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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...change direction. In the working world, it’s no secret that an internship can provide valuable experience, enhance your career development and increase your chances of securing the job you really want. But what actually is an internship? If it isn’t called an ‘internship’ does it have less credibility? Are all internships or work experiences going to give you the...
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...change, they are throughout so mournfully beautiful, that in the brain they beget strange thoughts, and in the heart strange feelings. We see too much of the sky, and the long, lovely, pathetic, lingering evening light, with its suggestions of eternity and death, which one cannot for the soul of one put into words, is somewhat too much for the comfort of a sensitive human...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...changed her outlook forever. He was diagnosed with lung cancer the same year she began her studies in Russia, and in Mongolia’s health system at the time he was effectively condemned to a painful death. Not only did palliative care not exist, but it was impossible to get hold of morphine or other opioid-based painkillers. Less than a decade later, her mother-in-law was...
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...change (à la piscine, à l'hôpital). Je voudrais aller à… Je voudrais + aller + à + [endroit]. I would like to go to + [place]. Je voudrais aller au marché. I would like to go to the market Je voudrais aller à l'opéra. I would like to go to the opera house. Je voudrais aller à la piscine. I would like to go to the swimming-pool...Beginners' French: A trip to...
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...change continuously. How, for example, might a work of art be interpreted if the artist who created it were unknown?...Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’: 2.6 Caravaggio's sexuality - ‘Caravaggio studies’ often provide good, and sometimes extreme, examples of the ways in which an artist's identity can be bound up in his work and vice versa. In the case of Caravaggio it...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...change them. For the ‘scientific’ manager, the desired change in these processes was an improvement in efficiency in the way in which they operated. Scientific management (sometimes known as ‘Taylorism’ after its key founding figure, F.W. Taylor, Figure 1) started out as a way of managing the operations of an organisation, i.e. its main activities. F.W. Taylor...
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities...
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...change their form when they are used as comparatives: Table 1 Comparatives ADJECTIVE/ ADVERB COMPARATIVE (POSITIVE) COMPARATIVE (NEGATIVE) bon meilleur que moins bon que mauvais pire que moins mauvais que bien mieux que moins bien que For example: La nouvelle exposition au MUCEM est meilleure que la précédente. Le film est pire que le livre dont il est inspiré...Upper...