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61) Born of fire
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National Geographic cameras travel to Iceland, Africa, Japan, California, and Greece to record how the huge plates of the earth's crust crash together, pull apart, and override each other causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Follow scientists around the world as they search for clues to the causes of these powerful geologic events.
62) 21 Day Fix
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The 21 Day Fix presents a a three-week healthy eating and daily exercise plan, made up of a collection of seven different 30-minute workouts plus an eating plan focused on both food quantity and type.
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These lessons focus on the fundamental Mental Math techniques to increase viewers' speed in mental addition and multiplication. These skills can be applied in everyday situations, at the workplace, in class, and in prep for standardized tests such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, and more! Chapters include: Rapidly Multiply by 11's; Rapidly Calculate a Restaurant Tip; The Secret to Rapid Mental Addition; Rapid Mental Single Column Addition; and much more.
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The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems--and this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. In this lecture, professor Harry Brod offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. This lecture ranges from the meanings...
67) Paper tigers
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This film follows 6 students from Lincoln Alternative High School in Walla Walla, Washington. The principal and teachers embraced a non-punitive, trauma-informed model of teaching and discipline in order to counteract the chaos and violence present in the school. Using the ACE's model in the classroom helped the students understand their negative emotions and create an atmosphere for success.
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"A troubling wake-up call to American women and parents of daughters, this documentary explores the impact of media and pop culture on the identity development of girls. It demonstrates the influence of media in the lives of these young women and questions whether the concept of 'girl power' seeds the right message to empower girls in their journey to adulthood"--Container.
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An in-depth 60 minute program based on the topics and solutions examined in Cover Girl Culture. Newly released footage of key insights, wisdom and tips from experts and girls in Cover Girl Culture, presented in short movie clips on over 20 topics. Each clip includes activities or though provoking messages for your groups or daughter(s) as well as a special section strictly for parents/educators. Seeing Through the Media Matrix contains powerful tools...
74) Little white lie
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Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz's story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity -- despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts...
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"We are told by American culture that fatherhood is important, but the real, underlying message is: "Back to work, dads!" The result: millions of people are growing up with absentee dads. What's worse is that so many of them are blissfully unaware of the damage done to their lives. How did this happen? What can be done about it? And why are the dads who are extra-involved with their families typically castigated as not being manly enough or sufficiently...
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Based on the original recordings from the week-long meeting between Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut in 1962--the same ones used as the basis of the book Hitchcock/Truffaut--this documentary film explores the skill and talent of Alfred Hitchcock on film and includes analysis and commentary from some of today's premier filmmakers.
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Discusses the practices of a multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and video games to educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology,...
79) A girl like her
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Presents the experiences of a number of women who had become pregnant outside of marriage in the 1950s and 1960s when such an occurrence was taboo and had to give their babies up for adoption. Comprised of period film footage and voiceover narration.
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In this documentary, former Elite International fashion model, Nicole Clark, calls for a necessary change, integrity and responsible media for our youth. This is an examination of how advertising and the cult of celebrity have deeply and negatively impacted teens and young women. The film juxtaposes ads and interviews with editors from top fashion magazines with revealing interviews of parents, teachers, psychologists, body image experts, and the...