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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...family, ‘crazy from drinking all day’ is not able to protect his children. The possible implication here is that women are in some sense stronger than men. Think about the implications of this tension for O’Leary herself as a political writer and activist but one still working within the constraints of Victorian gender ideologies. The form of the poem While reading...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...family from their home. Tom Joad [Woody Guthrie playing the guitar.]Guthrie (pictured left) is less limited by real history in Tom Joad. At the start of Steinbeck’s novel and Guthrie’s song, Tom Joad is released on parole after serving time in prison for homicide. By the end of the story and the song, his experiences have transformed him into a social outlaw. Having...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...family in the story. It is a tale of stoic resignation in the face of implacable nature and of fate. By contrast, in his Norfork Rhapsody No. 1 (1906- revised 1914) Vaughan Williams portrays coastal landscapes with an imperturbable serenity. Opening with orchestral sounds echoing the bird song of marsh and fen, the work develops broad folk song based melody interweaving...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...families in the homes of pupils thought of as ‘deficit’ in educational ability uncover ‘funds of knowledge’: ways of learning that are different to the mainstream school ways of learning. Can these be incorporated in lesson plans to encourage all our pupils in a richer education provision? Do positive representations of black and minority ethnic people lead to...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...family in the Cambridgeshire village of Soham after he married local English woman Susannah Cullen of Scottish descent from Ely in 1792 (Downs, 2020). In April 1792 the Stamford Mercury Newspapers wrote ‘On Monday Gustavus Vassa, the African, well known in most parts of this kingdom as a preacher, was married at Soham to Miss Cullen, daughter of the late Mr James Cullen...
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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...family dog with a drone mini-helicopter, as depicted in the 2015 of Back to the Future II, but drones are a widely available commercial product. Developing the software that controls these miniature flying cars to the point where it is both reliable and robust enough to control much larger vehicles in real-world conditions – including handling hardware failures – will...
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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

...family as they were all just waiting on me to finally declare this. As previously mentioned, I was active in politics (The Scottish Socialist Alliance as it was then), nationally, internationally and at a community level. Coming out brought with it another aspect of political awareness. I read and educated myself on the issues related to what were at the time Lesbian and...
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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...family. A typical example is when you talk to someone you do not know – you would not be informal and risk being rude. Phone conversations in a workplace are often more formal than face-to-face conversations. When you answer the phone you do not know who you will be speaking to so you start by being formal and polite...Speaking and listening: 2.2 Tone - In relation to...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs