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Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...central borderland counties of Wales during the mid-nineteenth century according to the language used at Sunday Schools. (Source: G. J. Lewis and National Library of Wales. Reproduced from NLW Journal XXI.) From: Wales 1880–1914 wales_resource6.pdf556.3 KB PDF document Resource 6: General Election Result, 1910 (based on Madgwick and Balsom, National Atlas of Wales.)...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...central hero, it takes the form of multiple stories told over 15 books, and frequently shifts in tone from comic to tragic and from irreverent satire to political statement. The poem was difficult to categorise even for its ancient readers. The Roman writer Quintilian (who was born in what is now Spain in the first century CE) described its author as ‘naughty even in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...central stress hormone. And the conclusion was it was tasks that included social evaluative threat, threats to self-esteem or social status, in which others can negativity judge your performance. Those kind of stresses have a very particular effect on the physiology of stress. Now, we have been criticised. Of course, there are people who dislike this stuff and people who...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...CENTRAL WEST IRELAND) Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? MUNSTER (SOUTH WEST IRELAND) Conas atá tú? But this is only a rule of thumb and, perhaps paradoxically, Munster forms can sometimes seem familiar to Scots; for ‘How are you?’, for example, some Scottish Gaelic speakers would say: ‘Cionnas a tha thu?’! Despite the obvious similarities, there are some fairly...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...central panel of God enthroned could in fact have been a source for the emperor's pose (see Figure 4). What elicited the comparison was the stiffness of the pose, meticulous attention to detail, and bright but restricted colour scheme (red, gold and white, essentially). Commentators also objected to the way that the figure is so loaded with drapery and ornament that it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...central role of the child as an active learner. However, this theory regards learning not as an individual activity but as a social one, in which language plays a crucial role in developing understanding and learning is not considered to be limited by a child’s stage of development. Vygotsky (1978) was an important contributor to this theory. He identified the gap...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...central core of the virus (the capsid). The nucleoproteins are required for viral replication and packing of the genome into the new capsid, which is formed by M1-protein (or matrix protein). The M1-protein is the most abundant component of the virus, constituting about 40% of the viral mass; it is essential for the structural integrity of the virus and to control...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...central topics in public international law, as it contains the body of principles aimed at ensuring territorial sovereignty and independence of states, which are the main actors in international law. The prohibition of the use of force and the principle of non-intervention in the internal or external affairs of other states are two of the fundamental principles of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs