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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...history may inform our work, but the poem transforms or exchanges the one sort of truth – biographical truth – for another: poetic truth. A poem is more than a simple expression of feelings, more than what ‘really’ happened...What is poetry?: 3 What is poetry? - We can possibly best define what poetry is by saying what it isn’t. For one thing, poetry, unlike...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...history. In the process, they have encountered other people from different cultures who speak different languages. In order to work with them, to trade with them and, in some cases, to govern them, a language was needed that both sides could communicate in. From repeated encounters between peoples, new forms of language emerged. This course looks at the languages which...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...family home that they designed in 1949 also become an icon of ‘mid-century’ design. Many of the Eames’ furniture designs remain in production today. These designs are also widely imitated, a perhaps unwelcome, yet significant, indication of their enduring quality and popularity. Figure 3 Ray and Charles Eames Figure 4 A classic Eames design – the 670 lounge chair...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...history of English literature which accorded Marlowe the crucial groundbreaking role he plays in Shakespeare in Love. Changing views of the artist consolidated his integration into the literary canon. Viewed in the light of the biographies of romantic poets like Shelley (1792–1822), an avowed atheist, and Byron (1788–1824), surrounded through much of his career by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...family. Talking and listening to each child and finding out about their experience, understanding fears, likes, and dislikes makes it more likely that their pain can be managed effectively. To be effective, all four components need to happen with everyone at all levels playing their part. If all practitioners start using this framework together, it can contribute to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...family, friends and colleagues. But it is also shaped by people we don’t know personally – like the wider community, country and world in which we live. This changeability and interconnection make social science an interesting and exciting subject to study. But the same things that make social science interesting, can also make it potentially complicated and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...families, or by a solitary fire like me, when they remember the light that shone over the poor clowns huddling on the Bethlehem plains eighteen hundred years ago, the apparition of shining angels overhead, the song "Peace on earth and good-will toward men," which for the first time hallowed the midnight air,--pray for that strain's fulfilment, that battle and strife may...
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Article 10 mins
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...In a Republican controlled House, Gary Johnson, in theory, could be elected President with the lowest percentage of popular votes in American history, far less than John Quincy Adams’ 30.9 percent in 1824 or Abraham Lincoln’s 39.8 percent of the vote in 1860. Read at Raw Story: How presidential candidate Gary Johnson could ignite a constitutional crisis in November...
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Article 5 mins