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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...trying to make. With politics, of course, it’s always important to look beyond the words themselves to see how language is being used to create a particular effect. How rhetoric is being used to shape our understanding of the real issues. And in this respect, swearing is simply another rhetorical strategy that politicians embrace if they think it might help their cause....
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...think through very carefully how to minimise harms, and indeed to maximise benefits for participants. Ten years working with the production team for the BBC/Open University Child of Our Time series opened my eyes to the care taken throughout to ensure that the families were happy with how they were portrayed and that a thorough duty of care protocol was followed before,...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...thinking that the difference was a difference between human nature long mellowed to its conditions, and human nature rasped on its edges and fretted by novel circumstances to a provisional harshness. I chose to fancy that unhuman nature sympathized with the English mood; in the sheep bleating from the pastures I heard the note of Wordsworth's verse; and by the sky, hung...
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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...system. In Russia, neurasthenia was associated with a cultivated ‘western’ lifestyle (Goering, 2003)...Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare: 3.1 Introduction - Surrounded by the ever-present threat of ill health, not surprisingly, people expended a good deal of time and energy on trying to stay well. The late nineteenth century saw a new emphasis on promoting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...system is implemented after conceding a £60,000 racial discrimination case last month. Consultants, Psychometric Research Development, will meet with London Underground in future to discuss any performance-related pay scheme as part of a settlement reached with 20 black station managers. The managers claimed that the scheme, in place for the three years between 1989 and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...think of it? These are two major questions that cannot be answered accurately by the ‘hard’ evidence of book history. However, there are other, more personal historical records, documents which captured moments in time when men, women and children felt the need or were forced to disclose information about their reading habits. Journals, diaries, memoirs and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...think of a desert sand, composed of well-rounded, red oxide-coated, well-sorted quartz grains. Now imagine that climatic conditions change and these sand grains are swept away by flowing rivers and re-deposited elsewhere. The new sand deposit will be produced by the action of flowing water, but the sand grains may retain many of the characteristics of wind-deposition...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...think of any? Write down your thoughts and then compare with the feedback provided. Discussion First, and most obviously, people will not necessarily tell us the truth in interviews about how they feel, what they think, or what they do. Second, they may not know these things. One reason for this is that, as indicated earlier, much of our everyday behaviour is below the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs