Faites le bilan: Sessions 6 – 10
This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. This unit also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the unit, you will feel more confident understanding and
Cosmology Lecture 8 (March 16, 2009)
quantum physics mechanics, cosmology, math, science, sphere, capital omega, potential energy form, theory, dark matter, vacuum, galaxy, movement, curve flat universe, density, space, constant time, exponential expansion, light year, big bang, stretch, inh
Ermaine De Etaël on the nation and nationalism
There are few historical figures as dramatically enticing and colourfully
enigmatic as Germaine de Staël. The young Germaine had an early introduction
to the culture of the French Enlightenment through her mother's influential
Paris-based salo. De Staël's (Running Time 51:52)
Towards the French Presidency of the EU: a lecture by Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Jean-Pierre Jouyet is French minister of state for European affairs.
24.973 Advanced Semantics (MIT)
Current work on semantics and questions of logic and meaning for syntactic systems in generative grammar. From the course home page: Course Description This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 "Introduction to Semantics" and 24.954 "Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory". Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overview of the field and its current developments. Our aim is to help you develop the ability for semantic a
Grammar Lesson 5: Disappearing Reflexive Verbs, Use of Coupons 5 Little Christmas Trees (Song) Winter 2009 Quarterly Podcast Michael Useem's 'The Go Point': Knowing When It's Time to Decide Patrick Hernly: MIRA at SPC (2) Lecture 27 - 11/24/2010 2007.04.05-Liberty Under Law: Empowering Youth, Assuring Democracy The Mobility of English School Children Exploring Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses on the Benchtop Legal Issues in Higher Education Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community Development Demitri Porphyrios, design architect of Whitman College: "Tradition and Modernity: The Making of Whi Sam Wang: The Princeton Election Consortium - A First Draft of Electoral History - February 11, 2009 Sam Wang: The Princeton Election Consortium - A First Draft of Electoral History PDF - February 11,
Here's a trick question for Spanish speakers: Would it be better in Portuguese to say the equivalent of 'Siéntate' or 'Siéntese'? Answer: Don't
This video is great for children to learn how to count and subtract with objects. This is a teacher-made video. Adult voice is singing in the background while 5 Christmas trees are displayed on a felt board. Run time 02:49.
That was the year that was 2009: it all began with the collapse of the sub-prime housing market in America, and the rest, as they say, is now history. The 2008 and 2009 recession saw consumption fall for the first time in 20 years, and that slow-down in America spread to countries as far apart as the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, China, India and New Zealand. However, while some were officially in recession having experienced two consecutive quarters of negative growth, others suc
Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at Wharton, recently spoke about his new book The Go Point with Knowledge@Wharton.
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Adjunct Professor Patrick Hernly discusses St. Petersburg College's Music Industry and Recording Arts (MIRA) program.
About St. Petersburg College:
In 1927, St. Petersburg College (then known as St. Petersburg Junior College) became Florida's first private, non-profit, two-year school of higher learning located in downtown St. Petersburg. Full accreditation followed in 1931 and in 1948 SPC became a public college.
In June 2001, SPJC officially
Lecture 27
Utah Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Christine Durham moderates a panel of teens and professionals who are involved with youth courts in the Salt Lake area. With 45,000 young people referred to juvenile court in Utah each year, youth courts offer ...
This paper reports the findings of an empirical research study which analyses the mobility of a sample of pupils in state schools during the period 2001 to 2003. It defines pupil mobility as pupils who change school from one school year to the next, but its particular focus is on pupils changing schools at times other than natural transitions, such as from primary school to secondary school.
Presented by Dr. Meda Higa, University of Pennsylvania.
Art Leed
The largest scale migration in human history, says Xavier de Souza Briggs, is potentially the most transformative as well. It’s time to consider new frames for issues, he says -- not rehash “civic life as a competition over power” but perhaps see this as a moment when we can realize, finally, the ancient idea
The University marked the opening of Whitman College with a public lecture by design architect Demetri Porphyrios Wednesday, Sept. 26. Constructed to complement the Collegiate Gothic style of dormitories on the west end of campus, Whitman is the University's sixth residential college, but the first to be built as a single project. Its completion launches Princeton's four-year residential college system.
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How we experience political races is dominated by opinion polls. Polling data can be confusing because of their sheer number. In 2008, hundreds of polls were released during the Presidential campaign. Is there a way to cut through the resulting noise?
Four years ago Dr. Wang devised a statistical approach to analyze state polls to get a single, easy-to-understand snapshot of the race, viewed from the point of view of the Electoral College. In 2008, this approach mad
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How we experience political races is dominated by opinion polls. Polling data can be confusing because of their sheer number. In 2008, hundreds of polls were released during the Presidential campaign. Is there a way to cut through the resulting noise?
Four years ago Dr. Wang devised a statistical approach to analyze state polls to get a single, easy-to-understand snapshot of the race, viewed from the point of view of the Electoral College. In 2008, this approach mad
