Performing the Nation: Dance and politics in Palestine/Israel 1930s-2000s
Performing the Nation: Dance and politics in Palestine/Israel 1930s-2000s
Diversidad Cultural en Chile : ¿UtopÃa o Realidad?
Hoy en día estamos viviendo un proceso de promoción de la diversidad cultural en todo el mundo, tendencia generada en parte como respuesta a la vocación homogeneizadora de ese ente multiforme que llamamos globalización. La sociedad chilena no es ajena a este diálogo, que abarca desde lo cultural, hasta lo económico, pasando por lo social, lo político, etc.
El curso ‘Diversidad cultural en Chile y el mundo: ¿utopía o realidad?&
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Popular Front;Fascism;Reprint of an advertisement for gas masks in children's sizes; announcement of a mass meeting to promote democracy and peace.
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Popular Front;Fascism;Reprint of an advertisement for gas masks in children's sizes; announcement of a mass meeting to promote democracy and peace.
History of the Struggle against Trotskyism forum advertisement
Pittsburgh Workers School;Forum; Trotsky;Announcement promoting forum on struggle against Trotskyism and opportunities to clarify the problems and questions in the recent trials of Bukharin, Rakovsky, Rykov and others.
Vocabulary Hangman Game
The computer will randomly pick a term used in science, math or social sciences. Discover the word the computer has picked by guessing which letters are in it. Each incorrect guess you make causes the atom man to decay. Solve the puzzle before the atom man completely decays!
Thomas Jefferson, Scientist
Thomas Jefferson's passion for politics is rivaled only by his passion for science. Historic Interpreter Bill Barker shares his study of the third president.
Innovative Rail Technologies Cross-Town Rail Line: Final Report
Northern Center City, home to many cultural attractions and educational institutions, has also become a growing IT center. With increasing numbers of residents, students, commuters, workers, and tourists in the area, there is an obvious need for additional mass transportation. Through an extensive revitalization project, Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT) proposed to reconstruct portions of an abandoned Reading Railroad line, which provided much of the industrial and passenger transit into and o
Connections: linking mathematics to social studies, art, and science
This publication offers online resources that connect mathematics to three subject areas: social studies, art, and science. Each section contains lesson plans, problems to solve, and examples of mathematics at work within contexts not usually associated with school mathematics.
Central and Eastern Europe: Peace Corps
provides lessons about stories, letters, and folk tales from experiences of Peace Corps volunteers in rural and urban areas of Central and Eastern Europe. Topics include folk tales, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, fear of certain numbers, transition from a state-controlled system to a democracy, school in Ukraine, the importance of speaking another language, storks and cultural icons, and family traditions as macrocosms of larger cultures.
To Know Ourselves
This site tells about the Human Genome Project and provides general information about and links to the coordinated effort to determine the complete sequence of the DNA in the human genome. It surveys the project's goals, the tools being used to map genetic code, the spin-off technologies generated by the project, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of knowing our genetic blueprint.
The ArithmAttack
How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds?
France Since 1871
This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society.
The Law of the Internet
The Internet is at once a constructive and disruptive technology. As more and more of our lives move online, we are faced with opportunities to do new and amazing things. Concurrently, we encounter problems that no one anticipated as we collectively built the internet as we know it today. This seminar will consider some of the most intriguing of the issues to which the advent of the internet has given and continues to give rise. It will focus on a cluster of topics about which any computer user
21H.126 America in Depression and War (MIT)
The Great Depression and World War II permanently changed American politics and society. Topics include: the Great Crash, the New Deal, Roosevelt, the home front, the Normandy Invasion, and the atomic bomb. Explores those events through film, novels, newspapers, and other historical documents.
Lecture 29 - 11/12/2010
Lecture 29
History and Politics Out Loud
HPOL is a collection of invaluable audio materials some available for the first time on this website capturing significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. Our aim is to provide an accessible source of audio information to enliven instruction and scholarship in history and politics and to ena
Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, a
State Profiles on Holocaust Education
These profiles contain text of state legislation about the teaching of the Holocaust, and Holocaust-explicit History/Social Studies and English/Language Arts state content standards. Also provided is contact information for state departments of education.
Current Population Reports, P60-235,
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United St
This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2008 and earlier Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data presented in this report indicate
the following:
• Real median household income increased between 2006 and 2007—the third annual increase.1
• The poverty rate was not statistically different between 2006 and 2007.
