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This video allows viewers to improve listening ability and capitalize on the benefits of better listening skills. Topics include both the causes and the costs of poor listening habits; an exploration of appreciative, emphatic, comprehensive, and critical listening; and specific suggestions to improve listening. Lecture-launching, discussion-provoking, and ideal for in-class showing.
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English
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This program features six landmark speeches: John F. Kennedy's inaugural address; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech; Adolf Hitler's address to the Nazi Party; Douglas MacArthur's farewell address; Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1942 State of the Union address; and Barack Obama's first inaugural address. Printable transcripts and critical essays are included on DVD only.
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English
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American Sign Language is one of the fastest-growing languages today. With Language Tree's American Sign Language for Kids volume 1, you will learn how to fingerspell the alphabet and numbers as well as pick up signs for everyday situations such as meeting and greeting, pronouns, family members, occupations, colors, and much more. In addition, tips on how to interact effectively with the Deaf community are offered throughout the program.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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An entertaining speech is typically brief, memorable, positive, straightforward and upbeat. Occasionally, humorous and engaging speeches are given in serious circumstances. In 2013 New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson gave an unorthodox parliamentary speech during a debate to include same-sex couples in the legal definition of marriage. It went viral, making news headlines around the world. This program analyses the language, structure and presentation...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Eve has barely warmed up her Presidential office chair and a crisis is already looming. Watch the lunacy unfold as Eve scrambles to deliver her first big oral presentation with help from her future self. Can she achieve the unthinkable and prevent an unhinged alien from annihilating Earth? And more importantly, how can she get out of wearing ugly Presidential hats and badges?
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Apologize and Reduce Conflict" is a video that acknowledges we all make mistakes or realise we are in the wrong. It's how we deal with our mistakes that makes the difference. Many people view an apology as a sign of weakness but apologizing for our mistakes requires a lot of strength and self-awareness. In this video you will learn to reduce conflict and build positive relationships with customers, contractors and coworkers. Apologizing demonstrates...
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English
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In this program, we see Condoleezza Rice's Michigan State University commencement address; Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech honoring the 300th anniversary of the founding of Yale University; Teresa Heinz Kerry's "I Have Something to Say" speech; Elisabeth Hasselbeck's 2004 RNC address on breast cancer awareness; and Haleema Salie's "9/11" speech.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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As much as 80 percent of the English vocabulary has been borrowed from other languages. Words enter the language when English speakers interact with people—through exploration, trade, empire building, education, the arts, and technology—who speak other languages. This program investigates the wealth of English words and phrases stemming from Indian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese origins, as well as the influence of English on other languages. Packed...
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English
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This sixth episode of The Campaign Series features key speeches from the 2008 Democratic National Convention by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mark Warner, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson Jr., and John Kerry; and from the 2008 Republican National Convention by Jim Leach, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Norm Coleman, George W. Bush, and Tom Ridge, as well as Democrat Joe Lieberman.
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English
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In today's world, economic and financial factors dictate the need to communicate with our international counterparts. With the enormous growth of its economy and its increasing business and diplomatic connections with the United States, China commands primary consideration in the 21st century. However, our ability to communicate with this emerging economic power is hampered by our divergent cultures and distinctly different views on the role of communication....
15) Young & Gifted
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How growing up in L.A. drove this young and gifted 16-year-old to create an innovative new app.
16) Actors at Work
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English
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In this video with director and acting coach Joel Asher, actors' agents from various size firms talk about how they look for talent, respond to unsolicited resumes, and feel about videos accompanying pictures and resumes. The discuss what one should look for in an agent and how they feel the relationship between actors and agents should be. The agents interviewed are Edward J. Adler, Patricia Dawson, Peter Giagni, Jeannine S. Cosden, and Steven R....
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[2012], c2006
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English
Description
This first part of the classic Foundations of Communication Series involves a discussion of the communication discipline with scholars Lois Self, former chair of the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University; Caroll C. Arnold, former professor emeritus of Pennsylvania State University; James McBath, former chairman of communication arts and sciences at University of Southern California; Nicolas Cripe, formerly of Butler University;...
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