Jessica Lucas, Author at Oxford Open Learning

Articles by Jessica Lucas

Jessica Lucas is a qualified English Language teaching professional and specialises in educational content creation.

Pompeii

Pompeii: Digs And DNA

The once busy and bustling Roman city had been reduced to ashes, and was much forgotten until 1748 when it was rediscovered.


Christie

Agatha Christie: Queen Of Crime

Every story has its own unique flair, but here are three particularly memorable novels which showcase Christie’s exceptional and incomparable writing.


Seasonal

Seasonal Psychology

While colder weather may cause peoples’ moods to plunge, warmer weather is thought to increase irritability and the chances of violence.


Biodiversity

What Is Biodiversity?

The extinction of species worldwide is an indicator of biodiversity loss and currently, it’s declining faster than ever before.


Climate

Science v Art: Climate Change

At the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, a new exhibition investigates how the climate crisis between 1780 and 1930 was perceived and represented by Western intellectualls.


Gothic

Gothic Tales: 5 Of The Best

These gothic classics have the power to captivate and tantalise your fear time and time again.


Time

Time To Fall Back

The idea of changing the time deliberately and on a national scale seems somewhat absurd, when time itself is a matter of physics.


Language

How We Shape Language

Researchers are still discovering new and profound intricacies of linguistic changes.


Media

Deciphering Different Media

Take a critical perspective of language, imagery, music, or themes, which all will have been crafted to appeal to a particular audience.


Note-taking

The Noble Art Of Note-Taking

There’s no escaping the digital revolution, and no denying its usefulness, but it arguably encourages apathy when it comes to communicative, pro-active skills such as note-taking.


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