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Science, Maths & Technology
IT in everyday life
...everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the information and communication technologies that drive our networked world and how they now permeate our everyday lives...We now live in a global village where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. This free course, IT in everyday life, will enable you to gain an understanding of the...
Science, Maths & Technology
Everyday maths 1
...Everyday maths 1, is designed to bring your learning to life, inspiring you to improve your current maths skills or helping you to remember any areas that you may have forgotten. Working through the examples and interactive activities in this course will help you to, among other things, run a household or make progress in your career...Have you ever noticed how often you...
Science, Maths & Technology
Everyday maths 2
...Everyday maths 2, will build on your existing maths skills and help you to feel more confident tackling the maths you come across in everyday situations...Having good maths skills are important for everyday life. In fact, you may have never noticed how often you use maths on a day-to-day basis. This free course serves as good preparation for Level 2 Functional Skills in...
Languages
A short introduction to the English language
...English language is the relationship between culture and language. Many of the expressions we use in everyday conversation, as well as several individual words, take their meaning directly from specific cultural sources or historical events, and then have that meaning broadened into something more general. Take the name Romeo, for example. This can now be used to describe...
Languages
The History of English in Ten Minutes
...English' squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century......
History & The Arts
English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
...English literature have the power to change the perspective of someone with violent racist views and rehabilitate them? Dr Alex Tickell explores in this article...Last week, Ben John, a 21-year-old former criminology student at De Montfort University, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and a five-year Serious Crime Prevention order for possessing neo-Nazi and...
History & The Arts
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
...English Opium Eater, is also considered the first autobiographical account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was as ubiquitous as ale or spirits. Thomas De Quincey was the first...