The Business Professor
Capitalizing or Funding a New Business
What are the options for funding a New Business? How does funding affect the capital structure? Retained earnings, debt capital, and equity capital are three ways companies can raise capital. Using retained earnings means companies don't...
The Business Professor
83b Election and Stock Options
What is an 83b Election? How does th e83b election relate to Stock Options? When making an 83(b) election, you request that the IRS recognize income and levy income taxes on the acquisition of company shares when granted, rather than...
The Business Professor
Perception
What is Perception? How does perception relate to organizational behavior? Perception in Organisational Behavior is defined as the process by which an individual selects, organizes and interprets stimuli into a meaningful and coherent...
Learn French With Alexa
Entendre (to hear) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb ENTENDRE (TO HEAR) in the Passé Composé.
Learn French With Alexa
Appeler (to call) — Past Tense
Alexa conjugates the French verb appeler (to call) in the passé composé.
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How To Get Unstuck
Mathematician and bestselling author Ian Stewart describes how the process of writing his book Letter to a Young Mathematician gave him the chance to reflect upon what sort of unique advice he could give about the nature of mathematical...
Learn French With Alexa
VOIR (TO SEE) Past, Present & Future
Alexa teaches the French verb voir (to see) in the past, present & future tense.
Learn French With Alexa
S'HABILLER (TO GET DRESSED) Past, Present & Future
Alexa conjugates the French verb S'HABILLER (TO GET DRESSED) in the present, past and future tense.
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Sentences, Phrases, and Clauses
You will differentiate between sentences, phrases, and clauses.
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Haiku Poetry
Haiku Poetry reviews the elements of a haiku and explains how to compose one.
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Lyric Poetry
This video explores the components of a lyric poem and explains how to compose a lyric poem.
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Against Smoothness
Intellectual historian Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge, describes how, to a certain extent, one can say that the famous literary critic F.R. Leavis wrote in a deliberately difficult way, in an effort to make his readers think and...
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Appreciating Historical Variability
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) relates how a core value of intellectual history is that it naturally forces us to relativize contemporary positions that we might naively conclude are absolute.
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The Benefits of Flexibility
University of Oxford historian John Elliott describes an experience very early in his research career when he discovered that a pivotal archive had long burned down, a discovery that necessarily launched him in another, remarkably...
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On Being A Slave
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) demonstrates how the ancient Roman view of freedom, while largely overlooked today, is hugely relevant to many aspects of our contemporary world.
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Freedom as Status
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his intellectual trek from ancient Greek versions of freedom to ancient Roman ones.
Señor Jordan
The Direct Objects Song! (Spanish Lesson) - Lo, la, los, & las
I wrote the lyrics to this one and put it to the tune of a familiar kids' song. I think it turned out well! Notice that this is for the direct objects: it/them (lo,la,los,las). This video doesn't cover when a direct object is a person:...
Señor Jordan
Learn Spanish! - How to use Direct objects (lo, la, los, las)
This video lesson covers the direct objects (lo, la, los, and las) that we use in Spanish instead of 'it' and 'them'. We'll have to worry about gender, plurality and placement for these though! Stay tuned to figure out how. Rate this...
Señor Jordan
Learn Spanish with a Joke - (#13)
¡Es viernes! A ver si les gusta este chiste. It's Friday! Let's see if you (all) like this joke.
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Lighting
Students will learn various lighting techniques for a variety of cinematic uses.
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Interpret Data on a Bar Graph
Interpret Data on a Bar Graph solves multi-step word problems by using information presented in a bar graph using the four properties of operation.
Professor Dave Explains
Logic in Late Ancient Philosophy
Previously we outlined Aristotle's enormous contributions in establishing logic as a formal field of inquiry. So what happened after that? How did the minds that followed, many directly in his lineage, develop this field further? What is...