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Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki - 0 views

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    This website for the film offers a downloadable study guide and offers to buy the DVD of the film. The film looks at the rise of the military industrial complex in the U.S.
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    SB used this film to queue a writing assignment.
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Senate Panel Ponders Soft Drink, Beer Tax Hike - 0 views

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    Posted to YouTube by AssociatedPress on June 3 2009. This video, produced by Associated Press, looks at the issue of whether taxes on "unhealthy" food and drinks will help to slow sales, thus keeping people healthier (and holding health care costs in check).
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    NH (week 6, semester 2) used this video and a companion (also bookmarked) to help illustrate the issues that students were reading/writing about.
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"Give Me a Break" Americans Against Food Taxes TV Ad 2011 - 0 views

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    Posted to YouTube by NoBevandFoodTax on January 13 2011. This is a TV ad arguing against taxing food and beverages .
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    NH (week 6, semester 2) used this video and a companion (also bookmarked) to help illustrate the issues that students were reading/writing about.
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Bell Curve (graphed) - 0 views

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    This bell curve is uncredited and undated. From a site called SharpBrains.
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    NH (week 2, semester 3) used the bell curve as an illustration of Normal Distribution of a Doctor's Death Rate from a Disease as her students were reading Gawande's Better.
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What is Argumentation - 0 views

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    From InfoTrac College Edition, published by Cengage Learning. This excerpt was originally in The Sundance Reader, Third Edition, Web Site by Mark Connelly.
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    NH used this reading (week 7, semester 3) to help her students understand argumentation.
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The Lazy Way to Success: Definition of Success - 0 views

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    Posted on the blog The Lazy Way to Success by Fred Gratzon.
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    LH used this in Week 11, semester 3 as an example of how a writer must define his/her own terms.
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History of Lip Gloss, Lip Stick & Makeup - 0 views

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    From a site called YoYoLipGloss, a definition and history of lip gloss. Post is not signed or dated, but there are references (incomplete) at the bottom.
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    LH week 14, semester 3, used this example (from a student's work) of a less-than-reputable web-based source.
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Small Businesses, the Economy, and Mid-term Elections - 0 views

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    Podcast of The Diane Rehm Show from October 14 2010.
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    LH uses this clip to show how the host and panelists attempt to define "small business."
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JayFunk Finger Tutting for Monsieur Clay-Doh - 0 views

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    Posted to YouTube by JayFunkY on October 28 2009.
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    LH links to this video in Week 11, semester 3. She is writing an essay along with her students, and she is looking at finger tutting (as seen in this video).
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Temple Grandin: An HBO Movie - 0 views

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    General information -- as well as ordering information -- about the HBO film, Temple Grandin.
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    In the context of "meaningful assignments," TM shows this film in class, discusses it with the students, and then students are assigned to write a letter to Grandin (using business format). TM mails the packet of letters to Dr. Grandin.
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address - 0 views

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    on YouTube, uploaded March 7, 2008.
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    RS showed video in week 5, semester 3 to inspire a writing assignment on learning from life's setbacks.
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