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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...social services. Parents and schools Tensions in parent-school relationships are nothing new. Nevertheless, perhaps previous generations of parents did not have comparable access to information regarding their children’s educational rights, or to local and national groups of other families. Participants, including those who never enrolled their children at school,...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...Social Sciences courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and white TV. It...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...social justice affecting the livelihoods of local indigenous people, and their cultures that are destroyed through deforestation. When they protest against the continued practice of unsustainable farming, they are thrown in jail rather than heard, because palm oil businesses are protected by local law enforcers and government officials. An additional problem with palm oil...
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...social media presence and their transition into mainstream competitive domains. For example, the Winter Olympics now includes several sports that previously only sat within the X Games programme, such as slopestyle and the big air events. We see these athletes as risk takers, even when we imagine people high-lining, snow kiting, or ice-climbing, we conceptualize them as...
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The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...social behaviour – coming more under the control of midbrain dopamine neurons. This leads to the loss of self-restraint that people report when drinking. One noticeable effect – after just a few drinks – is an increase in sociability . But the loss of inhibition probably also underlies risk-taking behaviour while under the influence and goes some way towards...
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Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Society, Politics & Law

Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

...social controls on a daily basis, including immigration enforcement officers on public transport and regulations within housing. To give one example, women I spoke with who lived in one accommodation facility run by SERCO said that they had been told they would be reported to the Home Office for leaving bedroom doors open that could be a fire hazard. In this way, everyday...
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Who was Mary Magdalene?
History & The Arts

Who was Mary Magdalene?

...social outcasts, which could explain why they followed Jesus after some kind of healing experience, embracing his message of hope, and acceptance. 2. Was Mary a reformed prostitute? [Conversion of the Magdalene (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) by Artemisia Gentileschi] Luke, one of the Gospel writers, tells a story about a sex worker. She – or her reputation – was known...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...work of sowing by drill was going steadily forward, in the faith that such an unprecedented summer as was now passing would return another year. At all these pleasant labors, of course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. II We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we...
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