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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...de the / A PE / LE i a / DEO akh i / LE OS. You might have been able to hear that there was a change in the middle of the line. The third foot has been replaced with a spondee. So in the first line of the Iliad, we have two dactyls: Menin aeide the-. One spondee: -A pe-. Two more dactyls: -leia deo akhi-. And a final spondee: -leos. If you go back and listen to the Greek...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...classed as mildly learning disabled. Next you will consider learning disability as a social condition...Session 1: What is a learning disability?: 3 Medical or social? - You might have come across debates about whether a learning disability is a medical or a social condition. You already know from the definitions given in Section 2 that a learning disability is lifelong,...
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...classes, and sponsorships, and these great things, but I was quite depressed. So I think you can do the work and you can do all of this stuff, but I think it’s about looking after yourself at the same time. And because I look after myself, the businesses are doing much better. So we’re 22 years on now with the dance classes, and we’ve now reached a new dimension...
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...classed as ‘drunk’ and what behaviour is classed as ‘disorderly’. If conferred upon them by their Chief Constable, PCSOs have the power to deal with drunk and disorderly and being found drunk on the highway by way of a penalty notice for disorder (PND). This significantly reduces administration time for the police and courts in dealing with relatively minor...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...classed as secondary consumers may include plants in their diet (dashed lines) Figure 3: adapted from Biology for the IB Diploma (2001) Oxford University Press Figure 3 shows a food web for one part of the Arctic tundra, with primary consumers that range from diminutive lemmings to very sizeable caribou. Question 4 Question: LoM Chapter 5 and the programme 'Meat Eaters'...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...de Coriolis (1792–1843) who pioneered the study of rotating frames of reference. The Coriolis acceleration The Coriolis acceleration arises in any situations when an object or body travels towards or away from the axis of a rotating frame of reference. The combination of rotation and distance from the axis results in a linear velocity, so if the distance changes the...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...class-consciousness, of consciousness-raising activities and consciousness-enhancing drugs. Freudians contrast the conscious mind with the unconscious, gurus seek to promote world consciousness and mystics cultivate pure consciousness. These various uses reflect the history of the words. The original meaning of ‘consciousness’ was awareness or knowledge, either shared...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...class but also of establishment figures officials. And so this is why you see the BBC has been widely distrusted by some you know even I as part of Telegraph will be distrusted by some people on Twitter and social media. This is why you have people going to alternative media outlets, they describe and decry the MSM the mainstream media for peddling what they say is fake...