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Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...account of your previous good record. And I've taken account too of your genuine remorse as well as the other factors referred to by Mr. Scott in mitigation. I am therefore prepared on this occasion to impose a non-custodial sentence. I propose to make a community service order requiring you to perform 300 hours of community service. This means that you are required to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...accounts would have us believe today. [Strike Bulletin page from 1919 showing Glasgow Bloody Friday story] Strike Bulletin page from 1919. The representation and interpretation of 1919 and the wartime events preceding it have been contested since 1919 until the present day. The reconstruction of contemporary understandings and representations is not always
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Article 20 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...accounted for? There is no single common factor in suicides among young people, according to O’Neill. Many things can be involved: educational underachievement, poverty, poor parenting. But the Ceasefire Babies are also dealing with the added stress of the conflict – even though most of them never witnessed it directly. “When one person sees something awful, when...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...accountants, surveyors and so forth. I think then there's a distinctive characteristic to Welsh rugby, which was resented, it must be said, by the other home unions. They thought that Wales was was acquiring unfair advantage by the fact that they were coal miners and steelworkers and dock workers, but particularly coal miners, in their side who were using the skills of...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...279, pp 58-63, 1998) A personal account of the cloning of Dolly and an exploration of some of the possible applications. Fiction Cellmates Robert A. Burton ( Russian Hill Press 1997), ISBN: 0965352447 Brave New World Aldous Huxley (written in 1932). There are a couple of paperback editions published by Flamingo, ISBN: 0006545793 (1994) and Voyager, ISBN: 000711589X (2001)...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...accountant went round the BBC Natural History Unit, they would say the most valuable thing we’ve got is the archive, they’d actually put a monetary value on it and we’ve only just started to think like that a small number of years ago, when you consider how many years we’ve been making natural history films. Archive is used in a number of ways, there are… we do...
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Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...account use that. If you don’t yet have one, it’s free and very straightforward to set up. Your task is to compose a tweet (of no more than 280 characters) in which you write about what you are looking forward to as a distance learner. Tweet your message to @OpenLearn, using this hashtag: #ready4distancelearning. Congratulations – you have now taken your first step...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...account of writing the music for the famous skiing sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me, click the second link below to watch this scene. An extract from an interview with Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin Hamlisch I just try to find a rhythm. So if I’m doing it for instance here, they are skiing and I’m trying bum unh boom boom unh boom boom unh boom boom so I try that out and I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs