Download or read book They re Rugby Boys Don t You Know written by Natalie Vellacott and published by Natalie Vellacott. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story detailing how a Christian Police Sergeant from England boarded the Logos Hope Missionary Ship in 2011 and was forever changed when, in the Philippines, she unexpectedly encountered and fell in love with a group of street teenage boys addicted to a solvent called "rugby." The book details the highlights and lowlights, ups and downs, trials and tribulations, successes and failures of the Logos Hope crew as they defied local attitudes to slowly and carefully befriend this sidelined and often detested minority. You will read of hospital visitations, breaches of trust, criminal activity, gang fights and numerous disappointments, but ultimately you will read of the changes in the lives of just a few of the boys who decided to leave the street and the solvents for better future lives. It goes without saying that these small changes made the heartache and struggles worthwhile. A true story of Christian hope being brought to the hopeless in the Philippines. . . "As I approached the bridge leading back to the Logos Hope ship, I saw a lone figure standing in the shadows watching the people walking past. He was unsteady on his feet and rocking backwards and forwards holding a plastic bag in his hand. As I moved nearer, I saw it was Mark. He ran away when he saw me and tried to hide but didn’t get very far and so he sat on the ground, behind a large pillar, in the shadows, breathing heavily. I sat beside him on the ground, which was dirty and really stank, and when I put my arm around his shoulders I smelt the intoxicatingly strong smell of the solvent. The boys had recently stopped taking “rugby” and had moved on to a door sealant called “Vuca Seal” which was stronger. It was all over him and he reeked of it. I covered my nose. I remember this was the only time where the thought ran through my mind that I could see how addiction to this smell was created because it was really intoxicating. I knew I needed to be careful not to breathe much of it in, but Mark was really very high. He was vacant and staring ahead, and then he began crying again as I tried to talk to him. I asked him why he was doing this to himself and what was it that had made him so unhappy, but he didn’t answer. Mark got up and stumbled away as I watched him go. I followed and tried to talk to him again, sharing a bit of my life before I became a Christian and how miserable I had been. His hopelessness reminded me of my old life when I was immersed in drink, gambling and meaningless relationships. I knew Mark was listening as I shared the hope that I had found in Jesus with him, but he didn’t respond. Eventually, I had to leave him, alone and staring vacantly ahead of himself hanging over a railing. I was really worried that he wouldn’t make it through the night if he took any more solvents...."
Download or read book What About The Boys written by Martino, Wayne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading researchers from Australia, United Kingdom and the United States to explore issues of boys, schooling and masculinities within the context of the current concern about the education of boys. The contributors draw on detailed empirical research to highlight some important issues that are not addressed in public debates about boys in the media.
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Download or read book Sporting Chance written by Alexa Milne and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes keeping hold of love is just as hard as finding it. Dan and Iestyn are looking for romance. A school trip, a love of history, a wedding, a tango, the game of chess, and their friends and family all help the two men to realise that they've finally found true love with each other. Iestyn thinks that he's completely ordinary and that Dan is the only out and currently gay rugby player anywhere. Being gay can be difficult enough. Being famous also has its problems. But being gay, famous and a sportsman can make finding love complicated. So when Dan Morgan meets Iestyn Jones and gives him his phone number, their road ahead has more than a few bumps to overcome. Will Iestyn and Dan overcome the obstacles thrown in their paths? Or will fame destroy their lives as well as their love?
Download or read book Teaching Boys written by Martin Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persistently cheeky, disruptive, even aggressive boys can be found in classrooms everywhere, as can the victims of bullying. These boys' behaviours often pose a problem to themselves as well as to others. As the hotly contested debates about boys' education swirl around them, what can teachers actually do to improve boys' performance in the classroom? Teaching Boys provides a practical framework for teachers to improve boys' education in ways that are appropriate for their school context and also sustainable. Drawing on intensive research in classrooms where innovative teachers are achieving good outcomes with boys, Keddie and Mills show how other teachers can learn from their success. They acknowledge that there are no simple solutions, but show that what teachers do in the classroom really does matter. They emphasise the importance of understanding the impact of dominant and subversive masculinities at all levels of schooling, on both boys and girls. 'What is original about this book is that it marries theory and practice in a way that speaks to the everyday realities and concerns of teachers who work with boys in schools' Associate Professor Wayne Martino, The University of Western Ontario 'What is impressive about Teaching Boys is the way in which Keddie and Mills pull together the best research on boys and schooling with the best research on pedagogies.' Professor Bob Lingard, The University of Edinburgh
Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Kid from the Future the Boy from the Past written by Georgie A. Jones and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1960s London, this tale of growing up invites readers to meet Welsh-born Georgie, a teen with special powers, and a special way with words! Georgie connects with intriguing Morgan, the Kid from the Future. This leads him and his pals – Jay, Rob, Joe, Jack, – to reveal their true selves. In a world where being gay is a crime, these lads are the vanguard of today's open society. What are the risks they take? The scrapes they get into? The violence and prejudice they encounter? A humorous coming-of-age tale. How will their parents react? What are Georgie's secret liaisons? How many insults from 'Jerry the Jackal' can they take? Is it ever right to meet violence with violence? These and many other questions are answered in this tale, as told by a very articulate, funny and brave young man.
Download or read book Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing written by Peter Cole and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe journey. Cole draws on traditional Aboriginal knowledge to move away from the western genres that have long contained, shaped, and determined ab/originality. Written in free verse, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is meant to be read aloud and breaks new ground by making orality the foundation of its scholarship. Cole moves beyond the rhetoric and presumption of white academic (de/re)colonizers to aboriginal spaces recreated by aboriginal peoples. Rather than employing the traditional western practice of gathering information about exoticized other, demonized other, contained other, Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing is a celebration of aboriginal thought, spirituality, and practice, a sharing of lived experience as First Peoples.
Download or read book A Feminist Critique of Education written by Christine Skelton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by the current editors of the journal Gender & Education, this new book maps the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years, featuring groundbreaking articles from leading authors in the field.
Download or read book Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Do Over written by Celya Bowers and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Killarney made a huge mistake. He accused his wife, Michelle, of having an affair with his boss, and now their marriage is over. After the dust from their divorce settles, he realizes that nothing is more important to him than Michelle and their two children. He begins an aggressive campaign to win back her affections, but then the unthinkable happens: his boss shows up dead, and Brad himself sustains a terrible head injury that erases his memory. As Michelle helps him through his recovery, she slowly begins to fall in love with him all over again. . . but can their love survive not only his amnesia, but the threat of a killer that may come back to finish what he started?
Download or read book Late Company written by Jordan Tannahill and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you wake up in a cold sweat at night and you think someone is watching you, well it's me. I'm watching you. And that cold sweat on your body, those are my tears.When the Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with the Dermots, closure is on the menu but recrimination becomes the main course. As their good intentions are stripped away, both couples' culpability in a tragedy is laid bare.At a dinner party where grief is the loudest guest, Late Company asks the question: How well can a parent ever know their child?Jordan Tannahill's Late Company received its European premiere at the Finborough Theatre, London, in April 2017 and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios, London, in August of the same year.
Download or read book A Tipsy Fairy Tale written by Peter E. Murphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of his mother's passing, Peter Murphy's childhood plunged into chaos. Suffering from neglect, abuse, and a lack of stability, he endured a series of hardships. Murphy was kidnapped at gunpoint, broke half a dozen ribs in a freak accident, and found himself indebted to the Mafia. While as a young teen he turned to painkillers and alcohol to cope, he also developed an unexpected affinity for poetry that eventually transformed his life. This memoir follows Murphy's journey as he deciphers the grief, shame and loss that permeated his childhood. Still a young man, he left the violence of New York for the bloodstained streets of Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. As he unraveled the mystery surrounding his mother's death, he reached his lowest point living in a Welsh commune, with little hope of escaping the throes of substance abuse. Written with poetic insight, Murphy's story is one of redemption, recovery, and finding faith in hardship.
Download or read book Sins of the Fathers written by Les Cowan and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In David Hidalgo Les Cowan has a unique take on the crime busting religious protagonist and in Sins of the Father he has crafted a clever, twisted game of cat and mouse - where you're never quite sure who is the cat and who is the mouse." Gordon Brown, author of Darkest Thoughts A gripping read in the sensational David Hidalgo series. David Hidalgo continues to pastor his church. This work includes overseeing an English chat group for young people leaving Spain and looking for work in Edinburgh. At the chat group, David meets Andrea who can't shake her past and a particular priest, Father Ramón, who abused her. Father Ramón is recently released from prison and set on taking out his revenge on Andrea. Can David stop Father Ramón and save Andrea or will there be further casualties?
Download or read book Language Sex and Social Structure written by J. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women's field hockey club to examine players' homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.
