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Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...Open University's Classical Studies qualifications The heroine Antigone is one of the four children of Oedipus (her siblings are Ismene, Eteocles and Polyneices). A loyal daughter, she guided the blind Oedipus into exile before he died, and she’ll be equally faithful to her dead brother Polyneices. Oedipus was king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. He is famous in...
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...education. Safety campaigns can only work if people think the messaging is relevant to them and choose to change their behaviour. But psychological research shows that many people are overconfident in their driving abilities and think it’s ‘normal’ to drive recklessly and break road laws. The number of people who are killed or seriously injured on UK roads has...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...resources during the current period of economic crises and volatility. Despite being a widely recognised universal priority, the concrete investment in such services is commonly inadequate. Increasingly, it is being asked “can we afford to care for older citizens?” These problems are exacerbated by rising life expectancy and the greater pressure placed on people of...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...resources for learning, my study involved children in an English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys, cooking, FaceTime calls to family in home countries, friends and more. I worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo...
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Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...educational background prevalent among the current occupants. It was a not-so-subtle anti-Washington dig, mobilising for conservatives and sending frissons of fear among women’s groups aware of the Supreme Court’s capability to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that liberalised abortion. Any breadth in the list was the inclusion of Texas Supreme Court justice Don...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...education – highly unusual at the time. He later moved, with his Yorkshire wife, to London to live with and work for Thomas Pitt, cousin of then Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. By 1821 he had seemingly reached the highest levels of British gentry, becoming an usher at the coronation of King George IV. His 2015 biography, ‘Richmond Unchained’, suggests that...
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Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...Open University...[Geography matters climate change Bangladesh] Climate change will affect everyone on the planet. Anthropogenic - in other words, caused by humans - no one will be able to escape its effects. It will not discriminate between rich and poor, nor between countries and species. In the short term there will be winners; some areas may benefit, for example, from...
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What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...resources such as housing, employment, healthcare, and education, more opportunities, and be treated with more respect by others than those who are subordinated in a social hierarchy. Also, those who are subordinated in a social hierarchy may be at greater risk of harassment or assault, be discriminated against by others, or face harsher treatment within the criminal...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs