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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...casts before progressing to the figure, and the trip to Rome remained a cultural rite of passage. It is true that the hierarchy of the genres was breaking down and the classical ideal was becoming less convincing. In 1859, the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) poured scorn on the new medium of photography. According to him, photographs that imitated paintings of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...cast aside. Even a short poem can evoke a whole scenario, without being explicit. We should file away this idea – that less can be more. This is how far we have got with the building of our poetic house. The house that Jack or Jill might build We know that poems are made of lines and lines need line- breaks, which we’ve already discussed. These lines can, in turn,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...cast-out Acadians had lost their land and possessions, and went on a journey to find what they had lost. Some of them, like Pélagie, went back to Canada after years of exile in the New England colonies and rebuilt their homes. Others arrived in Louisiana and founded a new Acadia there. Similarly, when the companions come back, they build Edvardville. This allusion to...
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Article 15 mins
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...cast of character emerge within the Gothic tradition. Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts and demons often appear alongside men and women who typify extremes of good and evil: monks and nuns, violent tyrants and naïve damsels in distress, Byronic heroes and femmes fatales. It might be worth noting that although such characterization appears to reinforce gender...
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Article 45 mins
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...casting your own shadow – this shadow influences the people around you. PAUL GODFREY I'd like to hope that I come across as someone who is inclusive. I am always asking an opinion in a room, whether it's a meeting of three people, whether it's flying on a big mission, whether it's in a huge finance meeting, we're absolutely engaging with each individual to ensure that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...sand to cement required to make concrete is 3:1. If you have 40kg of cement, how much sand should you have? Read the label from a bottle of wallpaper stripper: Dilute: add 1 part wallpaper stripper to 7 parts water. How much wallpaper stripper and water is needed to make 16 litres of solution? To make a solution of hair colourant you need to add one part of hair colourant...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...sand to cement required to make concrete is 3:1. How much of each is needed in order to make 60 m3 of concrete? Read the label from a bottle of wallpaper stripper: Dilute: add 1 part wallpaper stripper to 7 parts water. How much wallpaper stripper and water is needed to make 16 litres of solution? To make a solution of hair colourant you need to add one part of hair...
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Free course 48 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...that the land that became Tuvalu surfaced from the ocean, enabling the accumulation of sand and gravel, and coral growth that helped make the islands. Subsequently, from around AD 750 to 1250, the Pacific experienced a phase of gradual warming known to climate change scientists as the ‘Medieval warm period’ (Nunn, 2003, p. 223). As temperatures rose, so too did sea levels. Rising sea levels would have brought salt into ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs