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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...de Jules Ferry. Discours sur la politique extériure et coloniale, (1893–1898), p. 210–12 ‘[T]he superior races have a right vis-à-vis the inferior races [...] I repeat that the superior races have a right, because they have a duty towards them. They have the duty to civilise the inferior races [...] Can you deny, can anyone deny, that there is more justice, more...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...class Don Hello Lyn, it's Don from VEST. How are you? All right? Maria Williams Hello. Lyn Smith Hiya. How are you? Nice to see you, Don Don And you, sweetheart. And you. Lyn Smith Yeah, I haven't seen you for a while. Don A couple of weeks. Lyn Smith Yeah. Don They're keeping us apart. Lyn Smith Yeah, that's it, because we have such a laugh when we're together. Don...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...classed as mildly learning disabled. Next you will consider learning disability as a social condition...Session 1: What is a learning disability?: 3 Medical or social? - You might have come across debates about whether a learning disability is a medical or a social condition. You already know from the definitions given in Section 2 that a learning disability is lifelong,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...De Martonne's aridity index has been used widely and is calculated from the formula: I a = aridity index P = mean annual precipitation/mm T = mean annual temperature/°C Note that values for average precipitation can be misleading because in arid deserts, especially hyper-arid desert, there are many years that have no rainfall at all. Certain coastal deserts such as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...class origins to fame and success, while another protagonist, King Edward II, is sexually infatuated with his favourite Piers Gaveston. Marlowe's literary reputation has depended to a considerable extent on how different historical periods have viewed his life and his unconventional protagonists. Those critics in the eighteenth century who had some knowledge of Marlowe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...classes. Being out of term the school was closed to its pupils, but we found a contractor there removing the old stoves and putting in a system of hot-water heating, which he said was better fitted to resist the cold of the Boston winters. He was not a very conversable man, but so much we screwed out of him, with the added fact that the tuition of that school was no...
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General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...classes of G-proteins – trimeric and monomeric. As their names suggest, trimeric G-proteins are composed of three subunits (α, β and γ). Monomeric G-proteins consist of only a single polypeptide that is analogous to the α subunit of trimeric G-proteins. Trimeric G-proteins interact with a class of receptor known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). In their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...class people who don't understand the economic situations of those whose livelihood depends on a particular industry. Take the fishing industry for example. Fishing quotas are seen by environmentalists as a chance for regeneration of fishing stock, whereas the fishing folk see it as unemployment and an economic decline in the local area. This particular issue is revisited...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs