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Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...write your own answers to the following questions. You will need to decide which of the variations of gern that were introduced in the previous secton you wish to use. You can see a model answer for each question in the feedback. This should help you check that the general structure of your sentences is correct, but your response to the questions might look quite...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna throwing down her music in a rage; a button popping off the plump Clive Bell’s waistcoat during the slow movement of a piano sonata; an elderly man crashing loudly but astonishingly unhurt down the stairs at Covent Garden. The social...
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Article 10 mins
Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...write long essays or treatises. Most of his philosophical works are written as dialogues, in which a small group of characters discuss a philosophical question. The dialogues are usually set in the recent past, and the other characters are often real people – prominent public figures, whom his readers might well have known. It is as if a modern-day philosopher gave up...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...write, the World headlines are the stories of the Hell of Gaza, and the constant references to war involving Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran and the bombs of the US; stories also of ceasefires and broken ceasefires, of power and ego masquerading as leadership. Within these pages, you will read the words of a Palestinian American Aziz Abu Sarah, someone who has been...
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Article 5 mins
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...write and more than 19 kg lighter. After years of rehabilitation, she made her World Cup debut against Samoa in 2025. Rosie Galligan’s road back was just as brutal. She nearly lost her legs to meningitis in 2019, then fractured an ankle in early 2020, which sidelined her for over a year. Told by medical specialists and coaches more than once that she might never play...
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How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...writing The Fall of Gondolin while on medical leave from the first world war, 100 years ago this month. It is the first story in what would become his legendarium – the mythology that underpins The Lord of the Rings. But behind the fiction was his interest in another epic act of creation: the construction of imaginary languages. That same year, on the other side of...
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Article 5 mins
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: skynesher; iStockphoto.com Every effort has been made to contact...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Spray diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Spray diagrams

...Write words along the lines or ends of lines. The lines do not show directional links, just an association. Use different colours to highlight particular fans. Guidelines Write down the central idea leaving space all around it. Identify branches from that idea that you want to explore further. Write them down around the central idea and link each to it with a straight...
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Video 10 mins