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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...think too much about the reasons why we do things. Once a norm is in place, people generally adhere to it because it makes life easier. Just as much as personal norms regulate individual behaviour, shared norms regulate activities in large social groups and prescribe what is allowed, what is prohibited or just frowned upon. Most countries hold sufficient stock for people...
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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...thinking and argument? Photographs require as much scrutiny and critical analysis as written records. It is easy to think of them as ‘truthful’ and ‘objective’ because they are produced by a machine that reacts to light falling on the actual scene or subject. However, all photographs are created by human agency and photographers legitimately seek to influence...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...think of ‘delta’ (δ, upper case Δ) as an English ‘d’, or ‘pi’ (π, upper case Π) as an English ‘p’. Look at the name of the Greek god ‘Poseidon’, which contains a combination of letters that might look both familiar and strange: Ποσειδων (= Poseidon) Although Ποσειδων is trickier to decipher than Ζευς, there is still a one-to-one...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...Thinking in terms of energy flow through these levels, a proportion of the solar energy captured by plants in trophic level 1 has passed through into trophic levels 2 and 3. Question 1 Question: Relationships are often expressed as flow charts, where annotated boxes are linked by arrows. Sketch a flow chart to show the movement of solar energy through different trophic...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...think briefly about the Colosseum’s cultural symbolism, and the reasons why it held such significance for visitors on the Grand Tour...Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour: 1.1 The Colosseum in antiquity - [This is a colour photograph of the Colosseum in Rome, with visitors.] Figure 1 The Colosseum in Rome, Italy. The Colosseum has been one of the most iconic sights...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...system boundary of the project, although it may be appropriate to represent them inside the boundary, depending on structures within a particular organisation. The project sponsor is part of the project board or project steering committee. Following the definition of roles within ISO 21500: The project sponsor authorises the project, makes executive decisions, and solves...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...think their sharp hunger would have pierced to the steaming and smoking dishes within. The very morning after I had denied that man a penny at the theatre door, and was still smarting to think I had not given him sixpence, I saw a boy of ten, in the cut-down tatters of a man, gloating upon a meat-pie which a cook had cruelly set behind the pane in front of him. I took out...
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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...think as well about the way he says it. What is distinctive about the language of Antonio’s description of the French court? Perhaps the most striking part of the speech is the long analogy he makes between royal courts generally and ‘a common fountain’. The appearance of the word ‘like’ in line 12 tells us that this analogy is a simile, a comparison of two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs