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Understanding Irregular Plural Nouns
Join us in this lesson as we learn about irregular plural nouns. Most plural nouns only require an S or ES at the end, but some words are rule breakers. We have to memorize plural nouns like feet, mice, children, or men. Can you think of...
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Bowling
Coach Socrates introduces Miss Palomine to a game of do-it-yourself bowling to improve her ball skills with her hands and her feet.
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Using Suspensions to Harmonize a Descending Bass - Music Composition
Here's an idea for writing a sequence based on using a chain of suspensions above a descending scale in the bass line. Descending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without generating parallels. This pattern...
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Bass Sequence Using Falling Thirds - Music Composition
This music composition lesson explores one idea for writing a sequence based on a pattern in the bass line. In this case, the bass alternates falling thirds with rising seconds to generate a melodic pattern at the bottom of the texture,...
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Harmonic Sequences - Music Composition
How to write simple harmonic sequences over a bass line that is derived from the pattern of the circle of 5ths. By alternating intervals of the 4th and the 5th in the bass a descending bass line is created above which a systematic chord...
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Croire (to believe) — Past, Present & Future
Alexa conjugates the French verb CROIRE (TO BELIEVE) in the Present, Past and Future Tense.
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Descriptions vs. Explanations
UC Berkeley political scientist Mark Bevir describes how it is important for both political theorists and policymakers to recognize the difference between a description and an explanation.
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Doing Mathematics
Mathematician Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, describes his unexpected trajectory from abstract mathematical calculations in the back of an Austin Mini to developing a deeper understanding of how animals move, illustrating the...
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The Big Bang Theory
This video explains the formation of the universe as described by the Big Bang theory.
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Trouver (to find) - 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Trouver (to find) in 5 main French tenses.
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Rendre (to give back/return) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb RENDRE (to give back/return) in 5 main French tenses.
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Regarder (to look at / to watch) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb REGARDER (to look at/to watch) in 5 main French tenses.
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Donner (to give) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Donner (to give) in 5 main French tenses.
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Choisir (to choose) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate the French verb CHOISIR (to choose) in 5 main French tenses.
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Aller (to go) in 5 Main French Tenses
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Aller (to go) in 5 main French tenses.
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The Future of the Past
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) describes his motivation to find new perspectives of the past, and his excitement at the possibility of retrieving long-lost manuscripts.
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Athenian Impieties
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) describes how classical Athenian society was much more sensitive to religious fundamentalism than many people might imagine.
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Ancient Culture Wars?
Classical scholar Richard Janko, University of Michigan, describes his conviction that the famous trial of Socrates in 399 BCE was hardly a unique event in Classical Athens, but rather one in a series of battles between religious...
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Creating Meaning: Structure and Sound
This video will help students understand how poetry is organized and how the sound adds to the overall meaning of the written work.
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Limerick Poetry
Limerick Poetry reviews the elements of a limerick and explains how to compose one.
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02 Spanish Lesson - Preterite -AR verbs: -gar, -car, -zar
corrections: *cue would be pronounced "kway" *the 'z' and the 'c' (before e and i) sound exactly the same in Spanish In this lesson, we continue with the preterite of -AR verbs but it turns out that verbs that end in -gar, -car, and -zar...
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The Importance of Irrationality
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt reveals how irrational ratios of two repeating patterns produces intriguing and unexpected effects.