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The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...World War era. These issues led to Inverclyde being designated a Development District in 1960, being an area where high rates of unemployment would persist without government intervention. [The former sugar landing sheds at Greenock's James Watt Dock stand under the giant cantilever crane.] 'The town of sugar and ships'. The former sugar landing sheds at Greenock's James...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...world of the story is somehow remote from ours we hear dialogue between the characters, abruptly presented and often using repeated phrases there is often a supernatural theme Though contemporaries like W.B. Yeats praised O’Leary for having a simple, natural style it is clear she is artfully drawing on the literary conventions of the ballad tradition. Identify some...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...world round. I’ve been to the river and I’ve been baptised, Now take me to my hanging ground. On the other hand, Stack O’Lee, in the Mississippi John Hurt version of the song, shows no repentance. Instead, he throws defiance in the face of society, which returns the mistrust. Standing on the gallows, Head held high, At twelve o’clock they killed him, We was all...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...world map. Typical journeys to the different regions are provided in popups. If you fly to a particular destination less than once per year, use a decimal fraction, eg, if you fly to New York (Eastern North America) about every three years to visit relatives, enter = 0.33. Income Why is household income so important? In the calculator income is only used to estimate...
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The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...world. In addition to the PAMPs (pathogen-associated molecular patterns) shared by many different pathogens, each type of pathogen also has its own unique distinctive antigens. Each individual T cell and B cell (the leukocytes responsible for adaptive immunity) is programmed to recognise just one specific antigen, so it follows that each T or B cell can usually recognise...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...world in the sky] We all are called to engage in a dialogue based on two fundamental principles: the right to quality education throughout life, and education as a public endeavour and a common good. Home education is a form of educational provision alternative to conventional schooling that might be seen as diametrically opposed to the UNESCO’s (2021) vision of a...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...world. But my thoughts also turned to the Loyalist groups They hadn't believed this day would come. Now the burden of reciprocation was theirs... (Signature) Aaro Suonio Former Chef de Cabinet I.I.C.D 2006: Vacuums and Vocabulary For all the headlines and history of what had just happened, politics and government as shaped in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 were not...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...World Fair) which was organised to mark the hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution. This work – which was so grand it required 1,200 musicians – was performed as part of the official state commemorative celebrations in Paris in September 1889. Born slightly later than Holmès, her sister French composer Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944) unfortunately fared...
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