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A school nursing shortage is affecting students throughout the Golden State, as nurses routinely travel to multiple schools providing care. We follow a school nurse as she makes the rounds, and visit a mobile health clinic in Sacramento that's filling in the gap. Plus, a kindergarten teacher and his service dog in Sacramento are teaching students lessons of the mind and heart.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
How are history and memory different? Topics in this unit range from the celebration of Columbus Day to the demolition of a Korean museum to the historical re-interpretation of Mayan civilization, exploring the ways historians, nations, families, and individuals capture, exploit, and know the past, and the dynamic nature of historical practice and knowledge.
The British colonists created a society that tested Enlightenment ideas and resisted restrictionsnimposed by England.n
America is enveloped in total war, from mobilization on the home front to a scorching air war in Europe. Professor Miller's view of World War II is a personal essay on the morality of total war, and its effects on those who fought, died, and survived it, including members of his own family.
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What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this unit examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and households become the focus of historians, providing a window into the private experiences in world societies, and how they sometimes become a model for ordering the outside world.
Vocabulario: money; business; renting and buying; tourist needs; restaurants; hotels; sports; relationships; pastimes.nGram
"Themes in World History" introduces developments in technology and human thought that have changed the course of history. It begins by going over ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. It discusses each of their contributions to history from medical practices and the calendar to cotton and iron working. This episode discusses irrigation as one of the major keys in the birth of civilization. Important periods of history such as the Classical period, the Renaissance period, the Industrial Revolution, and the 20th century are reviewed. To prepare for the world history portion of GED test it's helpful to visit museums, rent historical movies, and read the newspaper and magazines.