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Learning Geometry with Straight and Curved Wires
Helen Keller never enjoyed math, and she found learning algebra and geometry particularly hard.  She was unable to see geometrical figures on a blackboard.  She learned about them by using "a cushion with straight and curved wires."  Annie Sullivan bore the worst of Helen's angry frus...
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Learning How to Think and Reason
Once she recognized things and actions had names, Helen needed to comprehend abstract subjects.  Trying to solve a problem, she felt her teacher's hand on her forehead while Miss Sullivan emphatically spelled "THINK."   "In a flash," Helen recognized that's what she was doing - thinki...
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Learning to Read
In her early days of learning, Anne and Helen worked outside.  The work seemed like play to her since she had not yet commenced formal lessons.  She began to put words together in sentences, like "doll is on bed."  The first book she read, like other young learners, was "Reader for Be...
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Les Miserables, Episode 3 - The Trial
In the third episode of Orson Welles' adaptation of Les Miserable, Jean Valjean is mayor of a French town.  Living under a different name, he owns a factory, employs many people and is highly respected.  Then ... another man is accused of being Jean Valjean.  Should the mayor reveal ...
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Les Miserables, Episode 1 - The Bishop
Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, for the radio.  Aired in seven parts, this is Episode 1.  Featured in this clip are the following story lines:  Jean Valjean steals from a bishop who forgives him, covers for him (with the police) and tells the former pri...
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Les Miserables, Episode 2 - Javert
This is episode two of Les Miserables.  It features the French police officer, Javert - the nemesis of Jean Valjean.Les Miserables was Orson Welles' first radio series as director/producer/adaptor.  It originally aired on the Mutual Network, during 1937.
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Les Miserables, Episode 4 - Cosette
When her mother (Fantine) dies, a young girl named Cosette has no parents.  She is living with an abusive couple, the Thernadiers, who take money for Cosette's care but make her work in their inn.In this adaptation of the story Les Miserables, by Orson Welles, the young Cosette is played by Est...
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Les Miserables, Episode 5 - The Grave
Jean Valjean eludes Javert and his team of policemen.  How is it that he can avoid capture?  And why is it that Javert continues to chase a prisoner whose crime was merely stealing a loaf of bread?Valjean has climbed a wall that, to others, seemed an impossible task.  As he eludes the...
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Les Miserables, Episode 6 - The Barricade
In 1832, Javert and the police are concerned about young Parisians who are angry with the government.  Is another revolution in the offing?  Javert will check it out.Meanwhile ... Marius (who wants to marry Cosette but does not have the means) has decided to join the young rebels.  Th...
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Les Miserables, Episode 7 - Conclusion
Surviving the barricade battles, Marius decides to marry Cosette.  Faking a reason to avoid the wedding, Jean Valjean does not want to risk capture on his daughter's important day.Deciding it is time to be truthful about his name, and his life, Valjean reveals his past.  We learn the natur...
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