A Very Brief Introduction to Choice Theory - HeadStuff
WEBMay 9, 2017 · Choice Theory understands that humans have five basic needs – freedom, power, fun, love and belonging & security. Our needs may vary but they remain the same throughout our lives, although our behaviour – our attempts to meet the needs – may change. For example, I was born with a low fun need (maybe a 2/5), a high love and belonging need ...
Why do dogs hear better than humans? - HeadStuff
WEBMar 31, 2015 · Dogs have much more sensitive hearing than humans, hearing sounds four times farther away than we can. They can hear higher frequency sounds, can more easily differentiate sounds (e.g. they may recognise the sound of your car) and they can pin point the exact location of the sound. Sound is caused by air vibrations.
Henry Stanley, the Man Who Stole The Congo - HeadStuff
WEBAug 25, 2018 · David Livingstone was a Scottish explorer, and a Victorian hero. In 1866 he had set out to find the source of the Nile and had not been heard from since. In 1869 Stanley was called into the office of the owner of the paper, James Gordon Bennett, and given one job with an unlimited budget – “Find Livingstone!”.
50 Quotes from 50 Classics - HeadStuff
WEBFeb 7, 2015 · Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath. The Mole was a good listener, and Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I ...
10 Surprising Facts about Alzheimer’s - HeadStuff
WEBOct 15, 2015 · 6. The economic cost of Alzheimer’s is astronomical—and growing. In Ireland, which has more than 27,000 private and public residential care beds, a 2012 report by the Department of Health and Children stated that Ireland spends over €1.69 billion a year on dementia, which is a major increase from the last decade.
9 Songs With Long Titles. Really, Really Ridiculously Long
WEBJan 11, 2023 · Pathetic. #5. Arctic Monkeys – ‘You Probably Couldn’t See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me’. A lesser known track from the group’s insanely popular debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, this one feels light-years away from the music the Arctic Monkeys are currently producing.
Beauty and Myth | The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
WEBJun 5, 2019 · Canvas is known to have been the preferred material for painting of secular and pagan subjects. The painting depicts the image of Venus being blown gently to shore on a shell by a Zephyr and Chloris. She lands on the island of Cyprus. In this mythical story, it is said that Venus was born as a fully-grown woman.
Hachiko: A Symbol of Loyalty. - HeadStuff
WEBFeb 1, 2014 · Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And that faint hint of the absurd – The little dogs under their feet. So begins Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb, a tribute to everlasting love. Fittingly he included the symbol of love and loyalty so widely recognised that it has been included on many ...
Girl, Woman, Other: lending a voice to a new generation of black ...
WEBSep 9, 2020 · From the opening dedication of her eight novel, Girl, Woman, Other, Anglo-Nigerian best-selling author Bernardine Evaristo, makes her intention of telling marginalised stories by usually overlooked minority groups clear: For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our brethren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men ...
Ultra-Violence 1971 | Straw Dogs And Clockwork Oranges
WEBJan 11, 2023 · Straw Dogs follows the story of a young, married couple David (Dustin Hoffman), and Amy (Susan George). The pair become disillusioned by late-sixties America in the grips of political unrest. Seeking a quieter life, they decide to return to Amy’s backwater birthplace of Cornwall in the UK.