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Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...Write a few sentences about the colours you like, including your favourite colour. Try to make your language as varied as possible. Discussion Here is a sample answer: Ich mag gern Lila. Blau und Grau mag ich auch gern, aber meine Lieblingsfarbe ist Rot...Week 1: Einkaufen: 5 Shopping online - Most shopping websites are available globally, so you can find most of the ones...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...writing, based on subject matter and linguistic register. In the ‘Introduction’ to Windrush Songs, the poet James Berry, born in Jamaica in 1924, describes the situation facing the people of the Caribbean in the late 1940s: None of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken. We didn’t want to grow up without knowledge of the world. We certainly didn’t want to grow up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
‘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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Activity 5 mins
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
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Writing perhaps eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek bard Homer tells of how: Huge god Hephaestus got up from the anvil block with laboured breathing. At once he was helped along by female servants made of gold, who moved to him. They look like living servant girls, possessing minds, hearts with intelligence, vocal chords, and strength. They learned...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs