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How fertility rates affect population
Science, Maths & Technology

How fertility rates affect population

...profile of the predicted populations starts to diverge around the age of seventy five. Can you work out why? The fertility rate based model regulates the rate at which new people are introduced into the population starting in 2012; the life expectancy model regulates how people started to leave the population profile. Maybe not surprisingly, the difference in effect on...
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...et leurs enfants découvrent ses plages, car cette année-là, pour la première fois en France, les salariés ont droit aux congés payés. Les Français ont maintenant au moins cinq semaines de vacances. Le soleil des mois d'été, le beau sable et la mer attirent toujours des centaines de vacanciers sur cette plage de la côte atlantique. Les enfants jouent sur la...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?

...profile rugby players such as Rory Watt-Jones (Cardiff Blues) and Declan Fitzpatrick (Ulster and Ireland) have also had to retire from the sport due to concussion-related injuries. Now in light of those stories, and with the Rugby World Cup underway and all the excitement that has already been ignited, the pragmatic and perhaps more curmudgeon-like souls amongst us turn...
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Outside the Book
History & The Arts

Outside the Book

...Comedy An introduction to the part comedy plays in English Literature Tragedy An introduction to the Tragedy play in English Literature Two Styles of love An introduction to the love portrayed in Patrachan and Libertine Poetry. The Author An introduction to the concept of the Author in Literary Theory The Book An introduction to the concept of the Book in Literary Theory...
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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...et cetera. Now if learning styles existed – if it was true – we would expect that visual learners, or so-called visual learners, would be able to recall more words when they saw them, right, so either when they saw the list or when they saw the actual images, and we would expect that so-called auditory learners would be able to recall more words when they heard them,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...style and soundtrack for his live shows, while his fascination with Burgess’s invented language, Nadsat, was to continue right up until his final album Blackstar, which features a song mostly written in it. Transcript In 1973 – around the same time as the Wilson plot was first being hatched – Kubrick withdrew his film version of the novel from British cinemas,...
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What is it like to research death and loss?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like to research death and loss?

...profile/openthanatology.bsky.social You can find publications written by Centre for Open Thanatology members via the Open University library: https://oro.open.ac.uk/view/research_centre/OThan.html Follow the links on this page to find other resources from the Centre for Open Thanatology or to study with The Open University. Sophie’s Substack where she shares stories...
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