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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Thus, all originality is relative. Every thinker is...
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Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...write in Italian the information given by the person at the railway information office. Check your answers against the transcript. Riascoltate l’audio e scrivete in italiano le informazioni fornite dall’impiegato. Usate la trascrizione per controllare le risposte...Week 2: Enquiring about train times: 4 Talking about the availability of something - [Described image]...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...Write down the percentage of men aged between 25 and 34 who smoke over 20 cigarettes a day. (b) How many of the men aged 60 or over are non-smokers? (c) Which age group has the highest percentage of heavy smokers? Answer (a) Find ‘25–34’ in the column headings; then look down this column to the ‘Over 20’ row. This gives 29%. (b) The ‘60 or over’ column shows...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...write an algorithm to solve it." [Described image] Figure 3 (a) Human computers working on test flight calculations at the predecessor of NASA in 1949 (b) two NASA employees in 1990 programming a computer so it can automatically calibrate aircraft equipment Having met the ideas of algorithms and computational problems, let us state what computational thinking is not:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...writing about the Classical world needs to make various choices concerning consistency. Years. The course team have opted for BCE (‘Before the Common Era’) and CE (‘Common Era’) to refer to dates (we use them in the same way as the more traditional BC and AD). In some other texts you will encounter the use of BC and AD instead, and you are welcome to use either...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...writing letters to newspapers about the use of “hopefully” and what have you. I think it’s because we are very attached to the idea of a standard written form of language, with fixed rules that we learned at school, and these somehow represent the correct form of the language. But lots of these rules we’ve learned, the kind of thing, you know, of don’t put a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...writing course and found my voice. Discussion When we’re trying to pin down literal uses of the word ‘voice’, we’re on the lookout for meanings where a connection with sounds and vocal organs is not too far away. Sentence (a) fits this requirement clearly, and so does (e). I’ve also included sentence (c) in my list of literal usages, although ‘voice’ here is...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...writing are about bans being imposed and, in some cases, lifted. Test results are also the focus of some stories and another category was reporting about Russian doping transgressions. It seems most media stories focus on catching athletes and the sanctions imposed on them. The total number of different sports that feature in media reports is surprisingly high. In 2023...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs