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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...Open University's Classical Studies qualifications The Underworld The earliest Ancient Greek poetry features descriptions of the Underworld. Also known as Hades, this was the destination for souls after the death of the physical body. The soul – a wispy and insubstantial image of the deceased – would emerge from the corpse and flit away on its next journey, often...
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...Open University's Open degree qualification. Tense parents and stressed children. A competitive high pressure home environment. Pressing kids to do well in school. Putting children through private tutoring and coaching classes with the aim of getting them into grammar schools and prestigious universities. Anxiety about educational achievement hangs over the parent–child...
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...Open University’s version of a classic simulation, known as the beer game. The beer game lets you experience problems of supply chains. In our supply chain game, we’ve taken the original beer game and developed it further to include some additional challenges that are common in supply chains. You'll manage the process for one of the UK's most popular items - cans of...
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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...course, only appeared in autumn and spring when migrating, and passed over at a vast height above the earth. These birds, he said, were so big and had such great wings that if they came down on the flat earth they would be incapable of rising, hence they only alighted on the tops of high mountains, and as there was nothing for them to eat in such places, it being naked...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...Open University’s Geography Department. [Marx as fashion] Transcript Andy Morris (AM): Hello, I'm Andy Morris and I'm joined today by my colleague from the Geography Department at The Open University, Philip O’Sullivan, to find out a little about the fascinating work and extraordinary life story of Peter Kropotkin, a Russian geographer who died almost a hundred years...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...opened his eyes – Algeria was a Mecca for all this circle: no Protestant obfuscations there. Gide [nineteenth/twentieth century French novelist] fell for a voluptuous native boy, Athman, who must have been very satisfying in contrast to Madeleine, and got his fellow-traveller, Henri Ghéon … to bring this morsel of humanity back to Paris. (p. 186) It is hard to...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...Open University's open degree. I was born in London in the summer of 1991 to an English mother and a Singaporean father. They grew up on opposite sides of the world and have both emigrated for the other over their time together. They have experienced two different cultures and in many ways are polar opposites – mum is loud and extroverted, dad is quieter and reflective,...
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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...open, and modern. I am a supporter of Welsh independence and hope to be part of the journey in developing a modern democracy that works for the people of Wales. What do you hope to achieve as a member of the House of Lords? I will work alongside my party’s MPs to fight for a fair deal for Wales and hold current and future UK governments to account. I will be unashamed...
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