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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Open University’s Language Studies qualification. How and why has English changed over time? In this brief introduction to the subject, I will show how we can look at the history of a language in two main ways: externally – where, why and by whom the language was used; the political and social factors causing change – and internally – the pronunciation, grammar,...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...open up a path to a post-exploitative affective order, we can give up our complicit role as killers and experience the deeper joy of peaceful coexistence with our fellow earthlings. This article originally appeared on DISCOVER SOCIETY under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence Further reading: Our Children and Other Animals (2014) by By Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart In-depth analysis:...
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...open a piece of limestone and inside was a shellfish, just beautifully preserved, a whole shellfish. And I can remember now the amazement at seeing this shellfish just sitting there, the first human beings to have seen this creature for 360 million years! And that stuck with me. I think of it actually quite often, maybe once, twice a day sometimes, going back to that...
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Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?

...course, President Dilma Rousseff, whose popularity had fallen into single digits, has been impeached by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. She is temporarily suspended from office awaiting a trial by the Senate. Her vice president, Michel Temer, is interim president, but he is being investigated for campaign irregularities and possible involvement in the “Petrolao,”...
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Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...course some of this group were for staying in the EU. They were more likely to think leaving would hurt the economy (and reduce British influence) and some of them will have thought lower immigration would be damaging. Nevertheless, before the campaign got going, the issue of immigration was not what made poor Brits anti-EU. Brexit was, rather, a measure of their grim...
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Life after the Olympics: retirement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after the Olympics: retirement

...course, retirement from sport doesn’t have to be a negative experience – some may view it as a ‘rebirth’ rather than a ‘death’. How an athlete copes with retirement can depend on a multitude of factors such as their general resilience, whether they have made plans for life after sport, whether they have fulfilled their potential, and whether their retirement...
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Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...course, meant a greater danger at sea, and after a shipwreck in April 2015 caused 900 deaths, the EU softened its policy and put more resources into rescue efforts. Conditions when those refugees who do manage the crossing arrive, though, are deeply inadequate. [A family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ]...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...course helps to create the illusion of intimacy and shared experience. The point is that this is supposed to be so far away from conventional political discourse as to be thought refreshing and different. We tend not to expect statesmen to be so dismissive of the political process and use the vernacular – that is to say the language (“dumb deal”) normally associated...
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