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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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Martha has an idea for a thrilling adventure story, so Truman, T.D., and Helen decide to draw it for her. Much to Martha's dismay, they all add their own special touches, including peanut butter, a ground squirrel, and the Incredible Exo-Skeleton-of-Wow. But when life imitates art, things get a little too exciting!
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Martha is a dog who can speak, thanks to her favorite meal of alphabet soup, and has silly adventures while learning new words along the way. TD passes in the wrong drawing in art class; Martha decides to do something really special for Grandma's birthday; Someone, or some ghost, is fixing up the haunted house; Martha walks under a ladder, breaks a mirror, and thinks she's jinxed; Martha can't believe that Helen and Alice are making such a fuss about...
8) Pom poko
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From acclaimed director Isao Takahata. The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. They band together and fight back, practicing the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans. Can they scare off the advancement of civilization?
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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.
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In this collection of twenty episodes, Twiki and Twini will take us on adventures to discover new words and new sounds. Each episode features a handful of words spelled out by our friends, Twiki and Twini. Your little one will learn how to spell fun words like 'clown' and animal words like ���dog.��� The fun and learning never ends with these two! Get ready to enter into an unexpected universe composed of sounds, words, and images.
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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....