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Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...course AA311 Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill If you would like to learn more about the history of the 19th Century then have a look at course A221 State, Economy and Nation in the Nineteenth-Century Europe If you would like to find out more about these subjects, here are a few suggestions. Books you can read The Prince,Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...course, those newer, more reliable engines have also been bigger and more efficient. Of course, the slowdown in 747 production doesn’t mean the original jumbo jet will disappear from our skies just yet. The latest models are much longer, bigger and operate with more modern engines and instruments than the earlier 747-100s (no longer do the crew have to take sextant...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...course on trust. This provides an overview of trust in the workplace and serves as a gentle introduction to this topic: Developing high trust work relationships. In development following our plan to launch this hub is a further course complementing the first. This will focus on Trust breaches and addresses the idea of trust as something that can be breached, the impact of...
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Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...course, as with any community - particularly one built around passion - there are also rifts and schisms, personal and intellectual debates and clashes. [Three young women dressed in Teen Titan costumes for cosplay. ] Teen Titans cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Another form of youth-driven media has...
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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...courses and qualifications. Stereotypes of nursing Have you ever considered how accurate career representations for nursing are portrayed in the media? You’d expect it to be pretty accurate, right? Wrong. The media portrayal of nursing is not only outdated but incorrect. This is not only damaging to the public’s expectations (of nursing), but also it does not entice...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure there was a single turning point or experience that got me interested in history. I enjoyed history at school, but what really kept me interested in the subject was the process of researching and writing – I seem to enjoy working through evidence and trying to...
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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the town has increased by 3.6°C and there are 40 fewer freezing...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...course. Politics tends to use simple stories which reduce the problems of the world into clear-cut struggles between good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Over the last decade, this idea somehow began to get picked up as much by the political right as those on the left. In the late 2010s, it became a mantra for populist agitators, with the Alt-Right commentator...
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