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About war
The experience of war ... Unlike most previous generations, very of us will have any experience at all of war. This is not to say that we don't receive a lot of information about war, through news reports...
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Parkinson's
The experience of illness ... if you have good health, illness seems strangely irrelevant - especially when you're young and everything works properly. That said, everyone has a fear of something horrible...
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The blood of strangers
Stories about experience ... in one sense all fiction is based on experience, whether first-hand or second-hand ... or purely invented. So here's an example of fiction presenting us with the experience...
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Scars
This short and well put-together video from the Guardian presents the cases of five people who live with the scars of traumatic experiences, whether physical or psychological. Please be advised that the...
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Anorexia story
Experiencing anorexia must be very difficult, since the condition depends profoundly on the person's subjective perceptions. In one sense this is just an extreme case of the problem of empathy with anyone...
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Welcome to Tottenham
In the autumn of 2021, the London teenager Giovanni Rose won a Foyle Young Poets of the Year award, for his poem 'Welcome to Tottenham' - a poem which gives a vivid insight into what it is like to be...
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Sand Sun & Sea
Most of us have experienced relaxing on a beach ... but it is valuable to remind ourselves that such behaviour would have seemed odd to most people throughout history. In Europe, it was only in the early...
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Adrenalin junkies
The IB Learner Profile includes risk takers. Not only does this attribute apply to learning, but also in extreme sports. But what is it about these sports that attracts so many people? This page contains...
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2.1 Leisure Activities
What do our leisure activities reveal about who we are and what we value? Contents...
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The English are best
Identity as caricature ... As individuals, we take part of our personal identity from the public identity of the group to which we are attached, to which we belong. But do we really 'belong' to a group?...