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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...study in Arts and Humanities...What is poetry?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the common techniques underlying free verse and traditional forms of poetry identify personal experiences that can be used when writing poems understand the basic terminology and practical elements of poetry...What is poetry?: 1 What is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...studying Aristotle, because, as he explained, the name Aristotle, “would have meant to my mother, as secretly to Victorian women, his book on child-bearing: unmentionable”. But Rowse knew that the book was tucked away in her chest of drawers back in his home in rural Cornwall. The work remained an iconic symbol of sexual knowledge for generations. In Evelyn Waugh’s...
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Article 10 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...study, in the way of reading, or improving my ideas in communication with his far more cultivated mind, was all of literary employment that engaged my attention. In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbours of Lord Byron. At first we spent our pleasant hours on the lake, or wandering on its shores; and Lord Byron, who was writing the third...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...study, was a keen ballet dancer. His CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) therapist used this interest in ballet to question whether his desire to transition to male was genuine – he was expected to fit into a traditional, restricted form of masculinity in order to pass the gatekeeping of the gender identity development services. Other young people talked...
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Article 10 mins
Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...studying biology with The Open University In fact, it has been suggested that should the couple mistime things, they are best off not bothering to withdraw at all, but please don't try that one at home. How much sperm does a man make? First, let's talk numbers. The quantity of sperm cells that men produce varies widely. In general, it is said that men may produce between...
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Article 15 mins
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...studies on Delhi’s contemporary urbanity, see Sundaram, 2010; Ghertner, 2011; DuPont, 2011; McDuie-Ra, 2012; Dasgupta, 2014; Dattatreyan, 2020). In the last two decades Delhi has become a complex and superdiverse (Vertovec, 2007) metropolis. The city has seen multiple layers of migration, striking changes in social and physical mobility, foreign and domestic investment...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the possibilities of third-person narration recognise the role of dialogue in creating character understand how literary techniques combine to create a story...Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd: 1 Biography and context - Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a novelist and poet, famous in his own lifetime...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain some key features of the criminal justice system describe some key features of the criminal law understand the truth about the biggest myths around criminal law and the criminal courts...Truth, myth or mixture?: 1 ‘Criminal cases are tried by jury’ - There are many images associated with the criminal justice system....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs