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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...work in as a poet. Given this, we might expect her to be quite sceptical about translations of her work. Listen now to the first part where Angus Calder asks what has been lost in Paul Muldoon’s English translation of ‘Ceist ne Teangan’. Is there anything that strikes you as interesting about what Ní Dhomhnaill has to say here? Transcript Show Ní Dhomhnaill is...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...working as a commercial pilot can be an extremely demanding job due to the many stressors – high workload, heavy responsibilities, time pressures, fatigue, noise, and temperature – experienced while transporting thousands of passengers/cargo round the world. Dismukes, Goldsmith and Kochan (2015) outline the stressful situations pilots are exposed to: Emergencies and...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...work we catch repeated glimpses of sympathy for Robert Peel, the views he espoused, and his formative place in the history of Conservatism. The great fault-line that defines many disagreements in modern historical writing runs along the division between the political right and left. In the period since the Second World War, fundamental and often irreconcilable...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...working, self-directed learning. Please now consider Activity 1. Activity 1 Evaluate any appropriate lesson plans or teaching materials against the descriptors above. You may wish to reflect on the extent to which some or all these aptitudes are evident or implicit within your lesson planning, delivery and pupil learning outcomes. Read the lesson outline here and look at...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity’ (Aspen Institute). Ture and Hamilton made an important distinction between overt racial discrimination and hate speech perpetrated by individuals that is commonly understood as ‘racism’ and can be easily observed (termed ‘individual racism’), and the pervasive, everyday racism that...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...work in a Bereavement Team in my local hospice. I started my studies with The Open University in 2019. I am now an OU Alumni but have been continuing engaging in research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...work and what makes it beat? Your heart is a fascinating muscle: It keeps contracting regularly throughout your lifetime, on average 2 billion times, without a rest. This organ ensures that blood is pumped efficiently through the body to provide it with oxygen, whilst removing waste products. To do this, two circular routes of blood flow start from the heart: blood with a...
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Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...working in small businesses with limited access to specialists, as well as marketing professionals and those thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional...This free course, Understanding your customers, is a short introduction to understanding customers. The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals, members...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs