Author: Anna Cogswell; Petersham Miska Tyler (1888-1960; Petersham, Maud Fuller)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Author: Anna Cogswell; Petersham Miska Tyler (1888-1960; Petersham, Maud Fuller)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Twenty-four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Classic stories, legends, and fairy tales, including groups of Christmas stories, Greek legends, American Indian legends, and Hallowe'en and mystery stories.
Twenty-four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Author: Twenty-Four Unusual Stories For Boys And Girls
Author: Anna Cogswell TylerPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
" ONCE when the Emperor Charles V was traveling in the country, he saw a convent, and in passing by a little door he read this strange inscription: "Here you live without a care." The Emperor was very surprised and could scarcely believe his eyes. "It seems to me an impossibility," he thought; "does some one really exist on earth who is free from care? As Emperor I am overwhelmed with troubles, while here in this convent, which is a little kingdom in itself, one would have nothing to worry about. I cannot believe it." Immediately on setting foot in the village inn, the Emperor sent the hostess to fetch the Abbot of this singular convent. You can imagine what a state of mind the latter was in when he heard he was summoned to the Emperor's presence. "What have I done to displease him?" he asked himself. On the way he examined his conscience over and over again, and he could think of no fault of which he was guilty. "I am in troubled waters; I must steer my way through," he said. When he was in the Emperor's presence, the latter expressed his astonishment of what he had read. The Abbot now knew why he had been summoned, and smiled. "Sir," said he, "does that astonish you? However, it is very simple; we eat, we drink, we sleep, and worry over nothing." "Well, Reverend Abbot, that state of things must come to an end," said the Emperor, "and in order that you may have your share of trouble, I command you to bring me to-morrow the answers to the three following questions: "First, What is the depth of the sea? "Secondly, How many cows' tails would it take to measure the distance between the earth and the sun?"
Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Author: Anna Cogswell TylerPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789352972029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.
Twenty-four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Author: Anna Cogswell TylerThe Story of Cruel and Unusual
Author: Colin DayanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262260581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of "acceptable" torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, this period of judicial concern was an anomaly. Over the last thirty years, Supreme Court decisions have once again dismantled Eighth Amendment protections and rendered such words as "cruel" and "inhuman" meaningless when applied to conditions of confinement and treatment during detention. Prisoners' actual pain and suffering have been explained away in a rhetorical haze—with rationalizations, for example, that measure cruelty not by the pain or suffering inflicted, but by the intent of the person who inflicted it. The Story of Cruel and Unusual is a stunningly original work of legal scholarship, and a searing indictment of the U.S. penal system.
Reports of the Officers of the Town
Author: Bedford (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The Indiana Teacher
Author: List of Books for Elementary School Libraries
Author: University of the State of New York. Library extension division. School libraries sectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description