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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...write a short text in that language, for example a formal letter. Use the translation tool to check your text in your first language. Then re-write the same text in a different ‘tone’, for example in the format of an email to a close friend. Translate this version, too. Did you get it right? Do the two versions translated into your native language by the tool reflect...
Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...write down the times, places and what happened every time you were bullied. Not everything is subjective, there are facts about bullying behaviours so write them down. Keep the book at home and only ever open it when you’re in a robust frame of mind and definitely not when you are drunk. Stage 3: get a witness It is essential that you tell someone what is going on. They...
‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...writing of the words and the composition of the tune now inseparable from them. William Williams’ hymns were a staple of Welsh-language Christian worship right through the intervening period, while the Peter Williams’ translation of this hymn was included in many English language hymnals in Wales and beyond. Among Welsh-speaking congregations, a range of tunes have...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...writing. But the world that Bowie ended up imagining arguably has as much to do with Burgess’s “world of adolescent violence and governmental retribution” depicted in A Clockwork Orange. Coincidentally, Sonia Orwell also played a bit part in an incident which was formative in the inception of the novel. In 1944, when Burgess was stationed with the army in Gibraltar,...
Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...writing about “primitives”, they were also intrigued by elements of their own culture, in particular “wild” and “primitive” practices and cognitive operations, based not in some far-off distant shore or in some time before time, but right in their midst, in the delirium of Romanticism, superstitious “folk” traditions and more. All kinds of anxieties about...
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...write histories of buildings. History, though, changes as each generation asks new questions about the past. A social history of architecture emerged during the twentieth century, exploring the relationship between buildings and their occupants: how people used, valued, and changed their living and working spaces. This has helped change the focus of architectural history...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...write a thesis which makes an original contribution to knowledge. These degrees are usually undertaken part-time by mid- to late-career professionals who write a thesis that contributes towards both theory and professional practice. This sounds like a straightforward undertaking. Most professionals are familiar with and committed to research informed practice. However,...
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...write letters to newspapers, and speak at meetings and events for instance Finally: start small: small actions can lead to big change! In relation to mode, and the skills and confidence needed to communicate change via public speaking, you may find it useful to read ‘Dare to speak up’, a guide to communicating change via persuasive speech. Activity 1: getting started...