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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...account of the aftermath of the Turks’ massacre of 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios, which occurred in 1822 during the Greek Wars of Independence. The massacre was a reprisal for Turkish losses caused by a Greek uprising against Turkish occupation. Again the painting was not commissioned and depicts a subject of Delacroix’s own choosing. It was exhibited at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...account, the deeply engaged reader critiques and asks questions of the text, comparing and contrasting the ideas presented with their prior knowledge. Additionally, in this space of deep engagement the reader engages more creatively and can begin to imagine themselves as a character in the story, or hypothesise about the parallels to their own context, the possibilities,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...account the vast number of injuries that do not require emergency hospital treatment and so the actual figure will be much greater. A study of the Great Britain 2014 Winter Olympic Team revealed that 39% of the 56-member team experienced an injury during the 2014 Winter Olympics – an extremely high proportion over the 18-day period (Palmer-Green and Elliott, 2015). [An...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...account for the presence of a single black child. The significance of the Waterloo Street group (Image 87) is that it features Robert Roberts who in later life wrote The Classic Slum, an account of life in Edwardian Salford that has become required reading for social historians of the period...Picturing the family: 6.3 Seaside photography - [New Brighton beach featuring...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...account not just the actions or beliefs of the individual in question, but also the contexts and environments in which they operated. This brings me onto another key theme in this section: the importance of the individual historical actor. The Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle suggested that ‘the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...account. These processes have to be repeated to cover the entire duration of the recording. MP3 achieves high-quality audio reproduction at 128 kbit s−1. This contrasts markedly with the CD bit rate of 1.4112 Mbit s−1. MP3 generally achieves 10:1 compression without introducing notable subjective effects into the reconstructed sound. Incidentally, it is common to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...account, enrol on a course, shop using a loyalty card, use an electronic healthcare record (EHR) and so on. Your persona consists of all of this data, whether you're aware of it or not. That is what a ‘persona’ is: a ‘picture’ of you created by various collections of data about you, such as your finances, shopping habits, interests. How much of this persona of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...Account, funded by the US government. Its role is to prepare land for future investment. IBRAHIM DIO: (Subtitles) The private companies that are involved in agricultural production help the economy in two ways. The first is when they produce rice, to replace imports. And Senegal spends a lot of money importing rice. Secondly, they contribute to exports. For example, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs