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Arendt in the Background
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how his reflections on lying in politics were likely influenced by reading and re-reading essays by Hannah Arendt.
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Addressing Our Ignorance
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes his motivations to write a detailed account of influential Asian intellectuals many in the West have never heard of.
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Rethinking History
Princeton University historian David Cannadine describes his belief that the standard historical categorisations of religion, nation, class, gender, race or civilisation that have been often used to understand history might not actually...
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Investigating States
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) details the evolution of his interest in the overlap of history and politics.
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Historical Method
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his historical method of trying to understand what, precisely, is motivating historical figures to act in the way that they do.
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Empires, States, and Independence
Harvard historian David Armitage describes the evolution of his thinking on the role of the state throughout history.
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Arab-Greek Bilingualism
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.
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Seeking The Bigger Picture
UCLA historian Margaret Jacob relates how her historical approach differs from most “economic historians” who, while adopting a broader approach than before, still largely look to find one single, sufficient cause for historical events.
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Seeking a Balance
Historian John Elliott, University of Oxford, describes how historians studying societies other than their own need to balance objective assessment and societal assimilation, a balancing act that invariably brings with it a multitude of...
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Spanish Bite - THE in Spanish
Here’s a quick video to help with understanding the word THE in Spanish.
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Spanish Bite - A, AN, SOME in Spanish
Here’s a quick video to help with understanding the words A, An & Some in Spanish.
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Fighting the New York Police Department
Despite the backlash, Corey Pegues completed and published his memoir. He has been tirelessly sharing his story and emphasizing the importance of second chances. His conflict with the NYPD has continued. Cops and Robbers part 4/4
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When Opening Up About the Past Complicates the Future
After retiring from the NYPD in 2013, Corey Pegues decided to open up about crimes and violence he was involved in as an adolescent. He hoped that being honest about the difficulties he faced and how he was able to move past them would...
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How to say "Open your book!" in Spanish (Día 110)
En esta lección, usamos el verbo "abrir" para formar algunos mandatos. -------- In this lesson, we use the verb "abrir" to form some commands.
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How to say "Close ___!" in Spanish (Día 111)
Here's another phrase pertaining to school...
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Description Text Structure
Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.
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Important Parts of a Book
The video “Important Parts of a Book” identifies text features in a printed book.
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Components of Plot
Students will take a closer look at the elements of a successful narrative plot.
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Technical Writing
Technical Writing explains the purpose of technical writing and makes a list of examples of focused, specific topics for technical writing.
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Double Object Pronouns in Spanish - Practice #4 (intermediate)
Hola. In this lesson we'll be covering how we use Double Object Pronouns in Spanish. Don't forget to check out some of my other videos on this series to practice them!
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02 Spanish Lesson - Demonstrative pronouns
In this video lesson, we're continuing with the demonstratives. It turns out that when you have a demonstrative adjective in front of a noun, you can leave the noun out and add an accent mark to the demonstrative. You'll see in the...
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02 Spanish Lesson - Demonstrative adjectives (part 2)
¡Hola! En este video, we'll continue with the demonstrative adjectives and will learn the plural forms as well!
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02 Spanish Lesson - Acabar de + infinitive
Hola. In this video lesson we talk about a useful phrase in the present tense: 'acabar de'. We use it to say something has happened in the recent past.
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MAC OS: Select Text From Photo
Viewers will learn how to select text embedded in a photograph in the Mac OS