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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

...determine the Cajuns’ lives today: self-assertion in a dominant society which is markedly different and a memory of the past. In emphasizing the singularity of Cajun culture, the Cajuns distance themselves from the omnipresent American mainstream culture. Indeed, the alien surroundings and unfamiliar creatures that ‘Tit Edvard and Télesphore face evoke a sense of...
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Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...determine which powers their PCSOs will have. PCSOs can assist warranted officers by specialising in different roles, such as investigating domestic abuse and online child sexual exploitation. It is quite possible that a PCSO in one police area will have slightly different powers to another police area a few miles away. The role of PCSO is now highly visible and widely...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...determine who a person is and, more often than not, what sort of a person they are. In the late Middle Ages, beggars were commonly required to wear metal badges, permitting them to beg, a practise enshrined across Europe in sixteenth century poor laws. In 1558, for instance, the town council of Dundee enacted that: SCOTTISH NARRATOR No beggars be tholet within this burgh,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...determine software-level decisions. It is thus difficult to change the architecture of a system without starting the design from the beginning. Activity 1 Defining ‘system architecture’ Timing: Allow 15 minutes to complete this activity Produce your own definition in answer to the question ‘What is system architecture?’ To do this, consider the definitions of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...determine the average monthly rent or mortgage costs in the low-income location that you chose, and compare this with the cost of the meal in the same location. Briefly summarise the outcomes of your analysis of the relative costs of food in the two locations you have studied. (Answer in fewer than 150 words.) An example answer, from a respondent based on Milton Keynes,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...determination to cling on to his life, whatever the cost to others, to the very end. But Hitler wasn’t a coward. And he spoke more than once of how easy it would be to end his own misery by putting a bullet through his head. We come back to what Hitler thought he was fighting the war for. And to his view of his place in history. The war, for Hitler, couldn’t...
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Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...determined to do that. I’m going to be sad to say goodbye to this place, but I need it as a sense of achievement as well because it’s been a long slog to get to this point. Video 2 Recovery group at Restore Comment The video depicts several things in line with recovery principles. Your recommendations will be your own, but here are four that you may have spotted in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...determining meaning. Examples for this are that unlike many other languages, Arabic distinguishes between singular, plural and dual. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and articles can furthermore be male and female. This is something you might know from European languages like French and German, but unlike in these languages, verbs are also gendered. The Arabic alphabet will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs