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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...English watercolourist. He later recalled how he and Bonington had met in around 1816, when Bonington was working on studies in the gallery of the Louvre. The two artists met again when Delacroix visited England in 1825 and later shared a studio in Paris. Delacroix admired and tried to emulate the lightness of touch and sparkle of Bonington’s technique (see Plate 13)...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...English. Technical or semi-technical terms should only be used when – as in this case – plain English provides no easy way around a potential confusion. Why is the question as to the nature of persons a question for philosophers not biologists? In ordinary language, ‘person’ is often used synonymously with ‘human being’. For example, we find out how many...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...English, 1973) and the influential Pagan writer Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance (1979) leaned into this idea. The work of Starhawk and others also presented an interpretation of Wicca that was more closely aligned with emerging New Age ideas, and the seekership of the baby boomers more broadly. These books helped lead to the boom of the ‘teen witch’ in the 1990s, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...English, where one word can have a variety of meanings. She suggest perhaps using a thesaurus, but that could lead down the pathway of having too many words to choose from and not being able to decide which one to pick. Thinking about the dissertation, she introduces a word we all dread – waffling! No one wants to be a waffler, and giving too much information might make...
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Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...English, this section describes the duty of the employer to minimise the risks from equipment and substances to those who are not employed, e.g. undergraduate student, visitors, maintenance contractors, members of the public, etc., also to ensure that these people have a safe entry to and exit from the premises of the employer. The Management of Health and Safety at Work...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...English ‘hygiene’ comes from hygieia. In Latin, the main word for ‘health’ is salus, from which the word ‘salubrious’ is derived. Does your language contain words that come from ancient Greek or Latin terms for health? What other similar words are there in your language, and what does this tell you about ideas of health? Use the internet or a dictionary to...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...English National Curriculum - Key stage 3 of the Citizenship National Curriculum document requires pupils to – among other things – understand the legal and human rights and responsibilities underpinning society, and to appreciate the economic implications of the world as a global community, and the role of the European Union and the United Nations in fostering this....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...English only there's the rhyming slang porky pie telling porky pies telling porkies. So a porky is a lie again a lighthearted word. There’s the the word fib which means a sort of little perhaps harmless lie which isn't really slang is but it's an informal word. But there aren't any others as far as I'm aware and that is really strange because slang has a thousand words...
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