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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...simple : c’est un objet essentiel pour communiquer dans le monde d’aujourd’hui. Au contraire, le distributeur de café a sans doute été jugé le moins important : il est facile de se préparer un café instantané au bureau, il est meilleur et moins cher que celui du distributeur, et on n’a pas besoin de faire la queue dans les couloirs pour se le procurer....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...simple to do (as long as the occupants don’t mind the disturbance to the interior of the house). Sheets of foam-backed plasterboard can be glued to the wall (Figure 13(a)), or alternatively insulated battens can be screwed to the wall with a layer of insulation between them and covered with a surface layer of plasterboard screwed to the battens (Figure 13(b))....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...code among many that a culture may utilize for endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a metacode, a human universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature of shared reality can be transmitted’ (White, 1980, p. 6). This narrative structure explains why it is difficult to pick out only parts of a biography (and why, shortly, you will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...simple nor straightforward. [Figure 1] (From One Day We Had To Run – written by Sybella Wilkes and published by Evans Brothers Limited. Copyright © Sybella Wilkes 1994. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of Evans Brothers Limited.) Figure 1 Crossing the River Gillo by Mac...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...simple economic model in that it abstracts from the many things going on in a market to focus on only two: the quantity demanded of the good and its price. Look at Figure 3, and notice that the vertical and horizontal axes are ‘anchored’ at the zero point, called the origin. As with all such diagrams, movements up the vertical axis, and along the horizontal axis to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...simple calculations on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs and understand the possible limitations to their deployment describe the key differences between petrol and diesel engines describe the low-carbon fuels and vehicle technologies available to reduce emissions...Transport and Sustainability: 1 The transport energy challenge - Activity 1 Timing: 10...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...simple answers to these questions. However, the factors influencing entrepreneurial activity are really rather complex and the subject of continuing debate. As you begin to take a more detailed look at the evidence and arguments you may find it useful to relate them to your own experience. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course BB846...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...simple answer is that strongly social animals normally have no choice. They may be beaten in a fight by a stronger animal or an alliance of animals. But they may be better off remaining in the group because life alone, outside the group, may be even more stressful and dangerous than life as a subordinate. Being in such situations can be very stressful for animals,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs