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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...and what a great way to instil a better work-life balance into your lifestyle. Read more: Energy in buildings (Free course) Could we control our climate? (Free course) Climate change: Transitions to sustainability (Free course) How much electronic waste do we generate as a species? (Article) How to include climate issues in your writingWriting for climate (Videos)...
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...writing plays with inferences about the comparative savagery of Victorian society and in his memorable figure of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1850) he suggests that the British should pay attention to the mounting social problems at home before practising ‘telescopic’ philanthropy and missionary work abroad. (In this last concern, his writing anticipates one of the...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...writing, mathematics, printing, medicine, electricity, flight and computing are all aspects of far-reaching innovations in human history. With regard to organisations, even the briefest of internet searches on innovation should reveal that there are many thousands of management videos, gurus, books and journal articles exploring and exhorting innovation and how...
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...write out just the principal harmony notes of the treble and bass, in the manner of my Example 3 at the beginning of this course. To do this, you should print out the sheet of music manuscript paper from the link given immediately below Example 13. Work over your answer on the manuscript paper until you are satisfied that it represents how you hear the overall lines in...
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...write up your research report. Figure 1 Stages of the research project...Understanding different research perspectives: 3 Deciding what to research - Selecting an appropriate research topic is the first step towards a satisfactory project. For some people, choosing the topic is easy because they have a very specific interest in an area. For example, you might be...
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...writes about the changes in the political landscape during the past year and Scotland's future...[illustration of scotland] One year on from the September 18 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and Scotland – and the UK – are rather different places when it comes to the political landscapes that characterise the countries of these islands. The 2014 Scottish...
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...write down the prices you hear, as in the example. Escucha y escribe. Here’s someone asking about the price of fruit and vegetables. —¿Cuánto valen los plátanos? —Uno cincuenta el kilo. —¿A cuánto están los limones? —Los limones a uno veinte el kilo. —¿Cuánto vale el kilo de patatas? —Setenta céntimos. —¿A cuánto está el kilo de tomates? —A...
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...writing and the publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to sue her friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister. While the jury disregarded the claim, Caroline was unable to divorce her husband and banned form seeing her...