http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:47:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What Employers Want Graduates to Know Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:30pm, Katy Cyber Lounge Employers are frustrated, according to Gen Y expert Nancy Barry.  On Wednesday, November 4, at Pandora’s Box, the author of When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates to Know, will discuss what ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/11/02/speaker-nancy-barry/ Tuesday, November 3 at 12:30pm Katy Cyber Lounge Growing up: How different is it on line? This week’s film looks at the divide between those of us who did not grow up with a mouse in our hand and our children who have. On Tuesday, November 3, Pandora’s Box Continuing ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/11/01/film-growing-up-online/ Wednesday October 28th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Flow investigates the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with a focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a potential world water cartel. Trailer for film: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9D4J0lag[/youtube] Registration for the free continuing education class is available right before the ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/26/film-flow/ Tuesday October 27th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Whale Wars follows “eco-pirates” as they hunt in icy Antarctic waters to stop by any means necessary Japanese “research” ships that hunt endangered whales and sharks for profit. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZV8wbx4BY[/youtube] Registration for this free continuing education class is available right before the class starts at ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/25/film-whale-wars/ Wednesday October 21 at 12:30p, Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Till Death Do Us Part serves as an after-the-trial defense for 13 California women sentenced to life in prison for murdering their spouses.  All victims of  "battered woman syndrome," they were unable to explain their actions before sentencing. Trailer for film: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopgksmP7pg[/youtube] Registration for this ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/19/film-till-death-do-us-part/ Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Backlash: Being Muslim in America explores the challenges Muslims have always faced fitting their religion into the American lifestyle and the new ones they have encountered since 9/11. The film explores: The History and Teachings of Islam Old Faith, New Prejudice Casting Recall — Examines Hollywood ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/18/film-backlash-911-being-muslim-in-america/ Wednesday October 14th, at 12:30pm   Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Money Driven Medicine offers a behind-the-scenes look at the $2.6 trillion, for-profit, largely unregulated U.S. healthcare system, how it went so terribly wrong, and what it will take to fix it. Trailer for the film: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE1TJyFeuuw[/youtube] For more information: Film website Registration for the free continuing ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/12/film-money-driven-medicine/ Note: This talk has been archived and will soon be on reserve in the library. Check back here for details. Tuesday October 13th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Dr. Roger Newman, of Columbia University, speaking on "Civil Liberties, Surveillance, and Terrorism." Registration for this free continuing education class is available right ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/11/speaker-dr-roger-newman/ Whose Youth is Hungrier: China’s, India’s or America’s? This Pandora’s Box Continuing Education Class  looks not at starvation, but the hunger for learning and achievement.  On Wednesday, October 7, the film and speaker series presents Two Million Minutes, an in-depth look at how China, India, and the U.S. prepare their students ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/05/film-two-million-minutes/ Guns in America: Why the Romance? Tuesday, October 6th at 12:30pm Katy Campus Cyber Lounge Is America’s fascination with firearms larger than the Second Amendment?  If so, why?  On Tuesday, October 6, Pandora’s Box Continuing Education Class presents the documentary Guns in America.  The National Geographic documentary ... http://commons.nwc.hccs.edu/pandora/2009/10/04/film-guns-in-america/