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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...busy. Tha mi trang. Can you say it again? An can thu rithist e? Please. Mas e do thoil e. * Note: Nouns in Gaelic, as in many languages, can be masculine or feminine: that is why it is ‘feasgar math’ (masculine) but ‘madainn mhath’ (feminine)...Gaelic in modern Scotland: 5.2.1 Gaelic grammar – a taster - Gaelic is part of the ‘Indo-European’ family of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...business of writing. A draft is just that, and can be revised up until the moment it is ready for publication. To start writing fiction also means to develop your faculty of self-criticism. A great part of writing fiction is knowing how, why and when you should edit your own work. This is just one of the points at which honesty enters the equation of writing. The more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...business and global culture, but that does not automatically mean it is the biggest language in the world. According to the Ethnologue language website (Eberhard et al., 2020), the languages spoken by the largest number of people in the world are (in alphabetical order) English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The actual number of speakers of each language depends on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...business for anyone, but especially a child. Nobody really enjoys being judged, and if you recall the image of justice in Figure 2 where the blindfolded woman holds a sword, you realise this feeling is intentional and part of the process. The court has power, and in some cases an awful lot of power. Many other European countries refrain from using the powers of a criminal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...business, but only two – Webster and Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – are graced with roles in this enormously popular mainstream movie about the late sixteenth-century theatre scene. This course will look at Webster’s most well-known play, The Duchess of Malfi, and consider some possible reasons for the play’s continued prominence in the twenty-first-century...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...business. The American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote the following poem about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1555): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...online qualifications - http://www.openuniversity.edu/ - including an MBA at our triple accredited Business School. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...business, and how did these contribute to its ultimate bankruptcy? For example, were there investment practises that were inherently risky? Similarly, sure he might ask, how is the firm structured, and what social roles did this involve? Did these roles ensure sufficient oversight of risk by senior management, for instance? Equally, sure he might ask what the internal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs