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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...writing in Sadako’s diary. The Peace Education network also offers a free Teach Peace resource that includes an assembly plan about Sadako. There are a number of Remembrance activities that schools might consider that will help children to develop their competencies for peace. They might develop their empathy by writing letters of condolence to the families of those...
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Article 5 mins
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...write down the proportion as a fraction. If the numbers involved are too large to enter on your calculator, you will need to reduce the fraction to an equivalent fraction with smaller numbers on the top and the bottom by cancelling out some zeros. Then use your calculator to work out the required percentage.) Answer From Table 1, the volume of water stored in ice and snow...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...writing?...[Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke.]Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke. Source: Wikimedia Commons When you think of the Gothic you might think of vampires, ruined castles, graveyards, spectres and haunted heroines. You probably do not automatically think of Ireland, but in fact, the Gothic—a cultural form that includes novels, films, art and even...
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Article 45 mins
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe in. You will also find out about the important place of religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Poetry prescription
History & The Arts

Poetry prescription

...Writing courses and qualifications. [The Open University logo.] [Poetry prescription interface with the text 'Poetry Prescription prescribes a poem to suit your mind. What's on your mind?' embedded in the image. ] Find a poem to suit your mood Acknowledgements ‘What if this road’ by Sheenagh Pugh, from Id’s Hospit (Seren, 1997) From ‘Drysalter’ by Michael...
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Activity 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle

...write these days has that dichotomy at its heart. The show is in some sense a testimony to those countless quotidian decisions, mostly made far away from the halls of power; to take the higher path. To do the right thing. Perhaps we all wish we might have travelled farther in those decades; but the fact that we remain on the path, for all its bumps and obstacles, is an...
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Exploring the classical world
History & The Arts

Exploring the classical world

...readings from Horace's ode 3.6. Exploring Roman elegiac poetry The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation. Satire in the city of Rome Using Roman satirical writing to discover social history. The satirical verse of Juvenal The motivations of Juvenal in his satirical works, with readings in Latin and in translation of Satire 5....
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A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...writing, his best known novel being the controversial Lolita (1955). From 1959 he resided in Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov was talented at chess, and this interest inspired The Defence (1930) - originally written in Russian. Its protagonist is Alexander Luzhin, a chess player who competes for the world title. He falls in love, but becomes disturbed by the...
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