Features real-life stories of young people dealing with various financial and lifestyle scenarios, discussing banking and credit to investments, budgeting, insurance, and self-employment, and including personal financial advices from national financial advisors.
Battle-hardened World War II sergeant Joe Enders tries to maintain a professional distance when he is assigned to, protect Ben Yahzee, a young recruit fluent in the so-far unbreakable battlefield code based on the Navajo language--mindful of the unspoken order to kill Ben rather than let him be captured by the Japanese.
Presents three short dramas about love, betrayal, risk, courage, and prejudice in the lives of African-Americans, based on short stories by Richard Wright, John Henrik Clarke, and Maya Angelou.
Charlie is a small-time crook working his way up the ranks of the local mob. His friend Johnny Boy is a small-time gambler in debt to the loan sharks, and his family disapproves of his girlfriend due to her epilepsy.
Stories of five students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life that helped launch a movement to change the educational system.
Explains how the Internet and digital media have impacted major aspects of modern culture, discussing how digital technologies have changed the ways people work, learn, and socialize.
