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Mi'kmaq: First Nations people
History & The Arts

Mi'kmaq: First Nations people

...religion controversial? The MikMaq people have lived in Newfoundland for generations Their diet would often depend on the season 25 years ago Conne River secured protected status when it became a reserve Powwows give indigenous people to come together and celebrate their own culture Many members of the Mi'kmaq were assimilated into the Catholic Church The resurfacing of...
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Video 5 mins
Do dogs want to go to heaven?
History & The Arts

Do dogs want to go to heaven?

...religions offer interpretations of their authoritative texts and traditions. For example, the Hindu Mahabharata tells us that the hero Yudhisthira refused to enter heaven without his beloved but rather scruffy dog, in the Norse sagas Odin is always accompanied by two ravens, and there’s a mention in the Christian Book of Revelation of the heavenly armies riding horses....
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Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...religion and others involved in the “ontological turn”, seeking to understand how people relate to the world. In particular Davi’s scholarship has encouraged a rethinking of the “culture/nature” distinction which structures so much of modern Western thought and life (including the separation of “natural sciences” from “social sciences” and...
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Mi'kmaq: First Nation people
History & The Arts

Mi'kmaq: First Nation people

...religion controversial?... A community reawakening The Mi'kmaq people have lived in Newfoundland for generations Living off the land Their diet would often depend on the season Mi'kmaq culture 25 years ago Conne River secured protected status when it became a reserve Mi'kmaq Powwows powwows give indigenous people to come together and celebrate their own culture...
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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...Las plazas - Squares, las plazas, are a focal point of Hispanic towns and cities. In this course you will find out about several cities in Latin America: Santiago de Chile and La Serena in Chile, Santiago de Cuba and Havana in Cuba, and Montevideo in Uruguay. You will also hear about Valencia and Barcelona in Spain, their monuments, places of interest and where to go for...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...religion for quite a long time and then there’s lots of fights about who has control over the editorial, so until the BBC becomes a bit more holistic and different departments work more closely together, I think that’s a difficult one. The Natural History Unit has made inroads into current affairs, small inroads but it has, but it struggles, I think,...
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Video 20 mins
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...las propias ideas al escribir o al hablar; buscar ortografía; gramática, confirmar el significado, etc. El uso de un diccionario monolingüe es recomendable. It is very important that you get to know your monolingual dictionary well. Study its characteristics, the user instructions given and the abbreviations used in the dictionary. Look at how the different sections in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...the matching drawings underneath. INTERVIEWER Señora, ¿usted qué hace normalmente por la tarde? ¿Pasea, lee, estudia? PERSON 1 Paseo, paseo por el parque, paseo a mi perro por el parque. INTERVIEWER Y usted, ¿qué hace? PERSON 2 Yo leo, normalmente leo. INTERVIEWER ¿Usted lee? PERSON 3 No, no, yo trabajo en un restaurante. INTERVIEWER Y usted, ¿qué hace? ¿Trabaja, estudia? PERSON 4 Estudio en la biblioteca. ......
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs