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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...doubling which yet arises plausibly enough in his consciousness. In other words, the first person narrative provides a realist perspective upon happenings inherently gothic, melodramatic or non-realist in implication. Insofar as we are brought to share the boy Pip's viewpoint, we share his sense of the world as arbitrary and frightening; insofar as we are brought back...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...doubleness, by ‘the other’, the mirror image who’s not the same as you. So there’s an autobiographical element there. But I’ve found over and over again, every time, if you just write about yourself, you’re too close to yourself, to your own stuff, you can’t see it properly. So normally you end up repressing, writing quite clumpily and clumsily, and you need...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...double IPA, they'll be very alcoholic indeed, but they'll be as pale as this one. And you can have session stouts which are 3%. So ABV and colour are not necessarily linked. It's all to do with the amount of malt you use and the type of malts that you use. One thing that Brewers are mainly looking for is balance in their beer. They want their beer to be a balance between...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...circulation would be especially strong over sites where igneous rock was being intruded at shallow depth, and strongest of all at any places where volcanic eruptions occurred onto the ocean floor. Moreover, the repeated arrival of new igneous rock at or a little way below the ocean floor would mean that the chemistry was continually renewed, so that some of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...ete/. The French word très is transcribed /tʀɛ/. [Described image] Figure 3 IPA in French The International Phonetic Alphabet is a useful tool, but it is complex – even for seasoned linguists. The good news is that as a beginner, you will absolutely not be expected to memorise it, or even use it at all if you don’t want to. But it’s useful to know about it, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...et al. (2002) argue that social marketing is often used to influence an audience to change their behaviour for the sake of one or more of the following: improving health – health issues preventing injuries – safety issues protecting the environment – environmental issues contributing to the community – community-building issues. Lazer and Kelley (1973, p. ix)...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...et al., 2007, p. 95). Ancona and her colleagues (2007) suggest that the idea of an all-round complete leader is a myth, and it is important instead to acknowledge that any leader will have their strengths and weaknesses. They suggest that the ‘incomplete leader’, having recognised their own strengths and weaknesses, knows when to let go, and will find other people to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...et articulata debito modo pronunciata’ (‘A literate and articulate voice, pronounced in a correct manner’). This acts as a motto for the allegorical figure, defining the meaning of grammar as it is understood in this tradition. In other words, the text supplies additional meaning to the painting, though in a slightly different way from the names in Figure 2. Adam...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs