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The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-alteri ng invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving assembly line, the emergenc e of a consumer culture, and the culmination of forces let loose by th ese entities in Los Angeles are all explored by Professor Miller.
What was haunting the American nation in the 1850s? The three writ ers treated in this program — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melvill e, and Emily Dickinson — use poetry and prose to explore the dark side of nineteenth-century America.
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.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
The ability to compare DNA sequences from different organisms is refin ing our perspective on evolution. This session illustrates how molecul ar techniques are now combined with fossil evidence to explore relatio nships in organisms from whales to anthrax.
The work of Wheatstone, Ohm, and Kirchhoff leads to the design and ana lysis of how currentnflows.n
The Enlightenment brought new ideals and a new notion of selfhood to t he American colonies. This program begins with an examination of the i mportance of the trope of the self-made man in Benjamin Franklin
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.
Dave tours historic locations in Philadelphia recalling battles of the American Revolution and the lives of the Founding Fathers who attended the Constitutional Conventions held there. He spends some time at Franklin House where he reviews the biography of the great statesmen and inventor. Locations, such as the American Philosophical Society, Declaration House, and Carpenter's Hall bring to mind the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution, documents whose common sense approach to freedom and liberty is extolled throughout the episode. Dave also recalls the history of the Liberty Bell, the design of the Great Seal, and the establishment of the American bald eagle as the symbol of the United States and its freedoms.
Arts teachers are aware of and respond to the many differences they fi nd among their students. In this session, participants meet a visiting theatre artist who takes advantage of the different backgrounds and l earning styles of ninth-graders to help them understand and embrace th e playwriting process. A visual art teacher brings together honors art students and students with disabilities, so they can learn from each other. As a music teacher works with different classes, she addresses needs common to all students. Finally, in a movement class for non-dan ce majors, teachers help students explore human anatomy.
How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The tra ders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen c arried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and re ligion down rivers and across oceans.
Amid invasion and civil disorder, a military aristocracy dominated the kingdoms of Europe.n
This, the first of five science programs lays the foundation for the s cience track. It explains the four main areas of science that will be covered on the GED test and in the next four episodes (life science, e arth and space science, chemistry and physics). The host explains the basic format of the test - the fact that there are 50 multiple choices questions based on passages that test takers read. Throughout the pro gram sample questions are reviewed, the correct answers are provided a nd an explanation is given for why the other answers are incorrect. Th e program includes commentary from the Executive Director of the GED T esting Service who provides insight into how the new test differs from the previous version and offers suggestions for taking the test (such as reading carefully and learning to recognize what is being asked). The program also features commentary from researchers, teachers and ot hers in biology, chemistry, and other fields who describe how they use science and their professional and everyday lives. The GED hotline ph one number (1-800-626-9433) and the LiteracyLink Web site (www.pbs.org /literacy) are both mentioned in the program (and on screen) as resour ces for additional information.
All sound is the product of airwaves crashing against our eardrums. Th e mathematical technique for understanding this and other wave phenome na is called the Fourier analysis, which allows the disentangling of a complex wave into basic waves called sinusoids, or sine waves. In thi s unit we discover how the Fourier analysis is used in creating electr onic music and underpins all digital technology.