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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...circulation of All The Year Round, then falling as the result of a tedious serial by another writer. The new serial was to concern the adventures of ‘a boy-child, like David [Copperfield]’ and, to avoid any unconscious repetition, Dickens reread David Copperfield and was ‘affected by it to a degree you would hardly believe’. His approach to the new serial was to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...circulate it to the team by the end of my working day and receive comments on the draft from my Japanese colleagues in time for the beginning of my next working day. It is exhausting, since you don’t get a break from working on the paper, but the work is finished quickly!...How teams work: 2.1 Summary of Section 2 - Virtual teams can be characterised by the three...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...circulated through vents in the air space into the house behind. At night and on cold days, this air flow is cut off. Direct gain [Passive solar heating system – Direct gain] Figure 9 Passive solar heating system – Direct gain This is the simplest and most common of all passive solar heating systems. All glazed buildings make use of ‘direct gains’ of energy from...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...respiration and locomotion. In many forms there is a distinctive five-rayed arrangement of plates and tube feet. Echinoderm means 'spiny skin', referring to the fact that some groups have spines or hard, warty bumps projecting from the surface. The most common fossil groups are sea urchins (echinoids), Ordovician to Recent, and sea lilies (crinoids), Cambrian to Recent....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...respiration (without the replacement of oxygen by photosynthesis) can deplete oxygen reserves, causing the death of higher organisms such as invertebrates and fish. This process can be compounded when algal blooms, through their decay, further reduce the oxygen content of the water. In shallow water, the formation of benthic (bottom-living) mats of algae can create a...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...circulating in economic systems comes from? Write down your answer in the box below. Part 2 A safe bet in answering this kind of question is to ask well-renowned experts on the topic, for example the research team of the Bank of England. Watch the following video on money creation in the modern economy. Once you have finished watching the video, use the box below to write...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...circulating hormones (endocrine pathway) immune cells and molecules (immune pathway)...The gut microbiome – balancing the body: 2.6.1 Neural pathway – the microbiota-gut-brain axis - The nerve cells located in the wall of the GI tract form the enteric nervous system (ENS), which supplies the entire length of the gut. The long projections of these nerve cells extend...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...circulating ocean current which isolates the ocean and lands to the south. This is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the northern boundary of it is marked in red in Figure 16. Find the location of South Georgia on Figure 16 at 54° S, 36° W. Which side of the red boundary is it on? The island is south of the boundary. South of the red boundary in Figure 16,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs