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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how essays can break the rules of conventional writing, allowing you to design essay forms to match your needs rather than being forced to fit the rules of more conventional forms. Examine structures that reimagine the essay, such as the microessay and the prose poem or “proem.” Professor Cognard-Black shares her own students’ work to explore what elements went into these examples to make them successful essays.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Shift your attention from rural American utopias to explore from a different perspective: Victorian anxieties about technology and the vanishing frontier. Analyze these fears in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which utilizes utopian conventions and heavy doses of satire to critique religion, health, education, and humanity's increasingly complex relationship to machines.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This atmospheric short drama was made on film in 1998 and serves as a showcase for some of the outstanding talent nurtured by CAAMA at that time, supported by filmmaking talent from elsewhere including Safina Uberoi and Jackie McKimmie. In a sequence of simple, emotionally charged scenes, MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND gives a powerful impressionistic insight into the feelings of alienation experienced by a teenaged albino Aboriginal girl. In a convent boarding...
Language
English
Formats
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How to Train Your Dragon 1: Hiccup is a young Viking who defies convention when he befriends one of his deadliest foes, a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together this unlikely pair must overcome many obstacles and one ultimate challenge in order to save both their worlds.
How to Train Your Dragon 1 Special Features: "Frozen" episode of DreamWorks' Dragons: defenders of Berk ; Book of Dragons Short ; The Ultimate Book of Dragons ; The Animator's...
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross was at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. With doctors and conventional medicine unable to help, Joe traded in junk food and hit the road with a juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe had one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. "*This...
Publisher
FUNimation Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to a world where just thinking about a crime is enough to make you guilty. Bad intentions can no longer be hidden, and the police know exactly which tainted minds are about to cross over to the wrong side of the law. The great equalizer in the war on thugs is the Dominator, a futuristic weapon that can read minds and assess the risk that a citizen will turn criminal"--Container.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the last few decades, a wide array of practices have gained greater acceptance as forms of treatment and healing. If you've ever considered herbal supplements, meditation, acupuncture, yoga, or a change of diet to promote better health, then you're already familiar with integrative medicine...Integrative medicine describes the addition of natural or holistic practices into the health-care paradigm to complement conventional Western medicine and...
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The smash PBS concert special "KC And The Sunshine Band Present Get Down Tonight : The Disco Explosion," taped on August 17, 2004, at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey, celebrates the disco era with original artists singing their biggest hits in front of an enthusiastic audience.
10) Old Goats
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cinequest Film Festival, Old Goats is the hilarious and heartfelt story of a trio of spirited senior citizens who “refuse to go quietly into that good night.” Britt, Bob, and Dave say what they please and don’t hold anything back on their quest to make the most of their sunset years. Opinionated and set in their ways, each man confronts aging in his own unique fashion: conventional Dave quietly rebels against...
11) Famous Nathan
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rich in nostalgia, FAMOUS NATHAN pushes the boundaries of conventional documentary filmmaking, as kaleidoscopic and layered as Coney Island itself, capturing the honky-tonk, in-your-face spirit that was Nathan's Famous in its hey-day and today. An insider documentary by Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan Handwerker, who founded the legendary Brooklyn eatery and iconic New York institution, Nathan's Famous, in Coney Island in 1916. Over a thirty-year...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When children begin to read and write they are as interested in information as they are in fiction. But information is not conveyed only with print; the wealth of visual texts are often the clearest communicators of information. Charts, diagrams, cross sections, and maps are a few of the elements that are as critical as the words they supplement. In many cases, the visual text is the clearest way to present information. In this video, Steve Moline...
13) Holy Land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
On a desolate West Bank hilltop, 50 Israeli families live in house trailers, yards littered with rusting tricycles and old furniture. This is Migron, the largest illegal settlement outpost, built in defiance of international law and the Israeli courts. From 2011 through 2012, a battle about the fate of Migron rages through Israel's politics and Supreme Court. Israeli anti-settlement activist Hagit Ofran leads the struggle against Migron....
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Modern Love looks at remarkable individuals who are forging new relationship trends in the 21st century. The award-winning documentaries examine couples who have found new alternatives for building lasting love in our post-modern world. We see swingers; a multiple partner marriage; a marriage with one gay partner and one straight; and a lasting marriage of two women, one of whom used to be a man. Who said love was simple?Titles include:Same Sex MarriageNelly...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
16) Overlord
Language
English
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D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Scott is an earnest but clueless boss who can't help but contribute his own irreverant commentary to the daily happenings at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. As the staff deals with potential office closures, mergers, romances and advancement, Michael is always there to say all the wrong things at all the right times.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
How to Train Your Dragon 1: Hiccup is a young Viking who defies convention when he befriends one of his deadliest foes, a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together this unlikely pair must overcome many obstacles and one ultimate challenge in order to save both their worlds.
How to Train Your Dragon 1 Special Features: "Frozen" episode of DreamWorks' Dragons: defenders of Berk ; Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon ; Deleted scenes ; Filmmakers' commentary.
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