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Professor Brinkley continues his story of twentieth century presidents with a profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Brinkley paints a pictur e of America during the Depression and chronicles some of Roosevelt's programmatic and personal efforts to help the country through its wors t economic crisis. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is at FDR's side and, in many respects, ahead of him as the decade unfolds.
How has slavery shaped the American literary imagination and American identity? This program turns to the classic slave narratives of Ha rriet 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?
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.
Weston Woods Animated Children's Books
Microbial diversity far surpasses all other diversity on the planet. T his session examines recent studies of microbes including extremophile s, the comparisons of Bacteria and Archaea, and the formation and life cycle of biofilms.
Gilbert discovered that the earth behaves like a giant magnet. Modern scientists have learnedneven more.n
In 1898, Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier as the definin g feature of American culture, but American authors had uncovered its significance much earlier. This program turns to three key writers of the early national period — James Fenimore Cooper, John Rollin Ri dge, and Walt Whitman — and examines the influential visions of A merican manhood offered by each author.
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 visits Mount Vernon, Monticello and Montpelier recalling the achievements of the Presidents who lived there and their aims for the estates they called home. He highlights features of Georgian and Palladian architecture and provides insightful anecdotes associated with each home. These anecdotes concern the lives of African slaves and indentured servants, epithets on the graves of the tree Presidents, and stories of Dolley Madison's successes in Washington. Viewers gain an understanding of the private lives of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Madison.
Arts teachers take on a variety of roles, and use many different instr uctional techniques, as they engage with their students. Teachers can be instructors, mentors, directors, coaches, artists, performers, coll aborators, facilitators, critics, or audience members. In this session , participants follow a vocal music teacher as she takes on different roles in order to encourage students to find creative solutions to art istic challenges. Next, an acting teacher becomes a facilitator as his students report on research about theatre history. Then a visual art teacher guides her students in a drawing assignment, varying her appro ach based on the students
What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth cent ury, the world
A new urban middle class emerged, while dynastic marriages established centralized monarchies.
This program is the first of 13 episodes on math skills for students p reparing for the GED exam. As such, it covers general math-related top ics the exam addresses, and helps students understand how the math por tion of the exam is structured. The program consists of an in-studio h ost and video excerpts of GED students, instructors and testing expert s offering their perspectives. Several tips are offered including reph rasing word problems so you understand what is being asked. Recognize the functions implied by the words sum, difference, product, and quoti ent. Students must demonstrate ability to work with whole numbers, fra ctions, decimals. They must know multiplication tables, recognize symb ols such as square roots and exponents, solve basic equations, and set up problems without having to solve them. Math subject areas covered on exam include basic operations, measurements in geometry, data analy sis and probability, and algebra. The program also shows key functions of calculator that is provided to test takers. Also covered is how to record answers for the 3 types of questions: multiple choice, chartin g on coordinate plane grid, and entering fractions and decimals.
Connections can be physical, as with bridges, or immaterial, as with f riendships. Both types of connections can be understood using the same mathematical framework called network theory, or graph theory, which is a way to abstract and quantify the notion of connectivity. This uni t looks at how this branch of mathematics provides insights into extre mely complicated networks such as ecosystems.