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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...law of 1921, which had prohibited French in public schools, the two World Wars, the discovery of oil in Jennings, Louisiana, and the progressive construction of an infrastructure in Louisiana all contributed to the Americanization of Cajun Country and were the main causes for the demise of French in Louisiana. Unable to resist the lure of the American mainstream and with...
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Article 15 mins
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...laws on air pollution. MR: Yes, but one of the reasons nobody’s building super-critical new coal-fired power stations is that would produce less CO2 per unit of energy and less pollution, is because there’s no future. Why? Because wind is dumped onto the grid whenever it’s available and that destroys the economics of new power plants in this area. So anyway, if we...
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...laws which strongly restrained Catholics from owning property, entering professions and fully engaging in political life, creating a society with extreme religious and political tensions. The elegant ornaments of this regime were a proudly Irish, if exclusively Protestant, parliament, an elegant Georgian cityscape in Dublin and a countryside filled with large Anglo-Irish...
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Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...laws and customs that filter through the other layers to impact on the child. Children who move between different countries, for example refugee children, may experience such significant cultural shifts and transitions...Listening to young children: supporting transition: 1.1 Listening to multiple perspectives - The sociocultural thinker Barbara Rogoff (2003) maintains...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...law’ of the selected modelling technique, develop an outline of a suitable model. Use this outline to check compliance with items 1, 2 and 3 above – or modify the model or adjust the specifications in items 1, 2 or 3. Develop a full version of the model by a process of iteration, expansion and inclusion of detailed data as required. Box 5 Omissions from the model A...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...law to discriminate against, bully or treat someone unfairly in sport because of a personal characteristic (e.g. race, sex or disability). For example, a sports team not selecting someone to coach their team because that person is a woman, or a sports club refusing to provide the same range of sporting equipment to both a women’s and a men’s football team would be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...laws put into practice with regard to black Americans; this so-called egalitarian segregation served only to introduce the most extreme forms of discrimination. This convergence is in no way pure chance: whether it is race, caste, class or sex reduced to an inferior condition, the justification process is the same. ‘The eternal feminine’ corresponds to ‘the black...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...law are usually of French origin (e.g., constitution, to baptize, judge – juge) whereas mundane words stayed Germanic (e.g. to say – sagen, hand – Hand), which reflects that following the Norman Conquest of 1066 the ruling class of Britain was French, spoke in French and only very slowly mingled with the locals. Here are four examples of languages in which you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs