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Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...technique was used by Joseph Conrad in Chance (1914) and in that beautiful film The Power and the Glory: a rhapsody of miscellaneous scenes without chronological order. Overwhelmingly, endlessly, Orson Welles shows fragments of the life of the man, Charles Foster kane, and invites us to combine them and to reconstruct him. Form of multiplicity and incongruity abound in...
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Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...technique that puts a decisive emphasis on the opening couplet, and that quickens the overall pace of the lyric, as we (and Georgie) are hurried on after three lines rather than four: Pa said, “There must be a mistake; How can my son not be straight; After all I’ve said and done for him?” Stewart exploits a variety of different rhymes (including “end,”...
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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...techniques and emerging technologies. These include search engines that return only reliable sources and repositories of open academic content, annotation tools that support critical reading and interpretation, knowledge mapping tools that connect and synthesise ideas, and content management systems that facilitate easy citations and technologies to detect plagiarism....
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...techniques. People spending large amounts of time with their participants, either living in similar communities, whether or not they were actually living with their participants or just they tended to live in the same areas and had interaction, but they would actually meet them as they were cycling to the university or to wherever they were working and they’d meet their...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...techniques and architectural style, or retention of local craft skills geared to modern tourism or new markets. Moreover, what happens in particular places also has an effect on the wider system. Not only does the existing character of an area influence the ways in which general social processes operate in and affect that local area - the outcome of that interaction can...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...technique because, that way, a degree of redundancy comes from the way that multiple eyebar assemblies provide multiple load-paths. Photographs from the time of construction, along with the engineering plans, are still preserved in the local county archive…. Bill Connery This is a plan view of the Sixth Street Bridge, it’s approximately 995 feet long and 77 feet high...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...technique, marking and timings. This more relaxed or informal approach was part of the reason that the system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work for EHE private candidates. Quite simply, they had no history with teachers marking their work as students learnt independently using books, their own research, YouTube, past papers and family or friends to support...
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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...training, and by the use of specialist cognitive techniques, but these measures would be difficult and/or costly to implement in criminal trials. But informing jurors about the factors that research has shown are – and perhaps more importantly are not – associated with truthfulness would be a start and might serve at least to prevent the most glaring misconceptions....
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