Download or read book Marilyn Wants to Know After High School What written by United States. Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miss America by Day written by Marilyn Van Derbur and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Won the prestigious Writer's Digest award. 1,900 books entered the national competition, Miss America by Day won first place in the "Most Inspirational Book" category. In this award winning book, former Miss America, Marilyn Van Derbur, describes, in detail, her healing process after 13 years of incest. "I wrote the book, not because I want someone to learn more about me but so readers can learn more about themselves. And so that loved ones can better understand the brutal recovery process and never again say, "just get over it." The pain ends, I promise . . . IF you do the 'work' of healing. A loving, long-term relationship and grounded well, adjusted children await you. A judge for the Writers Digest book competition wrote: "Seldom as a judge have I wanted to read the entire book but I devoured every word of this riveting story... Told with stark honesty and vivid details that were so important in ridding herself of the pain, torment and shame..." Anyone who knew Marilyn Van Derbur as a child and young adult believed she had it all -- a loving family, a beautiful home, an active social life. But beneath the surface, Van Derbur was a troubled young woman who lived through horrific panic attacks and excruciating physical pain every day of her adult life. Starting when she was just a child of five, she was sexually abused by her father until she turned 18. Van Derbur uses the term "incested," eschewing the more vanilla terms of "molestation" or "abuse." As a student and young adult, Van Derbur was an overachiever with an unconscious need to stay very busy. She realizes now this was a coping mechanism to keep her two worlds separated-the "night child" who suffered at the hands of her father and the "day child" who was happy and outgoing. After being named valedictorian of her high school class, she went on to college. Persuaded to enter a local beauty pageant, she ultimately was crowned Miss America. Ignoring the sheer terror she felt at the prospect of speaking in front of others, Van Derbur went on to become a highly successful motivational speaker. She writes of her endless need to be respected by others, all the while believing that if others really knew who she was, they would hate her and look at her with disdain and disgust. The perfectly poised mask she showed the outside world was a far cry from the tortured, panic-stricken, anxious woman within. The shame she felt within was a constant in her life, reminding her that she was "unworthy." When a newspaper reporter learned of her story, Van Derbur's private shame became front-page news. Then she landed on the cover of People magazine. Soon incest survivors from around the country were reaching out to her, desperate to tell someone what had happened to them. It became instantly clear that her new role in life was to help others who had suffered incest and to help teach everyone how to make sure their children are safe from predators.

Download or read book Girls and Women s Occupations written by Louise Moore and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everything I Never Told You written by Celeste Ng and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Download or read book The Class written by Ken Dryden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller, The Class is a riveting and personal book from Ken Dryden. On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.” They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since. Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities. When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for? Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids. This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.

Download or read book Marital Affairs written by Sharleen Cooper Cohen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa and Jason Greene had the perfect life. She was a talented and beautiful actress who gave up her career to raise their children and keep their home. He was an ambitious-driven entrepreneur. Everything they touched was charmed, except their marriage. With each step up the ladder of success, they grew farther apart. And Jason needs her more than he can admit as he fights his own monsters of unbridled passion and erotic desires. These forces are so strong that their love is eventually put to the test when he succumbs to infidelity. Lisa fights back the only way possible. But when tragedy strikes, they must build a new love out of a crumbling foundation. Can this love transcend family scars, dashed ambitions, broken promises, and marital affairs? Marital Affairs is a powerful and compelling story of the complex world of modern marriage and the extraordinary resilience of true love.

Download or read book Vocational Education Bulletin written by United States. Division of Vocational Education and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reading with Presence written by Marilyn Pryle and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author uses Reading Responses (RRs) as a way for students to read deeper, write more persuasively, and think differently"--

Download or read book Writing in Math Class written by Marilyn Burns and published by Math Solutions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in Math Class presents a clear and persuasive case for making writing a part of math instruction. Author and master teacher Marilyn Burns explains why students should write in math class, describes five different types of writing assignments for math, and offer tips and suggestions for teachers. In her usual engaging style, Marilyn Burns tells what happened in actual classrooms when writing was incorporated into math lessons. Illustrated throughout with student work. With a foreword by Susan Ohanian.

Download or read book Trying to Catch the Wind written by Josef N. Ferri and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Josef N. Ferri met a senior honors student from South Park High School named Marilyn, he felt an immediate spark. He drew her into conversation, and the two instantly became involved in something beyond teenage small talk. He reconnected with her a bit later, just as the second half of the 1960s began to unfold. From the night of their innocent and romantic first date, their journey was filled with wonder and amazement. But almost immediately, they were faced with huge obstacles, as on that same night they almost died in an accident involving a drunken driver. Ultimately, confusion and misunder-standing separated them forever, but by then they'd lived their most cherished dream. Amid the turbulence and sociopolitical upheaval of the 1960s and the painful chaos of their individual troubled home lives, they found an extraordinary sanctuary in their deep love, and it was "a love that was more than love." Somehow, it still survives in Trying to Catch the Wind.

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summaries of Studies in Agricultural Education written by United States. Office of Education. Vocational Division and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brian Grows Up written by Benard Klein and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Availability: Usually ships in 3-5 business days. + Available in e-book formats - see bottom of page. ___________________________________________________________ Brian Grows Up by Bernard Klein, Ph.D Brian Kasowsky's parents were European immigrants seeking freedom from religious persecution. The story centers on the struggles between American born Jewish children and their Polish born parents who want to pass on the traditions of their faith. The tension of trying to keep a balance between love and independence is compounded by the escalating news of Hitler's rise to power, anti-Semitism, and America's involvement in World War II. About the Author Doctor Klein is a first generation American who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Los Angeles for his high school and college years. In California he taught elementary age students, at-risk teenagers, and adults. He was principal at a school for physically and mentally handicapped children and at schools for Hebrew and Jewish religious education. Later he worked in the Apollo program as a Human Factor's Engineer at North American Aviation. After earning his Ph.D. at age 59, he became an advisor to other Ph.D. candidates. He taught at Marylhurst College and Clark Community College. Upon retiring he published his first book, "The Educator Speaks. For many years he was a volunteer performer and singer with community musical theaters and choirs. Currently he lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife Anese of almost sixty years. (2013, Paperback, 94 pages)

Download or read book Single Mothers and the State written by Celia Winkler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. welfare rights activists have long envied women in Sweden, who benefited from social policies that made the incidence of poverty among children and solo mothers among the lowest in the world. This situation has begun to change with the rise of neoliberalism in Sweden from the late 1970s to the middle of the 1990s; social policy that had once dramatically improved the lives of solo mothers began to give way to policies that privatized their problems. Solo mothers in the United States were worse off, as conservative policymakers launched a clamorous campaign to restore the "traditional nuclear family" as the only guarantor of women's and children's well-being, blaming solo mothers for everything from juvenile crime to their own poverty. In this revealing and timely book, sociologist and former legal services attorney, Celia Winkler, charts the policies in Sweden and the United States that transformed the social and economic situation of solo mothers, who are an early warning of more general danger: the canary in the coal mine.

Download or read book Benzo Blues written by Edward H. Drummond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valium. Atvian. Xanax. These benzodiapezines or "benzos" are among the most routinely prescribed medications in our society, used to treat chronic anxiety in millions of people. But these drugs can actually prolong and aggravate anxiety, causing individuals to postpone dealing with core problems and to increasingly rely on addictive medication with extremely debilitating effects. Of the more than 30 million people who take these drugs, more than four million are addicted.Dr. Edward H. Drummond offers hope with a revolutionary program for overcoming chronic anxiety without the use of tranquilizers. His approach flies in the face of established practices, particularly at a time when health care programs offer dwindling support for psychotherapy, preferring the cheaper course of having patients medicate themselves.Certain to inspire controversy, Benzo Blues is the work of a visionary author out to challenge the medical establishment. Its publication will be greeted with enormous interest by the millions of people affected by these powerful drugs, all of whom will find a new way of dealing with a lifelong problem.

Download or read book Vocational Division Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Schools Our Children Deserve written by Alfie Kohn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.