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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...cast up on his desert island. Robinson Crusoe, of course, was more than just a romantic adventure likely to capture young Robert's imagination, for it was also a highly moral tale, with strong religious, environmental and economic messages. ‘We do not read it’, the literary scholar Angus Ross has observed, only in order to escape into an exciting world of danger and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...casting ‘something of romantic fancy’ over ‘familiar things’ (ibid., p.512). When he hastily decided to put his new idea into All The Year Round, which had already seen the heartening effect upon sales of his historical romance, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), he planned a weekly serial of about the same length. It was to be much shorter than his other novels,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...cast away167, and so, come, death! Two o’clock is your hour? ORLANDO Ay, sweet Rosalind. ROSALIND By my troth168, and in good earnest, and so God mend169 me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous170, if you break one jot of your promise, or come one minute behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical171 break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...caste system in India. ‘Asian values’ is a prominent alternative form of human rights conception which is less individualistic than the Western-derived notion, and places greater value on religion, family and elders. Since the end of the Cold War divisions between the West and the Soviet bloc, the human rights discourse and agenda have become even stronger guides to...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with an economy of effort… Habitualization further implies that the action in question may be performed again and again in the same manner and with the same economic effort. (Berger and Luckmann, 1967, p. 71) The fact that this order is socially constructed does not make it any less real. Berger and Luckmann deal with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...sand and aggregate carrier, which is 55 metres long. The design team undertook extensive studies of the effects that the impact of such a vessel would have on the bridge. The second consideration was that of stiffness. The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Dynamics Design and Practice Guide (Maguire and Wyatt, 2002) points out that ‘dynamics is a far more important...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...sand). Animation 3 jump using halteres Please note that this animation contains nudity in order to give a more realistic representation of the Ancient Olympic games. Jump using halteres One significant difference between the halma and the modern long jump is that Ancient Olympic athletes used a pair of weights called halteres. The halteres (which were also used as...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...sand.] Figure 5 Relaxation can aid sport injury rehabilitation Relaxation techniques can help to ease the stress and anxiety that may be a consequence of injury. They can also help to relieve tension in the injured area, which may allow a therapist to treat the injury more effectively. You will now explore a range of relaxation techniques. All these techniques have the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs