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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...de-industrialisation in the early to mid-1980s, for example. The role of ideology and politics Disagreements can also be more overtly ideological in character. They can be articulated as conscious or thinly-veiled political disagreements, or, as the unacknowledged (and sometimes consciously denied) manifestation of ideological predispositions. At one level, political...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012. Large-scale phenotyping of an accurate genetic mouse model of JNCL identifies novel early pathology outside the central nervous system. PLoS One, 7, e38310. WAGER, K., ZDEBIK, A. A., FU, S., COOPER, J. D., HARVEY, R. J. & RUSSELL, C. 2016. Neurodegeneration and Epilepsy in a Zebrafish Model of CLN3 Disease (Batten Disease). PLoS...
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...De Troyes, C. (1991) Arthurian Romances. London: Penguin Classics. El, C. (2016) Moor. What They Didn’t Teach you in Black History Class. Vol. 1 and 2. California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. El, C. (2016) Black a Moor: Bridging the Gap between Black and Moor. California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Eveleth, R. (2014) Not all the...
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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...adults (often professional musicians and musicians working in the community) take place in venues such as youth clubs. It is important to note that these are not unstructured or unplanned sessions – the difference lies in the way the music educators who lead them tend to come to the session not with fixed ideas about what is to be learned and how learning will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...de Bernières as they talk about their own experience of writing. And you’ll have the chance to share comments and ideas with your fellow writers while sampling how established authors such as Toni Morrison and Graham Greene have written and presented their characters. By the end of the course you’ll have learned tricks such as using a journal to generate ideas, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...de facto, continue to be seen as the actual representative picture of what it is to live in poverty in Britain. I mean, there was a documentary a couple of years ago on the BBC called Poor Kids, which I thought was positive because it allowed children in poverty to speak about their experiences as they actually were. And I think just that one documentary punctured a lot...
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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...de Silva, an anthropologist at Atlanta’s Emory College, tells me that in Japan, “The whole idea is that by one individual taking his or her life, so the honour is restored or the family member would be spared the shame.” “Other people’s evaluation adds an additional burden,” says Kim. A person’s shame could leak and stain those around them. Under past...
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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...De Vere, 1996; Richardson, Woods and Franklin, 2007, p. 376-378). This is a very important statement by an artist who, unlike Vasari, had in-depth knowledge of both Byzantine and Renaissance art. It is true that El Greco was born and raised in Venetian Crete, and he started his career as an icon painter. However, any suspicion of strong attachment to his Byzantine roots...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs