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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...paradoxical way that art in bourgeois society at once preserves and transforms art’s sacral functions. Autonomous art does not promote Christian beliefs and practices, as religious art traditionally did, but rather is treated by art lovers as itself the source of a special kind of experience, a rarefied or even spiritual pleasure. This type of pleasure is now called...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...paradox. Road traffic in the UK increased twenty-fivefold between 1922 and 1986, and common perceptions of the dangers of roads changed from roads as relatively safe places to roads as dangerous places. Yet over the same period the number of children killed in road traffic accidents fell from 736 per annum to 358. The child road-death figure per motor vehicle fell by...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...paradoxical biblical quotation really is only a restatement of what was more formally explained in previous units in this series. The materials needed by plant eaters (see course S182_4) for the growth of 'flesh' - by which I mean not just the meaty muscular parts, but all of the body - must come entirely from their plant food. Plants grow using the Sun's energy in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...paradox further. Activity 2 Timing: This should take around 30 minutes. Look at the reading below, Hibernicus, English Union is Ireland’s Ruin! Or an Address to the Irish Nation (1799). This is an extract from an anti-union pamphlet, written by an author using the pseudonym (a fictitious or fake name) ‘Hibernicus’. A pamphlet was a short printed publication and a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...paradoxes: Rethinking leadership for an uncertain world, London, Routledge. Hollander, E. P. (2009) Inclusive leadership: The essential leader-follower relationship, New York: Routledge. Jackson, B., and K. Parry (2018) A very short fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership, 3rd edn. London, Sage. Kochan, T. (2016) Shaping the future of work:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...Paradox, is one in which positive feedback operates, at least until basic resources are totally used up or skyrocketing costs block the positive feedback. In southeast England it is possible to speculate that the incidence of gridlock, pollution effects and social effects such as road rage, as well as increased fuel costs are beginning to block positive feedback. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...paradoxically, most often expressed through silence. In general Giles rarely responds to conversational openings, but the greatest silences exist between him and Isa. He can despise William Dodge and Mrs Parker, ‘But not Isa – not his wife. She had not spoken to him, not one word. Nor looked at him either’ (p.100). Giles is alone when he sees and stamps the life out...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...paradoxically, notation can also enable music to change more rapidly than it does in oral traditions. It is difficult for an avant-garde composer to make an impact without the medium of notation through which to spread his work, so it tends to be written music which generates radical departures from tradition (recordings have helped to support similar processes in other...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs