available and calculate probabilities correctly. In such circumstances, it would be as unwise as it is offensive to assume voter irrationality. The situation is, however, completely different in conditions of...