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The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...central to the Olympic ideal...[Yusra Mardini] In August of 2015, Yusra Mardini and her sister, Sarah, fled Syria after their home was destroyed in the country’s civil war. The sisters traveled on land through Lebanon and Turkey, eventually boarding a boat with 18 other refugees. When that boat’s motor failed in the Aegean Sea,Mardini, her sister, and another woman...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy

...central Italy. In the south, the ciabatta loaf is probably more popular. Filone is sold by weight, normally mezzo chilo. Italians love to have different varieties of bread with their meals, and filone is more practical than individual rolls for a large family, and for mopping up a delicious sauce at the end of a main course. In Italy, bread is never eaten with the pasta...
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Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...central to understanding. Instead we want to emphasise that some concepts are experienced, felt and observed, before they can be verbally understood and expressed, and this is where dance exploration can really help. So what have we done? Dancemotion was piloted with two Year 1 classes (children aged 5–6 years) in a state school in England within the school’s existing...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from an orientalist perspective, i.e. a Eurocentric and colonial way of seeing people from other countries as stereotypes. Orientalism finds expression in a myriad of discourses and one way in which it is reproduced is through presenting...
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...central) French, following the Norman conquest of 1066. French dominance and prestige in such contexts as the royal court, law, the church and education encouraged extensive borrowing of vocabulary e.g. French words for farmed animals pork, beef and mutton (modern French porc, bœuf and mouton) were adopted alongside native words swine, cow and sheep. [A pig feeding in...
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The First World War continues: Britain’s dash for Mosul, Iraq, November 1918
History & The Arts

The First World War continues: Britain’s dash for Mosul, Iraq, November 1918

...Central Powers to conclude an Armistice with the Allies, as their military situation became increasingly hopeless from the summer of 1918. On 29th September 1918, Bulgaria signed the Armistice of Thessalonica. On October 30th 1918, the Ottoman Empire signed an Armistice on board the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Agamemnon in Mudros harbour, on the island of Lemnos. On November...
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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...central London for more than thirty years. In 680 CE Husayn tried to reach Kufa to lead a movement of opposition to the Caliph Yazid, and particularly since the mid-twentieth century Shi‘a Muslims have often argued that the significance of Ashura is political as well as a religious and that Husayn’s martyrdom should inspire them to resist tyranny and oppression....
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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly in Italy. In this free course, you’ll explore some of the different kinds of cultural encounters that fed into the Grand Tour, and will explore the role that they play in our study of Art History, English Literature, Creative Writing and Classical Studies today...In the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs