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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...verb - bully, flatter, seduce - and once you know you're seducing or you're bullying, then that's going to dredge up all sorts of different types of language from you as a writer. If I'm bullying the other person, it's going to make me feel and use different words and different length of sentences and different rhythms than if I'm trying to seduce somebody. I think on the...
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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...le m’ ghaol gu taobh a' chaochain iomallaich, chrom i h-aodann sios ri bhruaich ‘s cha robh a thuar fhéin tuilleadh air. Rainig mi a’ chluaineag chéin a rithist liom fhéin iomadh uair, agus nuair choimhead mi ‘san t-srulaich cha rogh ach gnuis té m’ ulaidh innt’. Ach bha na glinn is iad a’ falbh is calbh nam beann gun fhuireach rium, cha robh a choltas...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sut i ddarllen y newyddion
Society, Politics & Law

Sut i ddarllen y newyddion

...le ar hynny yn y bôn, mae'n ddefnyddiol gallu gwahaniaethu rhwng y ddau fath. Mae adroddiadau seiliedig ar farn yn cynnwys dehongliad yr awdur ei hun o'r digwyddiadau, a all roi safbwynt penodol iawn ar y newyddion. Drwy wahaniaethu rhwng adroddiadau ffeithiol a sylwebaeth, byddwch mewn sefyllfa well i lunio eich barn eich hun ar y sefyllfa. 2. Pwy yw awdur y stori, a...
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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...le lingue e la traduzione, perche’ pensi che queste siano questioni importanti? In che misura il tuo multilinguismo è importante per la tua arte? E in quale lingua pensi che il tuo lavoro stia comunicando con il pubblico? Laura: Thanks for this question about language, translation and the relation between my own plurilingualism and art. When we have to define what is...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...le Transloy, and at Ancre Heights, during which the decision was taken to terminate the campaign. With troops exhausted, casualties mounting and no sign of a breakthrough, it ended on 18 November 1916. The consequences of the Somme campaign The Somme has become emblematic of the hopeless, futile, apparently interminable slaughter of World War One. During the battle,...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the way a body might put an infant in a basket of intertwined iris leaves, its underside proofed with bitumen and pitch, then set the whole thing down...
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Mathemateg bob dydd 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathemateg bob dydd 2

...le degol. Un enghraifft gyffredin o wneud hyn mewn bywyd pob dydd yw wrth ymdrin ag arian. Pe baech chi mewn bwyty ac angen rhannu bil o £87.95 rhwng tri pherson, byddech chi’n cyfrifo’r rhannu yn gyntaf. £87.95 wedi’i rannu â 3 yw £29.3166667. Yn amlwg, ni allwch dalu’r union swm hwn. Felly faint fyddech chi’n talu pe bai’r swm i bob person wedi’i...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...Le Brocq et al., 2010). So the strengths of our study are that we use a computer model (instead of expert judgement and extrapolation), that we test it with observations, and that we use Bayes’ theorem to estimate probabilities of sea level rise. Limitations But there always limitations, and these are important to bear in mind too. Our model has simplifications to make...
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