What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative questions: ...

"The gates at the entry to Auschwitz had the words Arbeit Macht Frei written over them. It translates as ‘Work makes you free.’ It was a horribly ironic statement. It was cruel." Melvin Jules Bukiet ...

Growing up in rural Ohio surrounded by cornfields in the heart of Amish country, I never imagined going to China. But these days I always seem to find myself in unexpected places. In 2004, I fell in ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression ...

QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

QUESTION: In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner went to Chicago to deliver his famous paper, "The Closing of the American Frontier." What was it all about? Who was Frederick Jackson Turner? JOHN MILTON ...

Narrator: It is a story brought to life by their own words, and those of the ordinary men and women who have changed the course of history. In eye witness accounts soldiers ascribe the birth of an ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

Within the nucleus of every cell are long strings of DNA, the code that holds all the information needed to make and control every cell within a living organism. DNA, which stands for deoxyribonucleic ...

James Q. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Chairman, Board of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. He ...

East Los Angeles is a unique environment, not just within context of the Southern California region, but as a national focus of growth, change, challenges and opportunities. Its history is a ...