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The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...Law guardians. Nield Chew wrote pieces for the Crewe Chronicle in which she was concerned to direct attention to examples of the inadequate wage and the poor working conditions of a particular class of workers – tailoresses. However, she also developed another way of getting her message across: using the ‘true story’ style of writing...The history of female protest...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...law and politics, visual arts, anthropology. Humanities is unique knowledge confined to a particular culture or society. This is also known as local knowledge, folk wisdom or traditional wisdom. Indigenous knowledge include individuals as well as organisations. Peoples and structures occurs when people seek and develop ideas and mechanisms to manage and overcome the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...Law reform, public education, economic regeneration in post-Napoleonic War Britain, the relief of distress in Ireland, creating what he called ‘communities of equality’ in Britain and America, and, after 1830, trade unionism and cooperation. He supported religious toleration. He advocated sexual equality, marriage and divorce law reform, and alluded to birth control...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...Law, the impressive forms of our courts, and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern. The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly...
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Article 15 mins
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...law, amongst them. This extremely broad research program can be split into several core issues and central questions, which all signify a specific research area. The six main research areas are: Define and conceptualize international crimes Measure and map international crimes Estimate social costs of international crimes Investigate the causes of international crimes...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...laws covering international conflict – at the Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention and so on. These conditions were conventionally divided into two groups, one concerned with when one may go to war and the other concerned with how one may fight. These two sets of conditions are standardly known by their Latin tags: Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello . The word ‘ jus’...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...Law people & Chartists having closed their Mills, telling the people they might play for a while, by which they immediately jumped at the conclusion they were to cease working. They marched in procession into Manchester, where they forced all the other Manufacturers to join them. It is the horrid system of agitation pursued by several Members, which is responsible for...
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Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...law. The country’s language policy also prescribes its use in primary and secondary schools, but many schools disregard this. Luganda, on the other hand, is the language of the biggest ethnic group in central Uganda. It works as a language of inter-ethnic communication, of wider communication and as a lingua franca. It is used in all domains: education, media and...
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