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Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...profiling and stop and frisks without basis have become the norm. Meanwhile, the weapons and tactics deployed by law enforcement agencies in poor black neighbourhoods have become increasingly warlike in both appearance and design. A new civil rights era Globalisation and the neoliberal domestic agenda have eroded some of the gains of the civil rights era. As the mass...
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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...profile athletes gaining unparalleled freedom and influence. Football player Megan Rapinoe expressed her support for LGBT+ rights, while NBA star Steve Nash spoke out against the Iraq War. Following the New England Patriots' Super Bowl victory in 2017, several team members declined President Trump’s customary invitation to the White House, and tennis star Venus Williams...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...the recruitment and development of athletes’, Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis, Vol.17. Williams, H. (2011) ‘My secret life: Victoria Pendleton, Olympic cyclist, 30’, The Independent, 13 December [Online]. Available at www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-victoria-pendleton-olympic-cyclist-30-2188802.html (Accessed 13 December 2013)....
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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...profiles. She didn’t have a guest wifi network at the office that they were all using. After seeing my report that Facebook was using location from people’s smartphones to make friend recommendations, she was convinced this happened because she had logged into Facebook at the office on her personal computer. She thought that Facebook had figured out that she and her...
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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...et al. (2012) conducted a study with 2,200 Australian 9- to 16-year-olds and found that an increased likelihood of a child being overweight or obese was often associated with higher screen time. One possible explanation for this is that certain unhealthy behaviours may occur alongside screen time, such as frequent snacking, long periods of inactivity and disruptions to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...style of Neo-Gothic architecture became popular again in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, buildings were designed to emulate the Medieval style and the name stuck. The name then came to be applied to some of the literature emerging in this period, as well as art, music and other forms of popular culture. Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto: a Gothic Story...
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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...et al., 2021). Common mental health problems for children and young people can span emotional symptoms, conduct or behavioural problems, hyperactivity-inattention and peer relationship problems, or any combination of these. An increasingly prominent issue post COVID-19 is school refusal (a reluctance or refusal of a child or young person to attend school which results in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...style of writing than used to be the case. In this way emojis are an example of the way that human communication adapts to the contexts and technologies with which it’s used – a process which has been happening from the very beginnings of human culture...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: 4 The birth of writing - Language first evolved in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs