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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...become assimilated into white America and had failed to face themselves as true black people. Sting like a bee The events that followed Ali’s call-up by the military in February 1966 were dramatised by a background of growing resistance to the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Ali’s oft-quoted remark “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” made headlines...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Gottleib, Cambridge University Press. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood Helen Morton, University of Hawaii Press. The Famished Road, Ben Okri, Vintage. Editor's Note: This page was originally published with an photograph of The Shilluk people in their village Yom - in Tonga, Sudan, rather than the Pacific Island of the same name to which the article referred....
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...Becoming a diffractive practitioner', Teacher Learning and Professional Development, 2(1), pp. 1–17. Jackson, N. (2019) Exploring Learning Ecologies, 2nd edition. Available at: https://www.lifewideeducation.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/lulu_upload.pdf (Accessed: 26 January 2026). Lambert, L. (2021) 'Diffraction as an otherwise practice of exploring new teachers’...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...become much more apparent under the Cameron government and that is a separation of the economic and the social. And people talk about it, when government ministers and the media talk about poverty now, by and large, they are making no reference to large scale economic change, they are making very little reference to economic crisis, they are making very little reference...
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The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...becomes. In London, the distance between each line of longitude is about 70 km, and even if it were possible it would take a very long time to walk all 360 degrees of longitude from London and back again around the world. At the North Pole and South Pole you could do it in just seconds. For historical reasons, the 0° longitude line runs through Greenwich in London and,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...become more knowledgeable about the mortgage market but also more confident about making smart decisions about one of most important areas of personal finance. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to improve the course. This course is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...become a war of aggression [sic] and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...students, employees and players. In the same way, we expect law to be fair and just in its principles and in the way that they are applied. Justice is often represented by the equally balanced scales of justice. The Greek goddess of justice, Themis, was traditionally represented carrying scales in which she measured the different aspects of the argument. The meaning of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs