Author: Josephine LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Siblings
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Brother and Sister's Schooldays
Author: Josephine LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Siblings
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
School Days
Author: Patrick ChamoiseauPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
School Days (Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students’ speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of “Negritude.” Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school. In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child’s early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school. School Days mixes understanding with laughter, knowledge with entertainment—in ways that will fascinate and delight readers of all ages.
School Days
Author: William R. KingPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479707538
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Inspirational and humorous autobiographical essays on coming of age in a small western Pennsylvania river town during WW II, the Korean and Viet-Nam Wars. Young William fought World War II from a fox-hole that he and his childhood friends dug and in which he was wounded. He believed that since he graduated from a smoky, mill-town high school, he might not easily get admitted to college, so he applied to fourteen of them. After graduating from college with honors, he describes getting a PhD, a less-than-heroic stint in the military and becoming a professor and business consultant. A continuing theme is his relationship with “the girl of his dreams,” a beautiful redhead who he met at 14 and to whom he has been married for more than a half century. He describes his older Brother, who fought in Korea and came home to live the life of a playboy until he met the love of his life, his nurturing Mother and a Father who set an example to which he still aspires. The reader will learn about things as diverse as the Whiskey rebellion, teenage behavior before the sexualization of culture, a useful decision paradigm created on Omaha Beach and how to impress a girl by tasting her hair. The book ends with musings on how two very different people can come together and create a happy and enduring marriage. Anyone interested in what life and relationships were like in the middle of the 20th Century, when three wars consumed the daily attention of the nation, will find this book to be interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining.
Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm
Author: Mabel C. HawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
School Days and the Divorce Maze
Author: Renae LapinPublisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
ISBN: 9780883911624
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In today's climate of extended and mixed families, School Days & The Divorce Maze is the quintessential must-have guide for parents in navigating the maze of responsibilities and privileges regarding your child's schooling. Dr. Lapin specifically addresses each party's concerns and points-of-view, offering strategies to include these in effective solutions that build strong self-esteem for the child while maintaining positive, clear communication by and between parents. This book definitively answers parents' concerns on specific and oftentimes unexpected or overlooked issues that they and their child will face as a result of custodial living. By considering and including ALL parties involved in the education of your child, a total and hands-on effective approach is outlined for every issue the family needs to address to insure a happy, healthy and successful educational process.
Harriette Browne's School-days. A Tale
Author: Harriette BrowneThe Curlytops Snowed in
Author: Howard Roger GarisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bookseller and Stationer
Author: Percy and Ferdie
Author: Harold Arthur MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description