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Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...caring professions...Exploring Homer’s Odyssey: 2.1 Heroes in ancient Greek poetry - The heroes we encounter in Greek epic poetry may share some of the characteristics that you thought of in your answer to Question 1 of Activity 2. In particular they are all special in some way. When we think about heroes in ancient Greek texts like the Odyssey, however, they also share...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...care industry will be underestimated if all that is counted is patient throughput or treatment episodes, without accounting for the extent to which consumers enjoy better treatment. Quality improvements in health care include better diagnosis, new medical equipment and less invasive treatments. Another example is provided in a study cited by The Economist (2000). This...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...cared nothing for his appearance and even slept in his boots. He worked largely alone without a workshop or assistants, disguised his own training and took on no pupils. Raphael’s artistic persona is closely associated with harmony, as is seen not only in the trope of the perfect unity of his workshop but also in the much-praised softness and delicacy of his technique,...
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...caring for and providing for their parents, this is usually an exceptional circumstance and there will be institutional responses, whether formal or informal, to support such juvenile carers. However, the norm of managing these generational relationships and allocating authority is that parental generations look after their children. When such rules are broken, and...
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...care about your customers? Session 2: Understanding customer behaviour Session 3: Customers in organisations This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B206 Understanding customers which is ideal for those working in marketing, aiming to work in marketing, wanting to gain insights for their own business, or those who simply want to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...care for it and show more pro-environmental behaviour. Spending time outdoors in nature and learning more about the natural world improves our connection to nature including our affinity for nature (having positive feelings toward nature such as awe, wonder and care) and our comfort in nature (feeling safe and comfortable in nature and knowledgeable about nature). The UK...
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...care. Technology and data security are not its main concerns, despite the fact that it has an obligation to protect the data it holds. With the NHS under severe financial constraints, keeping computing equipment up-to-date was not its priority. Although the patch for the EternalBlue vulnerability had been available for two months, most NHS trusts had not applied it to...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs, and Buckinghams; and let pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered,--the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him, and on whose...