The madness of ivy basketball takes the reader through the epic 2023-2024 basketball season, Ivy Madness and the NCAA Tournament. There is a focus on all the teams of the Ancient Eight, Xavian Lee, Caden Pierce and Bez Mbeng. Much is said about the internal turmoil in the ivy league regarding topics which are impacted by the changing landscape of college athletics, which include, but are not limited to, NIL, unionization and the House case.
Writing centers are places where writers work with each other in an effort to develop ideas, discover a thesis, overcome procrastination, create an outline, or revise a draft. Ultimately, writing centers help students become more effective writers. Visit any college or university in the United States and chances are there is a writing center available to students, staff, and community members. A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 6-12 is a how-to and, ultimately, a why-to book for middle school and high school educators as well as for English/language arts teacher candidates and their methods instructors. Writing centers support students and their busy teachers while emphasizing and supporting writing across the curriculum.
This book is a religious history of MOVE, a small, mostly African American religious group devoted to the religious teachings of John Africa that emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. MOVE is perhaps best known for the MOVE Bombing. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department-working in concert with federal and state law enforcement-attacked a home that MOVE people shared in West Philadelphia with hundreds of police officers and firefighters, tear gas, ten thousand rounds of ammunition, and improvised explosives. Most infamously, a police officer dropped a bomb containing C-4 explosives, which he had acquired from the FBI, from a helicopter onto the roof of the MOVE house. The bomb started a fire, which officials allowed to spread in hopes of burning MOVE people out of the house. Police officers fired upon MOVE people who tried to escape the flames. Eleven MOVE people died in the attack, including John Africa. Five of those who died were children. Based on never-before-seen law enforcement records and extensive archival and ethnographic research, MOVE: An American Religion reinterprets the history of MOVE from its origins in the late 1960s, its growth in the early 1970s, its conflicts with the United States government from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, and its presence today. It is the first full-length academic study of MOVE since 1994 and is the first book to consider MOVE as a religion"--
This notebook is for the soccer team that seeks the next level. Based on the training logs, notebooks, and journals of Olympians and other world-class athletes, the Team Notebook provides a wide variety of reflective activities that can ultimately optimize a team's and athlete's performance. The notebook includes a season's worth of athletic writing prompts, in-season reflections, competition analyses, injury rehabilitation forms, and note pages. This notebook is a companion book to Writing on the Bus: Using Athletic Team Notebooks and Journals to Advance Learning and Performance in Sports.
There are approximately one hundred eighty eight words in the English language that have another way of spelling the word, different meanings, and are pronounced identically the same to its counter part or counter parts. This is why so many individuals who have English as their second language can really become confused. Then there are about twenty two words that are spelled exactly the same, yet pronounced differently and also have different meanings. Should a writer scribe “dove”, is that person implying a noun, or a verb? This publication addresses this issue. The some 188 words are displayed with their counter part or parts including a definition of each and inserted into a sentence that uses these same pronounced words. Hopefully this work will help the many who are somewhat confused when reading the English language, or trying to convey a thought that makes sense to someone who is very knowledgeable of the English language. There is a lot of humor and instructors who use this book will see the humor in it and will allow their imagination to take over for expanding definitions. Thus, allowing the student to walk away less confused and more confident.
his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich
Words for a Mountain by Richard Kent is a collection of essays, poems, and photographs that celebrate a small-town ski area, its community, and a way of life in the wintertime. In the late 1800's, Scandinavian papermakers introduced skiing to western Maine's River Valley around the towns of Rumford and Mexico. In 1960, the venerable Chisholm Ski Club purchased Black Mountain to create Chisholm Winter Ski Park. The ski area at Black Mountain has undergone several name changes and ownership agreements, but through good times and lean times, this mountain has always reflected the spirit of community and a love affair with winter sports. In 2013, Black Mountain lost funding and faced closure. When word spread, the Mountain's faithful, from local neighborhoods and around the world, rallied to raise enough money keep the community area open for the next season. *Profits from the sale of this book support Black Mountain.*
The Arising Voice series takes the events and situations found in each of our everyday lives, and then powerfully relates them to God's word. The Arising Voice helps teach how to apply God's word to those events and situations. Each volume is packed full of thought provoking Christian living and discipleship articles that are sure to take your journey of faith to the next level. Use them as topic starters for your Bible study group, or for your own personal devotion and learning time. The Arising Voice is written in a manner that anyone, novice or advanced can fully understand and grasp. Each article describes just how God feels about each subject and how we can work to please God and live a more devoted life for Jesus and yet still live in the modern world. The Arising Voice delivers a powerful message to its readers thru 500 to 1000 word articles that will inspire you to learn daily just what the Lord expects from each of his followers. Whether you take your time and read one article a day or one per week in a local study, what you take out of each article will carry with you where ever you go. Be prepared to take your journey of faith to a whole new level.
Inspirations of the Spirit is a fantastic book for study groups and for your own personal daily devotion times. The book uses 500 to 1000 word articles to teach how to apply God's word to each of our everyday Christian lives, and situations.The articles center around Christian living and Christian Discipleship. Don't struggle to find a topic for your Christian discussions anymore. All articles are written in a manner that anyone, novice or advanced student can understand and grasp, yet still be challenged. Filled with over 52 full length articles concerning Christian living and discipleship.You will have more than enough for a new challenging and inspiring topic each week without struggling. Either read the articles as a group or read them in your own personal time and then create your own study from the ideas the articles give you.
This is a workbook for individual athletes or entire teams to help organize and optimize athletic performance.... Published in cooperation with the National Writing Project, The Athlete's Workbook provides serious athletes and dedicated coaches with a toolkit for success. Based on the training logs, notebooks, and journals of Olympians and other world-class athletes, The Athlete's Workbook presents a variety of reflective activities that can ultimately optimize an athlete's performance. The workbook includes training logs, athletic writing prompts, in-season reflections, competition analyses, injury rehabilitation forms, and note pages. Individual athletes and full teams seeking the next level of performance will benefit from using The Athlete's Workbook.
Kent Jennings and Richard Nieini arc recognized widely for their 1965 study of the development of political attitudes and behavior among a large, nationally representative sample of high school seniors and their parents (The Political Character of Adolescence, Princeton). Now they present the results of a follow-up study of these same individuals in 1973 along with a fresh study of 1973 high school seniors. Spanning a dramatic eight-year historical period and an important transitional phase in the life cycle of the younger generation, this material provides a unique opportunity to assess the development of political attitudes and participation. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
This “100th” Birthday Edition” tells the story of Jimmy's family history, his recordings, awards, official appointments and more. And, at last in one place is the story of the historic Rackensack Folklore Society, Arkansas Folk Festival, Ozark Folk Center, Blanchard Springs Caverns, Buffalo National River and the Jimmy Driftwood Barn. 6 x 9 Version of book previously published 8-1/2 x 11 format
UConn was a fledging women's basketball program that had been to one Final Four as of 1995. Tennessee was the king of the hill having won 7 National Championships and having produced some of the greatest women's players of all time. Pat Summitt was and is the head coach and is widely considered to be one of the top coaches in women's or men's college basketball history. In fact, she turned down the Tennessee head men's coaching job. She agreed to play Geno Auriemma and UConn in 1995 in an epic battle in Storrs, CT. UConn won that game and won the National Championship that year and off and running was the series. It has produced as much if not more drama than Red Sox-Yankees, Cowboys-Giants and Knicks-Celtics. It has been compared to Carolina-Duke on the men's side. It is certainly produced more National Championships than both of those schools. "What Duke and North Carolina represent in men's college basketball, UConn and Tennessee represent in women's college basketball, the greatest rivalry in the game. Two teams that when pinned against one another in 1995 for the National Championship changed the sport of women's college basketball forever. The cast of characters from the polarized Hall of Fame coaches to the all-American icons have raised the bar, the talent and the media awareness at the national level. Although the characters change from year to year, the national fever of this matchup continues to grow. It is an ongoing saga that defines women's basketball and encapsulates all that is good and possible about athletic competition. Any young player should read this book and understand that without these teams, these coaches, these players, we would be watching women's basketball exclusively in March at the Final Four." Colleen Healey, former UConn women's basketball player.
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