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Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...children, you’re interpreting it negatively. Dr Terry O’Sullivan It’s a fascinating area, but it’s an area as I said, that can lead to some quite sharp controversy, because at the end of the day what people are saying is that consumers are being sold an empty image and having to pay more for it, rather than just being sold a basic rational product or commodity....
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Can you resist zombification?
History & The Arts

Can you resist zombification?

...children disguised as zombies will knock on your door this Halloween. Both vampires and zombies are portrayed as mysterious members of a proliferating gang of predators against humanity. This may be true to legends about vampires but traditional zombies are quite different. Zombie traditions originated in Haiti during the centuries of slavery. They are part of Vodou, a...
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Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...children and grown-ups alike. The festival marks the arrival of spring and the end of winter as the dry tropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent start to warm up. Many flowering trees start to blossom around this time of the year: the Indian laburnum trees (Cassia fistula) with their golden yellow blossoms; the Pride of India trees (Lagerstroemia speciosa) with their...
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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...research) whether this has changed in the last 50 or 60 years? This means that questions like the following are asked: Do men and women share tasks more equally? If this has happened, why? To what extent do our conclusions need to take into account the differences between families? So, these changes are the starting point of this particular social science cycle of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...Research Centre. Lauterpacht, H. (1952) ‘The Problem of the Revision of the Law of War’, British Yearbook of International Law, vol. 29, pp. 360–82. Reichberg, G. M., Syse, H. and Begby, E. (2006) The Ethics of War, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. Van Schaack, B. (2011) ‘The Crime of Aggression and Humanitarian Intervention on Behalf of Women’, International...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...children of such bloodthirsty themes as indication of their resonance with children’s unconscious feelings. The third core of Freud’s ideas focuses on the idea of inner psychic conflict or psychodynamics. Freud saw this as taking threefold form. There is the ‘it’ (usually called the id though Freud himself never used that term) which is our core biological...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some are involved functionally and laterally like the partners in a business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...children to sit and play computer games rather than be out in the streets, or in the garden, climbing, jumping, running and socialising and playing with friends (Slutsky & DeShetler, 2017). [Kid on mobile phone] Sport and technology are now so intertwined that with the continuous development of affordable products we will have the means to collect an array of data, some...
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