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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...Studies qualifications. Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Muslim lunar calendar. Muslims associate it with the prophet Moses and the Israelites’ miraculous escape from Egypt. During this time, Muslims believe that God withdrew the water from part of the Red Sea to enable them to cross on its dry bed. God then let the water flow back so that...
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Studies qualification. How and why has English changed over time? In this brief introduction to the subject, I will show how we can look at the history of a language in two main ways: externally – where, why and by whom the language was used; the political and social factors causing change – and internally – the pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and written...
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...studying power engineering at the University of Istanbul, he went on to receive a MSc and PhD in energy economics from the Technical University of Vienna and a Doctorate honoris causa from Imperial College London. He is an honorary lifetime member of Galatasaray Football Club. Dr. Birol is the seventh Executive Director to lead the IEA, which was founded in 1974. He...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...study. Sub-Saharan Africa also has many different ecological areas that experience different rates of rainfall and have soils that vary in acidity or salinisation or sodification, where free sodium abounds, often causing soil structure deterioration. Zambia, for example, has three agroecological zones, distinguished by rainfall and growing season. Soil microbiologist...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...studying to compose elegant sermons, which flatter the ear yet reap very little fruit. Their hearers applaud their parts, but very few are converted." On Saint Patrick's significance and influence "Most preachers, now-a-days, have learning, but are not sufficiently grounded in true sanctity, and a spirit of devotion. Interior humility, purity of heart, recollection, and...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to attend, not only to what people said about race but… to what people could not say about race, it was the silences that told us something; it was what wasn’t there, it was what was invisible, what couldn’t be put into the frame, what was apparently...
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...Studies (COSAS) in 1980 and joined the fights against Apartheid. In 1983 he joined the Gay and Lesbian Association of South Africa (GASA) in an attempt to join up both sides of his activism. However, it was a predominantly white organisation and he found that GASA was firmly ‘apolitical’, disagreed with his anti-Apartheid work and would not support him on issues...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...studying this course, you should be able to: provide definitions of environment, management, systems and organisations in relation to environmental management describe organisations as systems and their role in environmental management understand the usefulness of systems thinking in relation to environmental management in organisations explain how environmental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs