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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...type’ (Wittkower, 1961, p. 295) – as melancholic or outsider has prevailed, not least because it gave painters the same character, and thus status, Aristotle had ascribed to poets. Later it achieved renewed effect during the Romantic period in the idea of the ‘bohemian’ artist or poet. Still to this day the paradigm that artists are in some way ‘different’...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...phrase meaning release form, saying the BBC can do what they like with it or the television company can do what they like with it, but that was for a specific purpose in a specific programme context. So I’m not quite sure how that would work. That’s the people, that’s the scientists. I suppose there is a use for 30-year-old pictures of what the Amazon used to look...
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Video 20 mins
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...phrase often used as a way of capturing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for railway workers working life carried on as normal in so far as they all booked on for duty, facing the public on a daily basis and carrying out their usual duties, alongside additional work requirements that came with the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to control the spread of infection. As...
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Article 10 mins
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...types of questions that follow from this; the approach to generating data; the kind of data, and therefore the kind of methods, chosen; how the data is analysed. A world view, or paradigm, is broad based. What distinguishes paradigms from each other are the beliefs and theoretical perspectives that are drawn on. Paradigms are discussed in more detail in Section 3. Within...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...type of equation is an algebraic equation where a letter, say ‘x’, represents a number, i.e. in x + 2 = 5, ‘x’ represents 3 in order to make the equation true. Algebraic equations are solved by manipulating the equation so that the letter stands on its own. This is achieved in the equation x + 2 = 5 by the following two steps. x = 5 – 2 x = 3 The principal rule...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...de Zeeuw [A face comprising a merger of a photo of a woman and a cartoon of a man] The interview Pirate practices often involve theft and property violations without clearcut ideological motives, as is the case with most torrent trackers. For this reason they are often dubbed apolitical, in a pejorative, delegitimizing sense, namely as ‘merely’ criminal, directed...
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Article 15 mins
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...types of geographies that get mapped into development, the types of people that get mapped as development workers, and the types of people that get mapped as development educators. MYLES WICKSTEAD So I think development is different and viewed differently these days because I think the concept of development historically has been about the North helping the South to get...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...type of problem is usually associated with coal-mining effluents. Activity 1 Select the answer for Activity 1 here Identify which of the following statements concerning the effects of both organic pollution and eutrophication are true. If a statement is false, give the reason why. a. Depletion of oxygen occurs because of an increase in the activities of primary producers...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs