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  The power of play Virtually every child, the world over, plays. The drive to play is so intense that children will do so in any circumstances, for instance when they have no real toys, or when parents do not actively encourage the behavior. In the eyes of a young child, running, pretending, and building are fun. Researchers and educators know that these playful activities benefit the development of the whole child across social, cognitive, physical, and emotional domains . Indeed, play is such an instrumental component to healthy child development that the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (1989) recognized play as a fundamental right of every child.  Yet, while experts continue to expound a powerful argument for the importance of play in children's lives, the actual time children spend playing continues to decrease. Today, children play eight hours less each week than their counterparts did two decades ago (Elkind 2008). Under pressure of rising academic st...

  Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed  On 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a sea battle off the coast of southern England in the area of water called the Solent, between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. Among the English vessels was a warship by the name of Mary Rose. Built in Portsmouth some 35 years earlier, she had had a long and successful fighting career, and was a favourite of King Henry VIII. Accounts of what happened to the ship vary: while witnesses agree that she was not hit by the French, some maintain that she was outdated , overladen and sailing too low in the water, others that she was mishandled by undisciplined crew . What is undisputed , however, is that the Mary Rose sank into the Solent that day, taking at least 500 men with her. After the battle, attempts were made to recover the ship, but these failed.  The Mary Rose came to rest on the seabed , lying on her starboard (right)...

  The maps below show the changes in an Art Centre from 2010 to today.The illustration shows how the internal layout of an Art Center changed from 2010 to the present. As can be seen from the maps, the most noticeable alteration in the area is the replacement of the cinema in the central area for an art gallery. Also, there is an expansion in cafe and theater sections and the path to the new art gallery has been built as well. In 2010, to the north of the Art Center, there was an open air car park which was located alongside a path. The central part section includes a cinema on the right side of the map and a 200-seat theater with a cafe on the other side. Towards the southeast of the site, there were 3 different parts of art galleries organized in an unsystematic structure. Nowadays, while the car park is changed into a multipurpose one, the path is widened to create a direct course to the art gallery which is the substitution of the previous cinema. Moving to the west, th...

Map writing task 1 link The maps below show the changes in an Art Centre from 2010 to today.The illustration shows how the internal layout of an Art Center changed from 2010 to the present. As can be seen from the maps, the most noticeable alteration in the area is the replacement of the cinema in the central area for an art gallery. Also, there is an expansion in cafe and theater sections and the path to the new art gallery has been built as well. In 2010, to the north of the Art Center, there was an open air car park which was located alongside a path. The central part section includes a cinema on the right side of the map and a 200-seat theater with a cafe on the other side. Towards the southeast of the site, there were 3 different parts of art galleries organized in an unsystematic structure. Nowadays, while the car park is changed into a multipurpose one, the path is widened to create a direct course to the art gallery which is the substitution of the previous cinema. Mov...

  Amazon has Hollywood’s worst shows but its best business model As bullets fly around a high-speed train carrying a former Miss World and a gang of spies through the Italian Alps, shopping is surely the last thing on viewers’ minds. Yet should they press pause, they will see an option to buy items from the show: the heroine’s gold necklace, her red dress, or the teetering stilettos in which she is improbably running rings around the villains . Only her exploding perfume is not yet for sale. “ Citadel ”, a thriller on Amazon Prime Video, shows what happens when the world’s biggest online retailer becomes one of its biggest entertainment producers. As well as buying merchandise from the show on Amazon’s e-commerce site, audiences can listen to its soundtrack on Amazon Music, or read about its production on Amazon’s sister site, imdb.com. Its multinational cast and plot, and planned spin-offs in a variety of languages, have been carefully chosen to appeal to shoppers around the wo...