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Being a Teacher Is More Than Just Teaching a Lesson
Today I’m not going to recommend any book, but I do want to make a statement—and I say this as an English Studies student preparing to become a teacher. Perhaps out of curiosity, o…
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Repression in the Canary Islands
The Francoist repression in the Canary Islands has a key distinction: there was no war front in the archipelago. Following the July 1936 coup d'état, the islands quickly fell under…
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The Socio-formative Roots Status
The socio-formative roots status (formerly known as roots through training) is a temporary residence permit due to exceptional circumstances in Spain that allows foreign nationals…
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"A Secret Diary of the First World War" by Gillian Arbuthnott
In August 1914, the First World War had just broken out. In Dalkeith, a small town near Edinburgh (Scotland), James Marchbank, a boy of just 14 who worked as a delivery boy, lied a…
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The Far-Right Infiltrates
Everyone has the right to their own ideas and to freedom of labor association. However, when we talk about the institutions that safeguard security and hold the legitimate use of f…
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Attacking Migrants in Spain
What I am going to talk about in today's episode has already happened in Germany and Ireland: indiscriminate attacks against migrants. I haven't seen anything like this since the f…
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"Abilities Within Me" by Gemma Keir
"Abilities Within Me" is a wonderful children's book series and foundation created by Gemma Keir, inspired by her son with 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome.This book helps raise awar…
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Repression in La Isleta
Talking about La Isleta is talking about worker struggle, dignity, and the sea. But it is also remembering the harsh footprint of Francoist repression that struck hard at the resid…
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Racist Migrants
Let's not throw our hands up in horror: being a migrant doesn't strip you of your prejudices. We already see how they look down on other migrants, people of another ethnicity, and…
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"The Diary of Piete Kuhr" , Elfriede Alice "Piete" Kuhr
"The Diary of Piete Kuhr" aka " Diaries of the Great War "is the autobiographical testimony written by Elfriede Alice "Piete" Kuhr (1902–1989). Due to her political activism, her o…
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The Responsibility of the Population
Even 94 years after the rise of the Nazis, we continue to wonder why a people as cultured as the Germans ended up falling into the clutches of hatred. Well. Not all of them. Was th…
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Concentration Camps for Japaneses in the USA
There are always people who, being completely innocent, pay the consequences. It already happened to the Japanese population, but what about the Japanese born in the USA? Yes. They…
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Hoda Thamir Jehad, Iraqi Writer
Hoda Thamir Jehad, a young Iraqi woman who was 18 years old at the time of the US-led invasion of her country in March 2003, belonging to a cultured and moderate family of lawyers,…
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What We Learnt about Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Remembering the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Causes: the context of World War II in the Pacific and the United States' decision to force Japan's surren…
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What Stadistics Tell Us
In Spain, the population of migrant origin is divided as follows, according to official records and the most recent analyses:-Foreign population with legal residency: Exceeds 7.4 m…
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"Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq" by Zlata Filipović & Melanie Challenger
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, From World War I to Iraq is a critically acclaimed book co-edited by Zlata Filipović (best known for Zlata's Diary, written during the si…
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The Battle of Cable Street
The historical significance of the street lies in the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936, a landmark confrontation in which local residents, trade unionists, and anti-fascist d…
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When a Migrant Minor Arrives at a Center
Unaccompanied migrant minor centers are specialized facilities dedicated to the protection, basic care, and social integration of foreign children and adolescents who arrive in a c…
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"Zlata's Diary " by Zlata Filipović
"Zlata's Diary" was written by Zlata Filipović, a young girl who documented her daily life during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo between 1991 and 1993.She began the diar…
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1944 Is Not Just a Song
This date might mean nothing to you or sound like a Eurovision song, but for many Ukrainians, it was their "annus horribilis". But no. I am not referring to the song, but to the ma…