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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...becomes why such different labour markets exist and why particular types of workers are restricted in their access to the better jobs in the primary labour markets. This course also provides good examples of how different theoretical perspectives lead to different policy prescriptions. Neoclassical economists believe that making the world more like the characteristics of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...become more aware of their moods, and of what is influencing or causing them. Another common distinction found in the study of moods and emotions concerns states and traits. A trait is a relatively stable attribute of an individual, whereas a state is a temporary response to circumstances. Take, for example, anxiety. A person shows state anxiety when something causes him...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...become part of the sky. The sky is otherwise empty. A simple question of ‘place’ for a child, in this context, introduces ideas of visual and intellectual perspective. Let’s start building another kind of house: The house that Jack or Jill might build We know that poems are made of lines and lines need line- breaks … You’ll keep coming back to the building works...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...becomes part of your estate. Taking your pension this way means that you'll benefit if investments do well, but you'll also carry the risk if investment performance is poor. A significant concern with the drawdown approach is that predicting how long you'll live, and therefore how much money you'll need, is far from an exact science. Based on national averages, a woman of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...becomes more sedate. The bridge ends at 02:07. The bridge is followed immediately by the first verse, repeated from the opening of the song. Now that you are familiar with how the various formal components of ‘Suspicious Minds’ sound, it’s appropriate to consider what they accomplish and, in particular, what the bridge contributes to the meaning of the song. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...becomes bankrupt and defaults on its financial obligations. These factors that underpin the expected return on an investment are set out in Figure 1 [Described image] Figure 1 Breakdown of required rate of return on an investment When it comes to investments in shares we need to develop these three elements that determine the expected return to investors.a For shares the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...becoming the dignity of the English Nation even to wish to rob Ireland of her rights.– You may make the attempt, but I am confident you will be defeated, and what must for ever after be the state of the Irish mind? You say yourselves that we will one and all be for ever after jealous of Englishmen; or of any men who would presume to make Ireland dependent, and Irishmen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...becomes completely convinced by that experience that you do need to apply a rational planning. You need to give people a proper structure to their lives, you need to provide them with the basic elements that will give them good housing. The opportunity to work in fair decent conditions. You need to provide education opportunities for recreation and an good environment. By...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs