Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" (Matthew 6:25, NIV) This is my birth verse, June 25. Sentiments is a compilation of essays written about the people I respect, admire, and love. It is an outflow of Matthew 6:25. We swim in a whirlpool of negative thoughts and emotions. Surrendering to God's will in our lives is crucial for our spiritual development. Think of Sentiments as an attitude colored by feeling or emotion. I invite you to read these essays and my intention is to uplift, inspire, and motivate you to engage with others and form a chain of hope that cannot be broken. About the Author Paula Nelson grew up in South Philadelphia and has remained a lifelong resident. She is an only child and attended Catholic school for twelve years. Having worked as a legal secretary for most of her working life, Paula retired in 2012 and has been enjoying her retirement since. In 2009, Paula met her husband, Frank Richetti, at church. They married in 2010. The couple shares many interests, including music, reaching out to people who are questioning their abilities, and having friends over for meals. They share a happy marriage while enjoying life to its fullest. Writing has been Paula's passion for her entire life. She has written poems and essays, and now, she has the opportunity to share a compilation of them with you.
Nelson (history, U. of Wisconsin-Platteville) provides a fascinating economic and social history of South Dakota's west river country, beginning with the collapse of the agricultural economy in the early 1920s, through the 1930s, largely told through the settlers' own words. A few bandw photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A groundbreaking, inspiring book for businesses, managers, and individuals on how to achieve the absolute best by focusing on strengths and steering away from weaknesses, this revolutionary, humanistic approach to business will transform companies, build careers, and change lives.
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Rites of Passage ceremonies are not new, but they symbolize the beginning of a new life phase-the transition from childhood to adulthood. Many of our children today are confused about which group they belong in and what behaviors are appropriate.Sankofa: Look to Your Past Forgotten Heritage speaks to the frequently ignored need for guidance, purpose, and encouragement for African-American youth. Paula Penn-Nabrit describes an easily adaptable approach to guiding African-American male adolescents through the process toward true, holistically healthy manhood.Like Rites of Passage, Sankofa is not new. It was originally published in 1995. Charles and Damon, the 13 year-old participants in the rite of passage recounted are now holistically healthy, 37 year-old African-American men. The process proved impactful enough in their lives to warrant a reissue of the book. #StillTimely
The goal of the small-by-design high school reform movement is to personalize learning and increase academic rigor for all students by reducing the size of the school. As a result, school districts across the nation are restructuring their large, urban high schools into various forms of small schools and "smaller learning communities" in an attempt to ensure that all students receive a high school diploma and are ready for post-secondary education or vocational training and success in the 21st Century. However, the small-by-design school reform movement faces many challenges. Leadership styles and work processes designed to accommodate the needs of students in large comprehensive high schools have become increasingly bureaucratic. The sheer size of many urban high schools compels administrators and teachers to rely on hierarchies of leadership, curricular standardization, rigid policies, and systems of sorting students to mass educate heterogeneous populations of children in urban areas. School and district administrators have been trained in the tradition of these rigidly organized schools and have an expectation that, by restructuring a large school into several small ones, they can garner the academic and social benefits of smaller schools, while at the same time maintain the organizational and leadership styles of the big, comprehensive high school. Unfortunately, these bureaucratic and communal modes of operation create dramatically opposing cultures that pose a significant barrier to the success and sustainability of newly created small schools on converted campuses. To examine the phenomenon of these opposing cultures, this qualitative study used interview, observation, and document review to develop a case study of a highly autonomous small school existing on high school campus restructured into five separate small schools. To help deepen the understanding of case study findings, interview data was also collected from autonomous conversion-site small school principals across the western coast of the United States. Findings revealed that embedded teacher, administrator, district, and community norms and expectations created tension between the work processes in small school and those for the campus at large, despite each site's professed autonomy as a stand-alone small school on the campus. This tendency toward campus-wide norms broke down the cohesion of the small schools, hindered the development of small school culture, stalled attempts to change instructional practice, and threatened the viability of the reform. Based on these findings, the study offers small school reform leaders suggestions for maintaining small school culture and cohesion despite the pressure of campus-wide norms.
Artist Paula Hayes is most famous for her exquisite, high-end art terrariums of organically shaped, handblown glass, but her affinity for all things green extends to full gardens as well. She has created over twenty full gardens for private clients around the country. This volume, the first monograph on her work, is structured in a two-part format that devotes equal attention to both. A fixture of the New York art scene for over twenty years, Paula Hayes's popularity among art collectors and the public has swelled dramatically over the past few. Her installation in the lobby of MoMA, Nocturne of the Limax Maximus, garnered much critical acclaim and landed her a feature on CBS Sunday Morning. She installed an oversized terrarium in the lobby of Lever House in New York City, and a solo exhibition on her work was held at the Wexler Art Center in Columbus, Ohio, where she also installed a permanent garden adjacent to the museum's main entrance.
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