Occupational Safety and Health: Worker Safety: Looking Back
Although concern for worker safety was expressed as far back as Hypocrites, it wasn't until 1911, in the wake of the Triangle Shirt Factory fire, that the first worker compensation laws were enacted.
Series: Introduction To Ecology
Transcript: face of the workplace. [ brown ] it led to thousands of people moving into the cities From the agricultural areas... And moving away from a craft
Revolution of a Different Sort: Resurgence of Immigration Helps Fuel Industrial Revolution in U. S.
Irish immigrants in the 1840s. More Germans arrive because of the German Revolution of 1848 and settle in rural areas of the U. S. Many native
Subject: negative reaction to increased immigration
Transcript: emigrate into agricultural areas. Many of them did stay in cities, But a larger proportion of irish immigrants Stayed in cities versus the german immigrants
Journey to planet Earth: Extreme Realities
About this title: This title investigates the link between severe weather, climate change, and threats to our national security.
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Series: Journey To Planet Earth
Transcript: Pakistan to join relief and rescue operations in areas hit by massive floods in the country's worst catastrophe. MATT DAMON: Relief efforts quickly became a
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Egypt: Journey to the Global Civilization
Were Egypt’s pyramids really built by slaves to be the tombs of the pharaohs? Most scholars believed so - until the excavation of a workers’ village
Subject: Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C.
Transcript: words that praise Pharaoh, the ancient king of Egypt. Ruins found on the sea bed five years ago... this is the remains of the city where the last queen
Masterpiece Classic: Our Town
“It’s a little play with all the big subjects in it,” wrote Thornton Wilder in a 1937 letter to Gertrude Stein about what has become his most
Subject: Cities and towns -- New Hampshire
Transcript: . You bet I'm going to change. And Emily, I want to ask you favor. What? Emily, if I go away to State Agriculture College next year, will you write me a
A Prologue to Chaucer
A scholarly program that reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late-14th
Transcript: Oxford and Cambridge. New College is built next to the city wall, and its size indicates an increasing need for educated persons. Large numbers of poor
World War II: the road to war
This program chronicles the global events that ultimately led to U.S. action in World War II. Discussion points include Hitler and the Nazi Party
Transcript: VICTORIOUS NATIONS. GERMANY WAS ALSO STRIPPED OF MUCH OF ITS MILITARY POWER AND FORCED TO DEMILITARIZE THE AREA NEAR THE BORDER OF FRANCE KNOWN AS THE
Extinct species: red alert to humanity
losing their habitat to palm oil plantations, Oriental white storks feeding in pesticide-ridden waters, and Florida panthers struggling in developed areas
Transcript: WETLANDS BEGAN IN 1948. PEOPLE BUILT WATERWAYS TO DRAIN WATER FROM MARSHES, AND TURNED MARSHES INTO FARMLAND AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS. ABOUT HALF OF THE
Constant change: the diversification and spread of language
languages, including early migration, the introduction of agriculture, and genes. Language transfer from mother to child and from one population to the next
Transcript: . Agriculture increases the size of the population, and therefore the large agricultural populations start to spread rather rapidly. And there are many language