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Where Can I Find a Good Recipe?
Food Detective Berry Blue introduces the student to the concept of recipes. She talks about where the student can find recipes and encourages the student to identify recipes he would like to make.
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Bass Sequence Using Falling Thirds - Music Composition
This music composition lesson explores one idea for writing a sequence based on a pattern in the bass line. In this case, the bass alternates falling thirds with rising seconds to generate a melodic pattern at the bottom of the texture,...
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Alternating Inversion Chords when Harmonizing a Descending Bass - Music Composition
We explore one idea for harmonising a descending scale in the bass line. Many people find it easier to harmonise an ascending scale than a descending scale and most people find it easier to harmonise a scale at the top of the texture...
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How to Harmonize a Fast Moving Melody - Music Composition
Discover how to harmonise a fast moving melody with chords. The temptation is to harmonise every note, resulting in a harmonic rhythm that moves too quickly. We explore how to determine which notes are harmony notes / chord tones and...
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Chanter (to sing) — Present Tense
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Chanter (to sing) in the present tense.
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Scaling the Heights
Marine biologist Edie Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association describes her Save the Water Babies program and her determination to take it to the next level.
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Researching the Political
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how the research surrounding his book The Virtues of Mendacity led him to refine his understanding of what the political is.
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Necessarily Nebulous
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) outlines his convictions that there is no single normative notion of politics.
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VOIR (TO SEE) Past, Present & Future
Alexa teaches the French verb voir (to see) in the past, present & future tense.
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Finir (to finish) — Present Tense
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Finir (to finish) in the Present tense.
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Finir (to finish) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb FINIR (TO FINISH) in the PAST TENSE.
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Cook Off
Mama Polenta and Sam Spratt agree to a cook-off to determine who makes the best pasta sauce. But it’s Izzy and her home-grown basil sauce that wins the day
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Complex Characters
“Complex Characters” will break down the different characteristics of a complex character.
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Dormir (to sleep) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb DORMIR (to sleep) in 5 main French tenses.
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DEPUIS or PENDANT? How to say SINCE and FOR in French.
Alexa teaches you how to say SINCE and FOR in French.
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Travailler (to work) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb TRAVAILLER (to work) in 5 main French tenses.
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French adjectives: BEFORE or AFTER the noun?
Most French adjectives come AFTER the noun, but sometimes they do come BEFORE the noun. In this video, Alexa teaches you a little trick to help you learn which adjectives come before the noun.
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Écouter (to listen) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb ÉCOUTER (to listen) in 5 main French tenses.
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Arriver (to arrive) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb ARRIVER (to arrive) in 5 main French tenses.
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Arrêter (to stop/arrest) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb ARRÊTER (to stop/arrest) in 5 main French tenses.
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Aimer (to like/love) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Aimer (to like/love) in 5 main French tenses.
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Thinking like Galileo
Philosopher of science James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, describes how the common view that we have of Galileo ushering in the Scientific Revolution by dropping balls from the leaning tower of Pisa is profoundly incorrect, and...
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The Historian's Task
Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, uses the example of his popular book, The Undivided Past, as a window to demonstrate his view of the societal role of history: that historical understanding can be a worthy antidote to...