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Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...intelligence and cunning and that she is just as resourceful as he is when it comes to dealing with a challenging situation. Penelope asks that Eurycleia move their bed outside the bedroom to make up a place for somewhere to sleep (23.177–180). Their bed is, however, immovable – it was carved by Odysseus himself from a single olive tree growing at the centre of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...intelligence. * Perceived quality Quality level is an association that consumers attach to a brand. * Perceived quality Quality level is an association that consumers attach to a brand. * Product A bundle of attributes (features, functions, benefits, and uses) capable of exchange or use; usually a mix of tangible and intangible forms. Thus a product may be an idea, a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...artificially heated or irradiated amethyst.) Milky quartz is white and cloudy as a result of tiny bubbles of fluid (liquid and/or gas). In a few minerals, such as tourmaline, an individual crystal may be multicoloured (Figure 8), reflecting subtle changes in chemical composition as it grew. Figure 7 Some coloured varieties of quartz: (a) purple amethyst (crystals 1.5 cm...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...artificial protection of unconditional welfare and exposed Mandy to work and the costs of independence. Her return to her mother's home would help her realise that it was rash to leave the course and lose the flat. The shock of the sanction is the PA's ‘tough love’ that should break Mandy's dependency. It is likely to have pushed her into low-paid work (meeting the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...artificial has connections with Enlightenment ideas about nature and the concept of the ‘noble savage’. But by the end of the eighteenth century this elevation of the simple and the natural was taking on a new dimension that can be seen as Romantic, because of its association with individual feeling and experience. In England Wordsworth was its chief exponent,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...artificially restricts the components in a system to make it possible to observe repeatable experiments. In spite of this, reductionism has proved so effective in practice and produced such outstanding results that it has become embedded in our language, literature and thought. Another reason for restricting what is looked at is the scale of calculating any quantitative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...artificial' photoperiod was shifted by six hours either forward or backward, differed from those of non-shifted pigeons by about 90 degrees. [Described image] Figure 27 Rock pigeon...Migration: 6 The challenges of migration - In studying this course it will have become apparent that migration involves a diversity of behaviours and physiological adaptations, many of which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...artificial ventilation of the lungs to regulate their breathing rate...Blood and the respiratory system: 6.2 Peripheral chemoreceptors - Before the blood reaches the chemoreceptors in the brain, changes in PO2 are detected by specialised cells – called type 1 glomus cells – that are located in the carotid artery (carotid bodies) and aorta (aortic bodies) of the heart....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs