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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...de-emphasizing their individual sufferings and deaths’ (Dunayer, 2004, p. xii). The disciplining of nonhuman bodies in the AIC is resisted in the ways in which ‘livestock’ express their distress at confinement, pain and overcrowding, or the ways in which fishes attempt to evade or escape capture (Wadiwel, 2015). Some of the harms documented in Section 2.1 are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...de vivre when speaking English – in both cases invoking images of French culture to enhance the meaning of what is being communicated. Other loanwords, however, become completely naturalised, until speakers of the language no longer notice their ‘foreignness’ at all. Below is a short selection of words of foreign origin which are in use in modern-day English. As you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...Adult Learning, Efrog Newydd, NY, Macmillan. Vygotsky, L.S. (1986) Thought and Language (wedi’i gyfieithu o’r Rwseg a’i ddiwygio a’i olygu gan A. Kozulin), Cambridge, MA, Gwasg MIT. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: learning, meaning and identity, Caergrawnt, Gwasg Prifysgol Caergrawnt...Wythnos 2: Darganfod y cysylltiadau: egwyddorion a damcaniaethau ar...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...adult males, cast votes for a citizen to be exiled for ten years. If at least 6,000 votes in total were cast, then the citizen with the most votes was ‘ostracised’ (or, on an alternative interpretation, 6,000 votes had to be cast against a single individual). More than 10,000 ostraka have been unearthed at excavations in Athens, in the agora (the marketplace or...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...adult can deposit into an ISA account in each tax year. This allowance is set by the government. * Leasehold Ownership of property for a defined term (the term of the lease, e.g. 99 years) but not of the land it stands on. * Lifetime ISA (LISA) An Individual Savings Account that provides an annual bonus from the government. LISAs must be used either to help buy a property...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...de-greased and cleansed skin), thought out or discovered how it can be done (soap in the form of a shower gel), designed, set up and run the means for making the thing (raw materials, process equipment, energy source, labour and finance) and delivered it to the consumer. You can see that this nutshell description of what engineering involves already identifies or implies...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...de-sac? In the 1980s, a lot of research effort was expended on developing a technique known as ‘coherent detection’ of optical signals. The technique involved applying to optical signals a method that is widely used in the detection of radio signals, but that is much more difficult to do with optical signals because of the very much higher frequency of light (of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...de libération nationale led the fight for independence. The colonising countries generally viewed such violence as terrorist activity. Citizens of the colonised countries inevitably perceive this as a delegitimization of their struggle for liberation. This difference in perspective is one reason it’s hard to get an international consensus on what terrorism is,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs