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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...phrasing that Shelley uses. As Rosen says in this article by Alison Flood: “…the poem was full of ‘portable triggers, lines of political outrage for people to catch and hold’. He added: ‘Political writing is often like that, but in times of oppression and struggle, this is no bad thing: a portable phrase to carry with us may help.’” Ultimately, the...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...phrase, ‘EVEL: English votes for English laws’! The increasing recognition of England as England, as a nation, will of course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is...
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Article 10 mins
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...phrases, clichés and the types of phrases that are too familiar. Start to keep a note of words you hear in conversation, and in everyday life: the phrases, words and speech patterns people use. Plain language, deeply understood, is ample to convey the most sophisticated and complex meanings. Often ‘ordinary’ words are made vivid and memorable by appearing in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...Des Wilson Dr Jack Weir Bishop Edward Daly Brendan Duddy John Hume David Trimble Ian Paisley Albert Reynolds Charles Haughey Robin Masefield Sir John Wilsey Sir Patrick Mayhew Margaret Thatcher Sir John Hermon Nelson Mandela Martti Ahtisaari Seamus Kelters Stephen Grimason Ken Reid [The funeral of Belfast republican Brendan McFarlane]The funeral of Belfast republican...
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...types of industrial development. These included local community initiatives with a cooperative or nonprofitmaking element, local private capital, multinational branch plants; and the state-owned enterprise which was under the remit of Údarás na Gaeltachta, an authority which had been established in 1980 and was responsible for the economic, social and cultural...
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How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...phrases from the text which led you to your answer. Answer Strong criticisms like sweeping generalisations and frighteningly ignorant indicate that Mark is angry about Extract 1. How would you describe the attitude of the writer of Text 2 from these options? angry reasonable very sympathetic to the author What gives you this impression? Note any words or phrases from the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...types and processes, how innovation can add or create value, and about the management activities that underpin the innovation and value creation process. You do not need to have worked in a technology and innovation field, or have any prior knowledge to be able to complete this course. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TB801...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...types of business models and how business models can be designed. ...In this free course, Business models in strategic management, you will be introduced to the theory and practice of business models as they have developed in strategy literature. In particular, you will explore the emergence of the business model idea, types of business models and how business models can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs