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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
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...variables that need to be accounted for. In the next activity we will look at some of these challenges and some of the limitations of research examining recovery. Activity 4 The challenges of investigating recovery Timing: Allow 25 minutes Imagine you have developed a new recovery strategy that you would like to test (e.g. a piece of equipment that you believe speeds up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...Class Struggle (Hadjinicolaou, 1978). The second obstruction was art history as a history of civilisations, and the third was art history as a history of works of art, but first in his list was art history as a history of artists. Hadjinicolaou’s work was one contribution to a transformation of the discipline in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time there was a growing...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...class (although the audience probably includes more women and children). Not applicable Yes; it includes women and children. Yes; it includes nobles, as well as children and a higher proportion of women than in the performing group. 4 Which aspects of performance seem most important or highly valued? Size of group, volume, social interaction. Participation/ unity, ritual...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 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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Article 10 mins
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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