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Author
Series
Great Courses volume 9
Language
English
Description
Whatever kind of learning style students have, all it takes to strengthen and improve their writing is following a series of guidelines and techniques. They'll discover the secrets to choosing powerful words, building effective paragraphs, organizing entire essays, spending the right amount of time drafting and editing their work, and more.
Publisher
TWN (Third World Newsreel)
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Audre Lorde's incisive, often-angry, but always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the US-American feminist, lesbian, African-American, and Women-of-Color movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Audre Lorde, the Berlin Years 1984 to 1992, documents an untold chapter of Lorde's life: her influence on the German political and cultural scene during a decade of profound social change. The film explores the importance of Lorde's legacy, as...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
5) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles' masterwork dazzles anew in a superb 70th Anniversary digital transfer. It's grand entertainment, sharply acted and directed with inspired visual flair. Nearly four hours of bonus content including interviews with Ruth Warrick and Robert Wise; two feature-length commentaries; HBO's star-packed, Emmy-winning movie RKO 281; 48-page book with photos, storyboards, and behind-the-scenes info; and much more.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dev is a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and personal, Dev's story takes him through subjects as diverse as the plight of the elderly, the immigrant experience, and how to find the most delicious pasta for dinner.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Before street art became mainstream, the anonymous outlaws of "freight writing" put graffiti on the map. One of the most extreme and risky iterations of the art form, freight train graffiti culture has a rich history, laden with myth-like artists, remarkable romances, and competitive graffiti crews. Delving into the underground subculture reveals the deep connection between graffiti and the American landscape, as well as the artists' obsession with...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the lush hills and cobbled streets of the Amalfi Coast, Jane is searching for something more from her life. She loves her husband, but the silence between them is growing. Her work, writing her grandmother's memoir, immerses her in the quiet beauty of the town, its islands and finally, in the romantic embrace of a younger man. Jane must decide where her passions will take her, and who she really wants to be, as she documents her discoveries....
14) The Go-Go's
Publisher
UMe
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The candid and archive-rich documentary assesses the group's place in music history and offers full access to The Go-Go's, including past members as well as longtime members of their inner circle. With their roots in the L.A. punk scene, they were bad girls and genuine punk rockers, and this serious appraisal of their story is the first to set the record straight about their historical ascent to global stardom. A major highlight of the film focuses...
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Learn how to tell and write time in hours and half-hours, using the term "o'clock," on both analog and digital clocks. The differences between the "big hand" and "little hand" are explained with numerous examples to increase and reinforce comprehension. Units of time are introduced, both hours and minutes, and the concept of counting by fives gets presented as well. With fun on-screen questions, you will be reading clocks in "no time!" (Meets Common...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, you'll find much to learn from and enjoy in Writing Creative Nonfiction. These 24 lectures by award-winning writing instructor and Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo of Colby College, a New York Times best-selling author, are a chance...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
Mary Higgins Clark is one of the most critically acclaimed mystery writers of our time. The "Queen of suspense" has sold over 100 million copies of her novels in the U.S. alone. Known for her intriguing, clever and suspenseful writing style, now you can enjoy 5 of her bestselling works adapted to feature films.
20) Subtraction
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In this DVD, kids separate groups that make up a whole using objects such as cookies and crayons to learn how many objects are left, how many items are missing and how many more there are. They learn about the minus sign and how to write subtraction equations. Children also learn tips for subtracting single- and double-digit numbers as well as subtracting with zero.