Author: Robert Bliss
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640035621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair is a riveting memoir outlining the difficulties, adversities, and the good times in a unique and totally unplanned rise from a farm boy to a college presidency, coupled with proven success in the corporate world. Beginning on the family farm, the author takes us on a truly exciting trip. It has action, it has humor, and provides obstacles to overcome, several of which could have been fatal. It's an adventure of innovation and problem solving in business and higher education. Each professional advancement is viewed as the final position but circumstances will dictate otherwise. Confronted with personal obstacles that would seem to preclude anything beyond a high school education, the author showcases humor, a tenacity to succeed and the ability to attract others in his amazing story. This is a journey punctuated with handicaps that, to most, would stifle any possible thought of achieving personal success. It's a memoir of reality, proving that achievements in life are linked through a series of events, rarely planned and definitely not anticipated. This is a true story of belief. Belief in faith, belief in yourself, and belief in individuals who seemingly appear at the right time. Most importantly, it is positive belief expressed through strong motivation, determination, and perseverance.
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair
Author: Robert Bliss
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640035621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair is a riveting memoir outlining the difficulties, adversities, and the good times in a unique and totally unplanned rise from a farm boy to a college presidency, coupled with proven success in the corporate world. Beginning on the family farm, the author takes us on a truly exciting trip. It has action, it has humor, and provides obstacles to overcome, several of which could have been fatal. It's an adventure of innovation and problem solving in business and higher education. Each professional advancement is viewed as the final position but circumstances will dictate otherwise. Confronted with personal obstacles that would seem to preclude anything beyond a high school education, the author showcases humor, a tenacity to succeed and the ability to attract others in his amazing story. This is a journey punctuated with handicaps that, to most, would stifle any possible thought of achieving personal success. It's a memoir of reality, proving that achievements in life are linked through a series of events, rarely planned and definitely not anticipated. This is a true story of belief. Belief in faith, belief in yourself, and belief in individuals who seemingly appear at the right time. Most importantly, it is positive belief expressed through strong motivation, determination, and perseverance.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640035621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
From the Outhouse to the President's Chair is a riveting memoir outlining the difficulties, adversities, and the good times in a unique and totally unplanned rise from a farm boy to a college presidency, coupled with proven success in the corporate world. Beginning on the family farm, the author takes us on a truly exciting trip. It has action, it has humor, and provides obstacles to overcome, several of which could have been fatal. It's an adventure of innovation and problem solving in business and higher education. Each professional advancement is viewed as the final position but circumstances will dictate otherwise. Confronted with personal obstacles that would seem to preclude anything beyond a high school education, the author showcases humor, a tenacity to succeed and the ability to attract others in his amazing story. This is a journey punctuated with handicaps that, to most, would stifle any possible thought of achieving personal success. It's a memoir of reality, proving that achievements in life are linked through a series of events, rarely planned and definitely not anticipated. This is a true story of belief. Belief in faith, belief in yourself, and belief in individuals who seemingly appear at the right time. Most importantly, it is positive belief expressed through strong motivation, determination, and perseverance.
Education On A Conveyor Belt
Author: Robert L. Bliss
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 168526784X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Education on a Conveyor Belt is a challenging look at the rapid decline of education in the United States. The goal in education has shifted from pride in excellence, whether individually or collectively, to a ride on the educational conveyor belt where the motto is, “No one can fail.” The author casts a wide net outlining the future repercussions of an educational format based on the conveyor belt. The most damaging is that of graduating high school and college students with insufficient knowledge for growth in their adult life. Teachers, administrators, parents, and business leaders are affected, and their concerns are addressed along with those of students. Options to traditional public schools are presented along with the positives and negatives of each. Students, at all levels, face a difficult time. They are confronted with COVID-19, omicron viruses, masking rules, universities and high schools proclaiming various words offensive (with optional words), creating divisive situations between students, faculty, and parents. Meanwhile, academic standards are reduced; test requirements are lowered, and an attempt to redo history by destroying statues, pictures, and buildings have all added to the creation of the Education on a Conveyor Belt theory. The conveyor belt is still running.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 168526784X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Education on a Conveyor Belt is a challenging look at the rapid decline of education in the United States. The goal in education has shifted from pride in excellence, whether individually or collectively, to a ride on the educational conveyor belt where the motto is, “No one can fail.” The author casts a wide net outlining the future repercussions of an educational format based on the conveyor belt. The most damaging is that of graduating high school and college students with insufficient knowledge for growth in their adult life. Teachers, administrators, parents, and business leaders are affected, and their concerns are addressed along with those of students. Options to traditional public schools are presented along with the positives and negatives of each. Students, at all levels, face a difficult time. They are confronted with COVID-19, omicron viruses, masking rules, universities and high schools proclaiming various words offensive (with optional words), creating divisive situations between students, faculty, and parents. Meanwhile, academic standards are reduced; test requirements are lowered, and an attempt to redo history by destroying statues, pictures, and buildings have all added to the creation of the Education on a Conveyor Belt theory. The conveyor belt is still running.
Heavy Metal
Author: C. R. Willie
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491836504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Deep in the bowels of the Samaria Mountains, Jack Crampton labors in search of the "mother lode". He knew he was getting close when the last blaster had revealed evidence of lead and silver, and an enormous deposit of a grayish, chalky mineral. This worthless mineral Jack had discovered turns out to be the catalyst to a heart-pounding thriller that leads from the legend of the "Iron Door" through the disaster of the Bay of Pigs, to the brink of nuclear war at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Burt Jones, retired air force officer, leads the way in a race against time to control this "heavy metal", which will decide U.S. military might, or subjection to Soviet domination. HEAVY METAL draws from a local legend amid rumors about Jesse James and the Wild West in uncovering a secret that could change the course of history. The prologue sets the stage for this historical fiction novel, which causes the reader to wonder about a much different world than the one that exists today, had this tale turned out differently. Who will end up with the map to the "Iron Door", and who will be left to regret its loss? Possession means military might; its loss means subjection to the Kremlin.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491836504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Deep in the bowels of the Samaria Mountains, Jack Crampton labors in search of the "mother lode". He knew he was getting close when the last blaster had revealed evidence of lead and silver, and an enormous deposit of a grayish, chalky mineral. This worthless mineral Jack had discovered turns out to be the catalyst to a heart-pounding thriller that leads from the legend of the "Iron Door" through the disaster of the Bay of Pigs, to the brink of nuclear war at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Burt Jones, retired air force officer, leads the way in a race against time to control this "heavy metal", which will decide U.S. military might, or subjection to Soviet domination. HEAVY METAL draws from a local legend amid rumors about Jesse James and the Wild West in uncovering a secret that could change the course of history. The prologue sets the stage for this historical fiction novel, which causes the reader to wonder about a much different world than the one that exists today, had this tale turned out differently. Who will end up with the map to the "Iron Door", and who will be left to regret its loss? Possession means military might; its loss means subjection to the Kremlin.
The Boy's Own Annual
Author:
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Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Report of Grand Lodge Officers to the Convention
Author: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Application of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to Vacancies in the Office of the Vice President
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private secretaries
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private secretaries
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description