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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...publications fall within broadly realist parameters, parameters that stubbornly persist long after realist strategies have lost their status as a ‘high’ art form, although they continue to be important in popular culture. As we have seen, historically the conventions of realism were accompanied, if not on occasion overturned, by alternative forms of representation....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...public domain. (Gale, Scotland on Sunday, 2001) The Turner Prize's potential to stimulate debate, engage and provoke is one of the reasons why we have chosen to focus on it. We will continue by exploring some reactions prompted by the Turner Prize. The Tate Gallery, which hosts the Turner Prize exhibition, encourages the general public to record their comments on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Publication no. 11, May 1995, London, Industrial Society. Makin, P., Cooper, C. and Cox, C. (1989) Managing People at Work, The British Psychological Society and Routledge. Stanton, A. (1992) 'Learning from experience of collective teamwork', in Paton R., Cornforth C, and Batsleer, J. (eds) Issues in Voluntary and Non-profit Management, pp. 95–103, Addison-Wesley in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...public talk, ‘What can we do if we want to challenge climate change?’ And you said, I think it was, ‘Be willing to spend four days a month protesting and be willing to spend one of those days in jail.’ Something like that. BM: I don’t remember saying that. I’ve never, sort of, run the math in that way in my mind. RH: It may have been a flippant comment, but...
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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...public supply. Many of the newer reservoirs are for river regulation (Box 2); stored water is released into rivers when the natural discharge is low, so that it can be abstracted for use further downstream. The river itself transports the water from the reservoir so a pipeline is unnecessary. Unregulated, the discharge in winter exceeds requirements, but by storing winter...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...public outlined above. But there are key connections to draw between the middlebrow world of detective fiction and the formal experimentation that characterised more avant garde literary works in the era. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd certainly makes a case for that. In terms of history and context, Christie brings a British provincialism to the fore which, as you will see,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...Public Domain Dedication Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...public opinion throughout the world took the view that this was not a just or honourable war. Its prosecution by the USA and its client regime in South Vietnam was seen widely as oppressing the civilian population of the country. These meanings, and the information they supply to us, are transmitted from both the image and the context of its use, and are made up from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs