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Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...business. The American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote the following poem about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1555): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...busy electric bass part becomes more sedate. The bridge ends at 02:07. The bridge is followed immediately by the first verse, repeated from the opening of the song. Now that you are familiar with how the various formal components of ‘Suspicious Minds’ sound, it’s appropriate to consider what they accomplish and, in particular, what the bridge contributes to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...online qualifications - http://www.openuniversity.edu/ - including an MBA at our triple accredited Business School. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...business sector. They tend to be used on formal occasions when you are unsure of another person’s position or profession. The term 太太 tài tai (Mrs) is also used to address a married foreign woman but is not an appropriate way to address a married Chinese woman because Chinese women do not change their family names after marriage. To say ‘My name is’ you say: wŏ...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...money it's not in line with the aspiration, it's not in line with what young people with disabilities in this age want. So I think that has taught me along the way to stop and reflect, is this what young people want? Video 1 Social media in the lives of youth with disabilities in Kenya The research described in Video 1 relates to young adults with disabilities and their...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...money, sugar, information). * noun group A group of one or more words which together function as a noun e.g. regulations, plenty of fresh orange juice, a long wait for the bus. * object In a clause, the object is the participant that is affected by the action indicated by the verb. For example, in Everybody hates Chris, the object is Chris, and in Please bring some...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...money devoted to prevention compared to suppression. Whereas studies have shown, both in Europe and in the United States and in other parts of the world, that roughly $1 or 1 euros spent on prevention saves you roughly 30 plus/minus euros in suppression costs and recovery costs. So it would make sense for any rational approach to move towards prevention. And this is not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs