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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...mode of life opposed to the conventional or dominant. * Genre Within the arts in general, genre refers to the category of a specific work, such as a novel, play or symphony. Within Popular Music Studies, genre refers to the specific style of a piece of music; for example, pop, rock, folk or jazz. Many of these also have specific sub-genres, where the genre refers to an...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...modes of visual communication, in particular images, symbols and written words. Graffiti can be used as form of territorial marking, personal branding, flirting, grieving, declaring love, expressing discontent or of showing support for or membership of a particular political group, football team, style of music or music subculture (most notably hip hop) and much more....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...mode of expression: phrases such as ‘when it had a kind of unrealness about London’ and ‘as if is not London at all’ (p. 1) reflect the idioms and rhythms of Caribbean speech. Although the narration remains in the third person, I think there are some subtle shifts within that perspective in this passage. Frequently, the narrator seems to represent Moses’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...mode.) In this interpretation, the columns would be not of numbers related reciprocally, but of the same number expressed in two different ways, as a unit fraction and as a sexagesimal fraction. This is an attractive idea, illustrating once again that it is harder than we should like to identify definitively even simple-looking tables. Fortunately, for our purposes, we do...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein Badge icon
Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...Le Cornu (2011) yn eu diffinio fel hyn: ‘Mae Ymwelwyr yn meddwl am y we fel rhywbeth tebyg i sied offer gardd anniben. Maen nhw wedi diffinio nod neu dasg ac yn mynd i mewn i’r sied i ddewis teclyn priodol i’w ddefnyddio i gyflawni eu nod. Ar ôl gorffen y dasg, maen nhw’n dychwelyd y teclyn i’r sied. Mae Preswylwyr, ar y llaw arall, yn meddwl am y we fel...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...de Janeiro, world-champion athletes and sport commentators — who also happen to be women — have faced offensive slights about everything from their choice of summer dress, to the gold-medal "catfights." Credit for their accomplishments has also been thrown to the men in their lives, too. (Yes, for real.) On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune identified U.S. medallist Corey...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...de rigueur for all official business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...mode. Energy consumption contributes to air and water pollution. We advise to [sic] switch off your TV overnight instead of leaving it on stand by. You save energy and the picture tube is demagnetised which maintains good picture quality. Discussion To examine this question we need to look at the way in which the text is put together. First of all, the manual says that...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs