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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...public letter explaining the motivations behind his crusade. It stands in striking contrast with his hopeful 1957 sermon. His “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” responded to a newspaper advertisement from eight local clergymen urging King to allow the city government to enact gradual changes. In a stark change from his earlier views, King devastatingly targeted white...
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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...public criticised this decline, and Muhammad Ali, who had been chastised in the 1960s, was later championed as a human rights spokesperson and the model against whom modern athletes were vilified for their absence of activism. Although Craig Hodges and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf used their platforms to engage in political activism in the 1990s, there was an undeniable slump, with...
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Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...public debate about the need to combat racism and ensure inclusion for minorities in order to bring about an authentic democracy. Celebrating Black History Month is one way to contribute to this. However, there is still some reluctance to acknowledge the profound link between our colonial legacy and the way that racism works. Because of this, what has been called a...
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Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...health services and by local authorities is known as ‘public service’ translation. Other prominent forms of translation include localisation, videogame translation, subtitling, dubbing and audio description. Many aspiring translators are attracted by the idea of literary translation of fiction, theatre or poetry. This is an area in which it is difficult to make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...public while the encapsulated data and operation implementation are said to be private. The operations provide all the information that anyone using a date would need. There is never a need to access the underlying representation of the date. If the representation needs to change, only the implementation of the operations on date need to be rewritten. All clients are...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...health and social care practitioners who want to learn about writing in their practice. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University Social Work courses...Effective writing in professional social work practice: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: describe different types of social work writing understand the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...not try our 3rd level module SD329 Signals and Perception: The Science of the Senses. This module can be studied as part of our degree in Health Sciences (Q71) as well as part of the Natural Sciences (Q64) and Open Degree. It is, however, strongly recommended that you do not attempt a third level Open University module without prior Open University study at a lower level....
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Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism
History & The Arts

Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism

...health facilities greatly mitigated the dangers and diseases that afflicted mass gatherings. Along with the involvement of commercial agencies offering organised tours, this made the journey much safer and more predictable. Growing economic resources, especially oil, in many parts of the Muslim world also provided increasing numbers of people with the money to embark on...
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