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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...de Sévigné’s letters with Byron’s verse: ‘I do not admire “Madame de Sévigné’s letters,” though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel […] the last Canto of “Childe Harold” (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...maladies: precise figures are hard to pin down, but according to several reviews of prescription databases, the share of pregnant women who receive at least one prescription during pregnancy is 56 per cent in Denmark and Canada, 57 per cent in Norway, 64 per cent in the USA, 85 per cent in Germany and 93 per cent in France. Knowledge is power But with so little data...
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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...Parkinson did wouldn’t have worked either, given the changes in numbers of shareholders per company as sampling one in ten in the early years would have told us almost nothing. The other approach, which we could adopt, was random sampling. You could do this by say numbering shareholders One to whatever number N and then picking random numbers to sample the shareholder...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...des ordres et simples dignités (‘Treatise on orders and plain dignities’); the other is from an article by Defoe (1660–1731), a novelist and social commentator, in an eighteenth-century newspaper. Read the two quotations then answer the following questions: How many groups or orders do Loyseau and Defoe identify? What is the basis for their division of society?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...de-legitimised his victory was music to the ears of the Labour Right. And some knew, deep down, that if enough of a storm was created about infiltration, this would provide cover for the party apparatus to deny more leftwing activists a vote, and that this could, just about, influence a close result. [Peter Mandelson] Will the former Communist Peter Mandelson find himself...
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...de-emphasizing his Cuban roots. With bombastic “outsider” candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson currently leading the Republican field, it will be interesting to see if Rubio’s youth and migration story allow him to distance himself from Washington or if the contradictions inherent in his message, his story, and immigrants’ relationship to Republican primary...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...de la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have never been...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...de la programación que llevó el Apolo a la Luna. Verne Dec 10, 2014. Ref: https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2014/12/11/articulo/1418314336_993353.html Accessed 26 May 2019 Katz, Richard (2010) About Margaret Hamilton. NASA Office of Logic Design. Ref: http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm Accessed 27 May 2019. McMillan, Robert (2015). Her code got humans on the moon –...
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