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Am I In Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Am I In Control?

...social affairs people can control world events. Most people don't realise the extent to which their lives are controlled by accidental happenings. There really is no such thing as luck. It is hard to know whether or not a person really likes you. How many friends you have depends upon how nice a person you are. In the long run the bad things that happen to us are balanced...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...social and life experiences studying, learning, experience and knowledge improvement interests, passions and hobbies. Taking the time to reflect on your own skills, knowledge and character, using the resources in this theme to assess where you are now and where you could develop even further, may help to point you towards new goals and opportunities (see Resources section...
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Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card
Society, Politics & Law

Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card

...Social Sciences courses. Background The provision of diaries has long been part of the service that many unions provide for their members. Even in this era of online calendars and diaries, a hard copy union diary was often gratefully received by trade unionists, a good place to note details of shifts, holidays and other work-related information – in addition to many...
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International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...social architecture and has come to be closely tied to British identity. Skilfully linking the NHS with Britishness was a winning strategy for Leave campaigners. Commonwealth countries and the (Inter)National Health Service Migrant doctors from Europe, especially Jews who moved due to rising anti-Semitism in parts of Europe, had always formed a part of the medical...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...Social Sciences courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as being ‘nobody important’, as she sat quietly in Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) branch meetings while other voices were raised, and tempers frayed. Then Nan would...
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Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...social upset. Going on the offensive, then, seems to be the only option on the table. It’s difficult to do otherwise: a defence of the indefensible is not possible or sustainable; only attack. The result is a cabinet of ministers who belittle anyone seeking to scrutinise them and a prime minister who announces a snap general election with incredible belligerence,...
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The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...that British withdrawal and the division of the country was to take place in just two months. The social ruptures and atrocities that accompany the unfolding of this time-compressed partition plan, particularly along the partitioned borderlands of Punjab and Bengal, ensure that the new nation-states of India and Pakistan are born with profound mutual distrust and enmity....
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...social historian has the most to work with. The subject of female virtue is a good case in point. Perhaps most interesting is the tendency of authors to offer up examples of what men consider to be bad female behaviour – caused, according to Greek male thought, by women failing to fulfil their natural potential (physis). Interestingly, a negative model is often...
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