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Career Connections | Human Resource Manager
Human resource managers wear many hats, from recruiting, to training job applicants, to protecting workers. A short video looks at some of the many roles played by the HR staff.
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Career Connections | Marketing Specialist
The job of market specialists is to develop brand recognition for their company. The social media manager for Macy's details how he uses social media to check in with employees and recruit the company's best talent.
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Career Connections | Automotive Sales Representative
Know what you're selling. That's the key piece of advice from a man who has been an automotive sales representative for over 30 years. Rather than a car salesman, the automotive rep's job is to provide auto manufacturers with the parts...
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Rather than windmills, Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces, battles against modernity. Find out why Professor Walter Isaacson thinks Toole's novel should get viewers' votes...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Errors in Introductions
This video lesson focuses on writing introductions and common issues with introductions. It discusses the use of details and information -- too much or not enough and being off topic. It suggests using specific language in the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Identifying the Audience
This video lesson focuses on analyzing your audience in an argumentative paper. It offers a series of questions to consider about your audience and what may convince them to agree with your argument. It also provides an example of how to...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify Relevant Evidence
Students will be able to identify relevant evidence in their argumentative writing. [7:12]
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Anansi's Rescue From the River
The Anansi tales are told by the Ashanti people of Ghana, West Africa, and have been passed down through the generations by oral tradition. Here you can watch "Anansi's Rescue from the River" performed.