Miles Away Worlds Apart

Author : Alan Sakowitz
Publisher : Publish Green
ISBN 13 : 0615382401
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles Away... Worlds Apart written by Alan Sakowitz and published by Publish Green. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Sakowitz, a whistleblower of a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme masterminded by Scott Rothstein, fraudster extraordinaire, tells of the story of his decision to turn in Rothstein regardless of the possible dangerous ramifications of such a decision. The saga of Rothstein's rise and fall which included a Warren Yacht, two Bugattis, Governor Crist, the former Versace mansion, The Eagles, and even the murder of a law partner, is the stuff that Hollywood movies are made from. Instead of the mere accounting of such a scandal, Sakowitz uses the Rothstein scheme as a cautionary tale in stark contrast to the stories of humble, ethical individuals living within Sakowitz's neighborhood in North Miami Beach, Florida, Sakowitz's neighbors are people who have spent their lives trying to assist others, not line their pockets, and through these stories Sakowitz creates a sharp dichotomy between the greed, of a Rothstein and its mainstream culture of consumption and the charity, kindness and selflessness of a principle-oriented community. Indeed, Sakowitz speaks to the symptoms of a culture that could create a Scott Rothstein, and, though acknowledging that the easy way out is not simple to dismiss, offers remedies to the growing ills of our entitlement society. The answer, Sakowitz says, lies in thinking first of others, and how one's actions should benefit the lives of friends, not one's short-term gratifications.

Author : James E. Ryan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199745609
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Miles Away, A World Apart written by James E. Ryan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how court rulings in the 1970s, limiting the scope of desegregation, laid the groundwork for the sharp disparities between urban and suburban public schools that persist to this day. The Supreme Court, in accord with the wishes of the Nixon administration, allowed the suburbs to lock nonresidents out of their school systems. City schools, whose student bodies were becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding, a measure that has proven largely ineffective, while the independence (and superiority) of suburban schools remained sacrosanct. Weaving together court opinions, social science research, and compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, Ryan explains why all the major education reforms since the 1970s--including school finance litigation, school choice, and the No Child Left Behind Act--have failed to bridge the gap between urban and suburban schools and have unintentionally entrenched segregation by race and class. As long as that segregation continues, Ryan forcefully argues, so too will educational inequality. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative ways to promote school integration, which would take advantage of unprecedented demographic shifts and an embrace of diversity among young adults. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written by one of the nation's leading education law scholars, Five Miles Away, A World Apart ties together, like no other book, a half-century's worth of education law and politics into a coherent, if disturbing, whole. It will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered why our schools are so unequal and whether there is anything to be done about it.

Author : James Edward Ryan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195327381
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Miles Away, A World Apart written by James Edward Ryan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that half a century after Brown v. Board of Education--and in spite of increased funding for urban schools and programs like No Child Left Behind--educational opportunities for blacks and whites in America still remain so unequal? In Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James Ryan provides a sobering answer to this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one suburban, relatively affluent, and mostly white, and the other urban, relatively poor, and mostly black. Ryan shows how court rulings against desegregation in the 1970s laid the groundwork for the massive disparities between urban and suburban public school districts that persist to this day. The Nixon administration, intent on shoring up its base in the "silent majority," allowed suburbs to lock nonresidents out of their school systems. Urban schools, whose student bodies were becoming increasingly poor and black, simply received more funding, a panacea that has proven largely ineffective, while the academic independence (and superiority) of suburban schools was held sacrosanct. Drawing on compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, including one who has been a principal at both schools featured in the book, Ryan explains how certain policies--school finance, school choice, and standardized testing--not only fail to bridge the performance gap between students at urban and suburban schools but actually perpetuate segregation across the country. Ryan closes by suggesting innovative reforms that would bring greater diversity into our schools by shifting the emphasis from racial to socioeconomic integration. An incisive critique of exactly how and why our educational policies have gone wrong, Five Miles Away, A World Apart will interest all those who wish to see our educational system heal the divide between rich and poor and live up to our highest democratic ideals.

Author : Billy Joe Neese
Publisher : Harry Neese
ISBN 13 : 0615332536
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Worlds Apart written by Billy Joe Neese and published by Harry Neese. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of two families ? ordinary people intertwined with the dates, places, and extraordinary events of world history. Their names are not found in history books. Many, in the 18th century, could neither read nor write their names, but the Neeses and Falcons, despite any illiteracy, were part of the great movement of peoples from around the world who came to the New World to build the most powerful country on this planet. They established freedom as the bedrock upon which America stands. Our people endured much hardship and privation, but they did not give up in their determination to build America. Our people were among the pioneering immigrants who laid the foundation of our country ? the ideals of our country are steeped in the sweat and blood of these early Americans ? the Neeses and Falcons.

Author : Akshaya Kosuri
Publisher : SHAHAN KHAN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TWO WORLDS APART. written by Akshaya Kosuri and published by SHAHAN KHAN . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When joy is a habit, love is a reflex. The concept of love is abstract. People define love differently; they show it differently and have different expectations of what it should look and feel like. We are often torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have ever known. For some, pain is the price of love and for some, it's a precious connection unexplained. The book 'Two worlds apart' focuses on varied perspectives on the question 'Is love a source of harmony or conflict or both?'

Author : Jean-Christophe Agnew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379106
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Jean-Christophe Agnew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'.

Author : Virginia Broadbere
Publisher : United P.C. Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783710313912
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inches Away, Worlds Apart written by Virginia Broadbere and published by United P.C. Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenage girls separated by 88 years meet in1964 and forge a life long friendship. They share their lives and experiences and have the most profound and lasting effect on each other.

Author : Richard Pearce
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452507066
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Apart written by Richard Pearce and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the lighthearted bedtime reader of any age. The poems are some of several hundred written over many years. Some of the short stories are recent, others were written as long ago as the 1980s. Only in recent times did Richard and Roy discover they both liked to put their thoughts onto paper, so it seemed a logical step to combine some of their work and get it into print. This is Richard’s second publication along similar lines.

Author : Laura J. Burns
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689878540
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Laura J. Burns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sixth novel based on the WB's popular television show, Ephram is accepted to Julliard and Amy visits the campus of UCLA, leaving Ephram wondering if his dream school is worth being across the country from Amy. Original.

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134840942
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions that consumption either localises or fails to effect global forms and images. Several of the chapters are written by anthropologists who have specialised in material culture studies and who examine the new forms, especially television and mass commodities, as well as some new uses of older forms, such as the body. The book also considers the ways in which people are increasingly not the primary creators of these images but have become secondary consumers.