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Book Rosa s Very Big Job

Download or read book Rosa s Very Big Job written by Ellen Mayer and published by Star Bright Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When spunky preschooler Rosa decides to help out her busy mama, she enlists Grandpa’s help to put away the clean laundry.

Book Rosa s Very Big Job

Download or read book Rosa s Very Big Job written by Ellen Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosa wants to be helpful while her mother is at the store, but has to keep telling Grandpa how to do things right.

Book Work Won t Love You Back

Download or read book Work Won t Love You Back written by Sarah Jaffe and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.

Book Tangled Up in Blue

Download or read book Tangled Up in Blue written by Rosa Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the "blue wall of silence." She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.

Book Rosa  What s your secret

Download or read book Rosa What s your secret written by Rosa Pich and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Looking Like a Language  Sounding Like a Race

Download or read book Looking Like a Language Sounding Like a Race written by Jonathan Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rican, to analyze the racialization of language and its relationship to issues of power and national identity. It focuses specifically on youth socialization to U.S. Latinidad as a contemporary site of political anxiety, raciolinguistic transformation, and urban inequity. Jonathan Rosa's account studies the fashioning of Latinidad in Chicago's highly segregated Near Northwest Side; he links public discourse concerning the rising prominence of U.S. Latinidad to the institutional management and experience of raciolinguistic identities there. Anxieties surrounding Latinx identities push administrators to transform "at risk" Mexican and Puerto Rican students into "young Latino professionals." This institutional effort, which requires students to learn to be and, importantly, sound like themselves in highly studied ways, reveals administrators' attempts to navigate a precarious urban terrain in a city grappling with some of the nation's highest youth homicide, dropout, and teen pregnancy rates. Rosa explores the ingenuity of his research participants' responses to these forms of marginalization through the contestation of political, ethnoracial, and linguistic borders.

Book The Uncontrollability of the World

Download or read book The Uncontrollability of the World written by Hartmut Rosa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world. Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside our control. But because we late-modern human beings seek to make the world controllable, we tend to encounter the world as a series of objects that we have to conquer, master or exploit. And precisely because of this, ‘life,’ the experience of feeling alive and truly encountering the world, always seems to elude us. This in turn leads to frustration, anger and even despair, which then manifest themselves in, among other things, acts of impotent political aggression. For Rosa, to encounter the world and achieve resonance with it requires us to be open to that which extends beyond our control. The outcome of this process cannot be predicted, and this is why moments of resonance are always concomitant with moments of uncontrollability. This short book – the sequel to Rosa’s path-breaking work on social acceleration and resonance – will be of great interest students and scholars in sociology and the social sciences and to anyone concerned with the nature of modern social life.

Book Rosa s Big Comeback

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joyce L. Barnett
  • Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1644718510
  • Pages : 107 pages

Download or read book Rosa s Big Comeback written by Joyce L. Barnett and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosa Brown was an educated sixty-year-old woman, who worked in the corporate world. Life was good until she was informed by her employer that her services were no longer needed. Devastated and confused, Rosa found herself living in a women's shelter in Washington, DC. Eventually her life became elevated when she joined a work program and found steady employment as a receptionist. Jay Schroeder, a white male friend and his sister Mona gave Rosa two gifts: a place of her own to live, and a top-of-the-line sewing machine, enabling her to follow her dream as a fashion designer. After modeling her designer dress on the runway of a fashion show in Atlanta, Rosa was sought out by a celebrity who hires her as a personal stylist and tailor. Rosa then becomes her own celebrity. She leaves her adopted family at Millie's House in the nation's capital to fulfill her dream in Atlanta. Everyone she knows is amazed at this miracle, herself included. And Rosa becomes a testimony for other women. The author tells the story of a woman who rose from poverty to riches by using her natural talent and gifts. Readers are taken on a journey through life on the streets of Washington, DC, and a view of what many homeless women encounter regularly. The author also introduces readers to Millie's House, a day service for women to meet and change their lives. This story defies the stereotypical attitudes and preconceived notions surrounding some women who suffer the experience of homelessness. There is a message in Rosa's story; that a woman can hit rock bottom in life, put hands and feet to her faith, and follow her dreams no matter what circumstances she encounters.

Book Empower yourself for an amazing career

Download or read book Empower yourself for an amazing career written by Blanca De la Rosa and published by Angels Fortune Editions. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says you cannot climb the corporate ladder? Your boss, coworkers, jealous peers? Has your career turned into a job? Do you ever sit and wonder what ever happened to your career? Where and when did you get off track? How do you revive your career after it has derailed? In this book author Blanca De La Rosa will detail and reveal what she has learned after thirty years in the corporate environment. If you want to get your career back on track, empower yourself so that you can create an amazing career. Empowering yourself and using a holistic approach will help distinguish you from the pack and demonstrate to your organization how you can positively impact the bottom line. Empower Yourself for an Amazing Career contains a wealth of information about personal career mistakes and is invaluable to anyone that dreams of building a successful career. This book incorporates personal stories and strategies for overcoming adversity in the workplace. You will discover how to assess the journey of your career, how to manage a bad manager, how to deal with career failure, and how to develop a career road map with uplifting and inspiring advice. The Author offers a fresh approach on climbing the corporate ladder, com- bining practical advice with inner wisdom, providing strategies to increase the chances of success in the workplace.

Book Rosa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nikki Giovanni
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780312376024
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Rosa written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.

Book Rosa s Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Damiano
  • Publisher : Tate Publishing
  • Release : 2008-02
  • ISBN : 1604622229
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Rosa s Story written by Jim Damiano and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her journey begins in Italy in 1924 with an arranged marriage to an Italian-American in Utica, New York, and travel to a foreign land where unimaginable circumstances and a roller-coaster ride of trial and tribulation await her. Through the course of events, Rosa has her faith tested, hope and love won and lost, and cultivates a determination that is bolstered by persistence that enables her to travel forward though tested beyond endurance. Rosa's Story is the true history of a young girl's experiences fictionalized around key events in her life. Through this moving tale, readers will gain a deeper understanding of true faith and a young woman's unwillingness to resign to her fate as expected in an era that shunned strong women. www.jimdamiano.com

Book The Monster in My Room

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosa Nicole Booker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-02
  • ISBN : 9781732866706
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Monster in My Room written by Rosa Nicole Booker and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia appears to have it all. The man of her dreams. Three lovely children. A house on the water. She is a jack of all trades. She works small jobs doing many things but really doesn't need to work at all. However, Olivia doesn't seem to be satisfied with her own accomplishments. Her husband runs a prestigious all-boys school while her bestie is opening restaurants all over the world. Olivia is left wanting more. She is haunted by a dark past that she wishes were erased from history. Her small jobs keep her mind off of the past she wants to forget, but she can't seem to escape the terrifying nightmare that wakes her up drenched in sweat on many a night. After seeking professional help to address her past, Olivia gets saddled with an annoying writing assignment from her therapist who is trying to help her survive her past. Her new feat of writing her own story proves to be a healing experience. Being an avid book enthusiast herself, what she doesn't know but would soon find out, is the story she needs to read is one she'll have to write. Her words set free on paper will ultimately save her from the monster in her room.

Book The Western Farmer and Gardener

Download or read book The Western Farmer and Gardener written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Musical Standard

Download or read book The Musical Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Educator

Download or read book Popular Educator written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Granite Cutters  Journal

Download or read book The Granite Cutters Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Electrical World

Download or read book Electrical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: