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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...world’s most populated country, with a continuous culture stretching back 5000 years. The country’s name, Zhōngguó (中国), literally ‘the Middle Kingdom’, shows how Chinese people have traditionally identified their land as the centre of the universe. [Described image] Many of the elements that make up the foundations of the modern world originated in China, in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...world? Is anyone on this globe worse off? So often without bread, never any rest!’ His wife, his children, soldiers, tax officers, Debt, and drudgery Complete for him this image of misfortune. He calls on Death, who comes without delay, Asking what is required. ‘I want you’, he says, ‘to help me Reload this wood. Then you can go.’ Death cures all; But let us not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up to you, but the fact that you are a woman and that this fact makes a great deal of difference is imposed on you by your situation. Here is clear that Beauvoir...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...world is determined. It is not clear how exactly to characterize determinism. One popular definition is that every event has a cause. Nothing happens unless there is something to make it happen. Think of any event in the world. There was some set of circumstances that existed prior to the event such that those circumstances caused that event to happen and so, in that...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...world in which it is taking place. Webster, it seems, is providing us with a dramatic context against which to respond to his representation of love and marriage. In the first section of this course, I will consider how Webster sets the scene for the Duchess’s forbidden marriage, before going on to examine his depiction of this important moment in the play...John...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...world goes about its business. The American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote the following poem about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1555): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...World Health Organisation recommends a vaccination rate of 95% to eliminate the disease, something that the United Kingdom is presently struggling to achieve. At present there is no vaccine for COVID-19, which means that herd immunity could only come about by approximately 60% of the population becoming infected and developing immunity. For the United Kingdom, this would...
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Article 20 mins
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...world. The biology part of the course will focus on the digestive system and how the body uses the elements in our food to function. It is important to understand the macro and micro nutrients in the foods we eat and how our bodies use them. Some people follow food restriction due to choice or religious observation. Malnutrition is not just a concern for developing...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs