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Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...intelligent, thus human, while others were labelled as barbarian, animal-like, or primitive, and therefore not fully human. This division between ‘civilised’ and ‘non-civilised’ played a vital role in justifying the colonisation and enslavement of those who were deemed ‘lesser human’, ‘other human’, or ‘non-human’, along with the perception of their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...artificial. It is true that at present national identities can be envisaged as given, while European identity is only in its infancy, and hence has to be constructed, but it is a well-known historical fact that national identities are also the result of a centrally-engineered process of nation-building which in many cases is relatively recent. It is, of course, another,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...artificial» y que, en el caso del cine, acaba en un producto «soso» que pierde con respecto al original. Lucía Rodríguez también lamentó que «empresas de grandísima influencia», desde medios de comunicación a multinacionales informáticas, se hayan convertido en los últimos años en lo que denominó «academias privadas de la lengua» con más poder, incluso...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...artificial eutrophication are summarised in Figure 6. When organic pollution occurs, the main types of organisms present are the decomposers. In the case of eutrophication, the producers are dominant, and in larger quantities than in ‘clean’ waters. [Described image] Figure 6 Ecological imbalances caused by organic and inorganic pollutants...Effects of pollutants on...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...intelligence techniques project management techniques new product and process development techniques cooperation and networking techniques design management techniques knowledge management techniques. (Igartua et al., 2010, p. 45)...Technology, innovation and management: 6.4 Management or innovation management? - It could be argued that if change, innovation and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...intelligence (DuBrin, 2010) Activity 4 Self-assessment Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Take a moment to rate your ‘work self’ on a scale of one to ten against each of the traits listed above. (You might like to have a friend or colleague evaluate you against the key criteria too.) What do your results tell you about your own approach to leadership? How might...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...artificial rather than natural sources cause hidden and irreversible damage pose particular danger to small children or pregnant women, or to future generations threaten a form of death or illness arousing particular dread damage identifiable rather than anonymous victims be poorly understood by science be subject to contradictory statements from responsible sources....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...artificially ordered’ state (2004, p. 158). There is a further way to consider conscience in this context: that individualised justice derived from an observance of one’s conscience also corresponds with the individualising basis of capitalism – in spite of Fox’s enthusiasm for that part of equity that provides individual justice alongside social justice. That...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs