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Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...simple title ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’. Inside, accompanied by no introductions or explanations, were 154 powerful love poems: 126 to an unidentified young man and 28 to a woman, the notorious ‘dark lady’. For whom were these poems written? What relationship do they have to Shakespeare’s life? The biographical mystery behind the sonnets is fascinating, but the...
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Article 3 hrs
Changing the size of digital content
Digital & Computing

Changing the size of digital content

...simple and effective and relatively straightforward – you just select the text on the page and choose the size of the text that you want, for example 12pt. (You just need to remember to reduce the font size again before sharing or submitting the document!) [Screenshot of font menu and size location in the Microsoft Word ribbon]Show description Screenshot of font menu...
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Article 5 mins
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...simple things, like pain. When we’re making decisions about euthanasia: Is an animal unhappy? We have to make lots of questions about how they’re behaving. And we make subjective judgements on how they behave and whether they are happy, and whether quality of life is adequate. BIANCA I definitely think that my cat experiences joy and happy emotions. It could be any...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...code associated with a particular profession, or to the slaughter of animals for food in a certain manner), it is held that a form of injustice important to group members would occur. The hard cases arise when the claims of the group (for example, to educate its children in a particular language) conflict with the freely chosen claims of some of its individual members....
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...code, or confession of faith of this system”, linking the starting-point with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, something that might have surprised Smith himself! The post-war years By now, there were anxieties that the success of Britain’s manufactures might have been an artificial result of wartime circumstances; and when peace in 1815 was followed...
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Article 10 mins
Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...coded by Charles Booth in his 1898 survey as pink: ‘Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings’. Its inhabitants were ‘usually paid for responsibility and are men of good character and much intelligence’. Newly-built, Arnold Circus replaced the notorious slums of the Old Nichol. Booth noted five-storey flats with shops underneath and two schools. One is still a...
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Activity 15 mins
Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Code of Rites. Paris: Pantanos Classics. Osuloga, D. (2021) Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Pan Publishing. Rahn, O. (2006) Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome. Vermouth: Inner Traditions Publishers. Runican, S (1987) A History of the Crusade. London: Penguin Publishers. Simmons, A. (2017)...
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Video 25 mins
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...codes, is one strategy that can help to address limitations. In fact, when we are interested in EDI in research, we are also interested in the identities of the actual researchers and the protocols they follow. This involves being vigilant of biases by discussing them explicitly and suggesting how they may be mitigated. Mitigation may happen in several ways: involving key...
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Article 15 mins