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Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. His purpose is to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. He panics and drops his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale goes back to Saul to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
All writing--whether it's an essay, a personal letter, or a detailed business report--is at its most memorable when it's built on the fundamental and critical skills that transform your words from good to great. The first lectures provide the first key to more engaging and effective writing: understanding literary genres and the ways their unique styles can shape and inform your own voice. The focus then shifts to the art of rhetoric and the ways...
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
This beginner level program teaches the building blocks of American Sign Language, including basic words, expressions, and phrases. It also includes such fundamentals of signing as handshape, orientation, location, and movement. 60-minute video and 208-page dictionary and guidebook.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy.
Episode 2Follows Robert MacNeil as he travels down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Linguist Walt Wolfram, columnist...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Leap, Lily, and Tad travel to the Word Factory where they discover amazing machines such as the Word Whammer that take letters and turn them into words. Discusses vowels, rhyming, and blending sounds. Includes a guide presenting parents with suggested word games to further the lessons of the video.
18) Kandahar
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Nafas an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Description
Alphabet Al leads kids on an exciting journey to master the alphabet, build word/letter associations, and develop a richer vocabulary. With catchy songs Alphabet Al holds the interest of even highly energetic kids. Fun games and a colorful environment for each letter will have kids out of their seats and dancing along. Includes bonus chapter on printing letters and numbers.
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