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When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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Jerry and his sister, Terri, meet Sam and Louisa, who tell them a story about a ghost who lives in a cave near the beach. The only problem is that it is not just a story. There really is a ghost, and he is haunting Jerry and Terri.
3) Mine
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Lily Thorne's parents have had enough of her drama, so they move to a remote house in Florida that was previously owned by a hoarder. As soon as they arrive, Lily begins experiencing paranormal activity, but her worries are dismissed by her parents as her over-dramatic behavior. When Lily meets Britney, the ghost of a young girl who drowned in the lake behind their house, she realizes she is the only one who can put Britney to rest.
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This video allows viewers to improve listening ability and capitalize on the benefits of better listening skills. Topics include both the causes and the costs of poor listening habits; an exploration of appreciative, emphatic, comprehensive, and critical listening; and specific suggestions to improve listening. Lecture-launching, discussion-provoking, and ideal for in-class showing.
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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later,...
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Designed especially for nursing home personnel, this program explores several successful methods for dealing with residents who have an altered mental status. Using these methods, personnel will find their work easier and more rewarding - they will also be better able to calm the concerned family members of affected residents. Meets Florida state requirements for nursing home staff. Designated for 1 contact hour of continuing nursing education.
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Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman - an honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job and his girlfriend and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him while trying to balance his newly precarious existence. Saul Bellow's Seize the Day received critical praise...
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Freedom of expression is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But if "free speech," like hate speech and propaganda, is used to oppress others, what then? Are reasonable limits needed to preserve a democratic, civilized, and tolerant society, or would they lead us down a slippery slope?
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This episode focuses on a more detailed investigation of Russia's nuclear coming of age. It traces the atom bomb back to its infancy, to a time when state-sponsored Russian physicists were sent to Cambridge to learn about this obscure new technology. Despite knowledge gleaned from this research, the Bolshevik government was slow to catch onto the strategic importance of atomic energy, continually dismissing it in favor of good old traditional weapons....
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"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
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"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The...
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The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II--and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever. Keynes was not a traditional economist: he was a polemicist, an iconoclastic public...
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"A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more, Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as "Charles Bukowski in a sundress." ("Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?" she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle...
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"After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic. Prominent figures such as Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, and Queen Victoria were mesmerized....