Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Simmering regional differences ignite an all-out crisis in the 1850s. Professor Martin teams with Professor Miller and historian Stephen Amb rose to chart the succession of incidents, from 'Bloody Kansas' to the shots on Fort Sumter, that inflame the conflict between North and Sou th to the point of civil war.
Jazz filled the air and wailed against the night. Caught in the sway, American prose writers sought out the forbidden — the slang, the dialects, and the rhythms of the folk and of everyday life. Writers su ch as Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald forged a new style: one whi ch silhouetted the geometry of language, crisp in its own cleanness.
In Jamestown, Virginia, Dave recalls the hardships encountered by English settlers who established the colony in 1607. He reviews the biography of Pocahontas and credits the Powhatan Indians with saving the colony from certain disaster. A tour of Colonial Williamsburg allows Dave to explore life as lived in Colonial Times. Standing near canon emplacements at Yorktown, Dave recalls details of the British surrender and Thomas Nelson's role in the Battle of Yorktown.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Studying individuals with natural resistance to HIV has led to insight s into the infection process and may produce new treatments or a vacci ne. This session explores recent developments in the study of HIV and AIDS, the future global impact of the current infection levels, and th e ethical issues surrounding current research and treatments.
The precise orbit of a heavenly body
This program presents the authors of the American Gilded Age, such as Edith Wharton, and juxtaposes them with social realists like Anzia Yez ierska. These writers expose the double world that made up turn–o f–the–century New York: that of the elite and that of th e poorest of the poor. Which of these realities is the more truly Amer ican?
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.
Standing on the banks of the Delaware near Philadelphia, Dave recalls the victory at Trenton, New Jersey when the Continental Army crossed the Delaware and overcame the Hessian troops under the command of Colonel Rall. At Monmouth Battlefield State Park Dave introduces the "first Pentagon", a dining room at Ford House that served as meeting place for the leaders of the Continental Army in the two winters that Washington and his troops prepared for the final battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea , and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmis sion, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
Famine, disease, and short life expectancies were the conditions that shaped medieval beliefs.n
"Passing the GED Reading Test" is the first in five episodes that prep ares the student for the GED Language Arts Reading test. The program e xplains the four areas of reading material that the upcoming episodes will cover (nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry) and also familiari zes the student with the test itself: what kinds of questions are aske d and what the student needs to know. The program uses sample passages to cover the different types of questions that the student will be as ked. They are: comprehension questions-figuring out what the text says and forming a conclusion; analysis questions-taking a look at the det ail of the passage and making a decision about why it's there; applica tion questions-taking something that's already been read and applying it to a slightly different context; and synthesis questions-putting it all together. GED teachers, English teachers, and writers all appear as guests in this episode.
The flapping of a butterfly's wings over Bermuda causes a rainstorm in Texas. Two sticks start side by side on the surface of a brook, only to follow divergent paths downstream. Both are examples of the phenome non of chaos, characterized by a widely sensitive dependence of the fu ture on slight changes in a system's initial conditions. This unit exp lores the mathematics of chaos, which involves the discovery of struct ure in what initially appears to be random, and imposes limits on pred ictability.