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The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...English Letters appear in 1734 and are a very early example of the great valuation that the Philosophs put upon his technique. The article in the Encyclopaedia is enormously long in comparison to the apparently insignificant nature of the procedure. One of the things about inoculation that must have appealed to the Philosophs was it’s simplicity, this wasn’t an arcane...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...English literature from Shakespeare to Austen...Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of some of the key speeches and scenes in Shakespeare’s As You Like It appreciate the importance and complexity of role-play in As You Like It appreciate the varied uses of language in a...
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...English Dictionary (2016) gives many definitions of risk. For example, the definitions of ‘risk’ as a noun include: The possibility that something unpleasant or unwelcome will happen. A person or thing regarded as a threat or likely source of danger. But also, perhaps more interestingly, the definitions of ‘risk’ as a verb include: Act in such a way as to bring...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...English. On many keyboards, including the one shown in Figure 1, the 7-note sequence begins on C rather than A. In that figure, the keys move from left to right through two rotations of the pattern as follows: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C The C on the leftmost side of the figure is the lowest pitch, and the C on the rightmost side is the highest. A single...
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...English ….. one tree gets broken by the wind. One tree gets broken. What factory is it made in? -It’s made in Ghana by Akosombo Textiles. It’s nice. John Picton PTC This I, in fact, a locally, factory-printed copy of a resin-resist cloth produced in Holland by the Vlisco factory in Helmond. And one of the problems that the Dutch-producers of these jobs have, is that...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...ENGLISH SPEECH] What type of family is this? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] A big family! TEACHER [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] Will they be short of food? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] Yes! HANS ROSLING You could hardly miss the point of this lesson. TEACHER [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] What type of family is this? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] A small family! ......
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...English novelist living in Paris. Before operating in 1811, d’Arblay’s doctor didn’t shield her from the gruelling pain she would encounter during the treatment for her advanced breast cancer – a mastectomy, without anaesthetic. “You must expect to suffer, I do not want to deceive you—you will suffer—you will suffer very much!” d’Arblay later wrote that...
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...English. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate conservation, clean tech and sustainability issues. We do that via what we call a multichannel publishing...