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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...Open University and Your Support Services explores how this media exposure impacts their wellbeing...The far-reaching impact on children and ‘left behind’ parents/carers when a family member is imprisoned are well documented (Minson, 2019). Parental imprisonment is recognised as a potential risk factor for many adverse outcomes for children, including anti-social...
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Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...opening and closing of shops and services. The course offers interactive activities which will allow you to practise your listening and speaking skills, and there are quizzes so that you can test your learning...In the free course, Getting started with Italian 2, you will learn and practise how to ask and say the time in Italian. This will include learning and practising...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...Open University and we thank its National Director in Ireland John D’Arcy. This work is also available on the university’s OpenLearn website; there as a contribution to our understanding of some of the key moments in our recent history. Foreword - John D'Arcy [Photo of John D’Arcy, Director of The Open University in Ireland]John D’Arcy - Director of The Open...
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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background The Singer Manufacturing Company was one of the first multi-national companies. From their US base they expanded to Scotland in 1864, starting the assembly of sewing machines at a small factory just off John Street in Glasgow. Growing demand for their machines led them to transfer production to a new plant in Bridgeton...
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Small Data: Star Wars release & broadcast dates
History & The Arts

Small Data: Star Wars release & broadcast dates

...open in America, and then, eventually, they'd find their way across to the UK. If you didn't enjoy going to the movies, or lived too far from a cinema, you'd have to be even more patient waiting for the film to turn up on TV. The changing nature of the entertainment industry - driven in part by digital media - has made the wait times shorter, and even - for some...
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...Open University's Philosophy courses and qualifications [Marcello Bacciarelli - Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates] Alcibiades being taught by Socrates Socrates (469/470-399 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and is considered the father of western philosophy. Plato was his most famous student and would teach Aristotle who would then tutor Alexander the Great. By this...
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Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...sources and interactions of natural and human-made Volatile Organic Compounds.]Figure 2: Sources and interactions of natural and human-made Volatile Organic Compounds. Copyright: Claire Batty & Hannah Cooper, AstrobiologyOU How do we do research on VOCs? First, we must first capture the VOCs. They are found either in the air or produced by a solid or liquid. Air samples...
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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

Open University chemist Mike Bullivant outlines the properties of gold...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications [vial of gold] Why is gold so expensive? Gold is an unusual metal in that it predominantly exists in the Earth’s crust as the element (so-called ‘native’ gold); that is, it’s not chemically combined with other elements....
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