How do we make a "sound judgment" in a culturally diverse society? How do we know the best path to follow in an interdependent world? These stories, based on social-studies, help us to understand that personal and environmental relationships impact our lives and our world.
Once she recognized things and actions had names, Helen needed to comprehend abstract subjects.
In her early days of learning, Anne and Helen worked outside.
Les Miserables is a massive novel, by Victor Hugo, perennially considered one of the world's best books.
Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, for the radio.
This is episode two of Les Miserables.
In the third episode of Orson Welles' adaptation of Les Miserable, Jean Valjean is mayor of a French town.
When her mother (Fantine) dies, a young girl named Cosette has no parents.
Jean Valjean eludes Javert and his team of policemen.
In 1832, Javert and the police are concerned about young Parisians who are angry with the government.
Surviving the barricade battles, Marius decides to marry Cosette.
Jean Valjean is the central character of Victor Hugo's ever-popular Les Miserables, but we don't really "meet him" until "Book Second" of Volume I.
Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...
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