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How Authors Describe Characters: Direct vs Indirect Characterization
When taking a reading comprehension test, have you ever been stumped by a question asking about how the author or another character feels about a specific character? Or perhaps when reading a novel or story, you’re somewhat confused...
Curated Video
Types of Characterization
“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization
Curated Video
Characterization
This video is about how writers use characterization to show what a character is like.
MinuteEarth
Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
Null results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose results fail to support their hypotheses.
The Business Professor
Social Network Analysis
What is Social Network Analysis? Social network analysis is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes and the ties, edges, or...
Curated Video
Grandfather Paradox: Explained in Simple Words
The grandfather paradox is considered the biggest, most popular objection to the logical possibility of backwards time travel. It characterizes a hypothetical situation in which a time traveller goes to their past and ends up causing an...
Science ABC
Grandfather Paradox: Explained in Simple Words
The grandfather paradox is considered the biggest, most popular objection to the logical possibility of backwards time travel. It characterizes a hypothetical situation in which a time traveller goes to their past and ends up causing an...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'Looking Back, Looking Now'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita
“Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. ...
“Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. ...
The Viral Fever
India - Pakistan The Story of Partition
One of the largest migrations in modern history, Partition was characterized by its brutal violence that continues to scar the Asian subcontinent to this day. This episodes documents the personal stories of people separated by Partition...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Destroying Drama – Finer Points of Dramatic Analysis (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In this lesson, we’ll arm you with some more advanced knowledge about drama. Grab your notes as we guide you the ways playwrights build characterisation, use staging devices and the conventions of genre. Not to worry, we’ll revise...
The Cynical Historian
300 | Based on a True Story
Here is another episode of 'Based on a True Story.' This time it is 300 and how it is based on the battle of Thermopylae. It is a great film with a great many historically innacurate plot points....
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft...
NASA
Take a Spin With NASA’s WFIRST Spacecraft
On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy
The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
In his new book,...
In his new book,...
Curated Video
How Quantum Mechanics Shapes Reality and the Arrow of Time
How does the indeterminate world of quantum mechanics, where the future isn’t fixed, become the classical predictable real world we experience? Quantum researchers argue about it even today. It's really all...
Alliterative
The Art of Propaganda: The Endnotes
Some extra information from "Bellini" ( about Mannerism, art & the Counter-Reformation, and the etymology of Propaganda. Show
The Cynical Historian
The Bronze Age Changes with Archeological Evidence
Check out the full collaboration playlist hereref='https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4kqG-CL4ToARSQlWqu6jRzeEnbFAQCkB' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here Up until the 19th century, the Bronze Age was merely a time of legends,...
The Cynical Historian
The 1919 Red Scare - the craziest year in American history
Many people have heard of the first Red Scare, but we should look at the year of 1919 more thoroughly. It’s probably the craziest one in American history. Ann Hagedorn, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York: Simon &...
Psych2Go
A Declassified Guide to Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms,...
NASA
SPEXone: Dutch Instrument Arrives for PACE Mission
Aerosols are small solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that affect climate change directly through interactions with solar radiation. Aerosols affect climate indirectly by changing the micro- and macro-physical...
IT'S HISTORY
Mass Production and the Road to World War 1 I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
At the end of the 19th century, the inventions of the Industrial Revolution create a whole set of new industrial branches. The second wave of the Industrial Revolution is characterized by the chemical industry in Germany and mass...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Edward Kane: Beyond Dodd-Frank
For federal regulators, the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) of 2010 resembles an earthquake so massive that its aftershocks threaten to go on forever. The overarching purpose of this legislation is to end the perception that very large...
Curated Video
The World of Woodwinds
Woodwinds are instruments that use airflow to create different sounds and notes. They usually have a tube-shaped body with holes or buttons to adjust the flow of air. Learn which instruments are considered part of the woodwind family and...
Smithsonian Institution
Why Right Brained Is Wrong…Brained
The brain is an especially complex organ. A PD lesson from the Good Thinking series discusses the importance of not isolating processes to the right or left side of the brain. The instruction uses specific examples to illustrate how...