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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...care, or lack of it, to take studies from nature. Caravaggio's ‘mere copying’ put him at odds with the intellectual current in the classicising art of his colleagues. Bellori suggests that Caravaggio supplied an easy option for young artists who therefore lacked discipline in their practice and simply tried to outdo one another. These are powerful models for any...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...careful evaluation of the makeup of each figure within financial statements should be carried out. If a figure in financial statements is an aggregate of other line items, then one must carefully consider that the figure it is to be compared with is an aggregate of the same line items. For example, if you are analysing finance costs, you must carefully consider which line...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...adults, to pensioners, to children, across the spectrum, one of the key things that they can't do is become a full and active members of their society. NARRATOR Social scientists, since the days of Booth and Rowntree, have played an important role in measuring and documenting poverty. And over time, this has shifted people's understandings of poverty. The aim has been to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...adult mammalian dentition and understand dental formulae recognise teleology and write down accounts of evolution that do not assume purpose or direction...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: 1 Meeting the insect eaters - As you work through this course you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...careful to use the correct scale. In this case the angle extends from the line OY up to the line OX, so use the scale that shows OY as 0° – the outer scale in this instance. In the above example, one of the arms of the angle is horizontal. However, sometimes you may find that you need to position the protractor in an awkward position in order to measure an angle. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...careful and systematic highlighting of study texts and the making of condensed notes on key course elements. Others would say that it is only in the later stages of a course that material comes together in a sufficiently meaningful way to make a revision strategy possible. The time you have available, and your own study style, will probably shape your revision timing and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...careful deep breaths and walked up that hill really slowly.’ However, as the second sequence shows, by engaging in these behaviours the person fails to learn that they would not have died even if they had not done the avoidance/safety behaviours. Avoidance and coping behaviours thus actually work to maintain panic disorder because they stop a person from learning that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...cares wins with Lily Cole – Sonia Ramos: walking for Chile’s Indigenous rights (part 2). Indigenous ways of knowing The following two pieces provide accessible and engaging introductions to the importance of thinking about knowledge and evidence outside the Western mindset. A joint project between scientists at the University of Queensland and Indjalandji-Dhidhanu...
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Article 5 hrs