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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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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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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...law/geography/climate-change-coastal-erosion-and-flooding-the-thames-gateway-and-london?in_menu=480246 Accessed 28th January 2020 RGS/21stCenturyChallenges https://21stcenturychallenges.org/the-thames-barrier/ Accessed 10th January 2020 UNESCO http://whc.unesco.org/en/climatechange Accessed 12th January 2020 Wadey, M.P., Haigh, I.D., Nicholls, R.J., Brown, J.M. et al...
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Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...laws) (EIS.org, 2022a). The background to this pay dispute is that the negotiators representing Colleges Scotland employers refused to increase their offer of £850 or ‘budge’ on a one-off thankyou payment to college lecturers in recognition of their work during two years of COVID-19 lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 (College Employers Scotland, 2022). The employers...
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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...Law; criticisms by LEAVE (despite being supported by the majority of the tabloid press) of media bias; or claims by Nigel Farage that women may be subjected to mass sex attacks if Britain stays in the EU. Some think that the whole debate is little more than a blue on blue civil war and that progressive politicians should not even be sharing a platform with pro-EU...
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