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Beginners’ Chinese
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese

...Open University course: L197: Beginners’ Chinese You can also download transcripts for all the tracks... Beginners' Chinese A short introduction to this album. Beginners Chinese: Pronunciation and tone Mandarin Chinese speech sounds and tones. Learn how to pronounce Chinese vowels, consonants and the four tones. Beginners Chinese: Numbers from zero to ten Learn to count...
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Audio 43 mins
Social Care: Past and Present
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social Care: Past and Present

...Open University course K202 Care, welfare and community... Social Care: Past and Present A short introduction to this album. Changing communities in north Sheffield Introducing the two adjacent but distinct communities of Darnall and Tinsley in north Sheffield. Sheffield Health Action Zone Working with the community to improve individual and community welfare. Ethnic...
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Audio 3 hrs 7 mins
Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...Open University Course Y161 Introducing environment... Introducing environment A short introduction to the album. Unseen impacts Find out more about the consequences of the way you shop. Shopping by car Short car journeys are the most environmentally damaging, yet a quarter of journeys are less than 2 miles. Shopping by bus The more people replace car journeys with buses,...
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Audio 2 hrs 2 mins
Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...Open University course K203 Working for health... Working for health A short introduction to this album. Radical midwives London midwives talk about their rebellion against new practices within the NHS, and why they set up the Association of Radical Midwives. Gene activists Activists challenge the safety claims and the science behind the commercial exploitation of GM...
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Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?
History & The Arts

Cynicism: Philosophy for dogs?

...open, without shame or embarrassment. When someone asked him where he was from, he replied ‘I am a citizen of the world’. He was constantly striving for greater simplicity: when he saw a boy mopping up lentils with a piece of bread, it’s said he threw away his spoon. For Diogenes, being truly human means living like a dog. Cynics were like dogs in another way too:...
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Article 10 mins
Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...My doctoral research focuses on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari. I am interested in de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different Rasta communities and groups. I see my...
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Article 10 mins
Irish Gothic story competition winners
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Gothic story competition winners

...opens and closes with stories being told—offers a satisfying symmetry. There was also a genuine shiver factor here, which Parkes effectively manipulates through the partial and then full reveal of the mirror’s chilling reflection at the end of the story." Download "The Mirror at Harwood Hall" (PDF, Word) Joint First Place: Dermot Kelly, "Ogeous Handlin’" Judges'...
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Article 5 mins
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...opens and closes the action of this novel, and the climax it provides was felt to be impressive enough for more than one later critic to suggest Ford should have ended his series there, with volume 3. (One influential edition of the work, Graham Greene’s for the Bodley Head in 1963, made the dramatic decision to do just that – using Ford’s occasional doubts about...
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Article 15 mins