Why Not Us? Full Length Documentary | Roadtrip Nation
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Being the first in your family to attend college is daunting, but rewarding.
Follow the journeys of four young people—all first in their families to go to college—as they road-trip across the country to interview inspiring individuals who were also first in their families to pursue higher education.
After gaining wisdom and guidance from trail-blazing leaders—including Anna Maria Chávez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, Grammy Award-winner John Legend, and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz—the Roadtrippers are emboldened to embrace the opportunities ahead and ask “why shouldn’t I succeed?”
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Jon Meacham: 2016 National Book Festival
Jon Meacham discusses Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Jon Meacham is the executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. During his career, he has been editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine, editor-at-large of WNET and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. Meacham's book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book World. Meacham has written the best-selling book American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation and edited Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement, a collection of distinguished nonfiction about the midcentury struggle against Jim Crow. His most recent work is Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush.
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2006 University of North Florida Distinguished Professor
Dr. Theo Prousis, professor in the Department of History, is the University of North Florida's 2006 Distinguished Professor.
Holocaust Survivor Leopold Page Testimony
This testimony from Schindler's List survivor Leopold Page is from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. View his testimony to learn more about his experiences.
Living Proof: Reflections on 75 Years of Social Work Education
In 2005, under the leadership of Dean Nancy J. Smyth, our school committed resources to an exciting project that documented the history of this dedicated center of social work training and research.
With each passing decade, a new chapter has been added to the already rich history of one of the first schools of social work in the nation. It had been over 20 years, however, since an updated chronicle of the school’s history had been published, in 1984.
So much has transpired since that last publication. A new effort was long overdue. The UB School of Social Work History Project was initiated in the summer of 2005. The modern project was built upon earlier efforts, and was designed to retell the School of Social Work story from its founding in the 1930s.
Another project goal was to provide historical perspective about the School to community stakeholders such as alumni, faculty, students, and Buffalo’s community agency staff members.
For the project, one of the earliest graduates of the School recalled her class of six students and the school’s early days; alumni and faculty described the atmosphere of the School during the tumultuous 1960s and ’70s; and faculty — and one former UB president — discussed the strong community support generated to prevent the School’s closing in the economically challenging 1980s.
The UB School of Social Work History Project intended to both document the School’s history and also to collect materials and information before it was completely lost or forgotten. Principal investigators Denise Krause and Susan Green and staff videotaped approximately 60 interviews with alumni, former deans, UB presidents and faculty members.
The resulting documentary video, “Living Proof. Reflections on 75 Years of Social Work Education,” was produced in conjunction with Odessa Pictures, a Buffalo-based production company.
John Pizzarelli Interview by Monk Rowe - 1/29/2000 - NYC
Guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli reminisces about his musical upbringing, his transition from rock to jazz, learning on the bandstand, and dealing with record companies.
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Yiddish language | Wikipedia audio article
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Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, lit. Jewish, pronounced [ˈjɪdɪʃ] [ˈɪdɪʃ]; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, lit. Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic as well as from Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized version of the Hebrew alphabet.
The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknaz, language of Ashkenaz) or טײַטש (taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, lit. mother tongue), distinguishing it from לשון־קדש (loshn koydesh, holy tongue), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. The term Yiddish, short for Yidish Taitsh Jewish German, did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century the language was more commonly called Jewish, especially in non-Jewish contexts, but Yiddish is again the more common designation today.
Modern Yiddish has two major forms. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. It includes Southeastern (Ukrainian–Romanian), Mideastern (Polish–Galician–Eastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (Lithuanian–Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic–Northern German) dialects. Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide; it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic and many Lithuanian yeshivas.
The term Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with Jewish, to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit (Ashkenazi culture; for example, Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music: klezmer).Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11–13 million speakers of Yiddish among 17 million Jews worldwide. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish both among survivors and among Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). However, the number of speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities.
Texas Tech University | Wikipedia audio article
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Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923 (1923-02-10), and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the flagship institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. The university's student enrollment is the seventh-largest in Texas as of the Fall 2017 semester. The university shares its campus with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, making it the only campus in Texas to house an undergraduate university, law school, and medical school.
The university offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through 13 colleges and hosts 60 research centers and institutes. Texas Tech University has awarded over 200,000 degrees since 1927, including over 40,000 graduate and professional degrees. The Carnegie Foundation classifies Texas Tech as having highest research activity. Research projects in the areas of epidemiology, pulsed power, grid computing, nanophotonics, atmospheric sciences, and wind energy are among the most prominent at the university. The Spanish Renaissance-themed campus, described by author James Michener as the most beautiful west of the Mississippi until you get to Stanford, has been awarded the Grand Award for excellence in grounds-keeping, and has been noted for possessing a public art collection among the ten best in the United States.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders are charter members of the Big 12 Conference and compete in Division I for all varsity sports. The Red Raiders football team has made 36 bowl appearances, which is 17th most of any university. The Red Raiders basketball team has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament. Bob Knight has coached the second most wins in men's NCAA Division I basketball history and served as the team's head coach from 2001 to 2008. The Lady Raiders basketball team won the 1993 NCAA Division I Tournament. In 1999, Texas Tech's Goin' Band from Raiderland received the Sudler Trophy, which is awarded to recognize collegiate marching bands of particular excellence.
Although the majority of the university's students are from the southwestern United States, the school has served students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. Texas Tech University alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.