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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...working. Carnival has this fire, and you can’t take that away from us. Bringing Butetown together We keep feeding into this image of poverty and hardship. Art and literature love dystopia, so whenever Butetown is revisited in these forms, it’s always about the community that died. However, we, the local people, have started buying into those stories ourselves. We need...
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Article 10 mins
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...work towards writing your own object life cycle. You will also work with, and understand artefact databases...This free course, Looking at, describing and identifying objects, will enable you to practise and develop your skills of observation and description of objects. It will also enable you to interpret objects and work towards writing your own object life cycle. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...working on at that particular point in time. I would also say that effective note taking helps to avoid the problems of plagiarism where you simply reproduce what others have written down in a way that is not reflective or doesn’t involve much thinking. John So plagiarism is one of the key failings in writing essays and assignments and that part of what note taking can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...work of a variety of different authors is invaluable for expanding your awareness of what a text can be and do. Reading provides not only inspiration and useful exemplars – of methods, subjects and styles – but also a context within which to develop your own voice and individuality as a writer. This kind of critical reading and thinking will enhance your practice of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...succeeding the Cajun oral tradition and continuing the French Creole literary tradition which flourished in nineteenth-century Louisiana. The majority of those new francophone texts, however, are published in Montreal, Quebec, not in Louisiana. This also applies to Zachary Richard’s tales, which deal with the adventures of ‘Tit Edvard, a crawfish, and Télesphore, a...
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Article 15 mins
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...working-class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not...
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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...work for the Education Authority for Northern Ireland. I'm an assistant director within the Children and Young People's Services Directorate, and I have specific responsibility for the management of youth services in Northern Ireland. And I work with my colleagues in particular to support vulnerable children and young people. Just last year, Northern Ireland published its...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...work on time, or trying to take a shortcut, or whatever it might be. Everything has a risk. And generally, we take risks so we can try and maximise or take advantage of some opportunity somewhere. Video 1 What does ‘risk’ mean?...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: 2 The importance of managing risk - Now watch Video 2 from the experts on why risk management is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs