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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...change in Ireland. It was also a period of continuing and intense engagement with the Northern Ireland peace process. On 8th May 2007 those years of work paid a rich dividend when a power sharing Administration was established in Northern Ireland. After nine years of unstinting political commitment this historic event represented the full implementation of the Good Friday...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...changed the world. Ada's contribution to developing the computer And this is where we return to Ada Lovelace. She met Babbage at his London studio when she was only seventeen and had seen some of the workings of the Difference Engine. According to her companions, Ada immediately understood the workings of the machine and its potential. Throughout the 1830s conversed...
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Article 15 mins
Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...changes in the body through the use of mirrors is helpful to start with. As teachers, we need to guide the students' alignment through the use of general and individual verbal prompts, imagery and, where appropriate, the use of touch. A light touch, for example using the fingertips to demonstrate lengthening in the lower back or to prevent the shoulders from dropping...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...change had been irrevocably set in motion. Ending chattel slavery but the unfreedom of free labour By the 1830s chattel slavery had undoubtedly became the unacceptable face of labour exploitation, state racism and class domination in Britain and its empire. The Slave trade had been abolished in 1807 in Britain and the delayed introduction of the Slavery Abolition Act...
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Article 20 mins
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...changed the English language. Discover the reception to Shakespeare's work after his death Over the past 400 years, Shakespeare’s works have been rewritten, adapted, parodied, translated and distorted in innumerable different ways. They have been turned into novels, musicals, ballets, films and advertisements, and been used to support diametrically opposed political...
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Article 3 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...change and innovation in writing: ‘It may be possible’ she says: that prose is going to take over – has, indeed, already taken over – some of the duties which were once discharged by poetry…and that in ten or fifteen years’ times prose will be used for purposes for which prose has never been used before….We shall be forced to invent new names for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are of interest. For example, in astronomy there is a rich tradition of building such models of the solar system (see Figure 8). The purpose of such a model, known as an orrery, is to represent the position of the planets relative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...changes brought about by cancer cause the pattern of so-called ‘volatile organic chemicals’ produced by affected cells to alter – and dogs seem to be able to detect patterns characteristic of specific cancers. Ten years ago, Guest says, there was “massive scepticism” among medics about dog cancer detection. To some extent, she says, it continues, partly because...
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Article 5 mins