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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...Le Mage. However the question of sources is decided, it is clear that Venetian artistic orientalism depended on a relatively limited repertoire of images, some representing quite distant ‘translations’ of some actual, originary, observation. Gentile Bellini’s Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria (Figure 27) is one such example. In it Bellini uses similar motifs to...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...les chats’, means that Pierre likes cats. (iii) In saying what he did, John meant that he would be late. (iv) Failure to bring an accurate map with him meant that John would be late. Discussion (i) Natural. If John has no sinus infection, his sneezing could not possibly mean that he had a sinus infection. If it means anything, it would have to mean something else, e.g....
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...articulated in the 1980s] Figure 7The seven-step activity model of SSM as articulated in the 1980s (Checkland and Scholes, 1990, p. 27). [An ‘iconic’ pictorial model of the process of SSM as articulated in the 1990s] Figure 8An ‘iconic’ pictorial model of the process of SSM as articulated in the 1990s (Checkland and Scholes, 1990, p. 29). Comment My answer is...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...articulated in different styles, but the word ‘good’ appears explicitly in all of them, which is particularly interesting. Did you include the term in your own definition as well? Activity 2 Having now read the activity comments for Activity 1 you might raise a number of further questions. Consider an interesting one: Is ‘wrong’ the opposite of ‘right’?...
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...articulate elite and may well, indeed, have been a precondition for its development. The roots of modern sentiments of European superiority and colonial racism seem to lie deep in the early development of any common identity and were already linked at an early stage with the dealings of a Latin core with a greater European periphery (Bartlett, 1994, p.313). The strongly...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...articulated the kinds of anxieties and fears that were being felt by millions of people across the UK. And by giving a voice to these anxieties, I think it forced the government to address these to some extent. Even if it didn’t change the government’s mind, it nonetheless forced the government to justify what they were doing, to engage in this conversation, to try to...
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...articulation expression special signs. The first thing to note about performance directions is that almost all of them are relative rather than absolute. This means that while bearing their meaning in mind, performers interpret them within limits. The second thing to note is that the meaning of some performance directions has changed over time. Indeed, some performance...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...articulate some knowledge remains uncodified because there is a cost associated with codifying it. This may be the cost of the process to articulate the knowledge. It may also be the (personal) cost to the holder of the knowledge of yielding it to a wider audience. The benefit of codified knowledge is that it allows greater access to it. In many areas the codification of...