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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...mental bits of our work. […] Equipment for the roaming worker will have access to the network via satellite or terrestrial systems. People will control computers and services simply by talking in everyday language. Computers will understand all major languages and understand what the user means most of the time, asking clarification questions to resolve any ambiguities...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...mental notes. Figure 10 shows the three steps to take for better paraphrasing. [Described image] Figure 10 Paraphrasing Activity 2 Rewrite challenge Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Read the sentence below and then rewrite it using your own words. Original text: ‘Turnitin is widely used by universities to promote academic integrity.’ Discussion For example:...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...mental states always have objects that they are ‘about’. Thoughts, for example, are thoughts about something (the object of thought may be ‘what shall I do tomorrow?’ or ‘why was my sister mean to me last night?’). This is also the case for feelings (we are not just jealous, but jealous about something), memories (we do not just have memory, but a memory about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...mental image of the Orient’14 – a ‘mental image’ composed out of myriad individual memories of trade in the East, characteristic Islamic forms in mosques and markets, ornaments and furniture, descriptions in travellers’ tales, even the doublecurves found in the hulls of the galleys themselves. By the later fifteenth century, the palace of the diplomat Giovanni...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (quoted in Riley, 1997, p. 199). Health was not simply a desirable end in itself. The pursuit of health was portrayed as a moral duty: parents had a responsibility to protect both the health of their children and their own health, so that they could support their families. Health also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...mentally ill or disabled and criminals – possessed incurable genetic defects. These defective and dangerous people threatened the genetic purity of the healthy, and the moral values and fibre of the social order. Moreover, eugenicists worried these groups were likely to reproduce more defective and dangerous people. Taken to their extremes, these arguments underwrote...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...mentally preparing myself for the worst,” she says. On 1 July 2014, her daughter Eiliyah was born. “And the first thing I asked was, ‘Is she OK? Is everything OK with her?’ I was very nervous. And then I saw her.” She was 2.9 kgs, and she was perfect. “It was the most incredible moment,” Shifneez says. And yet, with her daughter more than a year old,...
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Article 15 mins
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...mental activities’ combined with ‘the unfolding of the infant conscience’ (quoted in Beja, 1973, p. 126). The three ‘beginnings’ we have looked at here, by Austen, Dickens and Joyce represent a diverse range of approaches to storytelling. There are, of course, many other narrative methods open to novelists. For example, a novel might be written in the form of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs