Provides statistics, history, politics, and demographics for the country of Venezuela in South America.

This extensive text, from a series of college lectures, offers insights on what it was like to live under Ottoman rule. Military, religious, and dynastic principles are discussed, along with their implications and practices.

Here is a presentation of Coulomb's Law and the electric field potential formula, with example problems.

Defines electric potential, field lines, and equipotential lines. Contains example problems and formulas for solving.

Real-life examples, interactive headline and image games and brief explanations make this an attractive site for learning to recognize media bias.

Describes how a geyser works and provides a nice diagram of the geological structure of a geyser.

Discusses many details pertaining to sexual selection and gender differences in sexual selection. The rationale behind the increased female investment in the process is discussed. Provides many examples of the sexual selection process.

A comprehensive look at the economic condition of the 1970s termed stagflation. Authors take a different view noting that oil price increases were not as essential to stagflation as thought. They develop the relationship between monetary policy, stagflation and the oil market in this paper complete with concluding remarks on the origins and explanation of stagflation.

"As a speaker, there are several things you can look for to determine if your message is being received. On the flip side, these are good characteristics to have when you are the listener." This article gives some startling statistics about listening as well as characteristics of a bad listener and how to improve listening. SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part

The Awful Academic Talk and the Principles of Effective Talks are discussed and outlined with suggestions for a more interesting speech delivery. This was originally directed to those making academic presentations at a university or conference, but the same rules apply for most formal speech opportunities. You may need to cursor down to get the information. SL.9-10.4 Presentation, SL.11-12.4 Presentation

Great website where you can look up literary symbols in a searchable index. For each symbol there is a brief explanation of its significance and links to other related symbols.

A detailed examination of "what is known about the Big Bang itself, the age of the universe, and the synthesis of the first atoms."