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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...c b c c (imagine sustaining that intricate patterning for 42 stanzas). This kind of formula is useful up to a point for showing how often the same sounds recur, and it does show how complicated the interweaving of echoing sounds is. But it says nothing about how the sounds relate to what is being said – and, as I have been arguing all along, it is the relationship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...c.1450–c.1650) and the decadent (c.1650–c.1800). While both periods were characterised by ‘an interlocking mosaic of ancient rules’, Siegel further claims that: Nonetheless, subtle differences distinguish the basic conceptions of the two periods. In the classical era the validity of the law lay in its wisdom, and ancient rules were merely the primary source from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...c, 4 = b, 5 = e, 6 = d Discussion Some of these terms may be new to you, and some may be terms you have heard of or are quite used to. This activity only touches on some of the language used to describe neurodiverse experiences in wider society as well as sport and you may have noticed that a key thread running between them is how individualised these terms can be. How...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...c.1580–c.1634) was Shakespeare’s contemporary, though sixteen years younger. He makes a brief appearance in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love as a boy who tortures mice, spies on Shakespeare’s love-making, and feels inspired to take up the pen himself after seeing Shakespeare’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy, Titus Andronicus. ‘Plenty of blood. That’s the only...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...c. 1891–6 C.39.c.26. By permission of the British Library To what extent does Doctor Faustus conform to this description of a tragic play? Well, it follows the classic tragic trajectory in so far as it starts out with the protagonist at the pinnacle of his achievement and ends with his fall into misery, death and (in this case) damnation. From the beginning the play...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...500. You can also think about it as 500 + 500 + 500 + 500 = 2000, so they last 4 days. c) If the café is open 300 days a year, how many boxes of teabags do they need for the year? Answer 300 ÷ 4 = 75 boxes. From Part b of this activity, you know that a box lasts 4 days. So to work out how many boxes are needed for 300 days, you need to find out many lots of 4 days there are in 300 days. To do that, you find 300 ÷ 4 = 75. d) ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...C. (2001) Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism, Boston, Little, Brown and Company. Folstein, S. and Rutter, M. (1977) ‘Genetic influences and infantile autism’, Nature, vol. 265, no. 5596, pp. 726–8. Grandin, T. and Scariano, M. M. (1986) Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Novato, Arena Press. Hermelin, B. and O’Connor, N. (1970) Psychological Experiments...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...c. 1710, 37.7 per cent of working men and women were already part of the “secondary sector”, which is mostly manufactures, plus a few other areas such as building. Although some of them would have combined this with farm work, this suggests that the secondary sector had already been growing for many years. The indications are that England was still largely...
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