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Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...write this article on my personal admiration of Professor Maathai’s contribution, not least as an inspiration to us all. Although we have made progress in acknowledging women’s contribution, many exemplary heroes are still, if at all, in the periphery of many people’s thoughts. I must admit, I hadn’t heard of Professor Maathai until the Nobel Peace Prize of 2004...

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Article 10 mins

Languages

20 years in texting: developments in mobile phone communication

...writing known as ‘textspeak’. In November 2006, for example, I received this SMS text message from a friend: Hi, been v busy with work, glad wk nearly over, v v tired! Ur wk ok? Re tomo, i finish work at twelve so i'll come back here n join u later, if that's ok. Was wondering whether to train in to uni station n train n taxi back as solves car problem - plus this...

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...write legal documents that protected slave ‘owners’. How, then, should we approach what seems to be a double standard: freedom for some but not all? To what extent should we draw upon – or disregard – thinkers who lived in a vastly different world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs? To explore these questions, you are first going to look at...

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Article 10 mins

OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...writing moments when I thought carefully about every word; about whether I would be understood or misunderstood. The Belfast Telegraph used my photograph alongside a short blurb: How - after Saturday - do you begin to explain to people that the dissidents are not an IRA? That Saturday was March 7th 2009; when another murder scene was painted onto the canvas of an...

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Article 5 mins

Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...writing clearly such that any message you (the sender) intend to send to someone else (the receiver) is exactly the one which they receive. This means that as well as the detailed content of the message, we have to give some thought to the language we use e.g. ask ourselves if the receiving person might misunderstand any words or phrases we use. We must also be aware of...

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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs

History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...writings, which are discussed in detail...This free course, Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations, considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts. The novel broadens the scope of study of a realist novel, in...

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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs

History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...writing made available in such locations to realise the appeal of fiction. Take a few moments to think about Why we read fiction? What do we hope to gain from reading stories about imagined events that happen to imaginary people? Robert DiYanni begins his impressively wide-ranging study Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (1997) with the following...

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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs

History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...writings and assesses their historical significance. In particular, it examines the contribution that Evangelicalism, the religious tradition to which Wilberforce belonged, made in the transitions between the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Throughout it relates Wilberforce's career and writings to wider social and cultural developments in Britain, with special regard for...

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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs

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