From A Cocoon Of Love And Poverty

Author : Thad Box
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1401030211
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty written by Thad Box and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Thad Box's four-part journey from sharecropping through a career as aspiring rancher, educator, resource ecologist and environmentalist. The Cocoon of Love and Poverty, explores the influence of family, traditions, the Great Depression and rocky Texas hills on his basic values. Breaking from the Cocoon, discusses the broadening world opened by military service and college education. Spreading My Wings, examines development of philosophies of learning and service. Flying Like a Butterfly, demonstrates application of those philosophies. Written primarily for family, this gripping memoir should be read by anyone concerned with the environment and social justice.

Author : Thad Box
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781469106762
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Cocoon of Love and Poverty written by Thad Box and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-02-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Thad Box’s four-part journey from sharecropping through a career as aspiring rancher, educator, resource ecologist and environmentalist. The Cocoon of Love and Poverty, explores the influence of family, traditions, the Great Depression and rocky Texas hills on his basic values. Breaking from the Cocoon, discusses the broadening world opened by military service and college education. Spreading My Wings, examines development of philosophies of learning and service. Flying Like a Butterfly, demonstrates application of those philosophies. Written primarily for family, this gripping memoir should be read by anyone concerned with the environment and social justice.

Author : Thad Box
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1401029647
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Me 'N' Alvin written by Thad Box and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essayist and poet Thad Box experienced poverty first hand as a small boy living on a tenant farm. His poems present a child's eye view of one of our country's major events. The Great Depression spawned a social and economic upheaval in American culture as great as the revolution that formed this country. With the possible exception of the Civil War, no event in our nation's history has been as significant. The people who lived through the Depression become fewer with each passing year. Most who were adults at the beginning of the depression are gone. Box's poems make history live through the tales of children. "Me 'n' Alvin" describes the joys and disappointments of a ten-year-old boy during the time between the stock market crash of 1929 and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although it is about sharecropper children in the Central Texas Hill Country, it captures the hopes and dreams of poor kids everywhere who do not consider themselves poor. Box tells the stories through a series of narrative poems written in the vernacular, yet poetic voice of Hill Country people. He describes life of subsistence farmers and the heartbreak of being displaced by well meaning New Deal government programs. Games played by children, the wonder of becoming "rich" when the make-work dam construction pays 40 cents an hour, Sunday dinners, and celebrations are told through his eyes and with the voice of a precocious child.: Doing what hound dogs do or finding out about birds and bees are woven into the poems. Learning the facts of life was not just about sex. It often involved becoming aware of the problems of grownups: the lack of money, the stress of being put off the farm, the knowledge that the family was poor. But the joys of a child exploring his poverty cocoon, the love of his parents, the thrill of learning all become part of understanding the facts of life. A child's curiosity about sex is not ignored. The boys knew about billy goats, Maltese jacks, and roosters because their function on the farm was part of the natural process. But making the transition from understanding animal breeding to girls was an unending mystery. The book covers the time from shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's election in the 1930s until the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a time when many farm families were moving to California in search of a better life. Hobos and gypsies traveled from town to town in search of food. Soup kitchens filled less than basic needs of major cities. Obituaries of people who lived through these times fill newspapers across this land. This book is unique in that it captures a child's view of one of the major social changes of our country. The poems teach history with a smile.

Author : Peter Cove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351498002
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor No More written by Peter Cove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empowering the poor through ineffectual employment-related education and training. However, these handouts produced little change, and efforts to provide education and job-training proved inconsequential, boasting only a 2.8 percent decrease in the poverty rate since 1965. Decades after the War on Poverty began, many of its programs failed. Only one thing really worked to help end poverty-and that was work itself, the centerpiece of welfare reform in 1996. Poor No More is a plan to restructure poverty programs, prioritizing jobs above all else. Traditionally, job placement programs stemmed from non-profit organizations or government agencies. However, America Works, the first for-profit job placement venture founded by Peter Cove, has the highest employee retention rate in the greater New York City area, even above these traditional agencies. When the federal government embraced the work-first ideal, inspired by the success of America Works, welfare rolls plummeted from 12.6 million to 4.7 million nationally within one decade. Poor No More is a paradigm-shifting work that guides the reader through the evolution of America's War on Poverty and urges policy-makers to eliminate training and education programs that waste time and money and to adopt a work-first model, while providing job-seekers with the tools and life lessons essential to finding and maintaining employment.

Author : torrin a. greathouse
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317155
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound written by torrin a. greathouse and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

Author : J. K. Rowling
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316228559
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Casual Vacancy written by J. K. Rowling and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.

Author : V. David Schwantes
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434320049
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in a Cocoon written by V. David Schwantes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocoon demonstrates, in easy-to-understand language, that ethics is about trust, and happiness. Trust is the essential ingredient to mutally-supportive and durable relationships, focused on reducing life's imperfections. Such relationships are the key to happiness. But we cannot live deep inside protective cocoons and still build trust and relationships. Instead, we must develop all the dimensions of what makes us human--intellectual (truth), spiritual (unity), moral (goodness), and aesthetic (beauty). Above all, we have to know ourselves, and be able to pass the "mirror test" every day. Our most important relationship, after all, being with ourself, and we don't discover our spiritual unity without a Personal Strategic Plan. Nor can we become ethically fit without enthusiasm, equanimity and a commitment to excellence--traits not found in cocoons. Only ethical fitness can help us find the resolution to the fundamental ethical dilemmas we all face--truth versus loyalty, short-term versus long-term, individual versus community, and justice versus mercy. This book suggests we use a variety of lenses to look at the world today--power, wealth, prestige, status. We use the lenses of economics, politics, and technology. We do not use nearly enough the lens of ethics--relationships, happiness, decency, and the golden mean. Once we're ethically fit--the result of continuous practice--we're able to recognize ethical dilemmas, approach them skillfully, and resolve them successfully. This book shows the way to such fitness, which is useful in any context or relationship, personal, local or global. Cocoon is a self-improvement book of the first order, with real-life macro-illustrations of the ethical dilemmas we face in a complex and crowded world in which too many of us pursue the dictates of false gods. It includes over 500 practice questions, and was developed as a textbook in the ethics courses the author taught to seniors at Ramapo College from 2002 th

Author : Bettina Flores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780679750444
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiquita's Cocoon written by Bettina Flores and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only self-awareness guide tailored to the needs of Hispanic women from high school on--to be published simultaneously in English and Spanish language editions. Flores uses her own positive life experience to show other Hispanic women how they can escape cyclical poverty, large-family conditioning, religious repression, and machismo.

Author : Esme Conway
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412055792
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into Angels written by Esme Conway and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set In Ireland, against a backdrop of movie sets, healing rooms & synchronistic events, Into Angles is a compeling, entertaining and inspirational story: search for fulfillment, meaning and love.

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Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452548986
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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