Reluctant Rebellions - Indian Summer Festival 2013
July 7, 2013 - Celebrated writer Shauna Singh Baldwin presents an intimate evening exploring her work and her concerns.
Born in Montreal, raised in India and now a resident of the United States, Shauna has been formed by many cultures (she thinks in English, Urdu, Punjabi and French). Her ability to observe many worlds keenly has led her to create novels that explore human flaws while always being compassionate towards her multicultural cast of characters.
Join her and noted cultural activis
Texas Law and Keeping Pregnant Woman Alive
SMU Law Professor and Medical Ethicist Tom Mayo talks about state law and the case of Marlise Munoz, who is 19 weeks pregnant but whose family reportedly has been told she is brain dead. Hospital officials say that by state law they are required to keep her on life support.
Learning to learn: You and your learning
In this free course, Learning to learn: You and your learning, the focus is on the perspective that you have on your own learning. However, as you gather evidence about this perspective, we hope that you will begin to re-evaluate it and to think about the possibility of change. PLEASE NOTE: this course is currently being reviewed. An updated and improved version of the course can be found here: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/succeed-learning/content-section-overview.Author(s):
Making the DIY Clinometer
Link to Youtube video showing how to make a do-it-yourself clinometer
2 Liz Shepherd and Jan Hurst 1.7 Language Language is frequently a knotty problem in religion. As religions and religious ideas move from their place of origin to other cultures, either the new recipients have to learn the language of origin (Hebrew, Japanese, Sanskrit) or it has to be translated, in the course of which new interpretations, nuances or simply mistakes creep in. The majority of the new audience are thus at the mercy of the translators and interpreters, being unable to read or understand the original for themselves. Thi Recognizing mathematics, continued In Example 1 it is the use of many numbers that identifies it as mathematics and suggest the area of mathematics called arithmetic. Example 2 has numbers but also graphs and diagrams, suggesting statistics. The shapes in Example 3 suggest that the geometrical part of mathematics is being used whereas Example 4, with all the alphabetic symbols, is clearly drawing upon algebra. In the next activity you will be asked to look in more d Virtual Maths, Density, Mass, Volume calculator 9.68 Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of "Feelings" (MIT) Stomp Out Hunger Lesson 06 - One Minute Romanian 3.1 The impact of information technology Having discussed the radical and pervasive effect that inventions in previous eras have had on economy-wide productivity, and how they have even defined entire periods, we shall now ask how the rise of information technology compares to these previous revolutions. During the early growth phase of PC use, a leader article in Fortune magazine did not hesitate to compare the rise of the PC to previous technological revolutions. Virtual Maths, Shapes, Space and Measure, Tan Table Packaging the pictures Here's Example 2 again. GRCC Student Life 2014 Thomas W. Laqueur: Why Do We Care for the Dead? || Radcliffe Institute Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the principal differences between a eutrophic and an oligotrophic ecosystem explain the mechanisms by which species diversity is reduced as a result of eutrophication (Questions 2.1 and 2.2) contrast the anthropogenic sources that supply nitrogen and phosphorus to the wider environment, and describe how these sources can be controlled (Question 3.1) describe how Duke University 2012 Student Commencement Addresss 2.5 The interior David A. Rothery Teach Yourself Planets, Chapter 6, pp. 66-75, Hodder Education, 2000, 2003. Copyright © David Rothery The Moon is the only planetary body other than the Earth for which we have any seismic data that can tell us about its interior. Seismic stations were established at the Apollo 12,14, 15 and 16 sites, which continued to send back data until September 1977 when operations were terminated for budgetary reasons. The Moon is seismically very quie How the Criminal Jury Trial Process works
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Affect is to cognition and behavior as feeling is to thinking and acting, or as values are to beliefs and practices. Considers these relations, both at the psychological level of organization and also in terms of their neurobiological and sociocultural counterparts. In addition to attending weekly class sessions and doing regular homework assignments, students are required to participate in small study groups that meet independently for two hours per week.
October 26, 2013 marked the culmination in the month-long Stomp Out Hunger shoe drive. This drive brought together local schools, organizations, and businesses to impact others globally.
Stomp Out Hunger began as a way to aid a local organization, Sole Food, who along with Shoeman Water Projects, turns unwanted shoes into food for the hungry by collecting shoes and selling them to local businesses in developing countries and using the funds to purchase food packaged by Friends Against Hunger t
In lesson 6 of One Minute Romanian you will learn to introduce yourself. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Romanian at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com. One Minute Romanian is brought to you by the Radio Lingua Network and is ©Copyright 2008.Author(s):
Calculate the height of a building, Tan Table
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Students from clubs and organizations around campus talk about their experiences with student leadership.
When his friends asked Diogenes the Cynic what he wanted done with his body after he died, he told them that they should throw it over the wall to be eaten by the beasts and birds. And why not? It was no longer his; he would not notice.
For more than 2,000 years, conversations in the West—and elsewhere—have acknowledged that Diogenes had a point. And yet we as a species care for our dead. This lecture by Thomas W. Laqueur offers an answer for why this should be the case from both a general
At Duke University's commencement ceremony May 12, 2012, student graduation speaker Roshan Sadanani said, "the real wonder in this Gothic Wonderland has always been how after some time here, we all are able to claim a small piece of Duke as our own." Sadanani, a Charlotte, N.C., native who received a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering, described how the university became smaller for students over the years as they created their own Duke experiences.
This video narrates how the criminal jury trial process works. The courtroom proceedings are explained in order. Very concise and above average quality. (01:11)
