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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888.] Picture of "El Negro" ("Negre de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888 During the ages of European exploration and colonial expansion, the west delighted in...
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Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf

...de-lis’. Bu’n gweithio ar y gerdd tan y funud olaf. Yn gynnar ym mis Medi y flwyddyn honno, daeth criw mawr o bobl ynghyd i wylio seremoni’r cadeirio ym Mhenbedw. Roedd y prif weinidog ar y pryd, sef David Lloyd George, yn eu plith, ac yntau’n siaradwr Cymraeg. Heb wybod ei fod wedi marw o’i anafiadau sawl wythnos yn gynharach, roedd y beirniaid yn unfryd unfarn...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...de-clutter'. Both the BBC and other channels have television series about ‘collectaholics’ and hoarders who meet counsellors persuading them to ‘de-clutter’. There are of course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material...
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Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...De: Y plac glas a osodwyd y tu allan i adeilad PCYDDS Dinefwr yng nghanol dinas Abertawe i'w choffáu, © PCYDDS. Roedd ei ffrindiau'n newyddiadurwyr, yn gaethweision a ryddhawydd ac yn ymgyrchwyr megis Frederick Douglass ac Ellen a William Craft, a'r gweithredwyr gwleidyddol William Lloyd Garrison a Harriet Beecher Stowe. Roedd y gerddoriaeth y byddai Jessie wedi clywed...
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An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...Table 1 recaps the electrical quantities mentioned so far, their units and how they relate to each other. Table 1 Electrical quantities and their units QUANTITY UNIT EQUATION energy joules, J voltage (potential difference) volts, V or energy per charge, joules per coulomb, J C−1 current amps, A or charge per second, coulombs per second, C s−1 power watts, W or energy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...table, but unfortunately not all their friends get on well and so they want to arrange a seating plan that will keep everyone happy. Read the conversation between Sandy and Les and then work out how they can seat their guests. Sandy Faisal doesn’t get on with Gareth, so we can’t put them next to each other. And Jordan used to go out with Aria, but they split up, so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...table. We proceed, taking turns, congratulating each other when we make a right choice, and murmuring conciliatory comments when we don’t. It goes well. I’m beginning to take to Charlie. But Charlie is a robot, a two-foot-tall electromechanical machine, a glorified computer. It may move, it may speak, but it is what it is: a machine that happens to look humanoid. How...
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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...table of advantages and disadvantages of online shopping. Can you think of ways in which online retailers may try to address the disadvantages? ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES BUYER SELLER Words: 0 Discussion We thought of the following but you may have come up with others. ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES BUYER More choice Can’t try goods (e.g. shoes, clothes) first Can often track...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs