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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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Article 15 mins
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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Article 15 mins
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...publication purposes; second, the tales are literatureabout migration; and third, other “foreign” literary texts and allusions to historical events “migrated” into the tales. Considering the meaningful settings- Louisiana, Canada, France - as well as the overarching themes of displacement and migration, the tales reveal themselves as allegories of the Cajuns’...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...public domain and on social media, where Labour staff are reportedly trawling for evidence. But then, within Labour’s broad church, so have most members. In fact, so has every candidate for leadership. Those of us on Labour’s left flank, many of whom have door-stepped for the party, held minor office and never voted for anyone else, could be forgiven for nervously...
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Article 10 mins
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...in fact borne from a well of shared assumptions within the Conservative Party about the dangers of immigration, about the indolence of sections of the working class and about the inadequacy of public services. The hostile environment is not just for immigrants it is for anybody who does not share the experiences of privately educated privilege and the financial sectors....
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