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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...style that imitated the working of the human eye. He realised that if the outlines of a painting were not drawn so acutely and instead were blended into the shadow, a more realistic image could be achieved. It was this technique, called ‘Sfumato’ which was Leonardo’s great artistic invention. This technique can be seen in the Mona Lisa, where Leonardo has merged the...
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The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...style. Richard Hunter is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. Richard Hunter There were handbooks that people read and wrote and these handbooks told you both how to say some nice things about people and also how to say nasty things about people. I think it’s always important to remember that in a law court speech or when you were addressing the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...styles of argument. Chapter 1 also made the point that a well-structured argument is one in which the proposition is backed up by relevant evidence and logical reasoning. In the programme which follows, you will hear the prosecutor, the person arguing the case for the proposition, presenting his case and calling two witnesses, who will be examined with the aim of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...style and content. You may also like to take a preliminary look at the video New Lanark: A New Moral World? (given below in three parts), to which you will be referred later in this course. The essays are provided as links below the video clips. Click play to view the video (Part 1, 11 minutes) Ian Donnochie New Lanark. At its height this village was home to 2000 mill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...et al. (2001) the longer-range dispersion allowed the formation of secondary pollutants such as sulfate and nitrate aerosols and ozone to be covered. The number of receptors affected by the pollutants depends on the height of the discharge and the number of people in the area. This was taken into account by considering three discharge heights (50 m, 90 m and 100 m) and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...profiling databases/matrices, and minimum mandatory sentence for possession of a knife or offensive weapon by a 16 or 17 year old in public or on school premises. Gunter (2017, p. 208) For Gunter, this focus on gangs is not a race neutral one and constitutes a ‘racialised gang crisis’, with youth policy clearly contributing to this set of processes. This is evident...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...style of contact between the Older Cover and underlying Caledonian Orogenic Belt in the following areas: (a) around the Moray Firth (NC(29)8510 and NH(28)6733); (b) the Southern Uplands south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed (NU(46)0053); (c) the Lake District (e.g. NY(35)5810); (d) northern and central Wales (e.g. SJ(33)2435). Answer In each of these areas, the Older Cover...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...style, and set about publishing a more reader-friendly version in the form of two Enquiries in 1748 and 1751 (Hume, 1975). He dithered over whether or not to include some new material in the first of these, eventually choosing to do so in a chapter called ‘On miracles’. The choice led to instant notoriety. In the chapter he argued that no reasonable person should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs