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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...determination and secession Rights and justice in international relations The USA, power and international order: Foreign policy under Obama Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths Welfare reconstruction 2 days: Step back in time and see BBC 1979 election coverage: See Part Two here 4 days: 1979 NOP poll published in Daily Mail put Labour slightly ahead for 1st...
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Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...determinative of moral status. Nigel: But isn’t that just a good rule of thumb? When you see another person, you tend to think of them evolving over time, with a sense of themselves and a capacity to feel pain, in a way that a fish, like a haddock doesn’t. Peter: Well, for one thing not all of our encounters with animals are with haddocks. For another while I would...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...determines in the end what I would call uneven relationships; issues of inequality. These places, these peripheral communities, peripheral nuclear communities, nuclear oases, call them what you will, after all, are the products of this power relation of peripheralisation. They have the industry, whether willingly or not, they are responsible for it on behalf of society....
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What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...determine its structure; the model was assembled from metal clamps used to hold test-tubes and other bits of laboratory apparatus. Watson and Crick showed that DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid has a double helix structure: two helical strands like spiral staircases, coiled round one another. It is this structure that accounts for the stability of DNA, one of its key features....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...determined by others. And even though Pinkney and Soliño had copies of some of the speeches that had been prepared for that morning, they had to be alive to humorous asides. Puns, sarcasm, irony and culture-specific jokes are an interpreter’s nightmare. As one interpreter has noted in an academic article, “Puns based on a single word with multiple meanings in the...
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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...determined through discourses. [This is a photograph of Michel Foucault] Figure 3 Michel Foucault One of the main criticisms of Foucault’s work is his failure to acknowledge the power of resistance. In their review of professional power, medical sociologists Simon Williams and Michael Calnan suggest that the traditional systems of medical knowledge are being challenged...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...determine what work is, who performs it, and where and how. Activity 1 Thinking about EDI and intersectionality Choose two equality characteristics, one visible and one invisible. Use information freely available in the public domain to find out what policies an organisation of your choice may have concerning EDI and those two characteristics. Based on your research...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...determination, allowing them to more effectively represent their interests and act on their authority. Empowerment of people occurs when a group believed to have been discriminated against achieve equal status and/or just treatment. Liberation of people occurs when there are fair and just relationships between the individual and society, often associated with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs