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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...sang along, even if we didn’t know for ourselves. There wouldn’t have been many smileys in the boardrooms of the drinks companies, because ravers didn’t want beer when they had ecstasy. That’s probably part of the reason pub attendance fell 11% between 1987 and 1992. The industry’s solution wasn’t long in coming, however. It began when the government used new...
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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Le deuxième sexe II: 13/267) is for her, a philosophical platitude. But Beauvoir also rejects the anti-essentialist view: Being a woman is, at least in our world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...sang from the printed notation for demonstration purposes. Example 3: How Veena Sahasrabuddhe sang the same phrase in performance, without reference to the notation. Activity 4 Compare the notations in Examples 1 and 2 (above). How you would describe the relationship between the printed version and version sung from it? What does this suggest about the status of notation...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...le. Mae'r llyfr, A Practical Guide to Searching LGBQIA Historic Records, hefyd yn ddefnyddiol fel adnodd cymorth mewn technegau ymchwil. Wrth ddefnyddio'r fethodoleg hon, rydych yn dechrau gweld straeon bach yn ymddangos. Mae'r rhan fwyaf ohonynt yn ymddangos yn nhudalennau papurau newydd fel llenwadau, y darnau ‘ac i gloi’ hynny sydd wedi eu hanelu at ddifyrru neu...
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Article 5 mins
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Le vite de’ più eccelenti pittori, scultori e architettori (Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects; first edition 1550 and revised 1568) that the architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) was initially apprenticed to a goldsmith ‘to the end that he might learn design’ (Vasari, 1996 [1568], vol. 1, p. 326). According to Vasari, several other Italian...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...le gu ku hu wo yi You will then hear some consonants, or initials, combined with the final i. Listen and repeat. ji qi xi zi ci si zhi chi shi ri You will now hear six single vowels known as finals in Chinese. Repeat after each sound. a e i o u ü Now we will combine these vowels with some consonants known as initials in Chinese. Note how similar they sound to some...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ymdopi ag Iselder
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymdopi ag Iselder

...Le vide, y gwagle, y gwacter ac mae o’n ... ofnadwy. [Stephen Fry] Sylwadau Er bod teimladau o ofn a thristwch fel arfer yn ymatebion priodol a normal i bethau sy’n digwydd mewn bywyd, maen nhw’n gallu datblygu i fod mor oruchafol ac anodd eu trin nes bod pobl yn gofyn am help proffesiynol i ddelio â nhw. Mae'r anawsterau hyn yn aml yn cael eu hystyried yn...
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Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...le penodol lai nag unwaith y flwyddyn, defnyddiwch ffracsiwn degol, e.e. os byddwch yn hedfan i Efrog Newydd (Gogledd-ddwyrain America) tua unwaith bob tair blynedd i ymweld â pherthnasau, rhowch = 0.33. Incwm Pam mae incwm yr aelwyd mor bwysig? Yn y gyfrifiannell, caiff incwm ond ei ddefnyddio i amcangyfrif allyriadau o nwyddau a gwasanaethau, oherwydd yr unig ffordd...
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