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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...caring is so habitual, that we often fail to recognize it, even when it’s right in front of our eyes. Our love for some animals even seems to excuse us from complicity in industrialized killing: In a current KFC TV advertising campaign, pairs of friends undertake the ‘KFC Friendship Bucket Test’: one has to answer a question about their friend, and match their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...care sector identify pertinent health issues in the field of women’s health...Exploring issues in women's health: 1 Thinking about women’s health today - Before you start, you’ll watch a video featuring OU academics, Dr Sara MacKian and Dr Sharon Mallon, as well as OU employees discussing issues in relation to women’s health. Activity 1 Issues in women’s health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...adults take quite dominant positions in the picture. This is a result of the photographer taking his picture from a position at the side of the television. (Of course we cannot see the television, and indeed we only know that it exists via the information supplied by the photographer.) The young people in the picture are arranged in a mainly subordinate position to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...care assistant from Copenhagen who has battled with depression since his early teens. Like Angelina and many others with depression, his first episode followed a period of intense stress and upheaval. His sister, who more or less brought him up, left home when he was 13, leaving him with an uninterested mother and a father who also suffered from severe depression. Soon...
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Article 15 mins
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...careful. ‘Primary’ is the most immediate source we have, while ‘secondary’ sources are in turn based on the earlier primary sources. More often than not, the ancient source is primary, and the modern source or better, modern scholarship, is secondary. However, it is worth keeping in mind that you might find an ancient source that itself depends upon an even...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...care and compassion to strangers, both human and non-human – not just in the present, but also those distant in space and time (Dobson, 2000). These virtues of care and compassion are experienced, nurtured and taught not in public spaces – the established domain of citizenship – but in the private sphere (in other words, the family and the home). Do these features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...adult prison population is Aboriginal. Furthermore, Aboriginal young people represent 4 per cent of the Western Australian population, yet make up around 80 per cent of all youths in detention (Hughes, 2009, p. 125). Policy interventions tend to remain focused on cultural explanations – that is, ‘the Aboriginal problem’ – for this over-representation. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...adult. A daily menu might have consisted of swede soup for breakfast, swede ‘chops’ for lunch, and swede cake for dinner. Even coffee was made of dried ground swedes or turnips. A note on terminology – the German term for the root vegetable consumed in huge quantities is ‘Steckrübe’. This is a yellow root vegetable and in the UK more commonly known as a swede,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs