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David Bowie: identity is creativity
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David Bowie: identity is creativity

...opens the visor to reveal a jewel-encrusted skull which is then carried off in a glass box as an object of worship – perhaps he was telling us that this was to be the final transformation. And in a wry reference back to Major Tom’s ‘Here am I, floating in a tin can, far above the world’ he portrays himself in ‘Lazarus’, eyes bound like a latter day Tiresias,...
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Creative Writing
History & The Arts

Creative Writing

...Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing... Tanika Gupta on Voice Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. Helen Blakeman and Setting Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and...
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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Open University course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world...Climate change and renewable energy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the basic principles of the atmospheric greenhouse effect and the term ‘Net Zero’ understand the human influences causing the anthropogenic or enhanced greenhouse effect...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of...
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Free course 48 hrs
Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...open border round Northern Ireland? [The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017] The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017 It’s becoming uncomfortably clear that in this case – given only the choice between Soft Brexit and Remain – many Hard Brexit enthusiasts would prefer to Remain. They suspect that...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on...
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Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card
Society, Politics & Law

Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card

...Open University's Social Sciences courses. Background The provision of diaries has long been part of the service that many unions provide for their members. Even in this era of online calendars and diaries, a hard copy union diary was often gratefully received by trade unionists, a good place to note details of shifts, holidays and other work-related information – in...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as being ‘nobody important’, as she sat quietly in Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) branch meetings while other voices were raised, and...
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