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The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...determined to do something about it. First, as the passage says, he made the toga compulsory in the civic heart of Rome. Second, he invented a new type of toga. The Republican toga had consisted of a simple semi-circle of cloth draped diagonally around the body with the straight edge (balteus) at the top and the curved hem at the bottom. Augustus’s toga had an added...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...determine when water is polluted. Although pollution means a deterioration in water quality caused by human agencies, the same effect may occur naturally. For instance, large amounts of sediment and vegetable matter can be washed into rivers during rainstorms; toxic metals and acid waters can get into rivers and groundwaters where concentrations of ore minerals occur; and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...determined and optimistic group … Families immediately grabbed their few belongings, and quickly, our numbers doubled and then doubled again. Babies in strollers now joined us, as did people using crutches, elderly clasping walkers and other people in wheelchairs. We marched the two to three miles to the freeway and up the steep incline to the bridge. … As we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...determine how this is driven because, actually, there may be some areas that somebody would work on that perhaps traditionally didn't work in that department, if you like, within the care home. So somebody that maybe doesn't work in the catering team would have a really good understanding around how to drive a great food experience for residents in that care home based on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...determined by children’s reactions to the adults who work with them. Teaching is not something that can be done ‘to’ children. In order to be successful, it is an act that needs their involvement – something that is done ‘with’ them. Children are therefore always agents in the teaching enterprise because they have influence over whether or not teaching...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...determined plan. All scientific experiments are ‘systematic’ in that the methods, materials, conditions and the sequence of actions involved are clearly and precisely described, so that other scientists can exactly follow the ‘system’ used in the original experiment. A hypothesis is a statement proposing an explanation for an observation, made on the basis of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...determine their Romantic mindset (see Brookner, 2000). Having seen the Old Regime swept away, they looked on as the monarchy was restored after Napoleon’s defeat. Those who had earlier supported the Revolution now tried their luck as royalists. Although he quickly gained a reputation as a rebellious Romantic, Delacroix was always ill at ease with this perception of him....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...determinants. ‘Scientific’ racism was a foundational part of eugenic thinking in the twentieth century. Ideologies of race were used by European colonisers to legitimise and justify the treatment of colonised peoples including enslavement and exploitation. These concepts were powerful – the legacies and effects of racial thinking established during periods of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs