by Mr. Raymond's Civics and Social Studies Academy
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Hi and welcome to Mr. Raymond Social Studies Academy for US history, the first in our series for those taking early United States history.
And today we will look at how the geography of the United States helps shape US history.
The U.S. is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada with over 3.8 million square miles made up of flat coastal plains, rolling hills, mountains, deserts and productive farmland.
The U.S. shares land borders with Canada to its north and Mexico to its south.
Dance As Therapy: Natalia Duong at TEDxStanford
"Performance artist Natalia Duong sees art as the space where cultures coalesce.
A
San Francisco Bay Area native, Natalia Duong is a performance artist,
choreographer and scholar. Her interdisciplinary research
explores
kinesthetic empathy as a resource for conflict resolution, community
theater and the embodied transmission of trauma in people affected by
Agent Orange. Duong has collaborated with artists to perform
internationally in Edinburgh, Paris, Uganda and Vietnam, where she
recently led a community-based devised
theater piece that was
performed at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Duong is also the
founder and artistic director of PAO, a movement collective interested
in how war is inherited in the body. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Stanford University, Duong is currently living in Brooklyn and pursuing a
master's degree in performance
studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University."
II.) 這位演講者以前是專業芭蕾舞者,後來研讀心理學和計算神經科學:
TEDxObserver - Peter Lovatt - Psychologist and dancer
"Dance and the mind
Peter is a reader in psychology and principle lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, but his first love was dance. Before entering academia, he trained at the Guildford School of Acting and the Cecchetti Ballet, and worked as a professional dancer. Later, he went to study psychology and computational neuroscience and in 2008, he set up the first Dance Psychology Lab. This has enabled him to combine his twin passions of dance and psychology and, through experimental work, to explore the ways in which dance, and different types of dance, can affect the brain. His most recent work, and the subject of his talk, has involved investigating the effects of dance on people suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Dr Peter Lovatt's talk at TEDxObserver (http://www.guardian.co.uk/tedx) 2010 was cited by many in the audience as one of their highlights of the day."
