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The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...system characterized by multiple risks. Furthermore, they are not simply about preventing disease, but are concerned with making us feel good about how our bodies appear to ourselves and to others. (Shilling, 1997, p. 70) Body projects can be seen as a way for individuals to express themselves, to feel good and to gain some control over their lives. For instance, people...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...System. Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller if HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland; Figure 5: The Runnymede Bulletin, 319, September 1999, The Runnymede Trust. Data from Leigh, Johnson and Ingram (1998), Deaths in Police Custody: Learning the Lessons, Police Research Group at the Home...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...system can be made to cope with points involving negative coordinates, such as (−2, 3) or (−2, −3). Just as a number line can be extended to deal with negative numbers, the x-axis and y-axis can be extended to deal with negative coordinates. In this way, if a point is to the left of the origin, its x-coordinate is negative, and if it is below the origin, its...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...system. So obviously when the people came out to vote, there would have been some projects they would have been familiar with but the majority that they wouldn't. So they were encouraged to look openly and see which projects that they felt should achieve their vote. There was an enormous positive vibe in the hall, and we also had crime prevention stands. And we had...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...system of recording and organising vocabulary works best for you. Here are some suggestions that you may want to try: grouping vocabulary and phrases according to topic (furniture, clothes, a particular hobby that you are interested in, etc.) word families: trabajo (work), trabajador (worker), trabajar (to work), trabajoso (laborious), etc. grouping according to structure...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...system of communication, encompassing language, images and symbols, about a specific subject. Discourse is a central concept in the analysis of harm. For instance, harm is used to analyse relationships between crime, harm and the state, as well as to explore relationships between power and resistance. As well as following the application of discourse to the topic of harms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...systems are trained on ‘parallel corpora’, which means that the machine is specifically and exclusively trained to translate from language A to language B (also called ‘language pair’). Therefore, they specialise in some language pairs, although not all. There are over 7000 languages spoken in the world, and Google Translate, at the time of writing this course, is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...system, and she now sits in the House of Lords. [Described image] Figure 3: ‘I feel that our movement, the disability movement, is an emancipation agenda. I see it like apartheid. It’s not just ramps and access, it’s deeply rooted in attitudes.’ (Lady Jane Campbell, quoted in Birkett, 2009) Martin Luther King and Lady Jane Campbell both show how leadership is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs