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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...religion. Social conventions too are challenged. Where well-behaved children were expected to be seen but not heard, Alice insists on having a voice. She asks questions that often show adult behaviour to be irrational, contradictory, and unjust; especially when it comes to the exercise of power and authority as in the trial of the Knave of Hearts. Most radical of all,...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (R45), Suzanne Newcombe and Carolyn Price discuss how researchers in Religious Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality...Research into physical immortality is big business. Just try searching Google for the CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It's a company backed by a billion dollars of...
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Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...religion all matter. However, it is rare in the real world to find a case of a nation with a clear-cut and homogenous character in terms of this list of possibilities. Each nation is unique in the (alleged) makeup of its special character and worth. One crucial question is whether – and to what extent – a group must be aware of its alleged distinctiveness from other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A233 Telling stories – the novel and beyond...Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the possibilities of third-person narration recognise the role of dialogue in creating...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...religion, played a key role in the process of white European colonial expansion into North America. By the 1760s the Irish economy had improved and become more diversified but migration to the colonies continued. While farm workers were always in demand other migrants with skills in housing construction, shoemaking, printing work and hand loom weaving were increasingly...
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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...religions and the different sects of the Christian religion. Against each other you’d end up at the end of the day with a sense of the palpable absurdity of the whole business, of the sense the way you believe was effectively a function of where your were brought up and as a result of this that they would end up philosophically in the position that Owen himself was in....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...religion made him a natural fit with South Carolina voters. But the inconsistency between Cruz’s ostentatious displays of religiosity and his hardball political tactics finally caught up to him. As Trump put it at a South Carolina rally last week, Cruz “holds up the Bible and then he cheats.” Evangelical voters constituted 72 percent of GOP voters on Saturday. If...
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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...religion – all seen through the filter of Cameron's work and life. Activity 3 In May 2004 a website called Inspiring Learning for All was launched by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. It stemmed from a widespread and ongoing consultancy and research project and aims to support museums in their production of educational materials. A direct link to the website...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs