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Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...resources to cope with new purposes. There is considerable material about innovations in the language; you may have particularly noted the explanations and illustration of Latin and Greek entering English especially in the realms of scientific and other intellectual domains. Implementation: the distribution of texts; through formal education and other means encourages the...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...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 resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...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 resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...resources. Market risks include interest rate risk and foreign currency risk. You have already examined some aspects of financial risk management. You may have learned about gearing or leverage, which indicates the potential risk of future cash flows not being sufficient to service debt. Financial risk management does not take place in a vacuum; rather, it must be part of...
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...humans have had an influence on the climate,’ and he trod very carefully around that and in fact we struggled as to how to communicate it, was it actually a story, I wasn’t convinced at the time that it was a story, whether it passed the threshold or not? BP: I followed that very carefully and I noticed when it tipped into hype, and you’re absolutely right,...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...human feelings, who had already previously been dissatisfied with his wife's treatment of her father, now resolutely takes Lear's side, but expresses his emotion in such words as to shake one's confidence in his feeling. He says that a bear would lick Lear's reverence, that if the heavens do not send their visible spirits to tame these vile offenses, humanity must prey on...
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...Humanities...Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand more deeply the complete movements from Mozart's sonatas, studied both here and in the course 'Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground' recognise extracts from other Mozart piano sonatas recognise typical techniques...
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...human eyes work, objects with magnitude 6 are in fact about 100 times fainter than those with magnitude 1: each decrease of one magnitude corresponds to roughly a 2.5 times reduction in brightness. Using a large telescope, objects as faint as magnitude 25 may be detected. A 25th magnitude star is around a hundred million times fainter than those near the limit of...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs