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Continuation schools are often the final option for the state's at-risk youth before dropping out. But at one continuation school in Southern California, some students are thinking about college and career for the very first time. In Sacramento, students and teachers are making beautiful music together as part of The String Project. Plus, high schoolers get a civic lesson in Brawley.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The pro found consequences of imperialism are examined in the South African fr ontier and Brazil, where politics, culture, industrial capitalism, and the environment were shaped and re-shaped.
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How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the persp ectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and politic al events that led to the rise of the West, but examines and re-examin es those events through differing opinions of its causes, reflecting c hanges in historical interpretation.
Vocabulario: directions; more family members; weather; changes in stat es and condition; parts of a house; domestic appliances; more ndescrip tive adjectives.nGram
This program addresses what decimals mean and how they used. Decimals to the left of decimal point are whole numbers, whereas those to the r ight are fractions. Features a bank teller discussing the importance o f decimals with money, and how an error of one decimal place can be co stly. Also featured are several instructors showing on a blackboard ho w to perform various functions, including changing fractions and perce nts to decimals. When reading a decimal, the place to the far right of the decimal point gives the fraction its name, e.g., tenths, hundredt hs, thousandths. The word "and" in a number denotes a value less than one. The comparative value of one decimal to another is determined by looking at the whole number from left to right. Dividing by a decimal involves moving the decimal point to the right the same number of plac es in both the divisor and the dividend so that both are whole numbers .
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