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10 Nov 2015: There are 10 in total. You will find the correct responses on the answer sheet (next download).

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - Rebellion or Revolution? Haitian Declaration of Independence Read a translation of the text of Haiti’s declaration of independence from 1804: http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html Questions to think

8 Dec 2015: Text 3: The Verse Account. Introduction. The Verse Account is another Babylonian document which describes the reign of Nabonidus. Although written in the same language as the Nabonidus Chronicle, it is very different in style. The identity of the

10 Nov 2015: Key Concepts Clarkson Thesis: The argument put forward by English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) in his 1808 two-volume work on the history of the anti-slavery movement. Clarkson believed that abolition was a part of a progressive,

8 Dec 2015: Activity Four: The Book of Daniel, Chapter 5. Introduction. The Book of Daniel is part of the Old Testament of the Bible. The Old Testament contains an awful lot of useful historical information because Judea was part of the Babylonian and then the

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - The Simple Past Tense Now that you are familiar with the plot of Rotkäppchen, watch this video on YouTube, it was made in a primary school, the children painted pictures and read the story out loud:

8 Dec 2015: Activity One: The Nabonidus Chronicle. Introduction. The Nabonidus Chronicle is a cuneiform tablet currently housed in the British Museum. It is part of a series of chronicles written on clay tablets by the Babylonian priesthood designed to keep a

11 Dec 2015: Activity Two: The Cyrus Cylinder. Introduction. When Cyrus entered Babylon in 539 BC, he immediately set about trying to secure his newly-won conquest. To do so, he went on a charm offensive and tried to convince the Babylonian people that they

10 Nov 2015: Activity 4: Squatting as a new criminal offence On 1 September 2012, squatting in a ‘residential building’ became a criminal offence, with the maximum sentence being imprisonment for six months. The offence is located in section 144 of the Legal

10 Nov 2015: Answer Sheet Answer Exercise 1:. Der Wolf aber ging geradewegs nach dem Haus der Großmutter und klopfte an die Türe. […] Der Wolf drückte auf die Klinke, die Türe sprang auf und er ging, ohne ein Wort zu sprechen, gerade zum Bett der

10 Nov 2015: Law Commission, Land Registration for the Twenty-First Century, A Consultative Document. (Law Com No 254, 1998), excerpt from paragraphs 10.5 to 10.10. What is the justification for adverse possession? It is, of course, remarkable that the law is

29 Oct 2015: Chirality in Chemistry. You may well have come across chiral molecules in chemistry although you don’t know. that you have. A really good example of this is with amino acids, all bar one of which are. chiral. To spot the chiral centre in a

10 Nov 2015: Activity 4 – Is there a perfect being? Perfect being theology is a way of thinking about God which follows from the assumption. that God is a perfect being – the best being possible. Perfect being theology not only bears. on what we think God

29 Oct 2015: The Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. These rules give the absolute configuration, R- and S- for each chiral center within a. compound. The chiral centers are names either R- or S-. To name a chiral center using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules:. 1) Identify a

3 Aug 2015: Activity 3 – Use your ImagiNation In 1983, a political scientist called Benedict Anderson published an important book called Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. One of the arguments he makes in it is

10 Nov 2015: Activity 2: Considering the welfare issues. The welfare assessment – Lord Justice Ward. The question of Mary’s best interest is one of the key and one of the difficult issues in the. case and it calls for thorough exposition. That Mary’s

10 Nov 2015: Activity 3 - World War I in Asia: The Siege of Tsingtao, 1914 In Asia, all the German colonies except for Tsingtao were under Australian or New Zealander control by mid-September 1914. The fortified city of Tsingtao, essential as it was for

10 Nov 2015: Activity 2 – Reasons for and against perfect being theology. Here we consider two long-standing objections to using perfect being theology. For each. one, we consider the response an advocate of perfect being theology might give. Before.

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - What is Perfect Being Theology? In this section, we look at St Anselm’s articulation of the method for philosophizing about. God now called ‘perfect being theology’, starting with his famous definition for God in the. Proslogion.

10 Nov 2015: Activity 3 – God’s “perfections”. Pretty much since the dawn of Western philosophy, perfect being arguments have been. made: in ancient Greece and Rome, they were sometimes made about ‘gods’ in the plural;. the writers of the Old

3 Aug 2015: Activity 4 - Speaking to / speaking for the nation You’ve been asked to think a lot about the way that we might read Midnight’s Children as a political text – as a book that has something to say about the real world through the fictions it

10 Nov 2015: Activity 3: What is the Law of Adverse Possession in England and Wales? The law. after October 2003. The law of adverse possession underwent a partial but major change in October 2003, when the Land Registration Act 2002 came into force. To

21 May 2015: Activity 2 – Language and atrocity One characteristic of Midnight’s Children that many readers find especially appealing is the richness of its prose, blending allusions to Bollywood film and literary and visual culture with the sound of the

21 May 2015: Activity 1 – Autobiographical Openings The first paragraph of Midnight’s Children proclaims its place in a long tradition of fictional autobiographies. Rushdie’s narrative voice is swiftly established; before we hear his name, Saleem Sinai has

10 Nov 2015: Activity 2 - Germany's African Colonies, 1914-1918. Germany was a relative newcomer to the 'scramble for Africa,' spreading into the few unclaimed parts of the continent via mercantile expansion and purchase of territory. By 1914, their colonial

8 Dec 2015: Answer Sheet. Activity One: Nabonidus Chronicle. Pros/things we can learn. - Initial version written close to the time of the events described, so written at a time when knowledge of the events were current, suggesting that they should be recorded

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - the Indian Army in Europe and the Middle East For a century and a half before the First World War, the British Empire relied on the manpower of the Indian Army for keeping the peace all across its vast imperial possessions. India made

10 Nov 2015: Activity 2: What is the Law of Adverse Possession in England and Wales? The law prior to October 2003 Here, we will examine the technical legal rules relating to adverse possession. As you will find out, the law was changed in October 2003, by the

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1: Considering the criminal law issues. 1. Introduction. It is obvious that the question of whether or not this operation can be lawfully performed is. crucial to the outcome of the appeal. …. 2. Murder. Stripping away the inessential