Download or read book Forty cent Tip written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these extraordinary black-and-white photographs and essays, students new to America present first-person stories of the working lives of immigrants from their New York City neighborhoods.
Download or read book Phony written by Andrea Stanfield and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I loved Phony! How I Faked My Way Through Life...because it is her true story of telling a lie in 1998 that got her hired by a Florida engineering firm's accounting department. She claimed to have a bachelors degree when, in truth, she only had a high school diploma. What followed was a very successful professional life because, despite her lack of college, she had smarts, native intelligence. As she made her way to another firm and up the corporate ladder, she eventually became the manager of the two largest financial districts in a firm. Still in her thirties, she oversaw twenty offices and forty employees. In the end, she just didn't want to live with the succession of lies required to justify her otherwise outstanding job performance. Today, she's a certified dog trainer and, I suspect, a lot happier.-Bookviews.comA striking and informative read and recommended for both business and general-interest collections.-The Bookwatch, MidwestBookReview.comIn 1998, Andrea Stanfield told a lie that became the foundation of her professional life. In an interview with the accounting department of a Florida engineering firm, she claimed, verbally and on paper, that she held a bachelors degree in business from a large midwestern university. In fact she had only a high school diploma. Through sheer moxie and impressive interviewing skills, she got the job, and eventually this lie became the steppingstone for a very successful professional life.This is the story of a liar, not a born liar but someone who as a young person full of ambition started taking shortcuts and realized she could get away with it. Blessed with native intelligence and the ability to think quickly on her feet, Andrea navigated her way through professional management circles and a series of salary increases. When the opportunity to move to another company arose, she took the chance of being caught and interviewed again. Faced with a background check, she compounded her previous deceptions by arranging for a very realistic but fake diploma. Once again, the lie worked and she went on to succeed in her new company as never before.Eventually, the girl with the high school diploma ended up as the manager of the two largest financial districts in the firm. Still in her early thirties, she oversaw twenty offices and forty employees, traveled frequently, became an adept public speaker and regional trainer, and was singled out for her leadership talent.In the end, the guilt of living under false pretenses took its toll. Part of her job involved advising employees in annual reviews to go back to school to advance their careers. How could she just look people in the eye and lie? What would she tell her growing daughter someday about the secret of her success?Part confessional, part morality play, this intriguing autobiographical tale of a white lie that snowballs into an avalanche is a warning to personnel managers, employers, and employees that people are not always all that they seem.Andrea Stanfield is the founder of a dog rescue group. Her previous positions included business manager and district administrative manager for two engineering firms
Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neil s written by Manny Hillman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-04-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an absence of almost fifty years, Larry looked for a cabaret that he had worked in as a waiter and found that it had been replaced by a parking lot. In his youth he was an innocent, aspiring writer, just out of college, looking for a place to work where hopefully he could obtain material for short stories. He found Neils, the cabaret, and talked his way into a job as a waiter despite the dangers and his slight appearance. Neils was a clip joint that was frequented mainly by servicemen and prostitutes. Larrys education removing him from navet began quickly. Larry describes his first meeting of prostitutes, an alcoholic man whose intoxication increased without even drinking the rum he had ordered, and encounters with servicemen who were benign and threatening. He also describes the musical entertainment provided by the cabaret that helped entice people to enter the place, women who came to Neils who may or may not have been prostitutes, army stories that some of the soldiers told him, a wedding in the cabaret, nights of fear, fights that he had to avoid, and a musician who had survived the second world war and dreamt some weird dreams. Incidents about Larrys non-cabaret life enter the narration, including his meeting the woman he married. Flo, an artist, would have supported him in his effort to write, but other matters intervened, and Larry had to wait almost fifty years to resurrect his notes and write his tale.
Download or read book Epoch written by Percy MacKaye and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography: v.2 p. CIV-CVII.
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Download or read book Hey Waitress written by Alison Owings and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Owings travelled the USA from border to border and coast to coast, to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work and their world.
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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Service Learning written by Cathryn Berger Kaye and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project-based guide is a blueprint for service learning—from getting started to assessing the experience—and integrates the K–12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. It provides ideas for incorporating literacy into service learning and suggestions for creating a culture of service. An award-winning treasury of activities, ideas, annotated book recommendations, author interviews, and expert essays—all presented within a curricular context and organized by theme. Digital Content contains all of the planning and tracking forms from the book plus bonus service learning plans, and more.
Download or read book Teaching for a Living Democracy written by Joshua Block and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy”supporting learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives and interests. The text offers project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Packed with student voices and the work of youth, this book provides a rich window into classroom practices that challenge authoritarian tendencies while cultivating dignity and agency. Book Features: Shares a vision of project-based inquiry learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change.Provides a pragmatic framework and tools to help teachers develop their practice in creative and sustainable ways.Shows how to support diverse learners, with a special focus on the experiences of students who struggle.Includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies. Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. “The author’s argument for a ‘living democracy’ is both timely and compelling, illuminated with a richly detailed and accessible account of what it has meant to co-create a curriculum and pedagogy with his diverse group of urban students. A pedagogical tour de force, this book is a must-read for all those who seek new images of what it means to strive for and embrace a truly transformational view of schools and schooling.” —Susan L. Lytle, Professor Emerita of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Download or read book The Eagle Strikes written by John P. Kincaid and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eagle Strikes weaves terrorism, conflict, libido, bigotry, technology, and suspense into a fact-filled fictitious novel. When The Eagle set his goal of Universal Freedom for all Mankind, he expected objection and misunderstanding, but he also knew people tired of accepting corruption in government as a way of life. A prominent and catastrophic event showing total lack of government control could easily incite rebellion. He would provide that event, and another step toward a second Golden Age of Freedom would be complete. An exceptionally well structured thriller, full of suspense, and believable. Both the climax and resolution are highly satisfying.
Download or read book Everyday Antiracism written by Mica Pollock and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which acts by educators are ''racist'' and which are ''antiracist''? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism leading educators deal with the most challenging questions about race in school, offering invaluable and effective advice. Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be ''racial,'' deal with racial inequality and ''diversity,'' and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the ''n-word'' to valuing students' home worlds, dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. Questions following each essay prompt readers to examine and discuss everyday issues of race and opportunity in their own classrooms and schools. For educators and parents determined to move beyond frustrations about race, Everyday Antiracism is an essential tool.
Download or read book Whir of Gold written by Sinclair Ross and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonny, an aspiring musician, and Mad, a young woman down on her luck, struggle to survive in the mean streets of Montreal. Introduction by Nat Hardy.
Download or read book Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution written by Agnes Smedley and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."
Download or read book Forgotten Friends written by Billy Guajardo and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: johnny will receive several calls from future customers and clients. one will consist of a missing dog. johnny will find her beloved pet. in return he will find the same dog to replace him with joy. a soldier missing for 80 years will talk his family through whispers and visions. for 35 years she will wonder about family that she never knew she had. something will find her and her me the psychic. together we will solve an 80-year-old secret. one that will force the dead to rise speak and want the world to know what happened in a village in France. to a team of soldiers that vanished in a fight with the enemy.
Download or read book The Young Folks Book of Ideals written by William Byron Forbush and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iberia written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
