Download or read book Fifty Two Snapshots written by Sonja Livingston and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people want to write their memoirs or family stories but have no idea how or where to begin. Award-winning memoirist, Sonja Livingston, uses her years of experience as a writer and teacher to help you jumpstart your writing project. This series of 52 writing prompts, one per week, is designed to get you going, one short "snapshot" at a time. This booklet is made up of exercises designed to guide you as you begin to mine the stories that only you can write.

Download or read book Ghostbread written by Sonja Livingston and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of growing up poor and hungry in 1970s western New York: “Like an American version of Angela’s Ashes.”—Kathleen Norris, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something better. Along the way, the young Sonja observes the harsh realities her family encounters, as well as small moments of transcendent beauty that somehow keep them going. While struggling to make sense of her world, Livingston perceives the stresses and patterns that keep children—girls in particular—trapped in the cycle of poverty. Informed by cultural experiences such as Livington’s love for Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew and her experiences with the Girl Scouts and Roman Catholicism, this lyrical memoir firmly eschews sentimentality, offering instead a meditation on what it means to hunger and showing that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down. “[A]n absolutely astonishing debut…harrowing and hilarious.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You “Livingston reveals the daily challenges poverty-stricken young children face.”—Booklist “Weaves together a child’s experience of not belonging, the perilous ease of slipping into failure, and the deep love that can flow from even a highly troubled parent.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of The Accidental Buddhist

Download or read book Parent Talk written by Cheli Cerra and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have book for all parents! Parent Talk! provides practical advice to help parents communicate with their child and their child's school, featuring an easy, fast-moving format with sample role-playing situations, parent-to-parent tips, sample letters, and checklists to help you stay on track. Authors Cheli Cerra and Ruth Jacoby identify 52 common school situations and offer expert guidance based on their experiences as parents and school principals. Do you want to: * Be comfortable when speaking with your child's teacher? * Know exactly what to do if your child is failing? * Know exactly what to say at parent conferences? * Learn how to deal with a variety of school issues? If you answered yes, then Parent Talk! is the book you need. Never be at a loss for words again with the teacher, the school administrator, or your child! "Cheli Cerra and Ruth Jacoby have written what is arguably the most comprehensive guide for parents in education today. Conscientious parents across the board will benefit from their wise perspective, gained from a combined fifty-plus years on the front line in education. Parent Talk! helps put parents back into the schools with confidence!" --Carolina Fernandez Author of ROCKET MOM!: 7 Strategies to Blast You into Brilliance

Download or read book Snapshot Stories written by Erika Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign photographers often still focused on the image ofIreland as bucolic rural landscape, Irish photographers - snapshotter and professional alike - were creating and curating photographs which revealed more complex and diverse images of Ireland. Snapshot Stories explores these stories.Erika Hanna examines a diverse array of photographic sources, including family photograph albums, studio portraits, the work of photography clubs and community photography initiatives, alongside the output of those who took their cameras into the streets to record violence and poverty. The volumeshows how Irish men and women used photography in order to explore their sense of self and society and examines how we can use these images to fill in the details of Ireland's social history. By exploring this rich array of sources, Snapshot Stories asks what it means to see-to look, to gaze, toglance-in modern Ireland, and explores how conflicts regarding vision and visuality have repeatedly been at the centre of Irish life.

Download or read book Hidden History of Cleveland written by Christopher Busta-Peck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the rich past and local landmarks of this uniquely American city—includes numerous photos. Too often, we think of history as something that happens elsewhere. In reality, it surrounds us—in our hometowns and everywhere we travel. In this book, local history preservationist Christopher Busta-Peck unearths fascinating and forgotten aspects of Cleveland, Ohio’s past. Take a trip down East 100th Street to the home where Jesse Owens lived when he shocked the world at the 1936 Olympics. Ascend the stairs to Langston Hughes’s attic apartment on East 86th, where the influential writer lived alone during his formative sophomore and junior years of high school. From the massive Brown Hoist Building and the Hulett ore unloaders to some of the oldest surviving structures in Cleveland, Busta-Peck, of the wildly popular Cleveland Area History blog, has Clevelanders and visitors rediscovering the city’s compelling past.

Download or read book Cleavages Institutions and Competition written by Vincenzo Emanuele and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of how party systems are structured across territorial lines is a crucial research question for political scientists, whose answer is fraught with consequences for the political system and the democratic process. This book addresses this topic and raises the following questions. What has been the evolution of the vote nationalization process in Western Europe during the last fifty years? Which factors can account for the vote nationalization's variance across Western European party system? Through a macro-comparative perspective and an original empirical research, involving 230 parliamentary elections occurred in sixteen countries during the 1965-2015 period, this book provides answers to these questions. It analyses the evolution of vote nationalization in Western European party systems over the last fifty years and looks for an explanation. The result is a far-reaching understanding of the macro-constellation of factors involved in the process, including macro-sociological, institutional, and competition determinants.

Download or read book The Familial Gaze written by Marianne Hirsch and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary artists, writers, and theorists challenge standard interpretations of family photographs.

Download or read book Before Command written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the administrative command system. By drawing on basic economic statistics from 1861 to the 1930s, Gregory's revisionist account debunks a number of myths promulgated by historians in both the East and the West. He demonstrates that the Russian economy under the tsars performed much better than has previously been supposed; the Russian economy and its financial institutions were integrated into the world economy, allowing Russia to attract significant foreign capital. Furthermore, he shows that Stalin's justifications for the abandonment of the New Economic Policy in the late 1920s were incorrect: the so-called crises of NEP were either fabricated or the result of misguided economic thinking. Before Command is the culmination of the author's lifelong study of the economic history of Russia and the Soviet Union. In convincing detail it describes little-known Russian and Soviet successes with market capitalism, while it also shows the problems inherent in a mixed system, such as the NEP, which seeks to combine very strong elements of command with market resource allocation. Originally published in 1994. 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.

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Download or read book Fifty Days of Solitude written by Doris Grumbach and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: To truly understand herself, Doris Grumbach embraces solitude With a busy career as a novelist, essayist, reviewer, and bookstore owner, Doris Grumbach has little opportunity to be alone. However, after seventy-five years on the planet, she finally has her chance: Her partner has departed for an extended book-buying trip, and Grumbach has been given fifty days to relax, think, and write about her experience. In this graceful memoir, Grumbach delicately balances the beauty of turning one’s back on everything with the hardship of complete aloneness. Even as she attends church and collects her mail, she moves like a shadow, speaking to no one. Left only to her books and music in the midst of a Maine winter, she must look within herself for solace. The result of this reflection is a powerful meditation on the meaning of aging, writing, and one’s own company—and reaffirmation of the power of friends and companionship.

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Download or read book Principal Talk written by Cheli Cerra and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have book for all principals! Principal Talk! provides 52 practical and useful scenarios to implement communication with teachers, parents, students, staff, and the community. Keep your cool and soar to new heights with insightful tips, worksheets, checklists, and sample letters for leadership success. Are you concerned about: Maintaining and sustaining a high caliber of student achievement? Communicating the school's successes in a positive way? Establishing credibility in the community? Promoting and maintaining a safe and positive learning environment? If you answered yes, then Principal Talk! is the book you need. For aspiring as well as veteran principals, this no-nonsense book summarizes how to be an educational leader and advocate in today's educational environment. "Principal Talk! provides simple communication strategies and advice to keep teachers, students, parents, staff and the community in your corner. A must-read for today's educational leader to be successful in today's reform climate." —Jack Canfield Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul

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