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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...English’ on ‘French kissing’. ‘Don’t Speak to the Brits…’ is full of the unsaid and is politically charged. Written in sparse, short stanzas, the poem contains a lot of white space: you might say this suggests gaps in the story and silencing. In her interview with Adam Wyeth in 2020, Colette Bryce explains she ‘never set out to write “about” The...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...English, Scottish, African-American, and possibly Cherokee traditions, creating a genre that is now called old time, old timey, hillbilly, or Appalachian music’ (Moloney, 2006, p. 282). Examples of Appalachian music and its Scots -Irish roots are available here. [Photograph: The Bog-Trotters, an American traditional Appalachian folk band, perform ‘Hop up my Ladies’,...
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...English translation), which included losing an arm and then being cared for by the local inhabitants of the island, influenced Mizuki's work for the rest of his life. After surviving the war and being demobilized in 1945, like millions of other returning soldiers, the one-armed Mizuki struggled to find a way to make living in rural Tottori Prefecture. He would go on to...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...English: the uses of digital cameras to support collaborative thinking in the exploration of poetry...Creativity, community and ICT: 4.1 Introduction - Collective oeuvres* produce and sustain group solidarity. They help make a community. Works and works-in-progress create shared and negotiable ways of thinking in a group … externalising, in a word, rescues cognitive...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...English. Assuming the contents are likewise in these two languages (which they are, in fact), we might begin to conjecture from this that Napier had different readers in mind. Given the substantial vernacular textbook tradition by this time (seventy or so years after the first appearance of Record’s works), we may infer that Napier was not aiming at the homegrown...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...English. ll est irlandais. He's Irish. ll and elle are not only used to replace the name of a man or a woman, but also masculine and feminine nouns. Le musée? IL est juste là, à droite. The museum is just there, on the right. La mairie? Elle est au bout de la rue. The town hall? It's at the end of the street. On est, nous sommes In Extract 39, you also came across two...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...ENGLISH SPEECH] KELVIN BIZAHALONI: In Arizona, I am a sheepherder, a wood chopper, a hiker, and a lover of plants. But outside, I am a musician, an artist, an Indigenous person. And now I'm a world traveller. GABRIELLE HUGHES: I've lived in the UK now for four years. And it's very interesting coming from my nation in Canada to sort of the heart of the empire. I think it's...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...English, her third language after Mongolian and Russian. I feel some pity for the students because the class lasts over three hours, and it is well past the halfway point before Odontuya remembers to give them a short break. Slackers at the back, I note, have no escape. “Why don’t you have any questions?” she demands of a young man who thought he had managed to...
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