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The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...world? Is it against the law to fail to honour one's mother or father? For an orthodox Muslim consuming alcohol is a sin, but it is hardly a crime codified by UK law. Is it always against the law to take another life? What about conduct in wartime or assisting euthanasia? The reason that the OED's definition raises more questions than it answers is that the definition...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 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
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
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...world particularly in the USA, some in the UK, who think that climate change is all natural. How are you certain that it's not? TS: Well, just look at the measurements that many societies, the World Metrological Organisation, but every reasonable Met service of every country around the world is taking. I have in particular a paleoclimatic perspective where we see how much...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...World War One employer/government concession of an eight-hour day/47 hour week, without loss of pay, from a pre-war norm of 54 hours; and secondly, as a class-based, economic challenge to employers’ ability to use the growing numbers of post war unemployed as a reserve army of labour to ratchet down wages. Bloody Friday in George Square is, perhaps, the most obvious...
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Article 20 mins
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

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
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...world solutions to key challenges like pollution, climate change, or sustainable growth require expertise from a range of subjects. Exploring everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...world of adventure, new countries and peoples, full of brightness and change; an unlimited expanse’. Similarly, John Ward, a ploughboy who went on to become a Labour MP, remembers reading Robinson Crusoe in 1878 when he was twelve: ‘I devoured – not read, that’s too tame an expression – Robinson Crusoe, and that book gave me all my spirit of adventure, which has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr