annenberg media ♪ provided by: ¿qué le estará pasando a fernando?a lo había visto tan desconfiado. es natural, pedro. quiere estar seguro y necesita pensarlo un poco más. claro. yo recuerdo muy bien mi reacción cuando vi por primera vez a raquel en mi casa en buenos aires. tal vez tengan uds. razón pero yo conozco muy bien a mi hermano. algo le está pasando. bienvenidos al episodio final de destinos. en este episodio concluimos la historia de raquel, don fernando y los otros miembros de la familia castillo. mercedes... diles a angela, roberto, raquel y arturo que los espero en mi habitación. por supuesto, papá. raquel: don fernando... la señora suárez me dijo que rosario nunca dejó de pensar en ud.... que siempre lo amó. captioning of this program is made possible by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. y de la excavación, fuimos al hospital y de ahí, vinimos para acá y fue así, don fernando, como sucedió todo. muy interesante, raquel. te agradezco la paciencia y el interés que pusiste en este caso. pero, ya es tarde. se

annenberg media ♪ funding for this program was provided by...oman: image making is in my eyes, in my head, in my feeling state. i relate to the world with all my senses, and then they get funneled into something that has to be very tangible -- a painting or a print or something like that. the process is intellectual, it's sensual, and it's technical. i'm working on what i hope can become a group of three or four prints. the ideas in the prints actually link together ideas that i've worked with for maybe 45 years. it's at least 40 years that i've been interested in the interplay between the aesthetics of science and the aesthetics of art. and i call my style now "quantum aesthetics." very often, you see the image developing out of modules which transmit energy from one to another. when i work, i tend to make things that are layered in energy. at least, that's what's in my mind. sometimes i show the layers by offering a detail within a field. here we see a very close rectangle with kinds of flames breaking out of it, but there they are also in a f

annenberg media ♪ narrador: bienvenidos al episodio 31 de destinos.rimero, algunas escenas de este episodio. ¿y la gavia? lamentablemente, nuestra recomendación es venderla. hace falta capital. mientras uds. ven y oyen la historia también van a aprender los nombres de ciertas tiendas. también en este episodio vamos a aprender algo sobre los méxicoamericanos que viven en los estados unidos. por razones históricas, la presencia mexicana es fuerte en el oeste de los estados unidos: california, arizona, nuevo méxico texas y otros estados. ¿todavía no ha llegado la licenciada rodríguez? no, pero ya no debe tardar. es que no quiero morirme sin conocer a mis nietos. captioning of this program is made possible by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. en el episodio previo raquel intentó comunicarse con pedro y con arturo porque ninguno de los dos sabía lo del accidente en la excavación. ( teléfono suena ) no contesta. no está en su habitación. por fin, le dejó un mensaje a arturo. por recomendación del padre rodrigo raquel y angela

annenberg media ♪ hola, tío pedro. hola, mercedes. hola, ramón. ¿qué tal? ¿cómo está fernando?do casi todo el día. estuvo el doctor. ya habló con el especialista de guadalajara. narrador: bienvenidos al episodio 32 de destinos. primero, algunas escenas de este episodio. ...el nieto de fernando y rosario estaba trabajando en una excavación arqueológica. ha habido un accidente. icuidado! pobre papá. si se enterara todo lo que está ocurriendo... es mejor que no se entere. sí, claro. pero si supiera... es demasiado: juan que no se lleva bien con pati carlos va a perder la oficina de miami los negocios andan mal nos aconsejan vender la gavia y ahora el nieto, el que todavía no conoce tal vez esté herido o... no te preocupes. verás que estará bien. también en este episodio vamos a aprender algo sobre una de las grandes civilizaciones prehispánicas de méxico: la civilización azteca. los aztecas eran gente trabajadora y también eran grandes guerreros. por doscientos años, trabajaron y lucharon. poco a poco, los aztecas conquistaron las otras tribus de méxico. para principios del siglo

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annenberg media ♪ by: narrador: bienvenidos al episodio 50 de destinos: an introduction to spanish.n este episodio raquel sigue contándole a don fernando y su familia de su investigación. escuchen bien mientras raquel cuenta como conoció a angela y lo que le pasó en puerto rico. carmen: en el nombre del padre, del hijo y del espíritu santo... ¿qué pasó? su hermano tuvo un accidente en la excavación. captioning of this program is made possible by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. entonces, fui a san juan para buscar a angel. disculpe. estoy buscando la calle del sol, número cuatro. la calle del sol, es ésa que está en el frente. el número cuatro es a la derecha. ¿a la derecha? exacto. gracias. de nada. ( timbre suena ) señorita, ¿a quién busca? buenos días, señora. busco al señor angel castillo. ¿no sabe ud., señorita? el señor castillo murió. ¿cuándo murió? hace poco. es una pena, tan buenos vecinos que eran. nunca se repuso de la muerte de su esposa. ¿entonces era casado? sí, su señora era una mujer muy linda. era escritora. pero murió ya hace varios

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annenberg media ♪ and: with additional funding from these foundations and individuals: and by: and thennual financial support of: ♪ ("american cinema" theme playing) ♪ ♪ (music plays) howard, what are you doing up here? (man) i'm thinking. well, don't think! talk. talk to me! jesus christ! you can't walk out of a meeting like that. you say, "excuse me." you say, "pardon me." otherwise they think it's something that they said. did they say anything? (man) no. howard, talk to me. listen to me. let me remind you of the upside here; okay? you put in a million dollars -- a year, maybe two -- three at the most -- you're walking out with four million bucks. i understand the math, lenny. i just want to rethink things; okay? ♪ (music plays) talk to me, howard. listen to me. let me remind you of the upside here. you put in a million. a year and a half, maybe two -- three at the outside -- you take out four million, maybe more. i understand the math, lenny. i just want to rethink things. ♪ (music plays) don't do it, howard. i said, "don't do it." i said, "don't do it." (man) do you know her? hi.

annenberg media ♪ narrator: the region called latin america can be divided up into several subregionsincluding four in south america. in the northern andes subregion, ecuador is the smallest country, but one of its most dynamic, at least geologically. the physical geography of ecuador is dominated by the volcanoes and other mountains that are raised up as the tectonic plate beneath the pacific ocean slowly but violently collides with south america. around the world, humans have learned to survive such natural hazards, but sometimes they cannot escape tragedy. in this story, we follow a geographer working at many levels to help people live with a killer volcano. narrator: of the 200 volcanoes in ecuador, 30 could erupt again. guagua pichincha has devastated quito, the capital, several times, so scientists monitor emissions of sulfur gas with gat conrn. in 1985, a massive eruption in neighboring colombia melted snowfields, causing mudflows that killed more than 23,000 people. throughout south america, scientists study the tragedy and vow to prevent the next one. they may get their chanc

annenberg media ♪ funding for this program was provided by...oman: the kinds of art that i'm engaged in, that i'm interested in, most deeply moved by, is a relational work. it's a work about public good and public art. it's about public speaking, in a sense. and it's really about changing on a larger scale, and problem solving, on a larger scale, some of the most important problems that we have to solve in this period of time. siqueiros uses a structure called polyangular theory. in that position -- you fall into his position. then all the corners of the wall disappear. the project that i'm working on now is a mural i designed for the usc student center with input from the latino student body. this mural is the focal point of a long struggle for the students at usc, who have struggled to assert their presence both in numbers and in sensibilities. we will use these lines to take to the center of our figures. and he figured them in mathematically... i call myself a chicana, because being a chicana means that i understand that i am in a position of

annenberg media ♪ captioning sponsoredby ab narrator: the region of northern africa and southwest asias largely islamic. but jerusalem, like the rest of israel and palestine, is bitterly divibetween mus. at the beginning of the 21st century, arabs in the israeli-occupied territories on the west bank and the gaza strip began an uprising they called the "second intifada." it was marked by a seemingly endless cycle of arab attacks and suicide bombings follow by israeli repriss. in order to understand the prospects for peace, we explore the historical geography of israel and palestine with special emphasis on the sacred space of jerusalem. for half a century, israelis and palestinians have battled over jerusalem and a larger homeland. helping to mediate competing claims was dennis b. ross, special envoy for the first president bush and then president clinton. as his term ended, the peace process crumbled. the intifada that began has had lots of casualties. unfortunately, one of the worst casualties-- in addition to the true human suffering-- has been a loss of complete faith and belief in

annenberg media ♪ and: with additional funding from these foundations and individuals: and by: and thennual financial support of: ♪ (theatrical music playing) movies are the culture of the 20th century. they have affected people in everything, from determining how they dream ... to how they kiss. so much of moviemaking is moving the audience's eye. when are we going move it? how are we going to move it? what do we want them to see? (bell ringing) it's very important to watch every detail in a film, particularly with a director like fritz lang, who's not going to leave anything up to chance. everything is calculated. ♪ (dramatic music plays) no, johnny! no. well ... maybe. (narrator) never has a woman been more beautifully brutal. oh, i'm sorry i can't ask you to come up, but i share my apartment with another girl. a chance encounter becomes a tale of lust, betrayal, and murder. it's only blackmail, baby, when you're dumb enough to get caught. (knocking on door) you will see it all on "scarlet street," universal's terrific suspense drama. if i weren't a gentleman ... "scarlet street" wi

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annenberg media ♪ by: narrador: bienvenidos a otro episodio de destinos: an introduction to spanish.rimero, algunas escenas de este episodio. ino me grites así, juan! ya traté de explicarte los problemas de la producción en nueva york. no entiendo por qué actúas como un niño mimado. sólo roberto podría escoger una profesión tan peligrosa. ¿por qué no estudia para ser un médico, ingeniero o abogado como tú? en este episodio vamos a aprender vocabulario relacionado con las profesiones y las carreras. consuelo: ¿y sabes qué profesión tiene esta señora? maricarmen: esta es dentista. y ésta es enfermera. mira, y éste es un maestro. y éste, ¿sabes qué es? es un veterinario. ¿y éste, qué es? este es un periodista. trabaja en los periódicos, ¿no? sí. y ésta es actriz. y éste es actor. ¿y sabes qué profesión tiene este señor? no, mamá. es un hombre de negocios, como tu tío carlos. tío carlos es profesor. no, es un hombre de negocios. es un hombre de negocios. también vamos a aprender algo sobre otra civilización prehispánica: la civilización maya. los mayas habitaban la parte de méxico que se

annenberg media ♪ captioning sponsored annenberg/cpb narrator: in the region of latin america, a keyeographical issue is population-- its stributionand rad g. inub-region ofexico, weo oklationstributionand rad g. moment, or migration both within mexico and north tohe u.s. we explore a major and unexpected source of migrants in scaedollow re skf e usioofaquiaces can change the rate of flow, or if a new u.s. border policy is having an unintendeconsequence. ( helicopter whirring ) narrator: every day, thousands of mexicans cross the border illegally into the united states. often, those hopes are arreste many arat the border.nwo ma ahora lista pont la mano en frente... narrator: the u.s. i.n.s., or immigration and naturalization service, recos each apprehension on standard forms, including one entry with hidden lue: it was the migrants'ome towns inexico. that's whabringseograpr chard jones to the.n. it was the migrants'ome towns with a novel research plan. jones knows that economic conditions vary greatly om region region in mexico. he suspects that some places drive ou- or "push"-- many

annenberg media ♪ funding for this program was provided by... we have surrendered. don't know what will happen to us. i don't know if we'll be allowed to go on living. our country has been bombed from one end to the other. our homeland is in ruins, and we are here, prisoners, thousands of miles away. all we have left is our faith in each other. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. [ alternative rock music plays ] woman: goat island is a chicago-based, collaborative performance company that has six members. there's four collaborator/performers, a videographer/filmmaker, and myself. i direct. one, two, three, four. the term "performance art" was coined in the early '70s, and it was something that visual artists started doing, using the body rather than using clay or using paint. artists started working with their bodies as their art form. [ music continues ] man: i think people tend to call us performance because performance is the term that encompasses everything that can't be defined as theater or dance or sculpture. anything that people have a question a

annenberg media ♪ gam made possible by the financial support of...nd the following individuals and foundations... corporate funding for art of the western world is by movado, makers of the movado museum watch, the watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. captioning made possible by the annenberg/cpb project the events of world war ii cast a shadow over the rest of the century and perhaps over the rest of history. inevitably, they changed the course of western art. in europe, the unbelievable scale of the nazi genocide against the jews left europeans with the task not only of restoring their broken cities, but of repairing their shattered culture. in america, the explosion of the first atom bomb in the deserts of the southwest meant that medieval man's fears might come true, that the world might be destroyed in a single terrifying apocalypse. it was against this background that the postwar artists created their art. while europeans couldn't forget their past, in america, artists turned their backs on what they sa

annenberg media ♪ captioning sponsored by annenberg/cpb narrator: our investigation of northern africand southwestern asia takes us to egypt. here, as throughout this region, the presence or absence of water has profoundly influenced patterns of human settlement. the nile river is egypt's lifeblood. people here cling to its path through the desert and cluster in its broad delta. our case explores human modification of the environment as humans harness the mighty nile through projects like the aswan dam, lake nasser and the new toshka canal; the move from subsistence to commercial agriculture; and how an expanding population in the nile river delta is encroaching on the area's remaining precious farmland. from space, the earth can seem an abstract pattern of color and shape, but as we look closer, environmental processes come into view. here the rain of east-central africa collects in the giant lake victoria. its waters drain to the north, giving rise o of the world's great rirs, the nile descending from the african highlands, the nile winds through one of earth's most arid landscapes.

annenberg media ♪ captioni sponsored annenrg/cpb narrator: western africa is the most populous subregionouth of the sahara. for decades, côte d'ivoire, or the ivory coast, was one of its most stable societies. then in 1999, a military coup, followed by years ofivil war, threatened the state and its prosperi.eties. we will examine the geographic roots of this conflict, including: differing climatic and ecologicalones; the booms and busts of agricultural export commodities; gional conflicts based on ethnic and religious tensions. geographer jean-louis chaleard studies a cocoa plantationities; nearoubrthe sohwestof côte d'. geographer jean-louis chaleard st(dchaleard speaking frenchi)s; translator: during the 1960s and '70s, the ivory coast experienced strong economic growth. this was essentially due to exported cultivation, principally of cocoa. narrator the icocoa will only growrgest coin tropical rain forests,. which you can see on this satellite mosaic as darkegreeareas along the southern coast. during the 1920s, coffeendocoa plantations abegan in the southeast.. they then diffused to t

annenberg media ♪ narrator: in africa, south of the sahara, european colonization has had tremendousong-term impact on contemporary divisions of land. here, south africa's notorious legacy of race-based laws of apartheid profoundly affected the lives of the country's population. many people were removed from their ancestral lands and relocated to less desirable areas called homelands. with the end of apartheid, south africa is taking remarkable steps toward a more positive and unified future. at the heart of the transformation, though, is the volatile issue of land reform. repatriating people to their land is a complex and difficult process. we will see how one geographer is using global positioning system-- or gps technology-- as one tool to study how the land resources in south africa are being distributed and utilized. ( choral group singing in native language ) in a 199 in their nation's first democratic elections and chose nelson mandela as their president. one of the greatest challenges facing the new post-apartheid regime was toive the jority black population access to the lan

anneerg media ♪ captioning sponsored by annenberg/cpb narrator: north america is comprised of canadand the united states. these two highly-advanced and comparatively wealthy cotries are home to an extremely urbanized and mobile population. in the.s., many urban areas are characterized by diverse cultures, which create a rich ethnic mosaic. oufocus is boston, massachuse, part of a megalopolis located on the northeastern seaboa othe ited macaciopulio boston, massachuse, part of a megalopolis locahave taken root in older seainner-city neighborhoods. in recent decades, these neighborhoods deteriorated, with a downward spiral in infrastructure, services and oppornities. bunow stons bouncing back. with a downward spiral we'll see how relative location to the central business district, or cbd, is important to the development of these neighborhoods-- how so much can ride on their being part of federally-funded enterprise zones and how geographic information systems, or gis, can be used in addressing some difficult urban economic and social issues. boston, massachusetts. once a great port, it