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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...trouble. The grimmest part of Jaques’s speech is the seventh age, with its depiction of senility as a gradual withdrawal from all the good things in human life: it is ‘second childishness and mere oblivion,/Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything’. What’s noticeable here is that we have moved away from the vivid pictures – the spectators’ views –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...trouble, whereas in reality politics is merely the mechanism through which power is exercised in pursuit or defence of interests. It is important to appreciate that the structure and culture of many organisations tend to encourage conflict by simultaneously requiring people to compete for resources, status and remuneration and collaborate within and between teams,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...trouble. I can totally understand if they just took an easy option but it’s my fault for giving – for putting temptation in their way I feel, because I know they’re a very able student and they’re the ones who’ve been penalised, not me, because it was my work that they plagiarised. I feel a very strong sense of guilt for it because I let them see my work and,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...trouble with Boris is that he gets carried away in a fit of exuberance and says something which perhaps he doesn’t really mean and will retract or amend at a later stage. Now, whether that is lying, I think is a grey area. BORIS JOHNSON: Like some slumbering giant, we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self-doubt. TONY THORNE: And this goes right back, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...trouble. Two ethical concerns about advertising are deceptive/misleading advertising and disrespectful advertising. Deceptive or misleading advertising Deceptive or misleading advertising is dishonest, thus contravening the social value of honesty and the duty to disclose. Forms of potentially deceptive or misleading advertising include: untruthful advertising (i.e....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...trouble from time to time. What people thought was a straightforward problem may be more complex: there may be a personality clash, someone the meeting is depending on may not have done the work they said they would do, or everyone is tired and not able to give their best. However, you are much more likely to have a good meeting if it is well planned and people are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...trouble’; or specifies no consequences: ‘You shouldn’t do that.’ Refers to behaviours about which the receiver can do something. Refers to behaviours over which the receiver has little or no control. Now look at the sentences below and use the criteria provided to identify which of them deliver effective feedback. ‘When you interrupt me like that, it makes me...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...trouble administering student financial aid, keeping student records in synch and running properly on the IBM DB/2 database. PeopleSoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. PeopleSoft was the target of a similar suit several years ago, brought by textile manufacturer W. L. Gore. Yet suits brought by customers against PeopleSoft and competitors, including...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs