Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Review and explore transformations such as translation, reflection, and rotation. Apply these ideas to solve more complex geometric problems. Use your knowledge of properties of figures to reason through, solve, and justify your solutions to problems. Analyze and prove the midline theorem.
Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- the Warrior and the Minister -- in the first decades of the twentieth century. Professor Miller discusses American socialism, Eugene Debs, international communism, and the roots of the Cold War with Professor Brinkley.
How has slavery shaped the American literary imagination and American identity? This program turns to the classic slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass and the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe. What rhetorical strategies do their works use to construct an authentic and authoritative American self?
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
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.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Having determined the complete DNA nucleotide sequence of humans and several other organisms, today
When British colonists landed in the Americas, they created communities that they hoped would serve as a "light onto the nations." But what role would the native inhabitants play in this new model community? This program compares the answers of two important groups, the Puritans and Quakers, and exposes the lasting influence they had upon American identity.
I Choose My Future, a captivating presentation and video series, provides viewers with comprehensive, straightforward insight into how substance abuse impacts the individual, their families, and society.
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.
At Pennsbury Manor Dave recalls William Penn's upbringing in England. Viewers learn that the King of England granted Penn the largest land charter ever given, hoping that other Quakers would follow Penn to the New World. Dave explains how Penn founded Philadelphia as a city of tolerance and how he created a system of government that provided for the separation of powers and checks and balances. Dave's final stop is Betsy Ross' house, where he tells the story of the creation of the first U.S. flag.
What do historians know about the earliest farmers and herders, and the evolution of cities? Newly emerging evidence about the
Through its army, Rome built an empire that shaped the West.n
This episode of GED Connection is called "Themes in U.S. History." In it, some of the themes that are at the core of american history are discussed: the coming together of many cultures, the idea of personal rights and freedom, and the changing nature of everyday life. On the GED test there will be questions relating to a variety of periods in american history. It is helpful to get as familiar as possible with them by reading, visiting museums and historic sites, watching movies about historical events, watching the nes, and talking to friends and family about the issues they lived through. Topics discussed in this program include: early America and settlement, the Louisiana Purchase, slavery, the civil war, the labor movement, immigrants, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and women in the workplace.
Our first exposure to geometry is that of Euclid, in which all triangles have 180 degrees. As it turns out, triangles can have more or less than 180 degrees. This unit explores these curved spaces that are at once otherwordly and firmly of this world