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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...write CVs and covering letters, and prepare for interviews and their aftermath. You’ll note from Figure 1 that the blocks can be thought of as a continuous process involving taking stock, exploring opportunities, setting goals and taking action. [Described image] Figure 1 The process of planning for a better future Together they amount to approximately 15 hours of study...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...writing by looking at three short sections from the play (including the famous ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech) and a full-length scene. You will find explanations of terms in bold in the Glossary at the end of this course. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A334 English literature from Shakespeare to Austen...Reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...Writings’. [Figure 3 Harriet Martineau by Richard Evans, oil on canvas, exhibited 1834] © National Portrait Gallery Figure 3 Harriet Martineau by Richard Evans, oil on canvas, exhibited 1834 By contrast, it was the illustrations in the huge family Bible that sparked the imagination of the young Thomas Jackson: ‘There was one of Joshua’s army storming a hill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...writing, and second, between the life of the artist and his or her ‘work’. This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, examines both problems, as well as related questions of authorship as a form of explanation in art history, taking Raphael as a case study. The goal will be to initiate debates and discuss issues with regard to approaches that might...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
‘There Were Four of Us’
History & The Arts

‘There Were Four of Us’

...write a ghost story,’ Lord Byron said one rainy evening in Switzerland in the summer of 1816. ‘There were four of us,’ Mary Shelley recalled fifteen years later. Herself, the two illustrious poets – Byron and her husband Percy Shelley – and ‘Poor Polidori,’ Byron’s hapless personal physician. Out of this moment, not one but two modern horror legends were...
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Article 5 mins
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...writes that assessing the risks surrounding nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation means understanding inter-dependent elements − including what science says is possible, what other countries may intend, and systemic factors such as regional power dynamics. “The risk of climate change demands a similarly holistic assessment,” she says. Value human life She...
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Article 10 mins
Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?

...other carbohydrates. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go reward myself for writing this article with a pumpkin spice latte. And, yes, I’ll admit that I was first in line when they launched – despite the thermometer reading 35°C at the time of my purchase.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...that Anonymous was a woman “who made the ballads and the folksongs, crooning them to her children, beguiling her spinning with them, or the length of the winter’s night”. If we are to write woman into the history of humanity, we need to listen to Anonymous.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins