Author: "Dr. Nay" Renee N. White, Ed.D. Publisher: eBooks2go ISBN: 1957013443 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 85
Book Description
During these unfortunate times of racial turbulence and the unveiling of devastating societal inequities, such as economic, educational and health disparities, young people require social-emotional guidance to cognitively process what is unraveling around them in their community, country and world. More than ever, it is crucial that young adults of color are provided with the encouragement to understand their individual cultural being, and to facilitate their thinking processes about their stance on social justice issues like Black Lives and school violence. As an African American woman, mother of two successful adult sons, and college professor with 30+ years of experience as a literacy and cultural diversity educator, it is my responsibility to serve as a role model and mentor for young people. Yo Bro: Strive Toward Excellence is written in a unique approach that fuses my three roles into a meaningful, entertaining, and educational experience for young men of color. Through my thought-provoking poetry, I aim to reinforce my teen readers’ self-confidence, explore their culture, and empower them to address the injustices that they are passionate as budding social activists. To enhance comprehension, I have incorporated literacy strategies, such as journaling after each poem and end-of-chapter graphic organizers to encourage readers to make intrinsic connections and examine their authentic ideas about real-life topics. Also, inspirational quotes of renown men of color are integrated to further emphasize these relevant concepts.
Author: Tom Burns Publisher: ISBN: 9780764160202 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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(back cover) yo bro! my brother, my friend (front flap) yo bro! This inspiring collection of amusing animal photographs and witty, relevant, and thought-provoking quotes and phrases is the ideal book to let your brother know how you feel about him. It offers words of wit and wisdom on the nature of life, love, and brotherhood to generations of males. Compiled from the thoughts of men and women of all ages who want to record their feelings about their role as a sibling, the quotes convey the very important place brothers hold in their lives. (back flap) Tom Burns has written articles for many magazines and edited more than a hundred books on subjects as diverse as games and sports, cinema, history, and health and fitness. From the many hundreds of quotations that were sent to him from around the world, he has selected those that best sum up the joys of being a sibling, and the great good fortune of everyone who has a brother.
Author: Randol Contreras Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520273370 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
Author: De-Witt A. Herd Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479706043 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 61
Book Description
About the Book Gifted is not just taking a mere though and mixing it with reality, it is finding what you do best and exploring the possibility on how far one can go. A young boy from the out skirts of New York in the mid-60s realized he had the one thing the Brotherhood and the Mafia would die to protect. Thus, putting a completely new twist in cat and mouse game; moreover, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had many clues, but could not piece it together. Therefore, the hunt was on to put the puzzle together. There are humor and a surprising twist as the clues are revealing in a flashback that will make you wonder. The young boy did not know anything about or even heard of Sherlock Holmesism and the theory of deduction, but he take has gift to a completely new level as the adventure continues.
Author: Larry Lewis Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1683485556 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
I have written the first in a collection of short stories about the adventures of a group of people out to protect others against the evil criminal empire of Spectra. The main character is BJ. He is introduced slowly. Qerry also has been trained by the same agency that trained BJ. A detective and his captain joins BJ to fight against the crime lord Mr. G. Jen Jacobs is a computer whiz who becomes BJ's love interest. Then there is Mildred, BJ's mom. She is a mulatto woman who loves her son deeply and is an ex-government employee. She invents satellite systems and advance weaponry. Together this group begins an interesting twist and turn to wreak havoc on Spectra. Not the criminal organizations, the world governments, or his friends will ever know the alter ego. The mystery of the ghost continues throughout all the books.
Author: Franklin Yantz Publisher: Insults Anywhere ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 23
Book Description
The jokes in this book are for connoisseurs of other people's mothers. If you feel the jokes in this book describe your mom more then anyone else's mom then she may have already been one of our research subjects! Congratulations! Insults Anywhere has spent exhaustive hours in the R&D labs with some of the most "interesting" mom's on the planet. Consequently, we also developed one of the most powerful mind erasing drugs around. We couldn't let our staff be too scared from their research! "We pull no punches and neither should you!"
Author: John Hodge Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1528967097 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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Simon Rodgers runs his own chauffeur business and after flying back from a well-earned break to St Lucia with his wife, Summer, their lives are turned upside down when he signs up to a sports supplement company called The Fat Club. All is not what it seems.
Author: Rose Ricciardelli Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 177112055X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving the safety and lives of incarcerated populations? Considering that many Canadians have served time, are currently incarcerated, or may one day be incarcerated–and will be released back into society–it is essential for the functioning and betterment of communities that we understand the realities that shape the prison experience for adult male offenders. Surviving Incarceration reveals the unnecessary and omnipresent violence in prisons, the heterogeneity of the prisoner population, and the realities that different prisoners navigate in order to survive. Ricciardelli draws on interviews with almost sixty former federal prisoners to show how their criminal convictions, masculinity, and sexuality determined their social status in prison and, in consequence, their potential for victimization. The book outlines the modern "inmate code" that governs prisoner behaviours, the formal controls put forth by the administration, the dynamics that shape sex-offender experiences of incarceration, and the personal growth experiences of many prisoners as they cope with incarceration.
Author: Bruce Fraizer Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
A typical hardworking man and his fiancee are living together in the heart of East New York, trying to save money so they can move to a better place. When his fiancee is viciously taken from the home, he becomes a one-man army to take on a notorious drug lord who holds her captive and is also known as a ghost. Suddenly, their lives change in two different directions, and all hell breaks loose.
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