U.S. Housing Patterns, Living Arrangements, and Life Chances
In this assignment you will use U.S. census data to get an overview of housing patterns (ownership and types of housing) and living arrangements as a way of understanding more about one example of what Weber referred to as life chances (or, basically, the ability to access to resources we need to live a good life).
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Tower Views: Relay for Life UT
In this edition of "Tower Views," host Larry Burns, vice president for external affairs and interim vice president for equity and diversity talks with Sarah Ritenour, a senior in the Communication Department and the public relations chair of Relay for Life UT about the upcoming Relay for Life fundraiser.
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Forms of Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free online educational resources for the course "Forms of Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature" in the Department of English. This graduate seminar will explore two central concerns in American literary studies: what is "democratic" about literature written in the United States? And how does the problem of representative politics influence literary and textual representation? Among the literary works will be Moby-Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, House o
Creating a Life Skills Portfolio for Special Education Students
A life skills portfolio for special needs students usually includes stories that are related to specific social skills. Discover how anecdotal records are kept for special needs students with help from a special education teacher in this video (02:17)Â on special education students.
Expert: Julie Peebles
Bio: Julie Peebles graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor of Science in special education and learning disabilities.
Filmmaker: Rendered Communicati
Cosmology and the Origin of Life
This is a website for an introductory astrobiology course. The website contains entertaining, illustrated lecture notes, homework, exam keys, links, and syllabus. Users can follow links to course materials, lecture notes and student designed webpages.
 Lessons for Life: Learning and Transfer
This program describes what conditions are needed for knowledge and skills learned in one context to be retrieved and applied to a novel situation, and how different teaching strategies can increase the possibilities for transfer. The program features a fourth-grade teacher and a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher, with commentary from Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The beginnings of life on Earth.
This American Scientist article by Christian de Duve reviews current ideas of the origin of life from abiotic materials, including the early atmosphere and the "RNA world." Users can read this article online, request classroom use permission or email the article. The page also contains links to related ...
Reflections on Playing Ayiti: The Cost of Life
Ayiti: The Cost of Life is a role-playing video game in which the player assumes the roles of family members living in rural Haiti. At the start of the game, the player chooses a primary goal for his/her family: achieve education, make money, stay healthy, or maintain happiness. During the course of the game, the player encounters unexpected events and must make decisions that contribute to or detract from achieving the chosen goal. After students have played the game they will need to reflect u
Patterns and Fingerprints
Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify each image as unique, yet part of a group containing recognizable ...
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Life Science
This unit covers the processes of photosynthesis, extinction, biomimicry and bioremediation. In the first lesson on photosynthesis, students learn how engineers use the natural process of photosynthesis as an exemplary model of a complex yet efficient process for converting solar energy to chemical ...
Class Discussion About Playing Ayiti: The Cost of Life
Ayiti: The Cost of Life is a role-playing video game in which the player assumes the roles of family members living in rural Haiti. At the start of the game, the player chooses a primary goal for his/her family: achieve education, make money, stay healthy, or maintain happiness. During the course of the game, the player encounters unexpected events and must make decisions that contribute to or detract from achieving the chosen goal. After students have played the game they will need to reflect u
Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements
Introduces and examines the basic prinicples which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence.
Project Diabetes - A Day in the Life of a Diabetic
This is a video that starts with a story about a young boy being diagnosed with diabetes. The video explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. (04:59)
Brief Overview of Gaius Julius Caesar's Life
This is a short overview of Julius Caesar's life. The film is accompanied by music and words--but there is no voice narration. (Amateur video) 04:33 run time....very good introductory video to Julius Ceasar, high quality video.
"The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America"
Honors Colloquium Fall 2010
Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. URI's Fall Honors Colloquium will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone’s life! - Steve Jobs
This is a quote from Steve Job’s commencement address at Stanford University in 2005.
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know wh
