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Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...division of pulse into groups of 2, 3, 4 or more beats. * Pulse The beat underlying a piece of music. * Ragtime A popular style of music dating from the 1890s-1920s, usually performed on a piano. The ‘ragged’ rhythms to which its name refers are created by a steady left hand pulse and syncopated (off-beat) rhythms in the right hand. * Scale A sequence of pitches,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...divisions. How does the growth of the middle class affect the model? Compare and contrast the differences in state development of any two nineteenth century European countries or empires. In general, Victorian culture was activated by a dislike of industrialisation and urbanisation: the country was seen as a repository of enduring values. Do you agree? Based on knowledge...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...divisible into smaller components), it was a great place to start from. Fast forward a few thousand years, and by the 1930s, it was recognised that atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, and that in atoms the nuclei are surrounded by clouds of electrons. The existence of one more type of particle was surmised - the electron neutrino - which is produced in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...divisions in the later part of our clock, with the Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic taking up less time combined than some you might not know so well, like the Proterozoic, Archean, and Hadean, individually. The rock cycle is a fairly simple scheme, but it may seem rather complicated because of the variety of route the rock materials can take to be transformed. Many of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...division of underwear manufacturer Playtex managed to convince NASA to let it enter a design into a closed competition for the Apollo spacesuit. Now they had previously been pushed out at an earlier stage of the race for being, indeed, too frivolous a fashion company rather than an engineering one, therefore perceived not to have the technical skill. And yet they went on...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...division and institutional failure. Most meso-level interventions will be targeted at state institutions and are thus just as ideologically and politically coloured as macro-level interventions. Debates tend to focus on the appropriate role of the government in development; or whether it is best to have a minimal state, or a state that is sufficiently large to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...division of a continental plate and the formation of new oceanic crust), the sequences of events leading up to rifting are very different. SAQ 1 Based on Figure 6a, what do you think will be the first visible effects of passive and active rifting processes on the continental plate? Answer With passive rifts, the first visible effect is the formation of a rift zone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...divisions, perhaps as a gesture towards this sense of wholeness and connection, but there are breaks in the text. Read these first few paragraphs from the opening of the book now. How is a sense of time and history established here? It was a summer’s night and they were talking, in the big room with the windows open to the garden, about the cesspool. The county council...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs