Prudence Coutts
BA (Hons) War Studies. MA Conflict Studies.
Addicted to FutureLearn!
Location Scotland
Achievements
Activity
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The bio-psycho-social model can be used to the study the development of the human gut microbiome.
-
-
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I have no professional experience but I feel that Geriatric Oncology is much overlooked and pretty much ignored from personal experience.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Passive listening and being reflective and more compassionate and patient.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Thank you for such an informative article.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Physical pain (in terminal cancer) seems to be only addressed. Unless a patient reaches out to to the talking services offered in the UK which are brilliant.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I am in the UK
-
Prudence Coutts replied to Haymatee Sooknarine
My father is too blessings
-
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I have read various book about Mary Queen of Scots. But to learn with Glasgow University is a pleasure.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This is quite distressing and tragic. I don’t believe she had a mental disorder. She was denied a priest. Truly concerning. I’m trying to retrieve the photos I took with my sister at Loch Leven. So selfless and loyal to her faith.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This is a fragile topic whereby no organisation agrees (because of the lack of a general acceptance) upon the term ‘terrorism.’
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/securing-our-future-decade-counter-terrorism-strategies
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
No. Not successful.
Terrorism occurs at Gitmo. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. Held beyond human rights. What I cannot retell is abhorrent.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Some are deemed insane in the courts of law. Others are not. Yes Anders was ….. diagnosed with NPD under Norwegian law. In my view a psychopath…. Apologies
-
Yes. He was.
-
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
No one can predict this …..
Security checks are often sadly futile.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Fabulous resources thank you.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Fabulous course. Fascinating.
-
-
-
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I am looking forward to all courses offered by Leiden. A great opportunity!
-
I would love to know more but my Dutch is pathetic shame on me!
-
-
The Boer Wars could be considered as terrorism????
-
Terrorism or Genocide gosh horrific …..
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/herero-and-nama-genocide
-
I truly hope so :)
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Lack of resources, cultural differences, intelligence agencies, misinformation and, of course, bias. Fear of being brainwashed by unethical movements. Propaganda!
-
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This was a thoroughly informative lecture. Thank you.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Anders Behring Breivik —— terrorist. Yet deemed sane?!?!?? Norway 2011. Targeted children under the guise of a safe police officer.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Political violence. State sponsored terrorism. Religious violence. Gender based violence. Propaganda on Twitter????
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Terrorism is defined in United Kingdom law as the use or threat of action, both in and outside of the United Kingdom, designed to influence any international government organisation or to intimidate the public and for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.
Introduction to Counter-Terrorism
What is...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
5th Wave has already happened.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
There is not a single or agreed definition of terrorism.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Anti colonialism was normal. They wished for independence. Counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns were glorified by the British and the Americans but few were successful. To be honest futile.
I apologise but this video is a tad sweeping and generalised.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
State-sponsored terrorism? Black/grey/white propaganda on social media?
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I would love to. Possibly a little too much money????
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Hi from Scotland. BA (Hons) War Studies. MA in Conflict Studies. Still keeping up to date ….. nice to meet you all. I’ve travelled all over the world …..
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
‘Energy drinks sales ban for children unveiled by Scottish Government’ 29th October 2019
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/energy-drinks-sales-ban-children-20749801 accessed 30.12.21
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
In 2020 population-level alcohol consumption in Scotland – estimated from alcohol retail sales – fell to its lowest level in the available time series (1994 onwards). 9.4 litres of pure alcohol were sold per adult, equivalent to an average consumption of 18 units per adult per week, which still substantially exceeds the low risk weekly drinking guideline of 14...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I think that Hyman Minsky theory is most suitable for the financial crisis from 2007-2009 - over periods of prolonged economic prosperity and high optimism about future prospects, financial institutions invest more in ever-riskier assets in search of higher returns, which can make the economic system more vulnerable in the case that default materialises. This...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
“Confidence Can Last A Lifetime” by The British Army
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I’m supplementing this course with the ExpertTracks 3 course programme on How To Create Social Media Strategy.
-
Prudence Coutts replied to Prudence Coutts
Thank you @PaulMalgrati Just read in Robert Crawford - The Bard that Burns was “admirer of Shakespeare and English literature ....” too.
-
Prudence Coutts replied to Prudence Coutts
Thank you @JanTappan
Gerard Carruthers is editing a new Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns with three chapters on Burns's biography, and much other material 40 plus essays for 2022. -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The detailed reading list is brilliant. Thank you to everyone who are involved in the running of this course.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
My perception has altered slightly because of the vast amount of poetry and songs he created.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
No, there is no better anthem to start the New Year.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This was a fun exercise to do.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
900,000 Burn Suppers worldwide in 2019!
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Imagine if Burns had emigrated to the West Indies. We wouldn't have Burns Night, Burns Societies or Clubs at all.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Cannot wait for Covid-19 regulations relax because the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and Ellisland Farm and Museum (I'm a member of the latter) are high on my bucket list for 2021 https://www.ellislandfarm.co.uk/ accessed 29.01.2021.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
It’s astonishing to learn how Burns was and is still commemorated worldwide.
I buy and sell enamel giftware and ‘trinket boxes’. I have a Robert Burns - To A Mouse, handpainted enamel collectable miniature box for sale (I kept one for myself) on my inventory. -
Roopa there is a translation here. You have to scroll down past the Scots version. Hope this helps.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Haggis is eaten on Burns Night, not only because he wrote ‘Address To a Haggis’, but because the haggis symbolises the Union of 1707. It was an attempt to counteract anti-Scottish sentiment. I have ‘brain fog’ this morning but it was something Gerard Carruthers noted in last night’s event, ‘Supping With The Poet.’
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I was just thinking about whether Burns was an alcoholic or if he was bipolar. Especially when he wrote Tam O’ Shanter. Was he having a manic episode, or hallucinating from being in delirium tremens?
-
I think one the main reasons Burns is known worldwide is because of the Scottish Diaspora to; the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. There have been many Scots in Russia, so they probably acknowledge Burns’s poetry and songs. They could even be hosting Burns Night Suppers.
The Scots In Russia by... -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I think one the main reasons Burns is known worldwide is because of the Scottish Diaspora to; the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. There have been many Scots in Russia, so they probably acknowledge Burns’s poetry and songs. They could even be hosting Burns Night Suppers.
The Scots In Russia by... -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I had absolutely no idea that Robert Aytoun was the first to craft Auld Lang syne. Then again, everyone from Shropshire tragically still believe that Thomas Telford was a Salopian (born in Shropshire, England), due to the Ironbridge he built there.
I prefer the version chosen by Burns’s editor George Thomson.
Ramsay’s version is military drinking song...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Noted the differences from the print out I have next to me.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Although Burns and James Johnson used code, Johnson took a more open-minded libertarian approach to Burns’s songs. George Thomson was much more conservative and wouldn’t accept anything that was deemed immoral or taboo during this era.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Beating The Beatles - that’s a fair feat indeed. But Burns did not write an epic song about Mia Farrow’s sister like Lennon did :)
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Burns was certainly influenced by Romanticism. Seeing that there were three versions of the melody for A Red Red Rose, I think Burns was also a perfectionist as a songwriter.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The mouse features in the poem but I think the mouse is being used to reflect, from a philosophical perspective, on mankind, humanity and morality. I could be wrong on this one.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
One of my favourites.
For me, Burns places a strong emphasis on humanity morality in To A Mouse.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
My translation was accurate.
This was quite a hard exercise to do, even though I took the Early Modern Scottish Palaeography: Reading Scotland's Records course.
I didn’t note the punctuation as I was fixated on matching stanza 4 with an online version.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Stanza 4 - I could make out some of the words and it fits with,
“All in this mottie, misty clime,
I backward mus'd on wasted time,
How I had spent my youthfu' prime,
An' done nae-thing,
But stringing blethers up in rhyme
For fools to sing.” -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
A grand achievement to be acknowledged in America only two years after the first publication. Would this be partly due to the Scottish diaspora to the States?
This Museum is on my bucket list for post-Covid-19.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Simply beautiful to hear Burns’s poetry read.
Intriguing to find an English response to The Vision from February 1787.
“English Review: "The Vision is perhaps the most poetical of all his performances. Revolving his obscure situation, in which there was nothing to animate pursuit or gratify ambition; comparing his humble lot with the more flourishing...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The Bard / Poet query appears quite contradictory because Burns was quite humble and played himself down with regards to his first edition of works.
He sees himself as a Bard but the definition describes this as being a “professional poet and singer.”
Poet vs Bard - What's the difference?...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This resources additionally notes that,
“The works of Alexander Pope, Henry Mackenzie and Laurence Sterne fired Burns's poetic impulse and relationships with the opposite sex provided his inspiration.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/biography.shtml accessed 27.01.2021. I’m not too sure of the accuracy of this. -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Burns was both a songwriter and a poet. It’s better to hear the poetry being read than just to read it. When sung, Burns songs are soul-touching.
My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose
Sung and played by Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker.
https://youtu.be/QK9WK0QhejA accessed 27.01.2021.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Burns was indeed a lyrical genius. I was unaware of his poetry of ‘The Vision’, of ‘Coila’ (or Kyle) http://www.burnsscotland.com/items/b/burns-and-the-vision-by-james-christie.aspx accessed 27th January 2021. I will try and find it my very old Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns.
I have seen on social media that a new Complete Works is being produced....
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This has been an excellent course to study for the second time. All of the Scottish themed MOOCs offered by FutureLearn has led me to the prospect of future study (Spring 2021) of an MLitt in Scottish History.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
It was astonishing to learn that there are more people in the Carolinas with Scottish heritage than there are in Scotland. Yes, they cover a vast area and have large populations - it’s still an amazing fact.
-
Prudence Coutts replied to Prudence Coutts
It would be tantamount to sacrilege @TeresaKirby
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
St Andrews Highland Games, Fife, Scotland. Founded in 1984. Interesting because this is the Lowlands.
http://www.standrewshighlandgames.co.uk/ -
There is Aberdeen town in NC. There are many roads and streets with Scottish names and there used to be the Flora MacDonald college for women. I didn't get the chance to find out about societies.
-
I haven’t read it yet but I have in my bookcase - Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith. The book is set in the context of the Highland Clearances and follows an elderly woman who is suffering a religious crisis. Has anyone read this?
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Jacobite Army - I wouldn’t have chosen to fight the battle at all.
On the strategic and tactical level there was no way for the Jacobite forces to counteract the British Army. They were fighting on the defensive on boggy ground. Men were falling far behind and losing themselves in the terrain. By the time dawn was breaking the Jacobites were not close...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
It’s great to see the Jacobite Database of 1745 listed in the resources. The founder recently did an interactive Q&A with AskHistorians. They were able to answer my question about English Jacobites in much detail @JDB1745 on Twitter. They also have a Facebook page.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
“‘A Man’s a Man’ was later sung at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, showing how a song that challenged the political establishment of his own day could be appropriated to speak for the political establishment of another time.” 7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard by Dr Ronnie Young. History Extra...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Another good resource on Burns is, ‘7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard.’ by Dr Ronnie Young - History Extra https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/robert-burns-facts-poet-scotland-auld-lang-syne-address-haggis/ accessed 25.01.2021
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
This is a difficult question to answer. So, I have found a resource by Charlie McKinnon,
“Many of Burns’s earliest poems, songs and letters reveal his radical views and his empathy for the poor and vulnerable in society. He was without doubt a champion of the oppressed and an enemy of the ruling class and of aristocratic power and privilege. Burns’s...
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I think the poem is sincere with such expression of despair, unhappiness and regret describing their parting.
‘Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,’
‘Dark despair around benights me.’
‘We had ne'er been broken-hearted.’
‘Ae fareweel, alas, forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!’ -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
It’s much more enjoyable to hear this than just to read it.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
If Burns was alive today he would be deemed as a philanderer and an adulterer. As Burns’s love life is part of History it is not an area of his life that should be censored or disregarded.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I don’t think it’s necessary to translate Scots Wha Hae into English. The last two stanzas are already in English and the poem would lose it’s vibrancy being entirely in standard English. It’s best left alone.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I never knew this was referred to as ‘code-switching.’ I do now. Thank you. It’s not an element of Burns’s poetry I have noted before.
-
Prudence Coutts replied to Evelyn ROSS
See you virtually there :) There is another Burns event, this Saturday - Burns Beyond Reality
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burns-beyond-reality-tickets-137772014805
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The title, ‘Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’ certainly appears a quite timid approach by Burns regarding Scots as a recognised language.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
What a glorious celebration of projecting victory!
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
The Catalan poet - Victor Balaguer sprang to mind. Like many Catalonians, still, today want independence from Spain. The excerpt from his poem, ‘To the Virgin of Montserrat’ below expresses his patriotism and national identity.
Gentlemen of the sea the Catalans, on the verge of
knowing the enemy hung,
nor did the fish pass if they
did not carry the... -
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I find it quite interesting that despite the family’s financial situation, William Burnes invested in his children’s education.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
It’s extremely difficult to choose just one word to describe what Burns means to oneself. So I chose the classic word ‘bard.’
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
Burns seems to have been a complex multi-faceted person.
-
Prudence Coutts made a comment
I certainly look forward to Gerard Carruthers’ EP of Burns songs in the style of The Beatles :)
