Behind the scenes at Wharton Center: Mary Poppins
MSU Junior Taylor Benson goes behind the scenes at Michigan State's Wharton Center as the set crew of Mary Poppins builds the main set piece for the show.
For more information on Mary Poppins or other shows, visit http://www.WhartonCenter.com.
21L.701 Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience (MIT)
Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality, violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How have the realities of city living influenced literature's formal and thematic techniques? How useful is it to think of literature as its own kind of "map" of urban space? Are cities too grand, heterogeneous, and shifting to be captured by writers? In this seminar we will seek answers to these questions in key city literature, and in theoretical works that endeavor to understand the cu
Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
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Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
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Biomaterials and Biomedical Materials: Optimisation of Materials Properties in Living Systems
This set of animations demonstrates interactive use of property maps in comparing engineering materials with natural materials. From TLP: Optimisation of Materials Properties in Living Systems
Od atomu Rutherforda do atomu Schroedingera
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Susan B. Anthony & the Right to Vote in a Nutshell
A brief animated video outlining the life of Susan B. Anthony. Most of the video is dedicated to her role in helping women get the right to vote.
Water Science for Schools
We offer information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge. Looking at water, you might think that it's the most simple thing around. Pure water is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. But it's not at all simple and plain and it is vital for all life on Earth. Where there is water there is life, and where water is scarce, life has to struggle or just "throw in the towel." So what is it about w
Math 111: Calculus
Topics enhance those of Math 111 and concepts are studied in detail. Emphasizes science and engineering applications.
Wright Brothers National Memorial: Site of the First Controlled Powered Flight
tells how bicycle makers in Dayton, Ohio, launched the aviation age. After reading about the glider accident that killed Otto Lilienthal, Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years designing flying machines in Dayton and testing them near Kitty Hawk. Maps and photos show their flying machines and living ...
"Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment,
"What can we learn about science and technology–and what can we do with that knowledge? Who are "we" in these questions?–whose knowledge and expertise gets made into public policy, new medicines, topics of cultural and political discourse, science education, and so on? How can expertise and lay knowledge about science and technology be reconciled in a democratic society? How can we make sense of the interactions of living and non-living, humans and non-humans, individual and collectivities i
001 - regula 1 - Latinae Grammatices Syntaxis
http://books.google.com/books?id=bzsVAAAAQAAJ
Latinae Grammatices Syntaxis - opera Simonis Verepaei
Race and politics
Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today. The program takes a look at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members
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Magic School Bus "Goes Cellular"
Learn about the cells that make up our body with this Magic School Bus video. It's the night of the rock lover's annual GRANITE awards, and Arnold is about to become the first kid ever to win the coveted Rocky Award. He's so excited that all he's been able to eat for weeks are Seaweedies - and lots of them! When he arrives for the big event, he's totally nervous. He's also totally orange! After Arnold's friends determine that the orange isn't on his skin, they shrink down to find out what's unde
091 - BELLUM HELVETICUM - LOWE BUTLER WALKER
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094 - BELLUM HELVETICUM - LOWE BUTLER WALKER
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Oceans: Overview
The ocean produces 70 percent of the Earth's oxygen and drives our weather and the chemistry of the planet. Most of the creatures on Earth live in the sea. Beautiful footage of the living creatures in the ocean. Vocabulary in the audio is too advanced for younger children. Professional video produced by National Geographic. Run time 07:38.
The Giant Redwood Trees of the Pacific Northwest
Science writer Richard Preston (author of The Hot Zone) talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest - the coast redwood tree. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still, largely, a mystery. Run time 19:28.
Magic School Bus Gets Planted
Join Ms. Frizzle and the class as they travel inside a plant and learn more about photosynthesis and what helps a plant grow. This Magic School Bus video will teach the following two concepts: (1) Plants need food to live and grow. Instead of finding food to eat, plants use water, sunlight, and air to make their own food. and (2) Plants make surgar, the basic food all living things need to live and grow.
