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Book Prohibiting Certain Acts Involving the Use of Explosives

Download or read book Prohibiting Certain Acts Involving the Use of Explosives written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 4. Considers H.R. 15 and related bills, to prohibit the transportation and possession of dynamite to be used for the willful destruction of religious, educational, commercial, or residential property.

Book Dynamite Writing Ideas

Download or read book Dynamite Writing Ideas written by Melissa Forney and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a yearlong, standards-based workshop program for teaching writing to young students, presented in eleven steps; covers such areas as classroom preparation, the writing process, narrative, expository writing, assessment, and a year-end young authors' conference.

Book Be Kind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 1626723214
  • Pages : 37 pages

Download or read book Be Kind written by Pat Zietlow Miller and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.

Book A Is for Arson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Campbell F. Scribner
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-15
  • ISBN : 150177073X
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book A Is for Arson written by Campbell F. Scribner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between wantonness and reason. Property destruction is not simply a moral failing, to be addressed with harsher punishments, nor can the problem be solved through more restrictive architecture or policing. Scribner argues that education itself is a source of intractable struggle, and that vandalism is often the result of an unruly humanity. To understand schooling in the United States, one must first confront the all-too-human emotions that have led to fires, broken windows, and graffiti. A Is for Arson captures those emotions through new historical evidence and diverse theoretical perspectives, helping readers understand vandalism variously as a form of political conflict, as self-education, and as sheer chaos. By analyzing physical artifacts as well as archival sources, Scribner offers new perspectives on children's misbehavior and adults' reactions and allows readers to see the complexities of education—the built environment of teaching and learning, evolving approaches to youth psychology and student discipline—through the eyes of its often resistant subjects.

Book Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom

Download or read book Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom written by James S. Leonard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles on Twain's work expressing a broad range of critical perspectives and pedagogical methods, intended to address race, gender and class issues in the classroom.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1470 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Learning

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1042 pages

Download or read book Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riots  Civil and Criminal Disorders

Download or read book Riots Civil and Criminal Disorders written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Instructor

Download or read book Instructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mass Killers

    Book Details:
  • Author : David J. Krajicek
  • Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 1789504376
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Mass Killers written by David J. Krajicek and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you predict killing sprees? What do mass killers have in common? Why do so many of them write manifestos online and what do these tell us? These are some of the questions David J. Krajicek seeks to answer in Mass Killings, on a topic that is becoming increasing urgent and desperate. In recent decades, mass shootings worldwide have increased in their savagery and frequency. Nearly all mass killers are male - and many of them are bound together by misogyny, misanthropy, and racism. They do not just "snap." They plan their assaults for months or years, drawing up detailed battle plans, and accumulating weaponry. They document the process in journals or videos online, understanding that they are leaving evidence which will help the marquee lights of their futile crimes burn brighter and longer. Krajicek shows the commonalities between mass shooters, and describes the psychopathic process that leads these troubled men to commit atrocities. Mass killers feed off each other's words and deeds, and it's crucial to be able to read the signals they give out to prevent future tragedies.

Book From the New Deal to the War on Schools

Download or read book From the New Deal to the War on Schools written by Daniel S. Moak and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a set of punitive strategies for fixing it. Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoliberalism to find the origin of today's education woes in Great Society reforms. In the wake of World War II, a coalition of thinkers gained dominance in U.S. policymaking. They identified educational opportunity as the ideal means of addressing racial and economic inequality by incorporating individuals into a free market economy. The passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 secured an expansive federal commitment to this goal. However, when social problems failed to improve, the underlying logic led policymakers to hold schools responsible. Moak documents how a vision of education as a panacea for society's flaws led us to turn away from redistributive economic policies and down the path to market-based reforms, No Child Left Behind, mass school closures, teacher layoffs, and other policies that plague the public education system to this day.

Book Teaching Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judy Logan
  • Publisher : Kodansha USA
  • Release : 2010-08-10
  • ISBN : 1568363818
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Teaching Stories written by Judy Logan and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nearly everyone else is telling kids no—"No, do it this way….No, I don’t want to hear what you think….No, sit down and pay attention"—Judy Logan says yes, to a child’s passions, interests, and hopes. The results have been news-making; her students blossom academically, winning essay contests, prizes, and entrance to the country’s best colleges. Armed with a strong sense of who they are and what they think, her students also blossom personally—resisting peer pressure, understanding racial and gender stereotypes, and connecting to the world in which they live. Drawing on over thirty years "knee deep in adolescence" as a teacher in a public middle school, Judy Logan shows that it is the very vulnerability of adolescence that makes it a time of tremendous opportunity for emotional, intellectual, and social growth. Uniting creativity and compassion, Logan’s vivid classroom stories bring into focus for all parents numerous effective strategies for working with adolescents. Above all, Judy Logan is a compelling storyteller who loves and respects her students and the work of learning. Eye-opening and inspirational, the stories she has to tell take the simple human drama of day-to-day classroom life and create an all-embracing vision of the possibilities of public education in America.

Book Finding Hope in the Turbulent Classroom

Download or read book Finding Hope in the Turbulent Classroom written by Alan A. Block and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practical and psychological factors that regulate teaching and learning in the classroom, and illustrates how hope and creativity may arise out of unforeseen, non-standard, or turbulent conditions. Written at the intersection of curriculum theory and psychoanalysis, this volume offers an original pedagogical stance that seeks to ameliorate the impact of the classroom’s regulated and standardized environment. The author’s approach to classroom education suggests that teachers investigate students’ psychological entanglements to explain and transform difficult classroom experiences into productive, educative ones. By promoting an ethos of ironic engagement in teaching and learning, this book also demonstrates the importance of playfulness, imagination, and a readiness to make mistakes in classroom settings. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, and policy makers in the fields of curriculum studies, teacher education, educational psychology and classroom management.

Book The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse  Literature  and Film

Download or read book The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse Literature and Film written by Michael C. Frank and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations. Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence, the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Book Middle School Journal

Download or read book Middle School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wicked Deeds

    Book Details:
  • Author : James M. O'Kane
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781412841528
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Wicked Deeds written by James M. O'Kane and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most Americans, homicide appears to be a random act,one committed by a deranged and irrational killer in a haphazard, unpredictable manner. Murder is seen as a chaotic, disorganized act beyond the realm of reason. In Wicked Deeds, James O'Kane shows that homicide is actually rather predictable, and patterned with respect to its assailants and victims, the circumstances in which it takes place, the time and location where it occurs, and the motives which precipitate the murderous act. Engagingly written and solidly grounded in evidence, this is a definitive study of murder in the United States. O'Kane explores the phenomena of homicide, illustrating the journalists' "who, what, why, when, and where" of murder. He differentiates criminal homicide, such as murder in the first and second degree, from other types of killings, including legal and quasi-legal killings. These include suicide, abortion, accidental death, terrorism, and other non-criminal types of homicide, such as justifiable and excusable homicide. The author's focus is criminal homicide, and he uses age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status, as well as demographic data to explain ever-recurring patterns of murder in the United States. Wicked Deeds analyzes numerous categories of murder: intimate partner homicide, child and family murders, multiple victim killings, including mass murder and serial homicide. Each type of murder is illustrated by accounts of actual murders reported in the media and on internet sites. Approximately 200 cases illustrate the typical homicides as well as the bizarre ones. In portraying the patterns and regularities of murder in the United States, Wicked Deeds is an essential treatment of a subject too often given over to sensationalism. It will be of keen interest to professionals and students of criminal justice, as well as those interested in American culture and the general reader who wants to grasp the patterns underlying the headlines.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: