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Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...Writing in the fourth century BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was responsible for some of the earliest views on justice. Aristotle believed that a just law was one that both encouraged individual freedom and enabled people to live peacefully. From society’s perspective, key to this was allowing people to fulfil themselves in society. In considering perspectives on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...write the appropriate SQL DDL statements into a file that can be executed by a DBMS so that there is an independent record, a text file, of the SQL statements defining the database. Another method is to work interactively using a database tool like Sybase Central (or Microsoft Access), where the forms provided for defining tables help avoid the need to remember the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982, London, Faber. Melville, A.D. (trans.) (1986) Ovid: Metamorphoses, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Riffaterre, M. (1986) ‘Textuality: W.H. Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’’ in Caws, M.A. (ed.) Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, New York, MLA. Spender, S. (1951) World within World, London, Hamish Hamilton....
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...writing history, which was often very different from our own. Much, although not all, of what you consider will represent posthumous judgements on the emperors involved rather than full accounts of reigns. It will not be possible here to assess in detail the actions, policies, building schemes and so forth of all the emperors mentioned, but you should remember that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...write it more fully as '1 × 10-15', but the '1 ×' is redundant). In this case the power of ten is preceded by a minus sign, and it means that the number is 1 divided by 1 followed by 15 zeros (i.e. 1 divided by 1015, or 1/(1015), which is 0.000 000 000 000 001). That makes a very small number indeed. We can describe Mercury's atmospheric pressure as being 15 orders of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...write sooner to tell you, but father has gone. He was living with Brigitte – she says he was cheerful And healthy right down to the end. You should have seen him playing with the grandchildren of Pat McNamarra your friend. And we buried him alongside of mother, down at the Kilkelly church yard. He was a strong and a feisty old man – considering his life was so hard....
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...write’, and the ending for the first person (I = yo) of regular verbs in the present is always -o. Listen again to each person talking about what they do in the morning and repeat out loud their answers. NARRATOR: What does each person do? SPEAKER 1: Gerardo, ¿tú qué haces normalmente por la mañana? ¿Paseas, lees, trabajas? GERARDO: Trabajo, normalmente trabajo en...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...write down your answers to individual questions. Magic mushroom compound for the treatment of depression? Wighton, K. (2016) Magic mushroom compound tested for treatment-resistant depression, Imperial College London, Press Release. [Press Release] Cowen, P. (2016) ‘Altered states: psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression’, Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 3, no. 7, pp....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs