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Wide Angle: Window into Global History

RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
Arduous March In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the Arduous March, a dark period of hardship and famine in recent North Korean history.	9-12	Video
Barshefsky Interview In this video from Wide Angle, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative in the Clinton Administration, discusses her views on economic change in China.	9-12	Video
Beijing Riviera This video from Wide Angle takes viewers to the Beijing Riviera, an exclusive gated community for elites who have access to luxury goods and services on an unprecedented scale.	9-12	Video
The Coffee Crisis This video from Wide Angle presents the efforts taken by the Ethiopian government to mitigate the impact of the 2008 global economic collapse, by calling upon the fledgling Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) to start trading coffee—the nation’s primary cash crop—before it is prepared to do so.	9-12	Video
Declining Profits In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the farmers of Vidarbha in central India who have seen a loss in profits due to the high cost of borrowing money and the low prices for their crops in a globalized market.	9-12	Video
Economic Boom In this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation.	9-12	Video
Extreme Global Makeover This lesson explores the pros and cons of life in a modernized and global age. (China, India)	9-12	Lesson Plan
Farmers in Peril In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.	9-12	Video
The Female Workforce Irish women discuss social and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
The High Cost of Progress Meet an activist who works to help the struggling farmers of rural India in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
The Moving Parts of a Market This video adapted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker" examines market reformers’ successful efforts to bring a modern commodity exchange to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, and the obstacles faced in gaining wider acceptance throughout the country.	9-12	Video
New Confidence This Wide Angle video looks at the reservations that a traditional Indian family had about their daughter taking a job in India’s outsourcing industry.	9-12	Video
A New Start for Urkada An Indian cotton farmer, widowed by the suicide of her husband, starts a new season on her farm in this video segment from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
New Worker Class In this Wide Angle video, Dwanzhi She, a "gold-collar" worker in Beijing, gives viewers a tour of his new apartment.	9-12	Video
Next Steps While the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) celebrate success, they still face massive challenges bringing the ECX to Ethiopia’s millions of poor subsistence farmers in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
One Nation: Two Futures? Showcasing the differing viewpoints of "haves" and "have-nots," this lesson covers economic and political shifts in China. (China)	9-12	Lesson Plan
Private Money Lenders The practices of illegal private money lenders in the rural region of Vidarbha, India are highlighted in this video from Wide Angle.	9-12	Video
Shopping Culture This video from Wide Angle provides a look at the new opportunities and consumerism created by the success of India’s outsourcing sector.	9-12	Video
Small Business This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda’s new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.	9-12	Video
Trading Up: Bringing Ethiopia’s Economy Into The 21st Century In this video from Wide Angle Ethiopian reformers create a new commodities exchange to modernize traditional approaches to trade.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Transformed Workplaces In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.	9-12	Video
The Value of a Girl In this video from Wide Angle, meet Santosh Kohli, a worker in India's BPO industry who hails from a family of modest means.	9-12	Video
Why Trade Matters An introduction to the challenges faced by the developing Ethiopian economy and the tragic consequences of its collapse in 1984, excerpted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker."	9-12	Video
Winning the Farmers' Trust This video from Wide Angle follows Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) market reformers as they attempt to win sesame farmers’ trust and get them to deposit their crops in ECX warehouses.	9-12	Video
Women Wanting to Work Examples from India and Israel frame the study of women negotiating entry into the economic arena. (India, Israel)	9-12	Lesson Plan
Work Abroad In this video segment from Wide Angle, Mary, a college educated Zimbabwean migrant, describes her life and work in Botswana.	9-12	Video