Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Professor Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of ci ties that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned. Chicago -- with Hull House, the World's Columbian Exposition, the new female workforce, the skyscraper, the department store, and unfettere d capitalism -- is the place to watch a new world in the making at the turn of the century.
Native Americans had established a rich and highly developed tradition of oral literature long before the writings of the European colonists . This program explores that richness by introducing Native American o ral traditions through the work of three contemporary authors: Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo 1;, and Luci Tapahonso (Navajo).
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
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, environme nt, and genetics in the determination of gender, and the evolution of sexual determination.
Eighteenth-century electricians knew how to spark the interest of an a udience with the principlesnof static electricity.nnn
This program guides the viewer through the works and contexts of ethni c writers from 1945–1965. Starting with the works of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Philip Roth, and N. Scott Momaday, we explore the way writers from the margins took over the center of American culture.
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.
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Everyday life of the working class was transformed by leisure, prompti ng the birth of an elitenavant-garde movement.n
This episode of GED connection focuses on Data Analysis. During the pr ogram the viewer learns how to read and interpret data on charts and g raphs and how to find averages. The GED test may require those taking it to interpret numeric information from graphs that use picture and s ymbols. A key or a legend is provided to find out what the symbols mea n. The types of graphs that are covered in this program are bar or col umn graphs and circle or pie graphs. Graphs are used to simplify infor mation and it is encouraged that understanding what the graph is repre senting is more important than what type of graph it is. This program also covers tables, which are used to organize data to help the user l ocate information easily. This program also covers mean, median, and m ode.
The conventional notion of dimension consists of three degrees of free dom: length, width, and height, each of which is a quantity that can b e measured independently of the others. Many mathematical objects, how ever, require more