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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...central to coming to terms with recent art history and we will now turn our attention to it and to the new approaches to the artist that it introduced...Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael: 1.1 The new art history - After the Second World War, art history tended to involve a mix of antiquarianism, connoisseurship and liberal humanist values that incorporated some...
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...central part of an atom). Water molecules in the ice have a proportion of all three isotopes of oxygen in them, and it has been shown that the relative amounts of the different isotopes vary depending on the temperature of the oceans at the time the snow fell. So scientists can measure the amount of oxygen-16 compared with the amount of oxygen-18 in an annual layer of an...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...central human character who often represents humanity itself, hence the title of one of the best-known morality plays, Everyman. The aim of the morality play was primarily didactic; that is, it sought to teach its audience, and to offer moral and spiritual lessons about how to live a good Christian life. In Doctor Faustus, this didactic element can be seen most clearly in...
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...central part of the process of studying. It’s a way of making sense of what you’re studying and keeping a record for yourself, a record that you can go back to later on whether it’s for writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety...
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...central aspect of what is ‘social’ about social problems is the way in which these problems are socially perceived, defined and comprehended. Different private troubles become defined as social problems in particular societies and in specific periods through a complex process of social construction. Social construction implies an active process of definition and...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...central Turkey announced it had built a morgue with a warning system and refrigerator doors that could be opened from the inside. What do we mean by ‘dead’? And who should declare when an individual is dead? A priest? A lawyer? A doctor? A machine? Owen discussed these issues at a symposium in Brazil with the Dalai Lama and says he was surprised to find that they both...
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...central clay core and a clay apron for watertightness. There are two fundamental types of dam, which have different ways of withstanding the pressure of water in the reservoir behind them: gravity dams and wall dams. The gravity dam depends on its own weight to prevent deformation or movement, whereas the wall dam is a rigid structure that resists deformation and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...Central train station. At the time, there were a number of copies of this particular graffiti in various locations around Milton Keynes Central (though not in this combination). Take a look at the photograph and consider what kind of message or messages these graffiti might be communicating. Make some notes in the text box below. [Described image] Figure 4 Graffiti in an...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs