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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...law, not Boaz whom she is to marry: ‘Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go: and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God’. Nevertheless, the verses are about love, and they convey absolute sincerity. The narrator uses an image from the Book of Daniel to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...law, to spare the conquered, and subdue the proud’. (Aeneid 6.851–3) Anchises claims that war is an essential part of the Roman mission, and that peace will come through military conflict. His final words refer to how a good Roman should balance mercy and retribution. In Anchises’ model it is easy to tell where to draw the line: only those who show arrogance should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...law might force you to wear a crash helmet every time you ride your motorcycle. Your partner might force you to stay in rather than go out to the cinema, or to tidy up the kitchen rather than do another hour's study. (Warburton, 1999, pp. 14–15) Did you understand Warburton's explanation and the extracts from Berlin that he quotes? Could you explain the notion of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...law, for instance, in a tribunal or a court case. An expert witness will be required in this situation who will be a chartered psychologist, probably specialising in education. In general, a diagnostic report will give detailed information and a greater understanding of an individual, a child, or an employee as to their strengths and weaknesses and where support would...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...laws and simplifications describing how ice flows and slides, the map of the bedrock beneath the ice sheet, and when instability might be triggered in each region under [a] mid-high climate scenario…. This gave us a range of model predictions for sea level rise: three thousand possible futures fanning out from today. Edwards (2015) If you are interested, you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...laws, regulations, policies and programmes. In your context, your home, neighbourhood, office or organisation are broadly seen as part of our environment. In your own practice and in the pedagogical spaces you create, addressing questions related to climate and environmental injustice is an important aspect of climate education. It’s critical both for ensuring everyone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...law is one source of coercive pressure, but so too for example, is the knowledge that you will get promoted only if you act in ways which fit accepted ways of doing things in your organisation. Imitation refers to the pressures to copy what others do. The world is complicated and finding the best-possible solution is often difficult. One way of dealing with this...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...laws of geometry and of the precision of a clear contour that had been so important in the works of Poussin and other sources for Neoclassicism. Also, in this case the style suits the subject: what better way to represent a collapsing regime than by means of a compositional technique that encapsulates collapse? The ‘orgy’ of colour is also appropriate to the subject,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs