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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...become, if you like, the places where the nuclear industry resides and as a result, to some extent, they hold on tenaciously to that, Sellafield being a case in point. But at the same time, peripheralisation implies that other communities are able to resist, to repel, to bring up combinations of cross-cutting alliances to try and prevent nuclear activity. So that is why...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...becoming a way of delivering a communications strategy, rather than the other way round. He points to firms such as Virgin or BMW where the company brand subsumes separate offerings, or to firms like the Body Shop where company values provide competitive differentiation. As in Figure 1, ‘in this ‘new’ model, communications starts with the company, and marketing...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...students, but also housing various other kinds of immigrants. Many of the people Selvon came into contact with provided the raw material for the central characters in The Lonely Londoners. For Selvon, this period was significant for what it taught him about himself and other West Indians, as well as presenting him with some negative first impressions of England: It was my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...students, age approximately 11-16...Learning languages and finding out about other countries can be fun, as well as useful, and this free course, Why study languages?, is an introduction to the differences in culture and language about which we all need to be aware. There are 10 independent sections: any selection of them can be studied in any order. Some are about why...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...becomes a carrier of the malaria pathogen. At this point, the mosquito is referred to as a vector. When a mosquito bites, it releases a chemical into the circulation to stop the blood clotting. During this process, it could also release one or more of the malaria parasites it has been carrying into the circulatory system of the human it has bitten. If it does this, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...become poor at sensing the direction. Interestingly, animals have evolved to exploit this weakness. For example, pheasant chicks (that live on the ground and cannot fly to escape predators) emit chirps that are in the ‘difficult’ wavelength range for the auditory system of a fox. The chicks’ mother, with her bird-sized head, does not have any problems at the chirp...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...become familiar with some basic rules of German pronunciation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an!...Week 1: Hallo!: 1 Saying hello and goodbye - Figure 1 shows some greetings you might hear when visiting a German speaking county. Have you come across any of them before? Can you guess what they...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...become a more radical space for women’s activism, political growth and cultural development. Reflecting this evolution, in 1980 the group became Abasindi, the Zulu word meaning ‘survivors’. Their work expanded to include a Saturday school and cultural activities directed at celebrating Black identity through dance, drumming, crafts and hair grooming. They learned...
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