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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...concept of national identity and understand how it has influenced the World Cup identify how the women’s World Cup has developed and illustrations of the political challenges faced by some women. Moving around the course In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each session, you will find a link to the next session. If at any time you want to return to the start of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other. So you have the eye, and then you drop in the concepts. And that whole thing is two languages both working at the same time. So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a simple question with a really simple answer....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...concepts and ideas, is used appreciate the contemporary relevance of Orwell’s novel and the reasons for its enduring appeal...George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1 Orwell’s route to Nineteen Eighty-Four - Nineteen Eighty-Four centres around totalitarianism. Despite this, George Orwell did not have any first-hand knowledge of living in a totalitarian state. He paid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...concepts which are central to understanding how empires were established, managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples. Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come to symbolise what the public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this dubious honour. Not far behind...
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White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...concept of degeneracy. In this context, degeneracy means that there is more than one quantum state with the same energy. In quantum mechanics, all particles display wave-like behaviour. In particular, any particle has a characteristic wavelength, known as the de Broglie wavelength, defined by lamda sub dB equals h divided by p Equation label: (1) where h is Planck’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...de dhuilleoga feileastraim is bitiúmin agus pic bheith cuimilte lena thóin ansan é a leagadh síos i measc na ngiolcach is coigeal na mban sí le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the...
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...de Chastelain was in Ireland wondering when he would next be needed; waiting for the IRA to move to put more of its arms beyond use. When I left Richard McAuley on that Saturday in July 2005, I stepped into the car park at the supermarket and scribbled some words onto a post it; words I used in a BBC Radio Ulster news broadcast that lunchtime. This is what I said: “My...
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