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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...writing in French to stretch and develop the national language. Over the years, this ideology, backed by political and military power, went a long way to help cement French cultural power in the world. Centuries later, it would seem that French language policy has not changed all that much. Recent coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics highlights that France doesn't just...
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After Manchester: The strength of the city
Digital & Computing

After Manchester: The strength of the city

...writing. The numbers are likely to rise. Targeted: the young What is becoming increasingly apparent is that many of the dead and injured will be children. Young girls mainly, out for a treat on a school night – lives cut cruelly short. There are still dozens of teenagers missing and the desperate voice of Charlotte Campbell, pleading for anyone with news of her...
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Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...writing, work which also emphasises devotional Catholic themes. ‘Any Woman’ (1911) The poem was originally published in the1911 collection New Poems under the title ‘The Mother’ and was frequently anthologised afterwards, later as ‘Any Woman’. What similarities can you find between this poem and 'A Legend of Tyrone' (which can be found in our previous article...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...writing the Enquiry, both works in which the institution of marriage was assailed and love promoted as a partnership of equals. For Shelley, the ideas in these books were a design for living. By the end of the twentieth century, of course, ideas of free love were not nearly as politically subversive as they were in the 1810s. But in Gothic, Russell nevertheless exploits...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...write in whatever gender term they use themselves would be one solution to such issues. However a list of categories probably lends itself more easily to data analysis. This could potentially be useful if Facebook were able to release figures of the numbers of people who are identifying in each way for the reasons of visibility and inclusion mentioned previously. Finally,...
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Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...writing anything because they were worried they could never change it – and it is scary to think you are making a decision that lasts forever. Luckily, advance care plans can be updated, however, it is key that you share the updated versions with those that need to know (e.g. your doctor and family/friends who may be called on to help make decisions about your care if...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...writing group with Michael Longley. She has, to date, published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Found Architecture, Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet in 2020. From the outset, her work was greeted...
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More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...write this column The team of scientists that turned the global conversation on trees, forests and climate on its head has indeed demonstrated a good example of scientific synergy. They have shown the need for scientific disciplines to collaborate to solve the problems of our time, like climate change. Cool. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY...
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