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The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...accounts agree that there were only five patriarchs between the death of the Buddha and the reign of Emperor Ashoka. Dating the Buddha’s life based on the succession of patriarchs seems to be a much more reliable method of calculation than basing it on any dates which are often inaccurate and contradictory. This view favours a date closer to a hundred years before the...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...accountable. But is the entertainment media any different? Plot device in TV dramas My second study focused on how social workers are portrayed in TV dramas and compared this with portrayals of other professions such as nurses, teachers, police officers and therapists. I looked at IMDb plot summaries from the 1950s to the 2010s and found that social work characters rarely...
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Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...accounted for by the top 10 cotton exporting countries. Using the figures in Table 1 and a total value of world exports of $53.7bn complete the table by calculating the percentages that are missing. China 28.2% United States 14.2% India Pakistan Vietnam 4.9% Turkey Australia 3.0% Hong Kong 3.0% Brazil Italy 2.7% Words: 0 (Source: Workman, 2019a) Discussion India’s...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...accounts are a fascinating example of extreme travel writing, of efforts to communicate an utterly new experience to the reader. Lunardi published volumes of letters; as Clare Brant has pointed out, the conventions of the epistolatory form invited readers to relive the sensations of the author in their imagination. Thomas Baldwin, another early balloonist who hired...
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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...accounts have become. We change the image on our Facebook profiles, Twitter or Tumblr. We customise our Pinterest or Instagram account to show images that move or touch us the most and that best sum up our mood. A single tear is enough to symbolise all our emotions. During the night we discovered the influence of Joachim Roncin’s famous “Je suis Charlie” logo,...
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...account of concerns such as privacy, consent, wellbeing and power in your research proposal? [Adapted from OpenLearn course: Becoming an ethical researcher, Week 2 Activity 3: Becoming an ethical researcher - OpenLearn - Open University] The ethical issues to be considered will vary depending on your organisational context/role, the types of participants you plan to...
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Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?
Society, Politics & Law

Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?

...accountable under the law. For example, Umm Sayeff, the wife of a former Islamic State leader killed in the May 2015 Special Forces raid that resulted in her capture, was charged on February 8 with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terror organization in connection with the death of American hostage Kayla Mueller. Sayeff is reported to have been...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...account as well, Martina Navratilova has won the most titles since tennis professionalised. And what about Grand Slam titles before then? If we take those into account, then Margaret Court has won the most Grand Slam titles. So, even if we think that Grand Slam titles are indicative of greatness, it’s not clear that Serena Williams comes out on top. So it’s debatable...
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