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However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice
Society, Politics & Law

However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice

...class voters towards the Labour message remains to be seen. Labour’s manifesto is a rejection of post-2010 austerity and has a full-blown socialist narrative behind it. It embraces the idea that voters demand something different in order to be able to distinguish the main parties from one another. It also appears to stubbornly defy the New Labour mantra that you must...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...class. As the small canners provided an extremely cheap article (having no marketing expenses and a cheaper raw material), they could undercut the manufacturers branded product, and within three years they captured over 50 percent of the market. Previously, retailers' varieties had accounted for less than 1 per cent. The new automatic factory could not be adapted to the...
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Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up
History & The Arts

Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up

...classed as a religion, or is it merely a cultural fad? Check out our article then watch a short video on its characteristics. ...[Jedi origami] The release of a new Star Wars film always generates renewed discussion of what we can call the ‘religious dimensions’ of the Star Wars franchise. On the one hand the idea of the ‘Force’ draws on the concept of animism, a...
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Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...classes, I myself draw on these speeches too and more besides, including my students’s own choices of the best presenters or presentations they have seen. Sometimes, a female speaker gets added to the equation, such as Emma Watson via her 2014 address to the UN’s HeforShe Campaign – but nonetheless, the great majority of notable speeches are associated with men....
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...class and power relations involved in identifying with a place. It is clear that ‘place’ means different things to different social groups. There are different representations of place at work at any given time, giving rise to competing or contradictory identities with the same place. These, in turn, give rise to counter-claims that the ‘real’ Glasgow is not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...variables measured 52 times over the course of a year. They are called variables because they are varying quantities; in this case, they vary with time. Typical results might be like those shown in Figure 12. Because I have stopped growing, my height does not change throughout the year so, as in the top panel of Figure 12, the graph is a flat line. However, both my...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...class or ethnic minority communities that are marginalised by the wider society, of young offenders in correctional institutions, disruptive children in school classrooms, and so on. Those who adopt this orientation assume that the task of understanding other people’s perspectives is difficult, not least because we must overcome, or at least suspend, our own personal...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...classed as creative? Are the three aspects of this definition easy to apply to these examples? Discussion You might have different views on this, but I can see novelty in the language of Atonement (example 1) and in the shape of the poem (example 6), but I find it harder to decide whether the joke (example 2), the graffiti (example 4) and the cartoon (example 5) are new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs