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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...simple mention of the word managed to overshadow media coverage of the substantive point he was making. On Fox News, the presenter Steve Doocy tried to argue that ‘people will be talking about whether or not it’s appropriate for the president to use the “n-word” and whether or not it is beneath the dignity of his office’. [Houses of Parliament artistic...
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Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...simple message – that ‘geography matters’ to understanding the climate crisis more fully, how its impact is woven into issues of inequality and the lingering legacies of European colonialism – is then also taken up and explored in the third film. In this film, the contributors speak of their experiences in Bangladesh and Uganda when facing the issues and...
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Video 45 mins
Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...Simple and gentle, how hospitable they had all been to my vain inquiry, and how delicately they had forborne to visit the stranger with the irony of the average American who is asked anything, especially anything he does not know! I went thinking that the difference was a difference between human nature long mellowed to its conditions, and human nature rasped on its edges...
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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...Simple as that’, The Guardian, June 27. 2017: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/27/moray-fed-up-with-snp-simple-as-that-scotland-election Geoghegan, P. ‘Northern exposure: Brexit reveals Shetland split’, POLITICO, October 2, 2017: www.politico.eu/article/northern-exposure-brexit-reveals-shetland-split/ McKenna, K. ‘Scotland’s fishermen feel a sickening sense...
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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...simple, statistically relevant boxes on an official form. We have the raw evidence, but what does it mean? Of those who were married in 1999 how many had been married before but did not declare that fact? How many had been cohabiting in a stable long-term relationship with their partner before marriage (and are such relationships an ‘unofficial’ form of marriage?). If...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...simple harmonies specifically in C major, specifically with the three primary triads of C major: C, F and G. And we're going to see the effects that we can get by manipulating your skills in that particular context. Video 1 Click "play" below to discover how George Fenton creates a theme. George Fenton Given that the chords, there only 3 chords that I can use which in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...simple relationship is an entire range of products, specifications, systems and services that are all required to ensure the consistent supply of electricity. Even the way in which these elements are used, a process, can be designed. These terms are defined below. Box 1 Design engineering terms Product – an object created to fulfil some function or purpose....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...simple business model called the product business model. Now, the product business model is not about whether you sell products, because it also includes services. It's about the idea that you design something, you make it, or you produce it. The customer comes and collects it or uses it. And the customer pays for that product or service. And typically, they take away the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs