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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...cast aside the old ways and embrace a Romantic credo. The main thrust of the Preface is blatantly anti-classical: Hugo demands that writers should no longer work under the tyranny of classical rules or genres. Arguing that there must be a new spirit of liberty in art, he declares, ‘There are no rules; there are no models! Or rather there are no rules except the general...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...cast in battle. Instead Virgil has set up a situation in which Turnus is incapacitated but not killed, and so Aeneas has the option of sparing his life if he chooses to. I don’t know how you responded to Turnus in this passage, but to me, Virgil stresses his youth and vulnerability at this point. As he lifts the rock to attack Aeneas he is overcome with supernatural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...sand rather than try to solve a problem. I am beginning to help others in the team who have just started working with us, and this has made me more confident. I am a trustworthy person and honest, plus I don’t mind working hard, which is important as I think it is good to lead by example. I want to learn more and be able to make changes in my setting. In practice,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...aluminium hydroxide. Dry powder extinguishers are best for reactive metal fires. The information on which extinguisher to use will be in the MSDS. It is recommended that you undertake some form of training before using any fire extinguishers because there are hazards associated with their use. [Figure 11] Figure 10 Fire extinguisher symbol chart...Health and safety in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...sand are transformed into glass or an automobile is assembled from its various parts. But all organisations that produce goods or services transform resources: many are concerned mainly with the transformation of information (for example, consultancy firms or accountants) or the transformation of customers (for example, hairdressing or hospitals). Galloway (1998) defines...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...cast of characters – both human and divine – in the poem than those who you were asked to look out for in Activity 1. These include the suitors back on Ithaca, and the Phaeacians who help Odysseus on the final leg of his journey, as well as the various monstrous or supernatural figures who intercept him. Epic poetry really does do everything on a grand scale –...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...cast of historical figures, Rivera does not focus upon anyone in particular. Instead, the Mexican people are themselves represented as the anonymous agents of social change, painted in what David Craven has described as a ‘post-heroic’ way (Craven, 2002, p. 55). A significant exception to this emphasis upon the non-hierarchical is the depiction of the revolutionary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...cast doubt on whether the law report was accurate. For example, Lord Lyndhurst was reported to have said of the unfortunate law reporter Mr Barnardiston who wrote reports published between 1726 and 1735: ‘I fear that is a book of no great authority; I recollect, in my younger days, it was said of Barnardiston, that he was accustomed to slumber over his note-book, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs