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Why has Sweden tightened its borders?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Sweden tightened its borders?

...English-language posters at Stockholm underground stations apologising for immigrant begging and distributed leaflets on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos discouraging refugees from going to Sweden. To an extent, the restrictive turn taken by the government (a minority coalition between the Social Democrats and the Green Party) is an attempt to stop the growth of the...
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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...English courses Phone messaging apps are first and foremost a means of relating to, or connecting with, other people. This means that many anxieties about messaging are really concerns about relationships. Importantly, relationships always involve a balance between, on the one hand, expressing solidarity and connecting with others; and, on the other, maintaining...
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983

...English. So very gradually the Irish spoken residue that we have here is becoming eroded through the development of tourists. Now of course it’s a catch 22 question: are you going to leave this into a sort of an Indian reservation and have no development at all or are you going to risk the language or the culture by having development? I came down heavily on the side of...
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Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...English (1894) in which he outlined principles of non-violent resistance in the face of violence. Mohandas Gandhi was deeply moved by reading this work and corresponded directly with Tolstoy on the principles of non-violent resistance as a means for transforming India into an independent nation (Murthy 1987). Searching for heaven within an individual has also served to...
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Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...English Christmas for hundreds of years. But if we cannot expect the full-blooded mirth of an old-fashioned Dickens Christmas, we may still anticipate a time of quiet cheerfulness, seasoned with the hope that before the advent of another Yuletide the peace so ardently desired by the whole world will at length have dawned and the period of wholesale slaughter and wholesale...
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Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...English-speaking jurisdiction will hear a habeas corpus case brought on behalf of someone other than a human being. In India courts have declared the rivers Ganges and Yamuna ‘living entities’ recognised by the law What about ecosystems and natural features? Some courts have even gone beyond the animal kingdom in recognising the natural world as capable of legal...
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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...English, the two languages are mingled to create what is known as ‘translanguaging’ , i.e. making use of one’s existing language(s) and knowledge to convey the meaning. On Chinese social media, the following has gone viral: Happy New Year 兔 you! The character in the middle of the greeting means ‘rabbit’ and is pronounce ‘tù’ which sounds similar to...
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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...English is known as the iamb, which is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (x /). Many words in English are iambic: a simple example is the word ‘forgot’. When we say this, the stresses naturally fall in the sequence: Iambic rhythm is in fact the basic sound pattern in ordinary English speech. If you say the following line aloud you will hear what I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs