Swimming Upstream

Author : Laura Hensley Choate
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199391130
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Laura Hensley Choate and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of today's parents struggle with their approach in raising a healthy daughter within our complex culture. Never before have girls been faced with so many pressures to live up to confusing and often contradictory cultural expectations. These burdens are intense, newly evolving, and are affecting girls at earlier and earlier ages. As girls of all ages listen to the messages of popular culture, they gather that their worth is based upon a perfect appearance, the ability to gain attention and approval from others, and their accrual of accomplishments. As girls absorb these expectations, they begin to believe they are not good enough as they are. They are not able to develop an authentic sense of self because they lose themselves in trying to become what the culture dictates. It is not surprising that with all of these pressures, girls are experiencing stress, emptiness, and skyrocketing rates of mental health problems. Parents know that something is very wrong with today's culture, but they can't quite put a name on the problem. Many feel helpless as popular cultural influences pervade modern life at every turn. This book, however, provides parents with reassurance that their influence can make a significant difference in their daughters' development. Parents are empowered to make positive choices to help girls learn to resist cultural pressures and to successfully navigate the transitions they will face in their journey as girls in today's culture. Written in an engaging, practical style, Laura Choate draws from research and counseling literature to provide parents with tools they can use to teach their daughters the power of resilience. The book begins with a portrait of the contemporary adolescent girl's environment, including an in-depth exploration of cultural pressures and an overview of how these pressures influence girls' physical, cognitive, and social development. In the second part of the book, parents learn about five resilience dimensions that girls need not only to survive, but to thrive as they develop during girlhood and adolescence. Practical tools for instilling resilience regarding girls' positive body image, healthy relationships with friends and romantic partners, and management of high-pressure academic environments through a redefinition of what it means to be successful are all discussed extensively.

Author : Paul A. Sabatier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262264754
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Paul A. Sabatier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers. Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.

Author : Shirley Zinn
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1869226011
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Shirley Zinn and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Zinn's story is one of determination, courage, and triumph over incredible adversity. Born and raised on the Cape Flats, Shirley never allowed her past to dictate her future. She proved that the typical story of a girl from the Cape Flats - that of gangsterism, alcoholism and teenage pregnancy - didn't have to be her story. Instead she relentlessly pursued her own goals and forged an impressive academic career even when she faced significant odds. And when she'd done that, she set out to conquer the world of business. Shirley is a formidable woman with an amazing story to tell. She has risen to the top of the pile in both academic and business circles, and yet she has retained great humanity and empathy in the face of great personal tragedy. Her story has lessons for us all - whether we are ordinary or extraordinary, whether we work in business, in government, or at home. Shirley's story will inspire you and show you that it is possible to achieve your goals, if you are prepared to swim upstream and be single-minded in getting where you want to be.

Author : Dave Myers
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1616634979
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swim Upstream written by Dave Myers and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Dave Myers invites you to explore God deeper through his creation and see the rich lessons that are revealed in it. The perfect choice for any outdoorsman, Swim Upstream: An Outdoorsman's Guide to Spiritual Adventure is formatted as an easy to follow month-long devotional. Its offering of anecdotes and spiritual insight will bring your heart alive with stories of outdoor adventures and help you to clearly see the higher truths of God, showing you exactly what it takes to Swim Upstream. "--from publisher's description.

Author : Sharon Badal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136061258
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution written by Sharon Badal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short films have come into their own, not least in part due to the incredible new ways to distribute them, including the Web, cell phones, new festivals devoted to shorts--even television and theatres. This is the ultimate guide for anyone who's made a short film and wonders what to do next. Whether your short film is meant to be a calling card, a segue to a feature film, or you just want to recoup some of the costs, this book describes the potential paths for distribution. Written by the short film programmer of the Tribeca Film Festival and featuring contributions from top film festival directors, as well as studio, marketing, and technology executives, this book shows you what's important to the decision makers and gatekeepers. This is the definitive handbook filled with insider information available nowhere else.

Author : Kristine O'Connell George
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781328900180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Kristine O'Connell George and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems capture the feelings and experiences of a girl in middle school.

Author : Michael F Foley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728372445
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Michael F Foley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898 a 16-year-old immigrant with a sixth-grade education and not much more than the clothes on his back landed in Boston. By 1906, this immigrant, Michael Foley, had started a fresh fish company. In 2005, Michael Foley’s great-granddaughter, Laura, together with Peter, her co-owner husband, became the fourth generation to own and operate the Foley Fish Company, the seafood industry’s standard for quality, consistency, and integrity. Swimming Upstream is the story of four generations of Foley fishmongers, their successes and failures, their talents and foibles. Each generation has met the changing needs of the business in its own way, but in four generations, the goal set by the founder to provide customers only truly fresh, delicious, nutritious seafood has never been compromised. Swimming Upstream is more than the story of a family and a business. It is an immigrant’s story of Boston in the early 1900s. Michael Foley arrived when “No Irish need apply” signs were posted, but in spite of this his son Francis graduated from Harvard College. This is the story of the daunting challenges faced by the Foleys in producing a highly perishable product with highly variable pricing, and the many loyal and talented employees who enabled them to meet innumerable challenges through two World Wars, the Depression, resource depletion, and now the Covid pandemic. It is about competing with producers who added water-weight to lower prices, or substitute species to average down costs. It is the story of the vagaries of U.S. fisheries management and Foley Fish’s efforts to support the resource. It is also the story of Foley Fish’s attempt to educate the consumer, and even chefs, on how to care for and prepare fish, and to assure the public that truly fresh fish doesn’t smell fishy.

Author : James P. McCullough, Jr.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645301567
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by James P. McCullough, Jr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming Upstream By: James P. McCullough, Jr. Swimming Upstream: A Story about Becoming Human is a memoir divided into two parts. Part One is a personal story of the author’s toxic early developmental experiences and the subsequent effects of chronic depression, as well as the specific life experiences that enabled him to modify his early maladaptive history and mature. Part Two is a history and description of the author’s forty-seven-year career as an academic clinical psychologist and his research with chronic depression. His therapy model, The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), is the only treatment model designed specifically to treat the chronically depressed patient. CBASP has been personally used by the author to treat 450 chronically depressed patients; therefore, Swimming Upstream is essentially a story of a life trajectory of hope.

Author : Kimberly Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming UPSTREAM written by Kimberly Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Ashton Smith, a Gold Medalist in Swimming in the arena of the disabled. I've had the privilege of competing in the World Games, Dubai and in Seattle, at a National US Games. It is a unique honor and I am truly blessed to have accomplished that feat, which is especially amazing since I am a legally blind African-American female.Many things stick out in my journey from hometown hero to homeless, world-class gold medalist despite having a limiting disability. My road to greatness started when I was nine years old. As a "Differently Abled" person, I found myself being left out of events, overlooked, and under picked. To say it caused inner trauma would be putting it mild. I learned to cope by escaping into swimming, which can be a team sport or an individual one. I found myself at the YMCA in Waxahachie almost daily. Once I discovered the water, I was naturally drawn to it. It's a myth that Black people can't swim. The truth is, there are not enough aquatic facilities in black communities. Once the staff at the Y saw I loved to swim, they encouraged, empowered, and enabled me to train and blossom into that youth capable enough to capture a spot on the Special Olympics team. Most people have an erroneous perception of that organization. There are varying levels of competiveness involved, and one of the underlying reasons for their existence is to assist athletes that are disadvantaged for any number of reasons. My blindness afforded me the opportunity of competing as a swimmer for the organization. I would like to, moving forward, monetize my historic winning and completion from the Organization. The restrictions and limitations that are in place make it almost impossible for an athlete to capitalize on their brand while still a member of that organization. However, now that I have severed ties, my plan is to make sure that I have a podcast. My second hope is to get my book written, published, and promoted. I am seeing that happen right before my eyes (pun intended).

Author : Constance Richardson
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604944897
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming Upstream written by Constance Richardson and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunge into Swimming Upstream, set in the mid-1950s through 1971, a period of cosmic upheaval in the fabric of American society. The story chronicles the life of Constance, a young American woman from a privileged background, who drops out of college to marry the son of a wealthy German industrialist. Married life begins in Colombia, South America. They move to Boston where her husband returns to Harvard and Constance gives birth to their first child. This promising marriage soon unravels. Divorced, she finds herself alone with two small children and no employable skills. While she's completing her BA degree, an Otto Preminger film production appears outside her home in Salem, Massachusetts-this becomes the catalyst to propel her forward.