Download or read book Learning from the Left written by Julia L. Mickenberg and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book Learning on the Left written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the university have made exceptional contributions to myriad disciplines, but they have played a surprising formidable role in American politics. Stephen J. Whitfield makes the case for the pertinence of Brandeis University in understanding the vicissitudes of American liberalism since the mid-twentieth century. Founded to serve as a refuge for qualified professors and students haunted by academic antisemitism, Brandeis University attracted those who generally envisioned the republic as worthy of betterment. Whether as liberals or as radicals, figures associated with the university typically adopted a critical stance toward American society and sometimes acted upon their reformist or militant beliefs. This volume is not an institutional history, but instead shows how one university, over the course of seven decades, employed and taught remarkable men and women who belong in our accounts of the evolution of American politics, especially on the left. In vivid prose, Whitfield invites readers to appreciate a singular case of the linkage of political influence with the fate of a particular university in modern America.

Download or read book Can the Left Learn to Meme written by Mike Watson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking in an array of cultural references from the contemporary art world, to cat memes, Stranger Things, the Kardashian-Jenners, Mad Men, Run the Jewels, and video gaming, Can the Left Learn to Meme? argues that there is positivity in millennial-era cultural production. Utilising Adorno’s unswerving yet understated hope in spite of the odds, Mike Watson embraces the abstraction of the new media landscape as millennials refuse to surrender to cynicism, by out-weirding even the world at large. They pose a radical alternative to the right wing approach of Steve Bannon and the conservative psychology of Jordan Peterson. Here, the cultural elitism of the art world is contrasted with the anything-goes approach of millennial culture. The left avant-garde dream of an art-for-all is with us, though you won't find it in museums. It is time the left learned to meme, challenging conventions along the way.

Download or read book Learning the Left written by Paul J. Ramsey and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning the Left examines the ways in which young people and adults learned (and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States through the popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This collection of essays foregrounds mass culture as an educational site; it is hoped that this focus on the history of the civic functions of the popular media and arts will begin a much-needed conversation among a variety of scholars, notably historians of education.

Download or read book Left Alone to Learn the Break Up Book written by Michael Vineberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are here because you are in a lot of pain. Your heart has been broken into a million pieces and the person that you love is gone. This is a really hard place to be and nobody wants to be here. The book starts where you are, as the author documents the experience of being left by his wife. Then it blazes a path to help you through the process of solitude, discovery, and healing. The book is simple, straightforward, and full of vulnerability and honesty. It skips the arrogant and condescending nature of many self-help books, and instead speaks from the heart. Mr. Vineberg imbues the text with his heart and soul, sharing hard-earned wisdom that stems from his own introspection and suffering. Left Alone to Learn is about love, respect, and intimate relationships. It offers essential insights into the nature of human interactions. It fortifies your spirit and soothes your heartache. It is direct and to the point, and most importantly - it works!

Download or read book An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language Learn to Hear What s Left Unsaid Bad Arguments written by Ali Almossawi and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today’s culture wars.”—Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return with this desperately timely guide to how words can trick us. Learn to “hear” hidden bias, slant, and spin—from an irresistible cast of woodland creatures! Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid. Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric—aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant adjectives cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn’t naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse’s roof becomes flattened (Elephant’s foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . . Fans of Almossawi’s An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn’t ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what’s left unsaid—but when you’re a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.

Download or read book Learning from No Child Left Behind written by John E. Chubb and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, writing on behalf of Hoover's Koret task Force on K&–12 Education, presents a convincing case that, despite the controversy it has ignited, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law is making a positive difference and should be renewed. He outlines ten specific lessons and recommendations that identify the strengths and weaknesses of NCLB and offers suggestions for improving the law, building on its current foundation.

Download or read book Left to Our Own Devices written by Margaret E. Morris and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.

Download or read book Learning Right from Wong Wrong Woke Left written by Chris Stokes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with a hint of 'larrikinism' this book discusses the raging battle between left and right that has engulfed the free world. In a technology-driven world, being time poor and confronting massive rises in the cost of living, society has been pounded into submission by three life-changing events simultaneously. Climate change, the covid-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd have taken the world and its globilised village to the edge of a precipice. Should it topple over due to an economic collapse or the rise of China, life as we know it will be irreversibly changed. How we deal with this calamity before us all, depends on our individual knowledge of and respect for socialism and capitalism. There has never been a more important time to know the differences between left and right, how these features got us to today, and how they can help us tomorrow. If the task before humankind all wasn't hard enough, we all have to contend with wokeness and a derangement within certain sections of the community. Who said "life wasn't meant to be easy."

Download or read book Left to My Own Devices Learner Autonomy and Mobile Assisted Language Learning written by Javier Díaz-Vera and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of five years of intensive dedication to teaching innovation and curriculum development and offers a series of studies exploring how mobile technologies in particular, and mobile learning in general, may be used for second language teaching and learning in a wide variety of environments. Although a strong emphasis is laid on issues to do with autonomy and independence in second language acquisition, the volume also examines the connections and interrelations of mobile learning and second language teaching and learning process on the whole, as well as the process of adoption of new, mobile technologies as teaching tools in various communities across the globe. The volume is targeted at a broad spectrum of readers including academics in the field of e-learning, online learning, and ICT-based learning, with an interest in exploring the possibilities of mobile-assisted learning and the new developments of ICT—in particular, portable devices—for the foreign language classroom. It is most attractive to those interested in the emerging field of mobile-assisted learning in general, and its potential for foreign language teaching and learning in particular.

Download or read book Learning Cursive written by Diana Hanbury King and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Left Right Emma written by Stuart J. Murphy and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left and right are so easy to mix up! This installment of the I See I Learn® visual learning series uses easy-to-follow diagrams and helpful tips wrapped in a warm, charming story to teach youngsters these directional basics. Emma loves to march around her house and is excited to lead a march at school. But Emma first needs to learn to tell her left from her right. Emma's friends and Miss Cathy are ready to help. Part of the sixteen book I SEE I LEARN® series for happier, healthier, more confident children!

Download or read book Left Wing Melancholia written by Enzo Traverso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.

Download or read book Preschool Number Writing 1 10 Left Handed Kids Ages 3 written by Sachin Sachdeva and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning is tough for kids, and if they are Left Handed - the practice required is even more. Languages that are written left-to-right, like English and all other common languages, are physically challenging to write for the left handed. And if a left-handed child is not taught how to write correctly, the child may develop messy form of writing that will stay with them even when they grow adult. This is a PERFECT Preschool Writing Workbook with Coloring and Activity pages for Left Handed kids aging 3 and above, who want to learn numbers and improve their writing skills. The pages will help kids recognize numbers, practice and perfect writing them. The book will be very helpful in Early learning / Home Learning. Highlights of the Book: 1. The Writing direction guides will help parents and kids follow the right format of writing numbers and thereby enhance their writing. Full page of number writing practice for each letter will ensure kids have enough to master the same. 2. 10 pages of Handwriting practice for the little hands, with initial letters as trace and write than enough lines and space to practice themselves. 3. 10 Coloring pages, one against each letter writing page ensures to keep the kids encouraged and engaged as they progress their learning of numbers. These pages will not only help kids recognize the Number but also count the exact number of objects and hence master the skill of these numbers. 4. Bonus 10 Activity Worksheets will not only retain kids' interest and motivate them but with Parent's rating these will ensure learning in the right direction. Overall it is the perfect Tool for Home learning or Pre-schooling kids on Number Writing. About the Author: Prachi Dewan Sachdeva and Sachin Sachdeva are in the education field since 2002 and with a daughter aged 9 have faced many challenges involved in parenthood and early education, so now we have decided to help parents and teachers around with early learning of the kids and how to make it easy and fun. All our books will be dedicated to early childhood learning's in the most approachable way.

Download or read book Left to Tell written by Immaculee Ilibagiza and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.

Download or read book Full on Learning written by Zoe Elder and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The start point is your end-point: the learner. What kind of learner do you want to develop? What are the characteristics of an effective learner and how can we teach to support the development of these characteristics? If future employers are looking for people who can solve problems, think creatively and be innovative, what can we do, as part of our current curriculum provision to enable students to 'deliberately' practise this skill? If being intelligent is not, in fact, measured by your IQ score, and has far more to do with the ability to apply higher order thinking to unfamiliar contexts and create new solutions to existing problems, then what learning challenges can we design for Year 9 on a sunny Wednesday afternoon that will allow them to develop the emotional and intellectual resilience required to be able to do this? Full On Learning offers a range of tried & tested practical suggestions and ideas to construct the ideal conditions for the characteristics of effective learners to flourish. Shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards 2013, Secondary Resource - non ICT category and Educational Book Award category.

Download or read book Learning to Leave written by Lynette Triere and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now completely updated, this informative, comprehensive guide teaches women how to get through divorce. Covers dealing with anger, fear and other emotions; choosing a lawyer; talking to husbands; helping children through the situation; reviewing employment opportunities; and more. "An effective, realistic assessment . . . highly recommended".--Library Journal.