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Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?
History & The Arts

Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?

...history deserves to have a record of it. [Tweets from the President as described in the text] Modernizing the law to keep up with technology The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 may be where Trump runs into trouble. The law, passed to modernize the PRA with respect to electronic records, provides that the president should not use an unofficial...
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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...history has turnout exceeded 80% (it was 78% in 1992). And, whilst that figure might sound high it means that somewhere between 10 and 15 million potential voters do not vote in General Elections. [Tables illustrating the data described in the article] Is this something we should be concerned about? After all, voting is not compulsory in the UK. Surely it is a persons’...
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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...History and Social Sciences courses Background In the context of the growing ‘cost of living crisis’ in 2022, it’s unsurprising that trade union activity in Scotland has featured regularly in public discourse. Waste and recycling workers made headlines when they went on strike over pay and conditions in Glasgow during COP26 in November 2021; then in Edinburgh during...
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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...history of rural poverty and social decline. So, while travellers from all over the world enjoy coming to this ‘remote’ location, that same ‘remoteness’ has also resulted in another type of connection to the wider world as many locals have emigrated in search of employment opportunities. In the following collection of articles, we explore the question: How can...
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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...history. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), an international non-governmental organisation, began discussing planetary protection in the 1950s and produced (and maintained) a planetary protection policy, which has become the internationally recognised ‘gold standard’. This policy contains a set of scientific guidelines or recommendations for the avoidance of...
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Article 10 mins
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...history, made international news headlines initially because of the damage it caused. However, questions were also raised over the adequacy of government preparation and responses to it. The hurricane first made landfall in the U.S. state of Florida on 25 August 2005 and intensified as it moved over the Gulf of Mexico, particularly affecting the states of Louisiana,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...history of German song and the development of Romanticism follow the words of songs by Schubert while listening to a recording, using parallel German and English texts comment on the relationship between words and music in Schubert's song settings...Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems: 1 Schubert: introduction - This course focuses on a selection of short poems...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...family and home. To control and blackmail her, he threatens to hand over Astyanax to the Greeks but reassures her that if she loves him in return, he will offer total protection. Like Jareth, he casts her as the ungrateful, cruel one: What! Hasn’t your anger run its course? Can you hate forever and keep on punishing? - Author's translation from Andromaque, I. 4 (311-12)...
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