Download or read book Treating Huckleberry Finn written by David Nylund and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating Huckleberry Finn offers a drug-free alternative to treating rambunctious children. Author David Nylund's SMART approach is a five-step strategy to understanding, nourishing, and learning to control the millions of youngsters who have been unfairly branded with the diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Download or read book Treating Huckleberry Finn written by David Nylund and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating Huckleberry Finn offers a drug-free alternative to treating rambunctious children. Author David Nylund2s SMART approach is a five-step strategy to understanding, nourishing, and learning to control the millions of youngsters who have been unfairly branded with the diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Download or read book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
Download or read book Huck Finn s America written by Andrew Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, calling into question commonly held interpretations of the work on the subjects of youth, youth culture, and race relations, based on research into the social preoccupations of the era in which it was written.
Download or read book Running on Ritalin written by Lawrence H. Diller and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America's epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin. In 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin--most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990. And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world's Ritalin is used here. Is this a cause for alarm--or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance--or drug of abuse, as some critics claim? Lawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate--evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society. As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem. Running on Ritalin also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals. What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs. nurture, free will vs. responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?
Download or read book ADD ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom written by Thomas Armstrong and published by ASCD. This book was released on 1999 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to a kid to be labeled attention-deficit disordered (ADD)? Or to have "hyperactive" added to the label (ADHD)? What can teachers do to boost the success of students with attention and behavioral difficulties? Are we relying too much on medication for these kids and not enough on new perspectives on learning, child development, the child's socioeconomic and cultural background, biological and psychological research, and the learner's emotional and social needs? Armstrong urges educators and parents to look for the positive characteristics in learners who may carry the ADD/ADHD label. Are they bursting with energy? Are they intensely creative? Do they enjoy hands-on learning? Are they natural leaders? Are they unusually introspective and reflective? We need to look beyond a "deficit" approach and embrace a more holistic view of learners that includes teaching to their multiple intelligences, learning styles, and other brain-friendly approaches. For example, here are some classroom activities for kids who "can't sit still" Learning spelling words by having kids jump up out of their seats on the vowels and sit down on the consonants. Mastering the multiplication tables by forming a conga line, moving around the classroom counting from 1 to 30 out loud, and on every multiple of 3 shaking their hips and legs. Showing patterns of molecular bonding in chemistry class through a "swing your atom" square dance.
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain The adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer s comrade written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Huckeberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by Jensen. This book was released on 1999-03-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Download or read book Was Huck Black written by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American speech played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how the voices of African-Americans have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature. Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckleberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying"--satire in an African-American vein--when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well--but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought.
Download or read book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manga Classics Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by Manga Classics. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, 14 year-old Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century. The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and spend idyllic days swimming, frying catfish suppers, and enjoying their independence.
Download or read book The Brain Dead Megaphone written by George Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent written by Doug Aldridge and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.
Download or read book The Treatment of the Race Issue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Moritz Oehl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-04-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar Mark Twain, language: English, abstract: Die Arbeit beschreibt, wie das kontroverse Thema Rassismus in Mark Twains Klassiker "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" thematisiert wird.
Download or read book The Sentimental Touch The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism written by Aaron Ritzenberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sentimental Touch' explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture.
Download or read book The Treatment of Landscapes and Cityscapes in Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Innocents Abroad Natural and Cultural Spaces in the Old and the New World written by Jelena Vukadinovic and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation (Handout) from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, RWTH Aachen University, course: Mark Twain, language: English, abstract: As we all know Twain was very familiar with this landscape since he grew up there. In his 3 major Mississippi novels he tries to give the reader an impression of his Mississippi landscape There are various approaches to describe the experience of observing the river and its banks in the dawn, but the one in Huck Finn, which is so to say the third approach seems to be the most successful If one compares some phrases from all three novels describing the same event and the same [...]
Download or read book Playful Approaches to Serious Problems written by Jennifer C. Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe their success with narrative therapy, a lighter, playful approach to the serious problems encountered in child and family therapy. They provide case vignettes in the first two sections which show how children who might have been labeled belligerent, hyperactive, anxious, or out of touch with reality are found to be capable of taming their tempers, controlling frustration, and using their imaginations to the fullest. They address the helpful role of family members, as well. The third section of the text offers five extended case stories. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
