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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...think about and interpret the poem...Introducing Homer's Iliad: 1 The Troy story - Homer’s two poems – the Iliad and the Odyssey – together tell the story of a war between Greeks and Trojans at a place called Troy (or Ilium, to give it its Latinised name – hence the Iliad), and the return home of one of the heroes, Odysseus (hence the Odyssey). Even if you think...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...think about the following questions: What type of narrative perspective is used here? Do you find anything immediately striking about the voice of the narrator? How does the narrative perspective change in this extract? What impression of London is given in this section? How does Selvon develop the character of Moses? Discussion I hope you recognised this extract as an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...system, moving onto the Earth’s oceans and seas. Understanding how ocean movements are generated and sustained in the form of waves, tides, flows and currents is important in many fields of engineering. In the construction industry understanding of winds likely to be encountered is vital in the design, construction, and maintenance of high-rise buildings. In the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...thinks Tunisians “punished” centrist parties like his, and urged the centrist parties to form a new coalition. “Social-democratic forces stayed scattered and did not take the responsibility to unite,” Ben Jaafer said in a press conference after the results of the elections were announced. Because of polarization, in order for pluralism to take root in Tunisia, new...
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Article 5 mins
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...thinking and indigenous languages. The page of the project reads as follows: En esta [primera] serie se retratan siete de estas 68 visiones del mundo: huasteco, maya, mixteco, náhuatl, totonaco, yaqui y zapoteco, a través de la visión de siete escritores y siete ilustradores gráficos. In this [first] series, seven of these 68 world views are portrayed: Huastec, Mayan,...
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What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?
Society, Politics & Law

What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?

...official campaign slogan promised, is up for debate. But I reckon that if Clinton reflects properly on how radical Bernie was, if she thinks carefully about how much he transformed her campaign, she could only conclude that the revolution was real and cannot be ignored.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...think about the human toll of international crises and our political policies. But although we may have found sympathy for this young boy, and demanded something be done, the reality of life for young refugees remains extremely hard. Like Alan Kurdi, many children and young people make the journey with their family. But others arrive unaccompanied, either because they set...
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Article 10 mins
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...thinking about method is ‘how do we know?’ But what has the idea of ‘being in motion’ got to do with knowledge and how we know it? In this blog I will take a big step back and examine how, in the history of natural science, ‘being in motion’ has put our knowledge into question. This, in my view, is interesting because it shows how questioning knowledge itself...
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Article 5 mins