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Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...project of arguing for God’s existence from the way the world is: his five arguments are known as Aquinas’s ‘Five Ways’. He is one of the very few philosophers to be canonised (the Catholic Church declared him a saint in 1324), and also one of the very few who still has self-described followers (known as Thomists, from his first name) today. His influence on...
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...project upon which this course is partly based. Thank you to the UK Parliament Week team for helping to develop the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to the Political Studies Association for helping to fund the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to OU Scotland, OU Wales and OU Ireland for commenting on/contributing to selected content. Thank you to the UK...
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...projects a patterned light grid onto the sample and reconstructs images computationally. SIM doubles resolution (to ~100 nm) and is ideal for live-cell imaging due to its low light exposure. STORM (Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy): uses randomly blinking dyes to localise individual molecules and reconstruct ultra-high-resolution images of fixed samples. PALM...
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...manager (‘un jeune cadre dynamique’) for a period of time that he doesn’t specify precisely [Imparfait] b – The change in lifestyle took place at a defined moment in the past (almost 25 years ago) [Passé composé] Activity 18 Now write sentences about yourself using each of these verb forms to convey the senses described above. Discussion Here is a sample answer...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...manages to become is the entertainer of the established ruling elite. Marlowe certainly makes a point in Act 4, Scene 1 of stressing the limitations of his protagonist's conjuring powers. Because Faustus is still unable to raise people from the dead, he can do no more than summon spirits who resemble Alexander and his paramour. In Act 4, Scene 2 the point seems to be not...
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...manageable for small mammals, where the amount of heat required to warm the body mass is relatively modest; but for animals as large as a grizzly, reheating on this scale may be physiologically impossible. Finally, for the female, it may that a high Tb is necessary to support the development of the cubs that, as DA mentions, are born as the mother 'dozes' [p. 162]. Bear...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...manageable way, for instance as a set of sections and subsections. Table 14 Form of ‘Midnight Special’ TRACK TIMING SECTION 00:00 Instrumental introduction 00:11 Chorus 1 00:21 Verse 1 (Yonder come Miss Rosie ...) 00:40 Chorus 2 00:50 Instrumental interlude 01:01 Verse 2 (When you get up in the morning ...) 01:20 Chorus 3 01:29 Instrumental interlude 01:41 Verse 3 (If...
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...management, for instance? Equally, sure he might ask what the internal social relations of the firm were like. Perhaps they were patterned in such a way that crucial layers of employees were disaffected or felt no responsibility for the well-being of the firm. All of those questions relate to what a sociologist would think of as the firm's social structure. But she or he...