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Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...la Légion d’Honneur, Paris. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library Exercise Look at Gros's Bonaparte as First Consul of 1802 (see Plate 11). How does it differ from the previous portraits of Napoleon we have looked at? What kind of claims does it make on his behalf? Consider the portrait type, setting, pose (including gesture and direction of gaze), costume and accessories....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...Las Vegas, the state’s largest city. Clinton’s strength in heavily urban Clark County bodes well for her chances in large urban states like New York, California and Illinois. 3. Liberal economists side with Clinton Clinton also benefits from liberal intellectuals' growing criticism of the Vermont senator’s economic proposals. Last week a group of highly regarded...
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...La Misère du Monde in the 1990s, that a sociological account of similar stature has been undertaken. For example, Wikipedia acknowledge that Du Bois’s is one of the earliest social science studies in its biographical account of him, but in their account of Social Sciences there is no mention of it. The Philadelphia Negro is a prime example of rigorous mixed methods...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...La Rue and Neil Henfrey of Boots, now a brand for the international pharmacist Alliance Boots a banking risk management specialist – Hor Chan Head of the Department for Accounting and Finance at the Open University Business School – Martin Upton. It examines the financial risks that organisations are exposed to and how they are addressed by management. The audio...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...las yn gallu arwain i'r corff yn gynhyrchu llai o felatonin, sy’n amharu ar ein rhythmau circadaidd (hynny yw patrymau cysgu-deffro), gan ei gwneud yn fwy anodd i ni fynd i gysgu ac aros ynghwsg. Yn anffodus, mae cwsg gwael yn tueddu i olygu llai o wytnwch a lefelau uwch o bryder a straen. 3: Cydbwysedd rhwng Bywyd a Gwaith [Work life balance in Welsh] Yn y gorffennol...
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Article 10 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first, she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. “ We discussed together the various illustrations that might be introduced: I suggested several, but the selection was entirely her own. So also was...
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Article 15 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...la ligne jaune' (to cross the yellow line). Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde explains how language idioms are useful for language learners: "There is an expression in French to denote how an individual may have tastes and ways of looking at things that are not shared by others, ‘des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression...
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Article 5 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...Laing. In The Divided Self (1960), Laing identified conflictual family relationships as the cause of schizophrenia. In the cases he examined, he discovered that children who ‘interiorised’ the conflict between parents were more likely to experience mental illness in their subsequent lives. Furthermore, it is worthwhile considering for a moment how Laing came to fix...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs