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An American Classic: How Spam became a success
Money & Business

An American Classic: How Spam became a success

...creative and humorous ways that went beyond traditional advertising, they appealed to consumers by positioning the brand as a patriotic food that reflected American ingenuity – with a streak of eccentricity. In the years after the war, the Hormel Girls – a musical troupe of female World War II veterans – traveled the country performing songs and promoting the...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...creativity hidden behind the formation of African-Caribbean religious and cultures was often the outcome of a form of resistance or accommodation to the dramatic and violent context of the plantation society. The forced and constant movement and encounter of different people, languages, goods, cultures, religions, and objects, in the Atlantic space, assisted the...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...writings. As well as browsing the narratives, the story forms a useful way to explore the theme of historical ‘truth’ and the challenge of ‘chronology’. You may like to take a look at the Timeline and Introductory articles in the Herodotus OpenLearn Collection to put some of the narratives into context. [Croesus vase] Croesus at the stake. An Attic red-figure...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...writes in Irish Gaelic...[Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill] ‘Ceist na Teangan’/ ‘The Language Issue’ Modern poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill writes in the Irish language. ‘Ceist na Teangan’ which we look at in this section is the final poem in her 1990 volume Pharoah’s Daughter. The poems in this bilingual collection are translated into English by a range of other poets...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...writing had a persistent tendency to ascribe lesbianism to ‘other’ nations. This is certainly clear from the writings of seventeenth-century poets (including Alexander Pope) and prose writers, who often drew on Ovid’s epistles to suggest that the Greek poet Sappho was the ‘inventor’ of lesbian sex. Further than this, though, medical texts like Jane Sharp’s The...
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Article 20 mins
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...creativity, and factors influenced by social and personal development throughout life. In addition, psychological flexibility may be constrained by lack of opportunity and other factors that are external to an individual, although flexibility may in some situations also be a response to such constraints. It is useful to distinguish psychological flexibility from other,...
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Article 10 mins
Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...creativity. In so far as the category of art is an open concept all three might make a claim for inclusion. The point being made is simply that art (the process and methods involved in its making) and art history (broadly the study of its development and contexts) are forms of cultural enquiry. In this sense they have profound significance and meaning for all of us. Now...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...Write down the names of as many metals as you can think of. Some you may have thought of are iron, silver, gold, tin, lead, zinc, copper, aluminium, sodium and potassium. Slightly more exotic metals are chromium, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, titanium and manganese. There are a couple of chemistry terms used in this course that you may not be familiar with, so we have defined...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs