Why Stand Up? describes the ordeal of a community leader, pastor, teacher, Frank Smith, for his activities during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Frank Smith was threatened with death, and the bombing of his home as well as the church he pastored. He was fired from his teaching position and the family’s residential mailbox was shot. After fifteen years of persistence and acts of courage, he was reinstated to his teaching position with back pay. He noted that his grandfather and great grandfather were faced with dilemmas of their day. They had to decide weather to stand. Their decision was a legacy left for guidance and inspiration.
In this pocket biography, Sophia Cecelia Leveque introduces us to the founder of Transgender Day of Remembrance, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a modest, yet resilient trans activist in San Francisco, CA. Long form interviews between the author and Gwendolyn are the basis of this book."--Back cover.
Using a case study of the Trio indigenous peoples in Suriname, Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment presents an inside view of a community facing climate change and on the path toward sustainable development. Smith and Bastidas take the reader beyond an examination of examples from the field of practice and into a thorough case study on climate change. With more than ten years of field experience, Smith and Bastidas present an in-depth, bottom-up analysis of sustainable development, including tools for practitioners, insight for academics and advice to policymakers.
Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed—not within Black children—but in the way they are perceived and educated, particularly in reading, writing, and critical thinking across grade levels. To inform literacy teachers and school leaders, the authors provide a conceptual framework for reimagining literacy instruction based on Black philosophical and theoretical foundations, historical background, literacy research, and authentic experiences of Black students. This important book includes counternarratives about the lives of Black learners, research conducted by Black scholars among Black students, examples of approaches to literacy with Black children that are making a difference, conversations among literacy researchers that move beyond academia; and a model for engaging all students in literacy. Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies advocates for adopting a standard of care that will improve and support literacy achievement among today’s Black students by rejecting deficit presumptions and embracing the fullness of these students’ strengths. Book Features: A counternarrative of Black literacy history, lives, and learners. Narrative examples of Black literacy scholarship, by Black scholars who embrace their faith-walk as an integral part of their holistic approach to literacy teaching and learning.Discussion questions to spur conversations among school administrators, parents/caregivers, politicians, reading researchers, teacher educators, and classroom teachers. An array of extant Black scholarship that should inform literacy praxis and research. A conceptual framework, CARE, that is applicable for all learners with a focus on Black literacy learners.
Live a Peaceful, Powerful and Profitable Life No Matter What Despite Abusive Relationships, Grief and Loss, Disappointments or Difficult Set-backs, It's Possible to Heal Your Pain, be Happy and Fulfilled, and Build Your Life and Business Again The author shares her own personal journey of abuse in her early marriage and the discoveries that led to her healing and transformation. She shares tools she's successfully used with coaching clients. Use these tools to restore your power, self esteem and self-confidence and finally set yourself free. It all starts with self-discovery. Do You Truly Know Who You Are? The natural answer to this is "Of course I do!" But do you? You get to... Discover how the events in your past have stripped your self-love, and placed limitations on what's possible. Rid yourself of identity crises and self-esteem and self-confidence issues to live a powerful life; the one you were meant to live, while experiencing real happiness, peace and profits: true satisfaction. Have surprising insights about the hidden side of you that you didn't even know existed! Love yourself again. Identify What's Stopping You From Having All You Want Being able to overcome the emotional blocks to your success in life and business requires that you know what they are. You'll: Discover what they are and learn how to clear them. Heal emotional pain, get past abusive relationships and transform results in your business, life and relationships. Identify triggers and disempowering habits that lead to procrastination. Create a plan to overcome them once and for all. Know the cycles of your body's biggest productivity periods so you can have long-term endurance. Create the Exact Life and Business You Want Using Clear Steps When it comes to your success, you isolate the events in your life that could jumpstart having what you want. Create connections of events in your life by increasing your awareness; enhancing your success and transformation. Stop living a hum-drum life that's not meant for you. Gain clarity on what's most important to you and add spark back to your days. Learn how creating the right goals will create relevance in your life and therefore success and profits. This is SMART. Read up on what the research says are powerful factors to creating what you want and how you can make those work for you Discover What You Need to do to Breakthrough and Achieve What You Want Discover the framework, model, methods and tools outlined in this book that will give you a path to follow for the transformation you are seeking in your life and business. Take the Peace Power Profits ACT Breakthrough Success Survey and discover where you are and what you need to achieve breakthrough results. Identify the powerful forces that stop your goals and know what to do about them. Never be kept from achieving your goals again. Discover What You Are Doing, Or Not Doing, to Affect Your Results Now Ignorance is bliss. It's also unforgiving when it comes to manifesting what you want. Stop sabotaging your results, and learn to use meditation and energy techniques to increase your awareness and to get results. Transform your negative circumstance and have increased power over your day and how you feel If you've failed to make connections between events in your day-to-day living and your life results, including your business, this book will not only enlighten you but will help you heal and take you from broken to breakthrough. Scroll up and Grab your copy now!
The extensive selection of poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson that appears in Volume B is reprinted in this free supplement. Available for packaging with Volume C or the Volume C, D, and E package.
This poetry anthology, edited by Miranda Paul, explores a wide range of ways to be grateful (from gratitude for a puppy to gratitude for family to gratitude for the sky) with poems by a diverse group of contributors, including Joseph Bruchac, Margarita Engle, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Waters, and Jane Yolen.
Jobleen suffered low self esteem. She was the victim of physical abuse, molestation and rape. Her mental stability was unbalanced, which made her turn away from living a decent life. She turned to drugs and prostitution, left her baby with her mother so that she could roam the streets for as many days and nights as she chose to do. Her body resembled that of a skeleton. Matted hair, unclean and high she had a wake- up call and grew tired of her going nowhere lifestyle. One day she picked up her Bible and began to read the book of Job. She never knew why she was led to read it, she simply opened her Bible and it revealed Job. As she read she sought help and managed to walk from her past and into the future. She went cold turkey on her own and learned how to heal the moment she reached out to God. Her past life was painful. As a child she was abused and raped. As a young mother, her life was not good. Living in a negative situation, she was the blame for she knew she had to change. She was not focused on productivity, only on getting high and slumming around the street. She dared death to claim her, yet she made every possible attempt to increase her dare. Death became her partner, waiting on the moment she tripped up to claim her. One time too many with the needle she used to fill her body with heroin or smoke an eight ball of cocaine, would be deaths celebration. She failed to realize that she had to change for the benefit of her daughter Chasity, her grandson Cameron and herself. Twenty three years later, she was a productive woman who worked in her home, making floral designs she sold to various businesses. Her income was enough to help her maintain her home and personal finances. The only thing that was out of control was that she and her twenty-three year old daughter argued daily about the lack of her daughters inability to be a mother to her ten year old son, Cameron. Chasitys unstable lifestyle with her boyfriend Ricky, an ex-convict made matters worse. Rickys twenty-four- seven job, lined his pockets with all of the presidents every day from his black market porno and drug business. He photographed nude prostitutes in porn situations and sold them to an underground buyer, along with a hefty sale of drugs. He had it made with Chasity, so he thought until she realized that her mother was right about him all along. She, as her mother sought help to turn her life around and become the mother and daughter God intended for her to be. She judged her mother as being dysfunctional in her life as a child. Chasitys son Cameron, made her realize, she was also a dysfunctional mother with different circumstances.
The book explores the life and politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), a third generation Japanese American from Hawai'i, the first woman of color in Congress and the legislative champion of Title IX. Co-authored by her daughter, political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, and historian Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, this work discusses Mink's decades-long work for women's equality, civil rights, environmental humanism, and peace. The book considers Mink's policy and political commitments and contributions and explores how Mink's Pacific World view shaped her politics as a feminist, a civil rights advocate, an environmentalist, and a critic of U.S. militarism. From the late 19th century immigration story of Mink's forbears through Mink's early 21st century advocacy for social justice, this book offers new insights regarding intersectional legislative feminism and Pacific feminism, makes visible one woman's policy activism in the mainstream of U.S. politics, and brings much needed attention to a woman of color who profoundly shaped the politics of race, class, and gender in the second half of the 20th century"--
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