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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...attention on what an organisation thinks it is or ought to be doing. The good mission statement creates boundaries within which objectives can be set. For example, if it were suggested that The Open University might undertake the manufacture of computers for students and others in order to increase its income, it should be immediately obvious that this activity would fall...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...attention to, and try to address, the global problems they perceived. A seminal report, The limits to growth, (Meadows et al, 1972) from the group proposed five inter-related factors that determine but ultimately limit growth: population, agricultural production, natural resources, industrial production and pollution. Having developed a mathematical model to simulate the...
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...attention to the deprivation and wealth disparity in their nation to an international audience (Nalani Butler and Aicher, 2014). Watch the BBC news report below which shows clashes between protesters and the Riot police on the opening day of the World Cup. NEWSREADER Well, as they advertise, about 300 anti World Cup protesters gathered here by this metro station in Sao...
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...attention to the methodological assumptions on which they are operating, but it is also because there are some links between, or overlaps across, these orientations. For example, the kind of analysis developed under the auspices of the third approach can be used for analysing the fronts that are of interest from the point of view of the second. Another way in which more...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...attention to processes that can be applied to data. Each process that we consider in this section will input data of a specified form, and will result in a corresponding value. For example, one process, which we will call ASC, takes a character as input, and has as its resulting value the integer giving the ASCII code of the input character (as listed in Table 2). Another...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...attention was his style of painting, his naturalism (p. 5). Later, this style was seen to be a threat to painting. In the twentieth century, interest focused on his social role as an artist – as a rebel rejecting contemporary conventions and ideals, with a personality and sexuality demanding psychoanalytic and existentialist interpretation. Caravaggio's personality and...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...attention to. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people’s lives are monitored by a ‘telescreen’. Many people have drawn an analogy between Orwell’s depiction of the telescreen and how smart phones are used in contemporary society. Of course, the comparison is not exact. Winston Smith was unable turn his telescreen off. We can, of course, switch our phones off. However, many...
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...attention not only to Methodism but also to the role of the wider Evangelical movement, including Wilberforce and Evangelicals within the Church of England (e.g. V. Kiernan, 1952, ‘Evangelicalism and the French Revolution’, Past and Present, pp. 44–56). In 1984 the view was again advanced that ‘evangelicalism… may, at least for some, have averted a potentially...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs