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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...account of such an encounter. You will probably notice that the author uses two types of argument in his discussion of the experience. The first is argument by analogy, which involves comparing two things in order to highlight a perceived similarity. By its nature, an analogy offers a simplified view of an idea or process – an illustration, rather than a detailed...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...account your personal circumstances. You’ll also be looking at the importance of networking and the different types of networks that you can use to help you shape and achieve your career goals. Remember, it’s always useful to discuss your ideas or plans with a colleague, current employer, or your family. Hearing other people’s views can be an important part of your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...accounts of the nature and legacies of empire. There are political volumes about diplomacy and the legislative frameworks of empire. Military histories of imperial war and conflict. Economic theses on the role of structural inequality and underdevelopment. Cultural histories of the effects of colonialism on everyday practices and identities. Historians who work with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...accounting department within a larger organisation is supplying a service to other parts of the organisation. The purpose of the operational team is usually specified in terms of the level of service or the quality of the goods supplied. Operational teams usually have well-defined roles and responsibilities. While the idea of team roles is typically applied to project...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...accounts for the additional uncertainty inherent in estimating population parameters from sample data. Importantly, the degree of “fatness” in these tails is not constant. It depends on the sample size, a concept we will explore in more detail in the next section. Generally, as the sample size increases, the t-distribution more closely resembles the normal...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...account of Celia Fiennes’ visit to Chesterfield in 1698 and make some notes about the evidence of rural and urban landscapes which it provides. Tip: Consider how you might read this from an environment history point of view. Here we Entred Darbyshire and went to Chesterffield 6 mile, and Came by ye Coale mines where they were digging. They make their mines at ye...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...account of the movement in 1808. Second, he began purposefully to promote moral and spiritual reform at home, initially through obtaining the issue of a royal proclamation ‘for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue’...Wilberforce: 1.4 Wilberforce in Parliament - When Wilberforce made his first major speech against the slave trade in the House of Commons in April 1789,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...accounts for about 1.4 litres of the 4 litres of crude oil each person in the author's one car household might be expected to consume each day. Coincidentally the author's calculations imply that in his household his car consumes the same amount of crude oil each day (4.1 litres) as the average UK citizen. Your calculations may give a quite different figure, depending on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs