Nicholas Burns on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East || American Conversation Essentials
Harvard Kennedy School professor and former diplomat Nicholas Burns discusses U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East as part of the American Conversation Essentials series.
American Conversation Essentials, a collaboration of 92nd Street Y (92Y) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is a series of compelling videos that put today's most important issues -- the Middle East, the economy, health care and more -- into perspective. HKS faculty members share their expertise and offer insights to provid
1 Overview Even in images taken with the most modern equipment on a large telescope, it can be difficult to pick out the galaxies now known as 'active' from the other more normal galaxies. But if your telescope were equipped to examine the spectra of the galaxies, then the active galaxies would stand out. Normal galaxies contain stars that are generally similar to those in our own Galaxy; and spiral galaxies have additional similarities to the Milky Way in their gas and dust content. Active galax
The Fall of Rome part 8 - Docudrama series
Alaric asks to negotiate with the former Emperor. He demands land. 410 AD, Alaric and the emperor are about to meet but battle breaks out. Alaric's barbarean army finally fell upon the city.
Freedom Riders Create Change
In this video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders," view newsreel footage, archival photos, and interviews to explore how the Freedom Rides of 1961 brought about the end of racial segregation in interstate transportation. The Freedom Riders, aware that their nonviolent protest would elicit violence from some Southerners attempting to enforce local segregation laws, were determined to continue their protest even in the face of possible arrest. A series of events involvi
Simplifying Rational Expressions
This video walk the learner through the steps to simplify rational expressions. Specific circumstances are discussed and several problems are modeled.
Solving Rational Equations - Yay Math
Many examples of manipulating fractions that include variables in order to solve equations. White board in a class setting, some interaction, engaging, several examples of increasing complexity. The discussion is clear and understandable. Preview - full version at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1558392479512220339&q=source:012956945238798337823&hl=en
Produced by Robert Ahdoot, yaymath.org
Nth Roots and Operations on Radicals - Yay Math
The video reviews square roots, cube roots, and fourth roots of numbers and variables. Then goes into some main properties of radical expressions, including removing radicals from the denominator. White board in a class setting, some interaction, engaging, several examples of increasing complexity. The discussion is clear and understandable. Preview - full version at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=711499923819897326&q=source:012956945238798337823&hl=enProduced by Robert Ahdoo
Secrets Of Egypt: Cleopatra (Part 4/5)
'Cleopatra VII Philopator (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; January 69 BC –August 12, 30 BC) was the last effective pharaoh of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty, (Cleopatra VII, Wikipedia, 2009). This documentary features narration and scholarly commentary and is suitable for high school students. Contains content from National Geographic.
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A mathematical muse Audio: Click to listen to the audio clip entitled 'Mathematical Musings' 2.10.2 Le musée Angladon-Dubrujeaud Listen to Extract 71 in which you hear a museum guide talking about van Gogh. Match the events to the dates on which they occurred and put them in chronological order. Trouvez les bonnes dates et rem The Battle of Okinawa (1/11) - Battlefield 2.5 Modern sources As set out in Figure 1, modern sources, too, fall into various subcategories. We'll look at some of them in more detail a little later. For now let's just say that most of the sources you will use in this unit are broadly scholarly: publications written by people with an expertise in the Classical world. We will Chris Lintott on The Galaxy Zoo Francis Bacon "Of Studies - Purpose & manner" Recitation animation Add your iTunes review for this podcast, please. 20.07.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten 5.8 Delacroix’s modernity – the historical context It is important to place Delacroix’s modernity in its historical context because it had, in its time, a political resonance. Delacroix was not exactly anti-establishment. He appreciated very much the government commissions he received in the 1820s and was relieved to find that, in the longer term, the fuss over Sardanapalus had not damaged his ability to attract further commissions. But his sympathies did lie with the Liberals of his age. In 1815, after the battle of Waterloo, the Fr Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe: Essay Bibliography Q 2.19 Sartre - part 6 This video starts with the people who were fighting for their freedom and he joins in. This section discusses how he thinks of freedom had always been a fantasy, not only for him but for France. The longer he lived the clearer it became that individual freedom did not exist. In the 70’s he made himself the advocate of social violence, which was a counter violence to the violence of the government. His qu
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The Battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II as well as the last pitched battle of the entire war. The 82 day long battle lasted from late March through June 1945. The battle has been referred to as the "Typhoon of Steel" in English. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of gunfire involved, and sheer numbers of Allied ships and a
Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford discusses The Galaxy Zoo, an internet-based program for enlisting the help of amateur astronomers in cataloguing other galaxies.
Here is a virtual movie of the great Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) philosopher and statesman and a pioneer of modern scientific thought reciting his essay on his thoughts on the true value of reading "Of Studies - Purpose & manner". Bacon was a radical on the subjects of learning and education. Knowledge in his time was considered to be a static, timeless thing worked out in the isolated contemplation of classic texts (especially those of
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Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Freitag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
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In Spanien haben in rund 80 Städten hunderttausende Demonstranten gegen die jüngsten Sparmaßnahmen der Regierung protestiert. Allein in der Hauptstadt Madrid nahmen nach Angaben der Zeitung "El País" mindestens 100.000 Menschen an den Kundgebungen teil. Zu den Protestaktionen hatten die Gewerkschaften CCOO und UGT aufgerufen, die für den Herbst
Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe: Essay Bibliography Q 2.19
