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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...public centre, Casterbridge, to try to get a job at the hiring fair. Then he walks from Casterbridge towards the location of the next hiring fair but ends up instead in Weatherbury. At the end of the novel, there are two important bleak walks in the opposite direction, from Weatherbury, the little world of the novel, to the public institutional world of Casterbridge, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...publication. He is also the founder and chair of the IEA Energy Business Council, which provides a forum to enhance co-operation between decision-makers in the highest levels of government and industry. Dr. Birol’s selection as IEA Executive Director marked one of the rare occasions that the head of an international organisation has been selected from within its ranks....
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...public eye. Last year Rufu, Aharonson and Perets presented their results for simulations they ran into the feasibility of this hypothesis and generated an eloquent visual representation of the process. The hypothesis states that a sequence of bodies, between the Moon and Mars in size, impacted the early-Earth in several million-year intervals, generating debris disks that...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to sue her friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister. While the jury disregarded the claim, Caroline was unable to divorce her husband and banned form seeing her sons. Caroline's...
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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...public recognition. As you will see, his career was to be a constant struggle to reconcile a radical aesthetic with the demands of public taste and longstanding, well-respected artistic traditions...Delacroix: 1.2 Ideas and influences - The Oriental and the exotic played a central role in this process of artistic negotiation and reconciliation. The Enlightenment’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...public life – and focused exclusively on male composers, such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Mahler. The emerging classical music canon became firmly entrenched through performance. Public concert life developed rapidly during the nineteenth century, with many new concert halls and opera houses being built throughout...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...health centres to full community facilities. These ‘extended schools’, as the government terms them, offer an opportunity for schools to contribute to and work more closely with their communities. Click on the links below: Extended Schools: providing opportunities and services for all and Extended schools: access to opportunities and services for all [accessed 26...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...Health Sciences qualification. The immune response to viral infection The immune response to a viral infection is primarily generated by a type of white blood cell called lymphocytes; cells that are mostly localised in ‘lymphoid tissues’ such as the lymph nodes or tonsils. However, the number of lymphocytes that can recognise and react against any individual type of...
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