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21) In Search of Freedom: Shonda Rhimes, Maya Rudolph, Keenen Ivory Wayans—Finding Your Roots, Season 3
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Learn how the ancestors of Maya Rudolph, Shonda Rhimes and Keenen Ivory Wayans struggled for freedom, and how each of these cultural trailblazers gains a new understanding of how they fit into this proud trajectory.
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Whether you are in customer service, work on a team, or manage people, counseling skills are increasingly recognized as vital for interpersonal effectiveness. This video teaches the three main skills of counseling you can apply in situations such as dealing with an upset client, personality clashes within a team, or career counseling an individual. Viewable/printable educational materials are available online.
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Is biological lineage a necessary precondition for being a family? In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Robert Krulwich visit the Van Dries, of Grand Rapids. With three biological children plus eleven adoptees from the U.S. and around the world, parents Doug and Jan put that question to the test, adding language barriers and the effects of extreme poverty and abuse to the usual array of daunting parental challenges. The sociological...
27) Family
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In the animal world, as in our own, the family unit and social structure are crucial to survival. Animal alliances are as important for caring and sharing as for hunting and killing. Like animals, humans depend on social groups-from the small-scale family unit to a large organization such as the United Nations. By comparing human relationships with perceived animal parallels, this program offers an interesting insight into our shared world.
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Working with manipulative people can be difficult, as they have the ability to influence or even exploit you. Psychologists Peter Quarry and Eve Ash explain and analyze various styles of manipulation. Following explanation they suggest a series of methods and tactics for defusing manipulation and manipulators.
29) Meaning of Life
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Reflections about the meaning of life that people want to share with us.
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What is it like when a family member gets locked up? How do you cope emotionally or financially? Can you really forgive someone who commits a terrible crime? This documentary film examines what it is like for family members when a loved one gets on the wrong side of the law. Filmed over 18 months, it follows the lives of four young people as they grapple with the challenges that come with loving someone who has been convicted of a crime. Prison, My...
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What distinguishes the members of Generation Next from their predecessors? This program - a sequel to the celebrated public television documentary Generation Next (item #36957) - looks at the beliefs, concerns, and goals that galvanize young people today. Renowned broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff guides viewers across the United States and into the lives of America's future leadership. In their early 20s, John and Katie Fiske are already married...
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For children in the U.S., unsupervised play is largely a pastime of previous generations. Hanna Rosin of The Atlantic writes about the consequences of guarding children from perceived dangers in her article The Overprotected Kid. Judy Woodruff interviews Rosin about how we deal with risks and safety concerns for our children.
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This sensitive and informative program uses dramatizations of real-life situations to explore the choices available to young people faced with an unplanned pregnancy. While some references pertain to U.K. citizens only, the video provides a useful overview as a teen couple evaluates the options and implications of keeping the baby, adoption, and voluntary termination. Interviews with health care and education professionals, parents, and young people...
35) Social Factors
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Humans are social animals and all seven billion of us on the planet engage in, and require, social interaction to maintain a balanced and healthy existence. Those with whom we interact range from family and close friends to different community groups, acquaintances and those we might deal with on a single occasion, or very infrequent basis. This film explores the nature of those social factors that play a major part in our health and wellbeing - including...
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This video interrogates masculinity and the ways masculinity is challenged and changed by fatherhood. It explores the lives of four generations of men and includes a discussion of the Harvard Grant Study. The Grant study is the longest running study on human development to date. A recent report on the Grant study (The Triumphs of Experience-Vaillant) proposes that love and warmth are critical to the lives of men and successful lifelong development....
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This documentary probes the complex nature of PTSD, profiling a veteran with feelings of self-hatred. Viewing posttraumatic stress as a natural outcome of exposure to highly stressful events and not as a disorder, the video brings to light the quiet struggle of individuals suffering from stress-related disorders.
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Defining events and stages mark our lives and can be exciting as well as stressful. In this video, Simone Lee takes viewers through a typical course of life events and discusses their potential impact on health and well-being. Topics include school, employment, marriage, retirement, and bereavement.
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Whether following stated procedures or complying with implicit rules of conduct, modern humans willingly modify their behavior dozens of times each day. In this program, the conformity necessary for mass interactions and the flexibility required to learn and use the behaviors of conformity are investigated. In addition to conventions such as air travel protocol and museum manners, instances of the subversion and even outright abuse of conformity are...
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This film looks at ways in which scientists have been investigating attraction between the sexes. New studies are beginning to discover that there is a science behind sex appeal. Biochemical odors, face shape, and voice pitch are among the surprising factors that have a powerful influence on the choice of a mate. Researchers have found that when women are ovulating, they produce copulins, a group of female pheromones with a scent that attracts men....