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Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...write the language to communicate in everyday situations. You will acquire a knowledge of the basic structures of French along with key vocabulary to meet and greet people and to talk about yourself and others. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXF001 Beginners French 1: eh oui! After...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...write in a direct, relevant and well-reasoned way that enabled her to argue for working women’s rights and better working conditions. She also took advantage of changes that permitted women to become members of the boards of Poor Law guardians. Nield Chew wrote pieces for the Crewe Chronicle in which she was concerned to direct attention to examples of the inadequate...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...write one sentence, in order to answer the question ‘What is art?’ Comment Did you find this activity difficult? If so, you are in good company as there is no universally agreed answer to the question, ‘What is art?’ In fact, there are as many different definitions as there are people providing those definitions. Whatever order you placed the statements in may say...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band
History & The Arts

Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band

...writing campaign, many of which were published in the popular press. Laibach did not take heed. At the Novi Rock Festival in Ljubljana in 1982, Laibach took it up a notch with a spectacle that came to be characteristic of their concerts: a militant authoritarian performance, the lead singer playing the role of a dictator. Extreme noise, sirens, horns and smoke bombs...
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Article 5 mins
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...writing after Oliver Sacks had revealed his prognosis, but before his death - celebrated the life of the "stray Santa" who loved understanding the passions of others...In the preface to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1998), popular neurologist Oliver Sacks outlines the rationale behind his brand of “romantic science”. Borrowed from friend and mentor AR Luria,...
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Article 5 mins
What actually happens if Britain leaves the EU?
Society, Politics & Law

What actually happens if Britain leaves the EU?

...Writing before the vote, Christopher Grey suggested what the next steps might be...[Eurostar trains line up to head under the Channel] Eurostar trains line up to head under the Channel Europe is always a heated topic at a Conservative party conference. This year much debate has focused on David Cameron’s ongoing renegotiation of terms for staying in. By contrast,...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...write that humanity faces “substantial health risks from the degradation of the natural life support systems which are critical for human survival. It has become increasingly apparent that actions to mitigate environmental change have powerful co-benefits for health.” The author of the paper on heat stress, Tord Kjellstrom, director of the New Zealand-based Health and...
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Article 10 mins
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...Stojka] Ceija Stojka was a traveller, painter and writer. As a girl she survived the Nazi concentration camps where her family was incarcerated as ethnic Roma. She wrote books about her experience and about the fate of Roma during the Nazi regime and was awarded the Bruno-Kreisky medal for political writing. A square in Vienna is named after her. [Ceija Stojka Platz]...
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Article 10 mins