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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...systems. The final stage of acceptance happens when they can see no more hope, leading to reconciliation with reality. If the individual can be motivated and seek new horizons and experiment at this stage, they will not continue to stay in the negative cycle of frustration, anger and disbelief. The grief that workers can feel, if they accept the situation, then accept and...
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Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...system is even more essential in design than in other disciplines. Design isn’t done in a vacuum. Ultimately, you’ll be designing for others, whether you’re pursuing a design career or integrating design principles into your existing role (a practice becoming increasingly common in healthcare, finance, government, education, and various service industries). Remote...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...systems which sought to control women, the programme itself silences them. In the third episode for example, Foreman details the oppressive argument of King James I’s Demonology, which underpinned the witch hunts of the 17th century, 80% of whose victims were women. She does not mention, however, the trials where defendants, complainants and witnesses gave depositions....
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Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...think about how to divide up each movement into sections such as ‘exposition’, ‘development’, and so forth. These sorts of labels are important in studying a piece of music, and I will discuss how they relate to harmonic structure at the end of this free course. But first, I want to look at harmony on its own. In the earlier courses, you saw that the rules that...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Thinking History Why did the authorities want to protect the Jews? Jews in Venice offered useful credit facilities. It is not the case that Christians were prevented from providing financial services. Christians were not supposed to lend money at interest (stigmatised as usury), but there was plenty of creative accounting in order to get around this rule, for example by...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...think and talk...Verbal fluency is, basically, the ease with which a person can produce words. There are several tests of this ability, but most of them involve some sort of category like fruits, words beginning with the letter Q or animals. The person being tested is asked to name as many different examples of the category as they can in a fixed period of time, such as a...
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OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He will conclude by encouraging open-mindedness in the decades to come. We very much hope...
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Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...does not allow you to sort or compare people’s choice of words. We suggest you use a different column for each speaker, and perhaps consider grouping your speakers according to age or gender or any other variable that you think may be particularly significant. This should make it much easier for you to classify and interpret your data. Download the 'Words' sheet (199KB)...
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