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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...working-class people - lived in grossly overcrowded 'single-ends' or 'rooms-and-kitchens' - that is, single-roomed or two-room small tenement houses, most with outside toilets. Within the city the sheer scale of the public health problems associated with such over-crowding forced the Corporation to take on more and more municipal powers fired by a Presbyterian zeal that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...work to memorise the new words and expressions you learn. Remember that little and often is best. Now you’ve reached the end of this week (and the course), reflect a little on what you’ve been learning. In the box below, note down what you’ve found easy, useful or fun, and what was more difficult. Week 2 Reflection What was easy, useful or fun this week? What was...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...work with situations where a quantity is continuously changing and its rate of change isn’t necessarily constant. As a simple example, imagine a man walking along a straight path, as shown in Figure 1. His displacement from his starting point changes continuously as he walks. The rate of change of displacement is called velocity. [Described image] Figure 1 A man’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...work (what does ‘hypocrite’ mean?) and then, once more, some biographical research. If you can find just one religious person who is not a hypocrite, then the answer to (F) is ‘No’. This biographical exercise is not philosophy either. So (F) doesn’t count as a philosophical question any more than (G) did. Now consider question (E), ‘Does religion depend on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...work, too. So when I feel my energy levels completely depleting, too, that’s when I know I need a break. And it happens at different times throughout the day, actually. It might vary from between about like 11:30 to about 1 o’clock SPEAKER 12 I always eat around 1 o’clock so that I can meet my friends. So we all come from different departments and meet up together...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...work of more than one hand, a group of authors known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. However, arguments have now been made that the SHA is the work of just one author. It remains unclear exactly when this author(s) was writing, or the purposes behind the work. The sources of information used by the author to compile the biographies are often uncertain, and there are...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...works, and about how people think and behave. How does a philosophical answer to the ‘What is…?’ question relate to these scientific accounts of the nature of emotion? A standard way to answer this question is to say that, while science is concerned to describe and explain the way in which the world actually works, the role of philosophy is to take a step back –...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...work deviates from the main topics to provide a cultural, ethnographical, geographical, and historiographical background that forms an essential part of the narrative and provides readers with a wellspring of additional information. Herodotus has been criticized for his inclusion of ‘legends and fanciful accounts’ in his work. The contemporaneous historian Thucydides...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs