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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However,...
Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...course of the rest of Claire’s life. [A stone memorial plaque for Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. It bears her birth and death dates: 13.1.18]A memorial plaque for Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. Birth: 13.1.1817. Death: 19.4.1822. Erected by the Byron Society in 1980.Show descriptionThe weathered stone plaque stands amidst...
What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...course of a walk. Use a mnemonic which is a tool that helps us remember certain facts or large amounts of information. Use location to jog memory, such as trying to remember one item per section of the park and then replaying the route in your mind to recall these items. Use someone with you to support you by ‘cueing’. This is where they provide the first letter of...
Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...course) has Jason state that women are governed by sexual desire (569-573) and even Medea confesses that her "passion is stronger than reason" (1079). Further evidence for the supposedly passionate and irrational behaviour of women can similarly be found in the earlier work of Sappho, whose poetry frequently alludes to the sexual energy of women. Poems 94 and 96 utilise a...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...open to the eyes and feet of the world. Love, and Death, and Memory, keep charge for us in silence of some beloved names. It is the crowning glory of genius, the final miracle and transcendent gift of poetry, that it can add to the number of these and engrave on the very heart of our remembrance fresh names and memories of its own creation." "Lear is the occasion for...
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...course, you be seeing - literally! - how we can use graphical data charts to help us make comparisons in a visual way. Almost everything we do with data involves comparison – most often between two or more values derived from the data, sometimes between one value derived from the data and some mental reference or standard. The dedication of Richard Hamming’s book on...
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...course, would argue that the world (and animation in general) is worse-off because the Secret of Kells was released. They Don’t Bet On Horses In line with the point above is that indirect subsidies do not bet on horses so to speak. Direct subsidies anticipate a certain level of investment but they also cannot control who undertakes such activities. In that respect, they...
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...course, we are no longer so innocent and with CGI and special effects, we no longer trust the camera, although fantasy had been there right from the very beginning in trick photography and animation. And within British cinema, there had always been genres that steered away from realism, such as comedies (Carry On) and horror (Hammer) but these were seen as ’mere...