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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...divisions, arguing that the power or capacity to define ‘what the problem is’ is central to the policy-making process. This issue is also central to other work on youthful disorder...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: 3.4 Media and moral panics - The sociologist Stan Cohen published a widely used study (1972) of the social reaction to fights between...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...divisions are possible. Indeed, Stevenson subdivides some of these conceptions and offers various illustrations, which might be taken to warrant adding to the main list. As a subdivision of the first conception, for example, he identifies ‘the ability to think about a particular mental state of another person, whose existence one infers from perceived evidence’ (2003,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...division and multiplication, and the key, which is pressed when you want the calculator to display the result of the calculation you have entered. The keys used to insert brackets into a calculation are in the centre of the row above the number keys. Many keys on the calculator have more than one use. The main function of a key is printed in white on the key itself. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...divisions. The trunk has a number of separate segments, and the tailpiece is made of a single plate. The more formal names for the three main divisions of the trilobite body, often used elsewhere, are as follows: headshield = cephalon; trunk = thorax; tailpiece = pygidium. Trilobites also had appendages such as antennae and legs, but these are extremely rarely found. An...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...division sign. And the size of the combined batches is the total number of TVs in this combined batch. So it’s the number you’ve got in Batch A, plus the number you’ve got in Batch B – nA plus nB. So that’s the formula, and that’s the same one as in the unit. The next step is to convert the numbers we have to make clear how the notation we got in this formula...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...division You can use a calculator in this activity. What are the answers to these sums? a.6 × 4 b.3 × 9 c.5 × 7 d.36 ÷ 9 e.48 ÷ 6 f.15 ÷ 3 Wine glasses come in boxes of 10. There are 25 boxes in a crate. How many wine glasses are there in one crate? A circus is selling tickets at £19 for adults and £11 for children. How much would it cost for two adults and two...
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Free course 48 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...divisive issues are to be resolved in a mutually acceptable manner, it is essential that religion itself is more fully understood...Religious diversity: rethinking religion: 3 Religion as lived - Believing is one of the things religious people do. People often cite religious texts and teachers as authoritative. However, attention to the lived realities of religious people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...divisions between alarmists and less alarmist astronomers, the same divisions, the same problems, and I wanted to hear both sides. RH: I must say I’ve been a subscriber to your newsletter for more years than I can remember, it is incredibly informative, but I don’t notice it particularly demonstrating both sides of the debate; it does seem to take a pretty...
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