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6 poets, searching for rhyme and reason Building trades Building trades ;. no.II Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Construction and building trades Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Faith and reason (New York, N.Y.) Frontline Residential carpentry framingFilter By Subjects
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6 poets, searching for rhyme and reason Building trades Building trades ;. no.II Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Construction and building trades Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Faith and reason (New York, N.Y.) Frontline Residential carpentry framingSummary: The execution of the Romanovs, in 1918, marked Russia's irrevocable shift from a monarchy to a communist state. The destruction of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, signified the collapse of that state and its Marxist ideology. This gripping, highly realistic program cinematically dramatizes the events of these two historic watersheds: indelible emblems of the birth pains and death throes of the Soviet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Residential Wall Framing is a twelve-minute video which is part of the series, Residential Carpentry Framing. Finally, a step-by-step "how-to" series of videos that will show your students how to build. Whether working with floor, wall, ceiling, or roof framing, viewers get a first-hand look at construction procedures, safety issues, and proper tools. A clear explanation of each step provides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Today's builder has many options when it comes to walls and ceilings-this video looks at some of the most popular, including drywall materials, such as gypsum wallboard, plywood, particleboard, and solid wood paneling, as well as plaster and cement board. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction Education & Research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Jews praying at Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: This video instructs students on the how-to of floor and wall framing. Topics include girders and studs, installing sills, installing floor joists and sub-flooring, constructing shoes and plates, assembling exterior house walls, erecting exterior house walls, and constructing interior partitions. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction Education &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Berlin Wall, East Germany's "wall of shame." On the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction, the Freedom Bell in West Berlin tolls in sympathy for those imprisoned on the other side. Mayor Willy Brandt leads a memorial service for East Berliners who died in trying to escape to the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The year was 1961. Khrushchev was in power and the Berlin Wall was being built. What was it like to be living in East Germany during those days? In this program, filmed toward the end of that pivotal year, correspondent Daniel Schorr cracks the boomtown facade of the city of Rostock to find out. Indoctrination and propaganda are recurring motifs as business, academia, religion, and the arts are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: People living near the Berlin Wall are cleared from their homes in the Eastern Sector.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Summary: Demonstrators in free Berlin march along the wall in protest against the barrier one year after it was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page hosts this in-depth look at a grassroots revolution in American education: charter schools. Reasons for the movement's emergence, as well as different philosophies and methodologies, are seen in visits to several charter schools, including North Star Academy in Newark, KIPP Academy in Houston, and the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center in Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Jewish people celebrate Jewish New Year at Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: This beautifully filmed program looks at the wall paintings of some of the most famous Mexican muralists-Diego Rivera, Juan O'Gorman, Jose Clemente Orozco-and at the work of Luis Barragan, the greatest Mexican architect of the 20th century. Their common medium is the wall. The muralists sought to return art to the people, by putting it on the walls of public buildings, just as it had been in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: An ideal discussion-launcher for sociology courses, this program examines cultural and psychological aspects of what is now an archetypal suburban experience: shopping at the mall. Visiting "cathedrals of consumerism" throughout North America-from the Southdale, Minnesota, progenitor of the enclosed retail mall to the absurdly spectacular Grand Canal Shoppes and Desert Passage in Las Vegas-the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A 600-kilometer wall of concrete and barbed wire-Israel's official answer to Palestinian attacks. Visiting the West Bank town of Abu Dis, located on the route of the barrier, this program explains how Israel's solution is a Palestinian problem. Abu Dis business owners, leaders, and everyday citizens communicate a painful reality: the finished wall will bar thousands from their lands and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This episode of Frontline offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Explores both wood and steel construction including framing, layout, stud walls, joists, sheathing, girders, trusses, decking, reinforced concrete, and more. Shows subfloor, floor, and framework.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Sheathing provides a nailing base for siding and roof covering. This program examines various sheathing materials, such as plywood composites, particleboard, and shiplap, and illustrates their installation. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction Education & Research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A self-styled sketch runs, "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos." He could have added journalist, carpenter, nurse, and one of the greatest poets in English. This program presents a unique literary biography, tracing Whitman's childhood, various careers, and the evolution of the masterpiece that proved his lifelong work, Leaves of Grass. A collage of photos, paintings, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Writer, actor, and rapper Will Power brings unique characters and thought-provoking scenarios to life in his vividly staged performances-including The Seven, his hip-hop adaptation of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Bill Moyers interviews Power about his creative process, focusing on his ability to "flip" an ancient Greek drama into a highly charged, completely contemporary work-one that has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006