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Art and Visual Culture: Medieval to Modern
History & The Arts

Art and Visual Culture: Medieval to Modern

...of Neo-classical sculpture in an English country house. And you will find out about a key movement in modern art, Abstract Expressionism, and take a look at some iconic works in Tate Modern. This material forms part of The Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture...The podcast collection Try a FREE course Take it further with The Open University...
Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...English, the word ‘climate’ has both a literal and figurative meaning. It refers to the typical weather conditions of a place – ‘the UK has a mostly temperate climate’ – as well as the prevailing mood or attitudes of people within a situation – ‘there was a climate of fear in the office.’ In this article, we look at why, to try to control the former of...
East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...English title: The Boy and the Heron, as the Japanese title is untranslatable). Paradoxically a refusal to advertise the film in a commercial way has led to huge interest in it. We visited Japan for the first time about five years ago. We spent most of our time in Kyoto, however we were determined to make one visit outside to the Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo. (While...
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...everyday speech in Spanish through the medium of videos. The language level used in this course corresponds to B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (COE). These are some key strategies you will explore through the course: Predicting content Using knowledge of your own language Using cultural knowledge Using subtitles Coping with unfamiliar...
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...English fashion, and all of more or less arrival and departure at the race-grounds. In our company the reader will have our appetites for lunch, and if he will take his chance with us in the first simple place away from the station, he will help us satisfy them very wholesomely and agreeably at boards which seem festively set up for the occasion, and spread with hot...
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...English but are very effective in the original ancient Greek. Figure 6 Iliad 1-1.25, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Venetus A: Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 (= 822), folio 12, recto...Introducing Homer's Iliad: 3.1 Meter and word order - The sung nature of oral poetry is particularly apparent from the fact that there is a strong metrical structure, or rhythm, to the...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Palestine Remix
Society, Politics & Law

Palestine Remix

...English, Arabic, Turkish and Bosnian.” It was initiated by a for-profit enterprise and encourages people to participate through an online platform. Palestine Remix is local, national, transnational and global and is concerned with anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, democracy, politics and representation, human rights, international development, media...
Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...English are Asian: Panjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic. This means that the majority of languages other than English spoken in the UK are no longer European languages but Asian languages. This is in line with migration demographics: The 2011 Census also showed that about a third of the foreign-born population identified as Asian/Asian British (33%, 2.4 million)....