MITx Opens for Enrollment (and Certification - For Now - Is Free) MIT opens registration today for the first of its online courses offered as part of its new MITx initiative. The university announced MITx late last year as the next step not just in informal online learning but in alternative certification. Registration for MITx is free and open to anyone, and for this first "prototype" class, there is no additional charge to receive the certification upon successful completion of the class. This first class is "6.002x: Circuits and Electronics." According to the course website, the class will demand approximately 10 hours a week from those enrolled. Circuits and Electronics, as the name of the course suggests, is meant to be an introduction for electrical engineering and computer science majors. But the connection to MIT OCW is important here, and it's something that makes MITx quite distinct from some of its online learning competitors.
Frostbitten Collard Greens | My Family Recipe Rocks! | Side Dishes Place a stockpot over low heat. Add the bacon and slowly cook to render the fat. When the bacon is crisp, remove and reserve. Cook the onion in the bacon drippings until "lazy" and slightly colored, about 5 minutes, Pour in the liquid and the remaining ingredients except the collards Increase your heat and bring to a boil. Add in the collards, a handful at a time, stirring each addition until wilted. Remove the hock and let cool. Chopped the collards if desired. Transfer the collards to a bowl, and top with the crisp bacon.
BBC Languages – Free online lessons to learn and study with Uncle Remus Uncle Remus in Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881 "Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881 Structure[edit] Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's Fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. The stories are written in an eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a Deep South Gullah dialect. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. Controversy and legacy[edit] The animal stories were conveyed in such a manner that they were not seen as racist by many among the audiences of the time. Harris himself said, in the introduction to Uncle Remus, that he hoped his book would be considered:
Magazine - Table of Contents The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.
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