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

...change was in the air as the eighteenth century gave way to the nineteenth. Irish radicalism in the 1790s posed a significant threat to the Protestant Ascendency who, though they identified themselves as nationally Irish, still felt themselves to be deemed too English by their Catholic countrymen. The Irish Act of Union in 1800, which merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and...
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Article 45 mins
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...change the number of hours you work. This could help you fit the work around your other commitments. For example, as you approach exam time in the early summer months you might want to scale back your working hours to focus on revision. After the exams are over you might want to take on more hours again. The big disadvantage of a zero-hours contract is that the employer...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...change one phoneme, for example the /d/ to a /t/, then you have a word that is not just different but completely unrelated in meaning – bet. You could imagine a hypothetical linguistic system in which particular phonemes had special relationships to meanings; for example, in which words for furniture all began with /b/, or words for body parts all contained an /i/. No...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...changes and the pathophysiology of childhood asthma understand the experience of parents and children in childhood asthma explain how mental health affects children and young people understand the experience of using mental health services as a young person...Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development: 1 Childhood asthma - In this section,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...Changing decimals or fractions to percentages To change a decimal to a percentage you need to multiply by 100: 0.8 = 80% 0.75 = 75% To change a percentage to a decimal you need to divide by 100: 60% = 0.6 3% = 0.03 To convert a fraction to a percentage it is necessary to first change the fraction to a decimal: 4/5 = 0.8 = 80% 3/4 = 0.75= 75% If a machine is sold for £120...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...changed a hundred thousand small cesspools for one moster one. We undertook only a part of the necessary work, and that not the most important part. When the old Board of Health resolved that every house should be drained, they ought alos to have found a sufficient means of carrying off the filth so removed from houses; but the task was too much for them, and, carrying...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...changing into that little dried-up, parchment-hided man that he became years afterwards. This it is, to make a book without the least knowledge of the men and things of which it treats. "Dried-up! Parchment-hided!" "Oh, for one hour of Dundee!" One hour of De Quincey - better, three hours from nine till midnight —for a rapt listener to be "under the wand of a magician"....
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Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...change from ‘female’ to ‘male’ in the brewing process. Mainstream visibility and the power to push back against offensive representations might be seen as a success story, one result of sustained lobbying by trans-led groups like Trans Media Watch and All About Trans on how trans issues should be featured in the media. At a basic level, less exploitative...
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