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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...classes above them. In order to succeed the poor need most of all the spur of their poverty. (Gilder, 1981, p. 118) In this perspective, poverty is simultaneously natural and socially necessary. Inequalities are both the natural result of unequal performance in a competitive world and necessary to keep people trying to succeed. The response to the problem of poverty is to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...de dhuilleoga feileastraim is bitiúmin agus pic bheith cuimilte lena thóin ansan é a leagadh síos i measc na ngiolcach is coigeal na mban sí le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...de Chastelain was in Ireland wondering when he would next be needed; waiting for the IRA to move to put more of its arms beyond use. When I left Richard McAuley on that Saturday in July 2005, I stepped into the car park at the supermarket and scribbled some words onto a post it; words I used in a BBC Radio Ulster news broadcast that lunchtime. This is what I said: “My...
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...de d d in dog Е, е e e e in best Є, є ye ye ye in yes Ж, ж zhe zh zh in pleasure З, з ze z z in zest И, и y y y in sit І, і i i i in wheat, seen Ї, ї yi yi yi in yeast Й, й yo y before vowel; Short i before consonants and in the end of words y in York; Short i in my, I. К, к ka k k in sky Л, л el l l in lesson М, м em m m in May Н, н en n n in note...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...classes in Los Angeles. She was named an astronaut candidate in 1987, and flew her first flight as a science mission specialists on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in September 1992, logging 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space. In March 1993, Dr. Jemison resigned from NASA, thought she still resides in Houston, Texas. She went on to publish her memoirs, Find Where the Wind...
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Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...classes. They can get away for part of the day, and breathe fresh air. The unfortunate people who live close to the banks of the stream must, most of them, stay continually within its baleful influence. Cholera may, happily, not break out; but in any case the fetod odours the river regularly omits must produce much sickness and suffering in those exposed to them. Nor is...
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Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...class institutions to a few more different people, without doing anything for any of the people who needed the cause most in the first place. It come down to this. Major corporations can't claim that by using trans identities to sell clothes, or beer, or whatever it is this week, they are doing something radical or political. Trans is not a commodity to be bought and...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...class and political ideology regularly splintered women’s organizing. Whether change can come from joining government and business, or must come from dismantling these institutions, is a defining question for all three major waves of women’s organizing. Elite white women have disproportionately benefited from each wave of women’s organizing in the United States....
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