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Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...table Don't worry about it; he was an idiot anyway. Plenty more fish in the sea. I don't understand it, I just don't understand it. There's nothing to understand, he's just playing games. He wants you running round after him. There's something wrong with me. Just count it as his loss. Why would he say he loved me and why would he dump me? Because he's a man. Why has...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...Table 1. Table 1 Blue Skies SECTION TRACK TIMING MELODY ACCOMPANIMENT 0:00–0:09 Saxes swap to clarinet Brass flutter tongue 0:10–0:30 Saxes, trumpets trombones, block chords 0:31–0:35 ? 0:36–0:40 Trombone solo ? sustained backing 0:41–0:50 ? 0:51–1:10 Sax and brass play different material in block chords 1:11–1:30 ? solo ? 1:31–1:51 ? solo ? Wind players...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...De Mae Cyngor Gweinidogol y Gogledd/De, sy’n cynnwys gweinidogion o Weithrediaeth Gogledd Iwerddon a Llywodraeth Iwerddon, yn cydweithredu ar bolisi sy’n ymwneud â 12 maes o ddiddordeb cyffredin. Mae’r ddwy ochr yn cytuno ar chwech o’r meysydd hyn, ond cânt eu gweithredu ar wahân ym mhob awdurdodaeth. Mae’r chwech arall yn cael eu cytuno gyda’i gilydd ond...
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...de Venezuela in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ Figure 1.2: left to right: Jorge Láscar in flickr.com. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/; Unsplash: from www.pixabay.com. https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ zero/ 1.0/ deed.en, Image: courtesy Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...table, but to ask her, has she taken drugs, alcohol? Those kinds of things can have an impact from a younger age. DR MATHIJS LUCASSEN: What standardised tools or assessments might people use to help in terms of assessing Mandy? SONJI MITCHELL: We have a core assessment that we would use. So meeting her for the first time, we’ve completed core assessments that would go...
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...table, so that others may vary. There is probably some point beyond which it is impossible for any sizeable population of musicians to remember material … Recurring events or sign posts such as motifs or rhythmic patterns, conciseness of form, brevity, or systematic variation may, as it were, hold an aurally transmitted piece intact. (Nettl, 1983, p. 192) We shouldn't...
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...de-emphasizing their individual sufferings and deaths’ (Dunayer, 2004, p. xii). The disciplining of nonhuman bodies in the AIC is resisted in the ways in which ‘livestock’ express their distress at confinement, pain and overcrowding, or the ways in which fishes attempt to evade or escape capture (Wadiwel, 2015). Some of the harms documented in Section 2.1 are...
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...de vivre when speaking English – in both cases invoking images of French culture to enhance the meaning of what is being communicated. Other loanwords, however, become completely naturalised, until speakers of the language no longer notice their ‘foreignness’ at all. Below is a short selection of words of foreign origin which are in use in modern-day English. As you...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs