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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...class residents across the city. Beyond collecting trash, these workers also constitute the city’s only recycling service by separating out and selling plastics, papers, metal and other valuable scrap – including human hair sold for wigs and stale bread used for cow feed. The money they earn from selling these materials is how they support their families. While my...
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Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative
Society, Politics & Law

Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative

...class 303 trains, which were built nearby at Linwood, and nicknamed the ‘Blue Trains’ because of their original distinctive colouring (Scot-rail.co.uk, n.d.). She said the male drivers were really good to her, and many became good friends. The public could be more challenging: some were shocked to see a female driver and openly commented on her assumed lack of...
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Introduction to number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to number theory

...classes and least residues add and subtract integers, modulo n, multiply integers and calculate powers, modulo n determine multiplicative inverses, modulo n and use to solve linear congruences...Introduction to number theory: Link to course PDF - Click here to access the course materials...Introduction to number theory: Conclusion - Following completion of this free...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...class dreams for their so-called working-class children. It was these dreams that brought them to the UK, dragging my eldest siblings from the sunshine of Jamaica to the cold and fog of the Motherland. Opportunity knocks. Mum and Dad had the “usual roles” of a nurse at the local hospital and semi-skilled worker at a car factory. Every Sunday, most Wednesday evenings,...
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Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...de ida y vuelta) was created to refer to the mix of Andalusian and Latin American songs that, after being transformed by the Americans, travelled back to Spain in their new hybrid forms. Spaniards found in the New World participatory bodies. The native Americans as well as the slaves of African origin displayed a fondness for physical expressivity which was a perfect...
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Did Donald Trump ride a tide of anti-feminism to the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

Did Donald Trump ride a tide of anti-feminism to the White House?

...Las Vegas, Nevada] Anti-Hillary Clinton sign at a campaign rally for Donald Trump at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada The victory of Donald J Trump in the November 2016 US presidential election came as a particular shock to those who had believed that the American nation was ready and willing to elect its first female president. Evidence of Trump’s sexually...
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Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...La Scuola” (the school): a classroom stocked with books, a chalkboard and mismatched tables and chairs. [The image is of a classroom setting. There is a blackboard at the top left corner of the photo which says "refugees welcome" in white chalk and there are four rows of desks set out wirh wooden chairs scattered. There is a big window with blinds allowing light through...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...feedback and tipping points? TE: Feedback can have two meanings. So positive feedback doesn’t mean positive in the sense of good, it means amplifying, so something happens and then escalates and accelerates and amplifies, so that’s the kind of thing we’d worry about in the climate system, for example with Arctic sea ice; if you lose some of the sea ice then it...
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