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Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...adult life as an intellectual to decontaminating German history, to overcoming the horrific legacy of Nazi criminality – and that’s where I think the story starts to go awry. I mean the 1912 war council is not a council at which war was planned, or its timing was established, and I’m afraid the most powerful statement about this council is one which was unearthed...
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Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...care needs to be taken to ensure that the effects of (repeated) approximations are managed in a way that is well understood. This is especially true for safety critical applications, where people's lives may depend upon the behaviour of the software. However, in this course, we shall largely exclude further consideration of real numbers. Activity 3 If x and y may each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data – April 2011 to February 2012 [Online]. Available at https://digital.nhs.uk/ data-and-information/ publications/ statistical/ hospital-episode-statistics-for-admitted-patient-care-outpatient-and-accident-and-emergency-data/
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...cared for over the years that were involved in a motor vehicle accident, possibly could have been prevented if this type of analysis was performed and acted upon 20 years ago when this drug was first released? How many other things need to be analysed by gender? What else are we missing? World War II changed a lot of things. And one of them was this need to protect people...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...care and economy involved in the structure of the narrative centred on the murder of a man in cold blood, is this a fair criticism? Did detective fiction enthusiasts look to the Christies of the world to reflect social progress or challenge lingering injustices? Can detective fiction escape political characterisation? In fact, Roger Ackroyd, like other clue–puzzle...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...Careful. Thorough and methodical. Thoughtful. Good at listening to others and assimilating information. Rarely jump to conclusions. Tendency to hold back from direct participation. Slow to make up their minds and reach a decision. Tendency to be too cautious and not take enough risks. Not assertive - they aren't particularly forthcoming. Theorist Logical 'vertical'...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...cares of business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he should give to each daughter, he announces that to the one who says she loves him most he will give most. The eldest daughter, Goneril, says that words can not express the extent of her love, that she loves her father more than eyesight, space, and liberty, loves him so much that...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...adult Pip which are at times mediated through the perceptions of the child Pip. The opening encounter in the churchyard, for instance, is enacted with a vivid immediacy. Look again at the point at which the narrative shifts from description to direct speech. The rapidity of the exchanges, with further repetitions of the main character's name and the allusion to his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs