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'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...everyday occurrence that many Black young people see it as ‘normal’. To be honest like, I get stopped on a regular when it first happened I was like angry and that because they can get rude and a bit hyper. They try to intimidate you and get a reaction and all the good cop bad cop s**t, and when you are younger it like kinda works. But now, after a while I just got...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...everyday concern and reality, but it is an issue that is still quite invisible. Recent cases relating to deaths at the hands of serving police officers has shone a spotlight on what is a real and significant problem that can no longer remain swept under the carpet and covertly dealt with behind closed institutional doors. References BBC News (2016) Police brutality victim...
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Article 15 mins
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...English) took such a toll on the lobsters that by the time they arrived in Louisiana, they had shrunk to the size of crawfish. The origin of the legend remains unknown, but its first written evidence appeared in the 1970s when the Cajun Renaissance, an ethnic grassroots movement, was in full swing. With the booming tourist industry in Louisiana promoting Cajun culture,...
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Article 15 mins
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...English that can entice you into the trap. We can talk about ‘the nub of the problem’, ‘the key issue’, ‘the basic problem’, ‘the real difficulty’ and so on. Like all traps, once it has sprung, it can be very difficult to get out. The trap seriously limits one's ability to think about the situation in its full complexity. This is precisely because, by...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...everyday, and so permeates the most basic levels of our daily lives. In this course, we will be concerned with some of the different ways in which the imagination is talked of and conceived, exploring just what the imagination might be and what philosophical issues it raises. The course is divided into two main sections. In the first, we will look at the range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...everyday life provides plenty of evidence for it. Consider driving, for example. One can drive a car, drawing upon one's knowledge of the rules of the road and of the car's controls, without giving any conscious thought to what one is doing. Or think of cases where the solution to a problem pops into one's head some time after one has given up thinking about it...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...everyday life? What about in policymaking, science or medicine? And figuring out what racism is can help us to identify it, and work out what sorts of things we should be trying to get rid of or remedy. In this course you’ll explore some different answers to these questions. Philosophers can (and often do) disagree, but this doesn’t mean that philosophy is just a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...everyday number system is the decimal system, where the position of a digit within the number determines whether it represents units, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. For example, the number 1375 means one thousand three hundred and seventy-five. The position of the 3, third from the right, means that it represents 3 hundreds. A thousand thousand, 1 000 000, is called a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs