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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...par with the child and woman, but lower than the eye-level of the man. We look up at him, a composition often used to emphasise the heroic or powerful nature of a person. Also notice how the woman and child are closer to the hearth, and that the man is positioned less closely to them. A degree of separation, in status, in gendered identity, could be inferred from this, as...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...objectification of women's bodies and the power of the pornography industry in the West, are well-placed. Another example is that the conditions often tied to humanitarian aid for developing countries have the effect of politicising aid from Western governments and increasing their control, instead of simply universalising the right to aid. This analysis also extends to...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...par with gas within a couple of years' time, onshore wind in the UK. RT: Yeah, yeah. But that doesn't ... RH: So surely that's a good thing, isn't it? RT: That's a good thing, of course. I mean better … RH: And again, wouldn't have happened without the subsidies. RT: Better technology is a good thing. It is not at all proven that this was because of the specific...
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...pars part persuadeo I persuade rapidus rapid, swift respondeo I reply, respond similis similar, like templum temple The fact that Latin words often have English derivatives can also make them relatively straightforward to learn. Table 3 Latin words with English derivatives LATIN WORD ENGLISH DERIVATIONS familia, household family filius, son filial habito, I live, dwell...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...objectification of women because they put so much emphasis on physical charms and sex appeal, rather than on personality or intelligence. It also becomes apparent that neither of these two women perceives herself as oppressed; rather, each feels liberated from the constraints of the ‘male-dominated culture’ that appears to oppress the other woman. In Figure 5...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...par value) of an asset or liability. * Present value The present value of a sum is the amount that would have to be received now to be worth the same as an amount received in the future. Future flows are converted to their present value by discounting them using a discount factor. * Real rate of return The rate of return from an asset after adjusting for price inflation....
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...par value but they are often sold at a premium. Secondary public offerings are only available to public limited companies. Private limited companies are not allowed to offer their shares to the public. Rights issue. This involves the offer of new shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing shareholding. This method is available to both private and...
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...par excellence. Again, in stark contrast to its philosophical and idealised utopian foundations, equity, and in particular those that rely upon it to manage property within the capitalist free-market context, have demonstrated that the trust is more than capable of circumventing equitable concerns for fairness or justice, equality or egalitarianism. More precisely, by...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs