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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues

...class female respectability’. Davis also sees Rainey’s music as a ‘cultural precursor to the lesbian cultural movement of the 1970s’, with many of her songs unique in their references to lesbianism and bisexuality (e.g. ‘Prove It On Me’). Remembered today as the ‘Mother of the Blues’, Rainey was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983 and...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...class more generally – may be unpalatable, but one cannot really understand the social conservatism and xenophobia which motivated the leave vote in working class areas without confronting the history of imperialism, not to mention the steady drip of nationalism (sometimes twee, sometimes overtly jingoistic) which permeates the British public sphere and media, from...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...class and gave increased attention to children’s personal and emotional responses. They also set considerably more time aside for reading aloud. Reading aloud offers an invitation to children to engage, imagine, predict and participate in the classroom community of readersReading aloud offers an invitation to children to engage, imagine, predict and participate in the...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...classes, few for better, the lowest and most numerous much for the worse”. He continued: “one chief cause of this moral revolution, for such it may truly be called, is to be found in the improvement of machinery, and the consequent rapid increase of manufactures. The manufacturing system has been carried among us to an extent unheard of in any former age or...
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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...class needs to make a decision on an issue. Once the decision is made, everyone has to stick to it. Without prior discussion, ask pupils for ideas about how the decision ought to be made. Ask them to give reasons for their choice. Build up a list of these reasons for a picture of democracy's strengths and weaknesses. Alternatively, you might consider the current pressing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What does the French regional election result mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the French regional election result mean?

...de-Calais-Picardie, in the north of France. Its most spectacular performance was in its old heartland of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA), where Le Pen’s niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen took 41% of the vote and trounced arch-Sarkozyste and mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi in the process. But these elections have hardly been about the regions at all. They became a...
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Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...classes to teach English in his local community: As you watch, reflect on how people describe José and his current leadership journey: What skills does he bring with him? What challenges does he face? Who helps him along the way? JULIE MCKIRDY (LIBRARY SUPERVISOR, THIMBLEMAILL LIBRARY) So José told me his story, and I loved José the minute I met him. He felt like he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...La Misère du Monde in the 1990s, that a sociological account of similar stature has been undertaken. For example, Wikipedia acknowledge that Du Bois’s is one of the earliest social science studies in its biographical account of him, but in their account of Social Sciences there is no mention of it. The Philadelphia Negro is a prime example of rigorous mixed methods...
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