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World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

...La Pérouse who had disappeared after leaving Botany Bay in 1788, it also had a scientific purpose. The expedition made a number of important geographical discoveries, amassed a significant collection of natural history specimens and made some of the earliest ethnographic observations of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The expedition also visited Tenerife, the Cape of...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...de plume of the winning bard. Nobody knows the true identity of the poet until the archdruid asks them to stand. Before enlisting, Hedd Wyn had started working on an awdl for the chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Due to the war, the Eisteddfod that year was held in England, in Birkenhead near Liverpool. Hedd Wyn had almost won the chair the previous year in...
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Design Behind the Bike
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Behind the Bike

...looks at what influences the designer and the consumer. The films form part of the Open University Course T317 and T174... History History of the Bike and the Tour de France Aesthetics The significance of aesthetics Wheels The history, design and evolution of the wheel Materials Titanium , carbon fibre and the resurgence of steel Frame Design Design through the Years...
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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...class (ages 11–14) that would support them in acting in this way. Respond in detail, thinking about the resources you might use, how you might sequence the activity and the different musical experiences that the young people will engage in...Teaching secondary music: 2 What is there to learn in music? - Music teachers are constantly involved in making decisions about...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women
History & The Arts

Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women

...classes of women, and, that being so, it assumes the same character as franchise movements have previously assumed. "I find another argument in favour of the enfranchisement of women in the opposition we are encountering on this temperance question. "I believe the influence of women in the temperance question would be highly beneficial. When I see the great forces of...
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...class hegemony was derailed by the Stalinist model of socialism. Even though the systemic flaws and distortions had been serious, Walter grimly predicted huge losses in East Germany’s progressive social programmes now the Wall was down. As we walked around what was East Berlin Walter, then in his 83rd year, talked about the need for a radical rethink of socialist...
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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...de la Asociación de... —Buenas noches. —Buenas noches. Select the answer for Question 1a here How many times is buenos días used? Once Twice Three times a. Once b. Twice c. Three times The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1b here How many times is buenas tardes used? Once Twice Three times a. Once b. Twice c. Three times The correct answer is a....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...two main parties (PSOE and PP) as a single corrupt political elite. Another new term - ‘la casta’ [the caste] – referred to, and so amplified the idea that, various supposedly separate political and economic elites, such as politicians, bankers, judges, journalists (etc.) - were all part of the same regime established after Franco who have shifted power back and forth between themselves*. The economic crisis was portrayed ......
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