"All We Are Seeking Here Is Equal Opportunity": The American G.I. Forum Desegregates a Texas Communi
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From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Roads
This is a curriculum guide for exploring China's inner Asian frontier and one of the world's oldest and most important trade routes. The 350-page guide features five independent sections. Each examines the geography, ethnic relations and political history, exchange of goods and ideas, religions, or art along the Silk Roads (beginning in the second century BCE). Each includes lesson plans, documents, maps, and board game.
Lessons From China: The Evolution of The Globe's Largest Search Engine - Robin Li (Baidu)
Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, speaks in detail about the launch and growth of the company and the search engine. He discusses how its intimate understanding of Chinese language and culture - and a unique social approach to search - have allowed it to succeed where many North American search giants have faltered.
Vision Matters - Jensen Huang (NVidia)
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Music Artists Go Entrepreneurial - Tony Perkins (AlwaysOn Panel)
Quincy Jones III, CEO of QD3 Entertainment moderates an engaging and entertaining panel discussion on the future of the music industry. Captured during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, panelists include Chamillionaire, Grammy Award winning & platinum recording artist, MC Hammer, and Mistah FAB.
Regulations on visiting patients in Lennox Castle, c.1950
This unit looks at the history of institutions in the twentieth century, starting with a case study of Lennox Castle Hospital. It tries to make sense of the history of Lennox Castle, and of institutional life in general, through testimony of those who experienced institutions as inmates and as nurses, as well as through Erving Goffman's medel of the 'total institution'. It examines the social bases of segragation, the professionalisation of staff in asylums and institutions, and campaigns for ch
Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence Mercer, N., and Littleton, K. (2007): pp. 15–17 from Dialogue and the Development of the Children's Thinking: A Sociocultur
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Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverstehen mit authentischen Materialien. Nutzen Sie die Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Samstag - als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.BERLIN: Bundesaußenminister Westerwelle hat die deutsch-französischen Pläne verteidigt, private Investoren an künftigen Rettungsaktionen für überschuldete Euro-Länder zu beteiligen. Das Prinzip "Gewinne beim Investor, Verluste beim Steuerzahler" lege die Axt an die Wurzel Europas, sagte Westerwelle in einem Zeit
The Positive Impact of Entrepreneurship in the American Economy - Carl J. Schramm (Kauffman Foundati
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Faith Complex: Donna Payne on Obama and the LGBT Community
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The Dynamic Relationship Between an Entrepreneur and VC - Ron Bloom, Ray Lane (PodShow)
Ray Lane, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Ron Bloom, CEO of PodShow, describe their relationship in building an online media entertainment company focused on meeting the fast-changing demands of today's web users.
Intelligent Design or Evolution - Professor Steve Fuller and Professor Jack Cohen
The controversial issue of whether intelligent design should be taught in American Schools is creating much debate in scientific and religous communities across the world.
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Lessons from the truth and reconciliation process for 21st century challenges
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RVC 12 - Streptococcus equi infection in horses
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7 Keys to the Future
Veronica Sartore interviews Ray Hammond about his role as a futurologist and the seven major trends he predicts will affect life throughout the 21st century.
Introduction
Scotsman John Napier is best known to for his treatise on Protestant religion. However, it was his interest in a completely different subject that radically altered the course of mathematics. After forty years of dabbling in maths, he revealed his table of logarithms in the early 17th century.
The Golden Age of Couture: Balenciaga Suits
For the well-dressed woman in the late 1940s and early 50s, the tailored suit was a staple of elegant day-wear. In Paris, none had a greater reputation for making tailored suits than the Spanish-born couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga. Percy Savage, the Australian born press-officer for the fashion house of Lanvin during the 50s, explains what it was that set Balenciaga apart.
21M.263 Music Since 1960 (MIT)
This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century Western musical culture, and explores the ways in which various social and artistic concerns of composers, performers, and listeners have evolved since that decade. It focuses on works by classical composers from around the world. Topics include the impact of rock, as it developed during the 1960s - 70s; the concurrent emergence of post serial, neotonal, minimalist, and new age styles; t
V&A CultureCast: June 2006 (no images)
The June 2006 edition of CultureCast features graphic designers discussing Korda's iconic image of Che Guevara, a curator discussing an Early Medieval standing cross and an interview with two winners of this year's Inspired By competition.
How the Auto Industry Came to Grief
Arthur Wheaton talks with CyberTower director Ralph Janis about long-term trends in the American auto industry and the origins of the industry's current crisis.
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