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Biographical Inferences
New ReviewThis video discusses using details in biographies to make inferences.
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Characteristics of a Biography
New ReviewThis video explores the characteristics of a biography.
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Reviewing Elements of a Biography
Mr. Griot teaches about the characteristics of a biography and examines a biography as he reviews Nurturing Nature: The Life of Rachel Carson. He also models how to create a timeline using the information learned from the biography about...
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Exploring Entrepreneurship
Dr. Forrester tells the story of Levi Strauss, the inventor of denim blue jeans, to illustrate the definition of an entrepreneur.
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Biography:Writing the Rough Draft
Mr. Griot models how to use the information he researched for a biography to write the first draft of his biography.
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Nonfiction
This video discusses the nonfiction genre as well as qualities, types of pieces, and characteristics of the genre.
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The Process of Science
Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.
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Historical Sources
A video entitled “Historical Sources” identifies the differences between primary and secondary sources and discusses how these sources can be used to study the past.
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7 Of The Best Memoirs Of All Time
Delving into the life of another individual and living through their gut-wrenching and healing parts of life can be one of the most exciting forms of literature. It’s important to distinguish the literary concept of a memoir from that of...
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Bruni biography quotes Michelle Obama as calling life in WH "hell"
Paris - 16 September 2010
1. Various of streets scenes
2. Various of bookshop
3. Various of cover of the book "Carla and the Ambitious"
4. Various of pages of the book
5. Close of page reading "And you? how is it?" and "Don't tell me....
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UK: LONDON: MONICA LEWINSKY PROMOTES NEW BOOK (2)
English/Nat
Hundreds of people crowded into London bookstores on Tuesday to get a glimpse of Monica Lewinsky on the second day of her promotional tour in Britain.
Unlike the previous day's book-signing session at Harrods department...
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Celebrated Author Philip Roth Dies At 85
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Washington - 2 March, 2011
1. STILL - Then US President Barack Obama presenting...
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Writer presents long awaited biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mexico City - 26 October 2009
1. Biography of Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on display
2. Close-up of title reading (Spanish) "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life"
3. Audience members in lecture hall looking through copy of...
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I'v with writer of biography of Gandhi that has sparked controversy
1. Wide of author Joseph Lelyveld holding his book "Great Soul"
2. Wide of book
3. Tight shot of book
4. Pan of book
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Lelyveld, Author of Great Soul:
"They're (Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach) very concerned...
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Poet Jose Emilio Pacheco awarded Cervantes literature prize
1. Pan of Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco walking in; sitting down
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer:
"In order to get the Nobel, you must start (writing) at a young age, at the age of eight, I wasn't able to...
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Germany - International Book Fair
The publisher of an intimate biography of Britain's Duchess of York accused her in Frankfurt on Wednesday (2/10) of wanting to hide the real story of her love affair with an American businessman. Leslie O'Mara, speaking at the Frankfurt...
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USA - Royal family book
A tell-all unauthorised biography of the British royal family went on sale across the United States on Wednesday (17/9) but even before it hit the stacks its author, Kitty Kelley, was forced to defend it.
A number of the sources quoted...
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BRAZIL: TRANSSEXUAL ROBERTA CLOSE LAUNCHES HER BIOGRAPHY
Portuguese/Nat
Brazil's most famous transsexual, Roberta Close, launched her biography this week in Rio de Janeiro.
The 33-year-old star first hit international notoriety as a Playboy model when she was 20 years old.
But her lifelong...
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Birthday of Jane Austen - ahead of 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
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Chawton, Hampshire, U.K - 22 October 2012
1. Mid shot exterior Jane Austen's house
2. Cutaway leaves on tree
3. Wide village of Chawton pan to Jane Austen's House
4. Close up sign pointing to Jane Austen's House
5. Tilt...
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Brazilian author discusses Fidel's biography
The author of Fidel Castro's only consented biography on Sunday recalled her conversations with the Cuban revolutionary icon, as he tried to unite a divided nation polarised by his regime. Yet as Brazilian journalist Claudia Furiati...
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Oldest surviving British serviceman from First World War, dies at age 113
1. First World War veteran, Henry Allingham, in wheelchair talking to officials at Royal Air Force (RAF) museum
2. Cutaway of Allingham's hands on blanket bearing RAF logo
3. Various of Allingham listening to WW1 exhibition opening...
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Japan - Hitler Strategy Book
A Japanese company has agreed to halt the publishing of a book
praising the political strategies of Adolf Hitler following
protest from the Israeli Embassy and other organisations. The
book, entitled "The Hitler Election Strategies - The...
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A Beautiful Mind and Gosford Park take top honours at writers awards
1. Arrival Anthony Edwards.
3. Arrival John Ratzenberger
3. Arrival Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards
4. Ted Danson
5. Fat guy
6. Arrival Arrival Tom Selleck
7. Cutaway
8. Sot Tom Selleck - "I've done a few improvisations in acting class....
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Residents and visitors in the south Alabama hometown of "To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee are both excited and perplexed that the novelist is releasing a sequel to the classic more than a half-century after her first book. (Feb. 3)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" will not be Harper Lee's only published book after all.
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released...