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What is Law?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Law?

...health and safety laws - and many of us have a legal interest in our homes, whether as tenants, owners or if we have a mortgage. Even our personal relationships as wives and husbands, civil partners and parents are regulated by the law. STEPHANIE PYWELL: What’s the system of law in England and Wales? CAROLINE DERRY: England and Wales have a ‘common law’ legal...
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Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...public and later justices as having the effect of abolishing slavery. Britain forbade slavery across the British Empire in 1833 following the enactment of the Act for the Abolition of Slavery 1833. The adoption of this legislation granted freedom to all slaves in Britain and made slavery illegal. [Described image] Figure 4 The cover page of the Act for the Abolition of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...health. Mary went in on the 14th of April. She's very happy there. Perhaps she doesn't really understand where she is. At times she doesn't recognize me. They decided that the best option for her was to go into care permanently. She's very happy there. The reason she's happy there is because there's a day centre in Ammanford. Every day, after the carers have been in to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...public, or the ‘man/woman in the street’. Both these phrases, like sentence (b) in the previous activity, attribute a single voice to a group of people; although ‘vox pop’ interviews present us with individuals, they are usually anonymous, seen as representatives of ‘the people’ in general. The same idea of ‘representation’ crops up in phrase (c), ‘the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakespeare there is much more. At the time when he left Stratford, and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays, of all dates and writers, existed in manuscript, and were in turn produced on the...
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David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...publication copies escaped into the public arena all the same, and Hume's scandalous reputation was sealed. The reason people gathered at his home in 1776 was to see if ‘the great infidel’ would succumb to the promise of an afterlife by recanting his unpopular views. Samuel Johnson (1709–84) was a defender of the solace provided by thoughts of an afterlife, and had...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...public statements about the level of personal indebtedness in the UK (The Times, 2008)! Debt is regularly featured in the media with stories about how much people have borrowed, how a proportion of borrowers encounter difficulties in making repayments, and how extortionate rates of interest are charged on some forms of debt. In 2010, the amount of personal debt owed by UK...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...public--in a humorous form--of the fact that Gloucester has a legitimate son and an illegitimate one. After this, trumpets are blown, and King Lear enters with his daughters and sons-in-law, and utters a speech to the effect that, owing to old age, he wishes to retire from the cares of business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he...
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