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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...style village cluster] Rundale clachan patterns of settlement still visible in County Mayo Agriculture itself represents a synthesis of the social, the environmental and the spatial. A combination of factors within society and environment such as soils and climate, cultural forms, local social organisation and the wider economic and political context, both national and...
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The German language zone
Languages

The German language zone

...style housing estates made from precast concrete slabs. Download the Cultures:1 tasks and ideas pdf Cultures:2 McDonald's erobert Kreuzberg The German language website rundschau-online.de is the online edition of the German daily newspaper Kölnische Rundschau. Our choice is an article on the opening in 2007 of the first McDonalds restaurant in Kreuzberg, a district in...
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The hidden world of everyday coding
Digital & Computing

The hidden world of everyday coding

...styling product with a barcode scanner. The front desk has a credit card reader on] [Worm's eye view of several exposed lifts in a commercial building in Tokoyo with lots of glass.] [A row of washing machines in a laundrette.] [A grey round SMART home device that is displaying the time, sat on a white table.] We see bar codes every day, but have you ever thought about how...
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Daisy Main
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Daisy Main

...style garden ]‘OpenLearn has enriched my life,’ Daisy explained. ‘The vast array of free resources means that there truly is something for everyone. My favourite part is that each time I log in, there’s always new content that catches my eye! Each course has made a difference in my life.’ She explained how she vividly remembers sitting at home, and in the...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...style written by French authors. Reconstruction was accompanied by a long economic boom in Western Europe, and the workforce in Europe’s growing economies benefited from higher incomes and more leisure time than previous generations. The new economic conditions led to changes in the world of crime fiction publishing, with a move from hardback lending libraries to the...
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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...styles of critical spatial thinking and decision making as they relate to the challenge of transforming urban areas apply a range of critical spatial and social theories to the analysis of specific issues track the way that issues and challenges facing specific places emerge and manifest themselves negotiate between a global level of analysis and the issues that are...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...style) in the Daru room to Romanticism in the Mollien room. We can gain some sense of the changes between NeoClassicism and Romanticism by means of a comparison between a history painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the principal exponent of Neoclassicism, and one by Eugene Delacroix (1798–1863), the leading French Romantic painter. David's Oath of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...style banner I discussed earlier. But both types of banners share similarities. Both rely on a stark, uncluttered format – not dissimilar to a newspaper front page or news-stand both use masthead style lettering which mimics that of The Sun newspaper itself, both adopt the newspaper’s colours – red on white – also those of Liverpool Football Club. These features...
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