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Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...class, status and prestige. There is no recent census on the use of English. But in 1972, the linguist Peter Ladefoged revealed that only 21% of Ugandans were able to hold a conversation in English. English remains the major medium of instruction despite the introduction of a local language policy in primary schools. All in all, Ugandans consider English to be the way to...
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Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...class in particular that America has been taken away from them – is sent into overdrive by the prospect of a Supreme Court oriented towards liberal principles and the rights of minorities. It is another piece of exquisitely timed Trump weirdness; no other presidential candidate in history has taken a court discussion this far. Most Republican identities do not want to...
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Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...classes, or booking a water birth. The feminist movement has also been influential in the reaction against the medicalisation of childbirth. For many feminist writers, the obstetric medical domination of childbirth has denied women the right to control their own bodies and make their own decisions. They argue that women no longer have faith in their own bodies and are...
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing geographies of the UK. Throughout the module, you will be introduced to exciting new ways of thinking geographically about many...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...classes associated tanned faces with the lower orders who worked outdoors. The manufacturing process he perfected, using purer ingredients, paying closer attention to each stage in the process, and adding a delicate perfume of flowers, remains substantially unchanged to this day. Sunlight In the 1880s, William Lever leased a chemical works in Warrington, where he...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...class or the career itself or her workplace. She's determined to succeed and she assumes that any failure to progress is her own fault, because she isn't working hard enough. This might sound like the beginning of a celebrity success story. In this case, however, Walkerdine suggests it's the story of someone who blames herself when the problems lie elsewhere, taking her...
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Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...classed as different or a difficulty vary widely because of the different expectations of social behaviours and social norms. One of the principles of neurodiversity is the idea of human competence being defined by the values of the cultures to which you belong.Diagnoses of neurodiverse conditions vary greatly in different countries. For example, in Oman, studies have...
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A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...classes swarmed along a great part of the tram-line in side streets of a hard, stony look, and what characterized itself to me as a sort of iron squalor seemed to prevail. You cannot anywhere have great prosperity without great adversity, just as you cannot have day without night, and the more Liverpool evidently flourished the more it plainly languished. I found no...
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