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Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...children. It was these dreams that brought them to the UK, dragging my eldest siblings from the sunshine of Jamaica to the cold and fog of the Motherland. Opportunity knocks. Mum and Dad had the “usual roles” of a nurse at the local hospital and semi-skilled worker at a car factory. Every Sunday, most Wednesday evenings, lots of Friday evenings and a few Saturdays,...
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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...children and those from native Gaeltacht regions, oppressed, marginalised and often persecuted. The new northern state was yet another step in the wrong direction, with successive Governments banning Irish from education and almost all vestiges of the language from public and state existence. Many Irish language speakers in the north today will point to the founding of...
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Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences

...children, “the best brains”, “high flyers”. It’s infused with the whole thing. And again we need to think about the consequences of this. How is difference being used here? Look back to Book One, particularly the Preface of Book One and think about what “difference” means. Is he arguing from difference in one sphere? Clearly people are different. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...centre have a higher linear velocity relative to the stationary ground. Thus, a worker moving radially outwards on the platform will need to accelerate to keep up with the horses. Equally if travelling radially inwards towards the axis of rotation the worker will need to decelerate in order to match the lower velocities of the inner horses. [Described image] Figure 4 A...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...centred on the purported realism of these paintings and the highly problematic assumption that they provide a comprehensive ‘pictorial record’ of life in the Dutch Republic (Slive, 1995, p. 1). This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture. Figure 1 Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1658–60, oil on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...Centre, 2008). [Described image] Figure 2 The Mir Castle complex, Republic of Belarus, 2003. Unknown photographer. Photo: Ullstein Bild – Russian Picture Service. The Mir Castle complex is situated on the bank of a small lake at the confluence of the river Miryanka and a small tributary in the Grodno Region of what is now known as the Republic of Belarus. The castle was...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...Research, 2021) and that 68% of those surveyed were already working from both home and the office. What is not surprising is the amount of people who said that they would actually leave an organisation if there was no option for hybrid working. That being said, the report did identify that people are concerned with digital tooling and teaming, that the need to be able to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...children and directly in peoples’ faces and food. But it is a very stark reminder that the spraying programme was considered good environmental management to protect the public against polio – a much feared but poorly understood disease at the time. The first interviewee raises the point that the spraying was seen by people ‘as a good thing because they got action...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs