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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...source of weakness in the work. As John Mullen pointed out in The Guardian, Shelley’s targets are hidden behind abstractions. The poem doesn’t deliver the punch of some of his later works such as the sonnet “England in 1819”, and the poem “Masque of Anarchy,” where the focus is on a single event—the outrage of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre. Interestingly, both...
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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...Open University. The two banners I focus on today relate to one aspect of the struggle for justice for the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - both banners were made as part of the campaign against the lies printed by The Sun newspaper about this tragedy. This newspaper was very closely associated with the Conservative Government of the time and in particular,...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first...
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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we discuss how important it is to maintain a...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...source. However, there is a very important external factor that has a considerable influence on the shape of this pattern. Can you think what this is? The dispersal of the umbrella cloud is controlled by the wind. When there is a wind, the umbrella region is blown off to one side so tephra is deposited asymmetrically. When the thickness of an airfall deposit is contoured,...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...source of knowledge. According to Plato, however, this is not the case. To know something, you must have investigated it for yourself. This is a striking suggestion, and it is certainly open to challenge. Here, however, I want to investigate how Plato’s view of knowledge might help to explain why he chooses to write dialogues, rather than essays, and why Plato’s...
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The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...Open University course S206 Environmental science...The oceans: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain in your own words, and use correctly, all the bold terms in the text identify, classify and interpret various features visible on the ocean floor interpret temperature and salinity plots recorded in the oceans interpret spatial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...Open University course DD209 Running the economy...Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what economists mean by ‘models’ and how they can be used to inform economic policy define the concept of equilibrium and explain how it can occur at low levels of output begin to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs