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Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...energy, anxiety) or few (calm)? colour Are colours warm or cool? (Suggesting feelings, relationships) Bright or dark? (Suggesting feelings of fear or optimism, sadness or happiness) According to Moebius, these features have the potential to convey specific meanings, due to the cultural associations that they have, at least for Western readers. In the next activity you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...energy producers and hurt companies that have close links with the energy sector. Everyone is saying this prolonged slide in oil prices should help economic growth, but investors are starting to worry that the depth of this downturn from more than $110 per barrel to $50 per barrel is fuelling a lot of concern that it might be a sign of a weaker global economy. MALE...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...energy in producing it. It’s better to have written ten drafts of a story and end up with something you are proud of, than to have had a great idea for a story, but let it go to waste by being nervous about setting it down in case it wasn’t perfect first time, or by thinking you need certain skills before you attempt it, or by ‘talking it away’. Remember you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...solar radiation, or insolation. Manual observations are taken at least once daily, while automated observations are taken at least once an hour. Weather conditions out at sea are taken by ships and buoys, which measure slightly different meteorological quantities such as sea surface, wave height, and wave period. Drifting weather buoys outnumber their moored versions by a...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...energy, health care or defence, able to move the opinion of national governments and sometimes, it is claimed, to ride roughshod over social and personal needs. Firms are controversial, important, and a fascinating part of any attempt to understand economic behaviour. In spite of such variation, we can give an economic definition of a firm that takes account of this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...Energy is required to relax the muscle (surprisingly the default condition is contraction). When a muscle runs out of energy it contracts, as occurs in cramp and rigor mortis. [Described image] Figure 7 Arrangement of actin and myosin in a myofibre produce striations. The upper diagram shows the relaxed state and the lower diagram the contracted state. In contrast to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...energy than petrol. Performance will reflect that, unless those clever engineers at BMW can somehow overcome the difference. If they cannot, then BMW, whose prestige and independence rely largely on its engine-making ability, may be in trouble. Were fuel cells to become the standard, the firm's future could be bleak. (Adapted from The Economist, 21 July 2001, p. 86)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...energy I had from that situation and turn it into something positive. So I decided that I wanted to become an advocate, a barrister, one of those lawyers who appears in court and argues for the rights of others. REHANA POPAL: So when I qualified, I didn't know at the time that I was going to be the first ever Afghan female to qualify in England and Wales. It wasn't an...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs