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History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...writing down the number of results, and then ‘Crusoe’ and writing down the number of results. You should then use the ‘Advanced search’ facility, in which you can go to the ‘Author being read’ box and put in ‘Defoe’, and then go to the ‘Text being read’ box, and put in ‘Robinson Crusoe’. In each case you then scroll down to the bottom of the page...
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...Write down the names of as many metals as you can think of. Some you may have thought of are iron, silver, gold, tin, lead, zinc, copper, aluminium, sodium and potassium. Slightly more exotic metals are chromium, nickel, cobalt, cadmium, titanium and manganese. There are a couple of chemistry terms used in this course that you may not be familiar with, so we have defined...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...Write out a C major scale and indicate where the tones and semitones occur. Q2: What instrument is playing at the beginning of this extract of music that you will now listen to? Q3: Write out this four bar phrase in the alto clef. Some of these examples are somewhat extreme (however, they are all taken from actual examples of music assessments) and it is the case that...
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...writing. Let us take them in turn and see what they will involve in A211. Reading. Reading philosophy is a special skill. You can't read a philosophy book as you would a novel. You will need to approach it carefully and critically, taking much more time than normal. Different people have different strategies here. Some read each chapter or section through once quickly in...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...write down at least ten of them here. Comment Here are just some of them: blog body language email eye contact Facebook letters physical gestures pictures podcast radio sign language Skype speech telephone text touch TV Twitter voice-simulator and many more...Good communication: 1.1 Barriers to communication - Good communication is vital in social care. It enables us to...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...do. In Ireland’s case, an industry has been built up from near nothing! However, indirect subsidies can accomplish much more, in both the financial and creative sense. They are better for the industry on a range of levels and should be utilised more. Charles Kenny was writing in 2013. This article originally appeared on AnimationAnomaly.com under a CC-BY-SA licence....
Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...in 1840, Benjamin Disraeli shared his passion for the Bavarian capital...[Benjamin Disraeli] The destiny of nations appears to have decreed that a society should periodically, though rarely, flourish, characterised by its love of the Fine Arts, and its capacity of ideal creation. These occasional and brilliant ebullitions of human invention elevate the race of man; they
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...Writing on her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, Twitter, and PubPeer, she is an expert in detecting inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarised text in biomedical literature. Her investigative work has been featured in many international portals, including Nature News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Interview Kaustubh: The...