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Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...worlds of the storytellers, explains Chris Wilson drawing on Oedipus, the Iliad and the Odyssey...[Odysseus and Euryclea by Christian Gottlob Heyne] Odysseus and Euryclea by Christian Gottlob Heyne Homer's epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey are our earliest surviving Greek literature, and our earliest sources for the Greek myths. Let's look at just two aspects of what...
Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...period of time. Perhaps it is again time to have a glass of water and go out for a walk? Some useful links: Exercise for depression: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/exercise-for-depression/ WHO (World health organisation) Depression: https://www.who.int/mental_health/management/depression/en/ Browse related content Discover more about exercising...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...world we tend to look at reasons. Reasons can be analysed, and that's where academics tend to focus the study of ethics: on justifications. Sometimes the focus of analysis is on outcomes. When reasons have not been clearly expressed, ethicists often look at outcomes and try and find out what the reasons might have been. Naturally, reasons are not essential. We all do...
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...world. However, care must be taken to ensure that the process doesn’t go too far, ending with you presenting yourself in an overly polished, corporate way that doesn’t truly represent what you have to offer. Transcript This free badged course, Personal branding for career success, will help you to pick your way through the concept of personal branding, developing and...
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...World Tracer System for baggage, found that just over 80% of the misplaced bags were reunited within 36 hours of being reported. Just under half of the luggage going missing seems to be transfer-related (i.e. when passengers have to make connecting flights), and then the next biggest category is when luggage fails to load or ticketing errors, accounting for 15% each....
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...world cannot be understood in separation from the natural world’ (2016, p. 7). Potter’s argument addresses one of the challenges of exploring environmental harms, which is that from a humanocentric perspective, they can seem rather abstract and remote from the suffering of specific individuals. This means that the exploration of environmental harms is an urgent task...
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...world might change quite radically. WOMAN 2 I was watching Fleabag recently, and she talks about how women's bodies are sites of pain from very early on. And I think we should celebrate the fact that we're kind of free from bleeding every month. And actually free from male sexual attention might not be such a bad thing. WOMAN I think if it was men that had periods instead...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...world’ social marketing problems...Social marketing: 2.1 Definitions of marketing - Before we focus on ‘social marketing’ we should clarify the nature of ‘marketing’ as both an academic discipline and a management practice. Kotler and Armstrong (2008, p. 5) define marketing as follows: Marketing is human activity directed at satisfying needs and wants through...
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