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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...adapted them to his purpose. He used the name of the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet for his single The Jean Genie but influences run deeper than mere name-dropping. Bowie studied avant garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, who trained under the famous French actor and mime Marcel Marceau. For his album Scary Monsters, he adopted the image of the sad French...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Observed: Mass Observation and the Beveridge Report' by J. Jacobs, from Beveridge 1942- 1992: Papers to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Beveridge Report edited by J Jacobs, J, Whiting and Birch Books About this extract This article is adapted from the study material from the Open University course Understanding Health & Social Care. Read articles on personal finance...
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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...adapt to new scientific understanding of the planet and of life itself. However, the central principle is to minimise the amount of biological material (bioburden) carried by a spacecraft that might contaminate the martian surface. Setting standards It was required that the Viking landers that reached Mars in 1976 carried with them 300 terrestrial bacterial spores per m2...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...with The Open University: Volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. This course extract is adapted from Block 3, Internal Processes, of the course Geology (S260) which ceased presentation in 2009. Good news: There are still lots of ways to study geology at the University It was originally made available more widely as part of the Rough Science: Colorado content on Open2.net...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...adapted to focus and build on students’ curiosity and questions. Provide some examples. Part 3 Roberts (2010, p. 7) states: I think of geographical enquiry as an approach to learning that accepts that knowledge has been constructed and prioritises the need for students to make sense of things for themselves – an approach which could include individual projects. I do...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...adapting to it, and that includes an understanding of time within change. Everything in this is about speed of change, we’ve changed everywhere, we’ve done change before, it’s all about the speed of change, looking back at evolution, how fast evolution happens, how fast adaptation happens, and it’s not all as we think. They went and looked at evolution and...
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The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...adapted child state, which tends to involve displays of compliance, but can also lead to a more instrumental approach to getting a reward. It may be easy to jump to the conclusion that some of these states of mind are right and others are wrong, but this was not Berne's intention. The main messages of his work are that: At any given time each of us is in one or other of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...adapted extract from the Open University course L161 Exploring languages and cultures...Exploring languages and cultures: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: explain what intercultural encounters are and how people can learn from them discuss how the use of English as a lingua franca is perceived by native and non-native English speakers...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs