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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...management, working with not-for-profit organisations, fund raising and music media. Since 2008, she has worked at Oh Yeah, rising to the position of Creative Development Director. Aside from her many accomplishments in this role, she was the co-founder of Love Music Hate Racism Northern Ireland and initiated the ground-breaking Women’s Work festival that featured in a...
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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...Introduction’, pp. 1-14 in High, S. MacKinnon, L. and Perchard, A. (eds). The Deindustrialized World Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. High, S. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Hodson, P. ‘Titanic Struggle: Memory,...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...introduction of legislation and policy which to some extent liberated women (Introduction of Birth Control, Abortion Act 1967) and legislation which began the ongoing drive towards equality in the workplace (Equal Pay Act, 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Act, 1975). Trade union activities and social justice As I entered the workplace, I became active within the trade...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...introduction to John Hardy and Woody Guthrie’s guitar and harmonica introduction to Tom Joad are virtually identical in their chord changes and melody. When it comes to the lyrics, however, there is complete innovation. Where Lead Belly sings: John Hardy was a desperate little man He carried two guns every day. He killed a man on a West Virginia line, But they seen John...
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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...Introduction 800 15 Research review 1800 30 Discussion / development / analysis 2700 45 Conclusion 500 10 If you divide the time up in the same proportions, for a presentation of ten minutes this works out as approximately: [Fig 3 - Structuring a presentation]Figure 6 Structuring a presentationShow descriptionA pie chart showing approximate division of time for a ten...
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Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...Introduction - ¡Bienvenido/a a semana 2! Welcome to Week 2! [Described image] Your study this week will include the vocabulary and expressions used for formal and informal phone calls. Remember to keep a record of your learning using a simple paper notebook (or whatever suits you best). It is important that you keep track of your learning, so that the key points are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...Introduction - This course takes one aspect of the debate concerning the new economy – innovation in the form of the introduction of information and communication technologies – and places it in the historical context of industrial revolutions. Is the new economy really new or ‘just another’ industrial revolution? This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...management. This is a companion course to Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities...Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships, is a free course that introduces you to the diagramming techniques of Influence diagrams, Multiple Cause Diagrams and Cognitive Maps. Using a case study project based in Africa, this unit illustrates the powerful use of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs