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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...writing up a book that summarized his reflections on the economic system of Europe: this was the Wealth of Nations, which proved an immediate success upon its publication in 1776. Shortly after, he was appointed a commissioner of customs in Edinburgh, where he lived with his mother until his death in 1790. Smith’s Intellectual Project [Engraving depicting a pin factory...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...write, to acquire the academic and textual conventions of a language and also to extend grammatical structures, expand vocabulary and refine pragmatic conventions. First language acquisition may take more time than you thought but its outcomes are relatively uniform (under the condition that schooling is universal in a population). Putting a number on how long it takes to...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...write] This brings us to May 2022 where Covid is still around but ceremonies have been back and my oh my, do the families of graduates know how to celebrate! I graduated in a beautiful cathedral and will forever have the memory of the stained-glass windows, the lanterns and the joy all around that you can’t help but absorb even when your minute of high-stakes walking is...
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...write and have their contributions acknowledged. This empty space is widely recognised, and many people are trying to fill it, but other histories, particularly those of other minoritised groups, are even more hidden – or even forbidden. The history of disability, race, sexual orientation, and gender identity to name just a few, are lacking due either to open...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...writing before sharing it with Downing Street. Hours later, the solicitor Kevin Winters called me with the news that Kelly was out; that he had been granted temporary release pending an application to the Sentence Review Commission to have his licence restored. It was the signal that the IRA statement was now imminent. That happened the next day - July 28th 2005, but not...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone through a series of life events that have brought up feelings of the loss of my mother in a range of ways. I have spent years reflecting on my...
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...write down your concerns, and take these with you into the consultation, that way you can be sure to get your key points across when discussing things. As a general rule, it is better to seek help even if things aren’t that serious, than to wait and have things get a lot worse. 3: Mental health matters [Werry Centre Logo] As a lecturer and researcher with an interest in...
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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Writing perhaps eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek bard Homer tells of how: Huge god Hephaestus got up from the anvil block with laboured breathing. At once he was helped along by female servants made of gold, who moved to him. They look like living servant girls, possessing minds, hearts with intelligence, vocal chords, and strength. They learned...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs