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Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...energy devoted to debating the relative importance of different perspectives, and some of that’s very healthy and helpful and sometimes maybe it’s not so helpful. We’re trying to sort of communicate that we think all of these perspectives are important and useful and we should engage with them all – an acknowledgement that we still need to be very open. Our...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...energy to acquire. In short, marketing is really all about understanding customers. Activity 1 Marketing definition and development Timing: Allow 60 minutes for this activity Select the answer for Question 1a here Here’s a short document from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a UK-based organisation with international influence on the way marketing is practiced and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...energy, anxiety) or few (calm)? colour Are colours warm or cool? (Suggesting feelings, relationships) Bright or dark? (Suggesting feelings of fear or optimism, sadness or happiness) According to Moebius, these features have the potential to convey specific meanings, due to the cultural associations that they have, at least for Western readers. In the next activity you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...energy producers and hurt companies that have close links with the energy sector. Everyone is saying this prolonged slide in oil prices should help economic growth, but investors are starting to worry that the depth of this downturn from more than $110 per barrel to $50 per barrel is fuelling a lot of concern that it might be a sign of a weaker global economy. MALE...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...energy in producing it. It’s better to have written ten drafts of a story and end up with something you are proud of, than to have had a great idea for a story, but let it go to waste by being nervous about setting it down in case it wasn’t perfect first time, or by thinking you need certain skills before you attempt it, or by ‘talking it away’. Remember you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...energy, health care or defence, able to move the opinion of national governments and sometimes, it is claimed, to ride roughshod over social and personal needs. Firms are controversial, important, and a fascinating part of any attempt to understand economic behaviour. In spite of such variation, we can give an economic definition of a firm that takes account of this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...Energy is required to relax the muscle (surprisingly the default condition is contraction). When a muscle runs out of energy it contracts, as occurs in cramp and rigor mortis. [Described image] Figure 7 Arrangement of actin and myosin in a myofibre produce striations. The upper diagram shows the relaxed state and the lower diagram the contracted state. In contrast to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...energy use financial collapse and insecurity underinvestment in public goods of affordable housing, clean water and sanitation or public health. To underscore the key point, in Harvey’s causal narrative, cities are not just the locations in which these crises and challenges are felt; they are the incubators in which the conditions of these crises and challenges are bred...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs