Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks about environmental law and the effects of corporate capitalism on the environment.
Grade levels: Adult
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Lewis MacKenzie
Major General Lewis MacKenzie, a UN peacekeeper, shares his views about the Canadian military.
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Robert Bateman
Artist and naturalist Robert Bateman advocates for the preservation of our natural heritage.
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ideaCity05
In its brief history the annual ideaCity Conference has become a celebrated venue where interesting people say important things about the world. ideaCity05, held in June 2005 in Toronto, once again brought together some of the most fascinating and influential personalities of our time, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Craig and Marc Kielburger, Gord Downie and Veronica Tennant. This DVD series offers thought-provoking ideas and memorable performances, from the 2005 conference, all on 5 DVDs.
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Advanced American Sign Language Workbook
This workbook which accompanies the series is designed to assist learners in developing ASL skills through self-paced modules augmented by formal ASL classes. The combination of self-study and classroom instruction facilitates self-assessment and supports the skills essential to language learning.
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Body and Gaze Shift in ASL / Classifiers in ASL / Space in ASL
Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying a narrator and characters of a story using Body and Gaze Shift; determining the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives using ASL Classifiers; and the use of Space in ASL to establish a location for a particular referent’s discourse.
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Affect in ASL / Transition Markers in ASL / Grammatical Structure in ASL / Disco
Follow along with this next set of programs as the advanced techniques for ASL are augmented to include: the use of facial expressions to express Affect in ASL; the Transition Markers required to guide the flow of discourse in ASL; the importance of a signer’s entire signing space to identify Grammatical Structure; and the identification of the topic(s) of Discourse.
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Subjects and Objects in ASL / Fingerspelling in ASL / Numbers in ASL
The last set of programs in this advanced series covers the following integral facets of ASL: identifying the Subject and Object of a sentence and the inclusion of spatial referencing; clarifying the context of a discourse using Fingerspelling; and the elements to consider when signing Numbers in ASL.
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Framing Richler / Mordecai in Montreal
Framing Richler – This program is intended to serves as a catalyst for debate and discussion about Richler and his writing, in part this conference is intended to redress the discrepancy between Richler’s huge public profile and his under-representation in literature studies across the country. Mordecai in Montreal – Montreal for Mordecai was inspiration, an imaginative landscape for his fiction and an opportunity for political commentary and satire and more importantly it is where he lived in every sense.