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As the American character begins to take shape in the early seventeenth century, English settlements develop in New England and Virginia. Their personalities are dramatically different. Professor Miller explores the origins of values, cultures, and economies that have collided in the North and South throughout the American story.
What was haunting the American nation in the 1850s? The three writers treated in this program Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson use poetry and prose to explore the dark side of nineteenth-century America.
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Dave recalls the Pilgrim's decision to leave England and find a place free from religious persecution. Dave traces the Pilgrim exodus to Amsterdam, to Leiden, and finally to America where a land patent gives the settlers permission to settle in Virginia. Dave explains that the Mayflower Compact established social order and good government that would ultimately inspire the words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Dave visits Plymouth Rock, and gives some idea of the Native American friendships that resulted in the first Thanksgiving on American soil.
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Several genes help determine what makes a human embryo develop female or male sexual anatomies. This session examines recent findings which have challenged previous beliefs about the roles of anatomy, environment, and genetics in the determination of gender, and the evolution of sexual determination.
Chicana writer Gloria Anzald a tells us that the border is "una herida abierta [an open wound] where the lifeblood of two worlds is merging to form a third country a border culture." This program explores the literature of the Chicano borderlands and its beginnings in the literature of Spanish colonization.
Vocabulario: numbers (100-1000); food groups (meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, others); writing and written works.nGram
In Good Shape is the weekly health show on DW, covering all aspects of health care: what's new in medical treatment, alternative medicine, wellness and fitness - as well as nutrition and beauty. In our studio interview we discuss topics in-depth with specialists, and offer you opportunities to pose your own questions. Dr. Carsten Lekutat and Stefanie Suren are alternate hosts of the program and will provide a combination of video-rich features and insightful interviews that grapple with some of the larger issues in medical treatment and healthcare. As an interactive feature of the program we also ask viewers to request a program topic Dr. Carsten Lekutat is a qualified General Practitioner and works as a doctor in Berlin. He is also responsible for training medical students at the Berlin Charite hospital. Stefanie Suren is executive producer and presenter of In Good Shape. 'Keep it simple and straightforward' - that is her goal as a reporter, producer and presenter.
From the tower of the Old North Church where Robert Newman gave the signal that the British were coming, Dave recalls the beginnings of the American Revolution. He explains that Boston Puritans felt they had a God-given right to revolt against tyrants who taxed them without representation. At the Hancock Clark House in Lexington, Dave reviews the biographies of John Hancock and the Reverend Jones Clark, and the reasons why the British accused them of treason. On Lexington Green, Dave reviews the history of the "shot heard 'round the world", and at Old North Bridge, Concorde, the American success and the subsequent British retreat. Next, at Bunker Hill, Dave provides a detailed account of the heavy fighting and numerous causalities in a conflict where the Americans established themselves as a solid fighting force. He closes with the story of Henry Knox who, with the approval of George Washington, brought British cannons 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights in Boston.
What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
Monarchs considered reforms in order to create more efficient societies, but not at the expense ofntheir own power.n
This program on fractions is the fifth of 13 programs within the mathematics section of the series GED Connection. This episode explains the concept and many applications of fractions to make them more understandable and useful to adult learners who may have been previously intimidated by them. It explains a fraction as both a part-to-whole relationship as well as another way to write a division problem, using numerator and denominator. The program shows real-life uses of fractions in accurately measuring something, keeping time to musical beats, and in a horse trainer's calculations of required dosage and supply of medicine needed. The program explains how to find common denominators for adding and subtracting fractions, as well as how to subtract by borrowing from the whole number. Cross canceling or factoring is shown to be an easy way of simplifying a problem. Composites, numbers with many factors, and prime numbers, those whose only factors are one and themselves, are also addressed. Dividing is shown to be the same as multiplying by the reciprocal; and dividing by a number less than one is done the same way, except the result is a higher number than the dividend.
The conventional notion of dimension consists of three degrees of freedom: length, width, and height, each of which is a quantity that can be measured independently of the others. Many mathematical objects, however, require more