Bootstraps Need Boots

Author : Hugh Segal
Publisher : On Point Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774890489

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Bootstraps Need Boots by Hugh Segal Pdf

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his time as a chief of staff for Prime Minister Mulroney and to his more recent work as an advisor on a basic income pilot project for the Ontario Liberal government. This book is a passionate argument not only for why a basic annual income makes economic sense, but for why it is the right thing to do.

Author : Hugh Segal
Publisher : On Point Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0774890479

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Bootstraps Need Boots by Hugh Segal Pdf

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his time as a chief of staff for Prime Minister Mulroney and to his more recent work as an advisor on a basic income pilot project for the Ontario Liberal government. This book is a passionate argument not only for why a basic annual income makes economic sense, but for why it is the right thing to do.

Author : Winston T. Hatch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796071566

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How to Pull Your Self up by Your Bootstraps, When You Have No Boots by Winston T. Hatch Pdf

As I am writing this I realize some of the stories are a little fare out, might be difficult to believer, but I assure you they are all true, and I lived them. I used only first names to protect both the guilty, and innocent. I also vaguely de-scribed locations, and companies for the same reasons. I’m about to reach my 86th birthday, have been retired for over 20 years, and I doubt if anyone men-tioned is still alive. I started this book at the encouragement, and support of my Daughter to preserve the life of us old timers, who grew up in a world far different from what we have now. The amount of news, and information I am exposed to in one day now is about equal to what I was exposed to in a year when I was 8 years old, and World War 2 started. My story is not unique, it is only one of many, some far more interesting, and they’re disappearing rapidly as we pass on. I encourage these old timers to write them down or record them. But be prepared for as you write your life stories your going to almost relive them, your going to have time to think about them, when at the time you didn’t. Your views, and values may have change with time, and are now different. As I look back over my life I have had many successes, and failures. Your failures you remember, they hang around your neck forever, and influ-ence your life without you being aware of it. Your successes you soon forget, and assume that’s the way life’s supposed to be. The only successes I can take pride in is those of my Children, both of them have been immensely successful-ly, they both have traveled, and worked throughout the world. I and my Wife Pat have been blessed. I hope you enjoyed my life.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433106671

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"Yes We Can" by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

As President Barack Obama outlined his promise for change during the presidential campaign, he made effective use of proverbs and proverbial phrases, and invented many quotable epithets that have all the makings of future proverbs. This book examines how Obama's natural and authentic reliance on traditional metaphors enhances his impressive rhetoric, rather than reducing it to mere sound bites. Proverbs, with their often colorful metaphors, add expressiveness and emotion to his communications, giving people the opportunity to follow his pragmatic or philosophical arguments through common language. No matter the subject, Obama's prose contains metaphorical language that makes his rhetoric and oratory universally accessible. This book contains detailed analyses of the proverbial rhetoric in Obama's books Dreams from My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope (2006). A section looks at his proverbial language in 229 speeches, news conferences, interviews, and radio addresses, and the final section presents in-depth studies of his seven most significant addresses. It includes a comprehensive contextualized index of 1714 proverbial texts found within the writings and speeches from Obama's political beginnings to his memorable inaugural address.

Author : W.T. Kosmos
Publisher : Wise Wit Press, LLC
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9798988315124

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Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools by W.T. Kosmos Pdf

Dear Courageous Reader, I am grateful to share Blaze Union’s amazing story as an antidote to the book bans, seahorse protests, and absurdity spreading across our world. Alas, sensitive readers should look elsewhere. After three years of large hand discrimination, Sweetie attacks with a cookie bomb and cake guns, and her twenty-third red card at school (expulsion), Blaze and the spoon-wielding Puddin’ Heads seek revenge on the Sweeties. But will a vengeful Noble Deed—along with this fourteen-year-old’s ridiculous guitar and football (soccer) skills—convince the prime minister to reward her with the power to boss all of the nation’s schools? Brave truth seekers, read this story as quickly as your heart and mind can handle. Absurdity looms large on the horizon. Develop your absurdity immunity, before it is too late. Spoons up! Heigi hooga! W. T. Kosmos Paradox, USA, Earth, Milky Way

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : 1433113031

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"Making a Way Out of No Way" by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

In barely forty years of life Martin Luther King (1929-1968) distinguished himself as one of the greatest social reformers of modern times: civil rights leader, defender of nonviolence in the struggle of desegregation, champion of the poor, anti-war proponent, and broad-minded visionary of an interrelated world of free people. His many verbal and written communications in the form of sermons, speeches, interviews, letters, essays, and several books are replete with Bible proverbs as «Love your enemies», «He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword», and «Man does not live by bread alone» as well as folk proverbs as «Time and tide wait for no man», «Last hired, first fired», «No gain without pain», and «Making a way out of no way». He also delighted in citing quotations that have become proverbs, to wit «No man is an island», «All men are created equal», and «No lie can live forever». King recycles these bits of traditional wisdom in various contexts, varying his proverbial messages as he addresses the multifaceted issues of civil rights. His rhetorical prowess is thus informed to a considerable degree by his effective use of his repertoire of proverbs which he frequently uses as leitmotifs or amasses into set pieces of fixed phrases to be employed repeatedly.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Budget
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045187411

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Outlook for the Fiscal Year 1990 Budget by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget Pdf

Author : M. Degani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137471598

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Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader by M. Degani Pdf

Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.

Author : Johnny Carr,Laura Captari
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433677977

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Orphan Justice by Johnny Carr,Laura Captari Pdf

Christians are clearly called to care for orphans, a group so close to the heart of Jesus. In reality, most of the 153 million orphaned and vulnerable children in the world do not need to be adopted, and not everyone needs to become an adoptive parent. However, there are other very important ways to help beyond adoption. Indeed, caring for orphaned and vulnerable children requires us to care about related issues from child trafficking and HIV/AIDS to racism and poverty. Too often, we only discuss or theologize the issues, relegating the responsibility to governments. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. Based on his own personal journey toward pure religion, Johnny Carr moves readers from talking about global orphan care to actually doing something about it in Orphan Justice. Combining biblical truth with the latest research, this inspiring book: • investigates the orphan care and adoption movement in the U.S. today • examines new data on the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children • connects “liberal issues” together as critical aspects or orphan care • discovers the role of the church worldwide in meeting these needs • develops a tangible, sustainable action plan using worldwide partnerships • fleshes out the why, what, and how of global orphan care • offers practical steps to getting involved and making a difference

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : PURD:32754076289697

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Appalachia by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : LOC:00005878275

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Indian Development Finance Corporation Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Pegeen Reichert Powell
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874219319

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Retention and Resistance by Pegeen Reichert Powell Pdf

Retention and Resistance combines personal student narratives with a critical analysis of the current approach to retention in colleges and universities, and explores how retention can inform a revision of goals for first-year writing teachers. Retention is a vital issue for institutions, but as these students’ stories show, leaving college is often the result of complex and idiosyncratic individual situations that make institutional efforts difficult and ultimately ineffective. An adjustment of institutional and pedagogical objectives is needed to refocus on educating as many students as possible, including those who might leave before graduation. Much of the pedagogy, curricula, and methodologies of composition studies assume students are preparing for further academic study. Retention and Resistance argues for a new kairotic pedagogy that moves toward an emphasis on the present classroom experience and takes students’ varied experiences into account. Infusing the discourse of retention with three individual student voices, Powell explores the obligation of faculty to participate in designing an institution that educates all students, no matter where they are in their educational journey or how far that journey will go.

Author : Monica Wood
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082512901X

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12 Multicultural Novels by Monica Wood Pdf

Incorporate multicultural literature easily into your English program! Vivid stories that captivate the imagination and expand cultural understanding offer effective teaching strategies. This literature guide; gives you effective teaching strategies and complete material for 12 novels by writers from diverse cultures and ethnic backgrounds. The novels are: Ellen Foster, Reservation Blues; Shizuko's Daughter; The House on Mango Street; Somewhere in the Darkness; Make Lemonade; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; MAUS: A Survivor's Tale; The Long Season of Rain; Jesse; Allegra Maud Goldman; and The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan. Included for each novel are chapter-by chapter synopses, teaching notes, discussion questions and suggested responses, and a reading quiz and answer key.

Author : Mark Larson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781572848825

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Working in the 21st Century by Mark Larson Pdf

From nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors—an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it’s like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time. Author Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred workers from across the socioeconomic spectrum as they share their experiences with work and what it has meant in their lives—the good, the bad, the mundane, and the profound. Doulas, firefighters, chefs, hairstylists, executives, actors, stay-at-home parents, and so many more talk about what they do all day and how it aligns (or doesn't) with what they want to be doing with their lives. The pandemic, the ensuing “Great Resignation,” and the current reckonings with racial justice are among the forces that are now upending and reshaping our longstanding relationships with work. Larson’s interviews display how these forces collide in the lives of average Americans as they tell their own stories with passion, heartbreak, and, ultimately, hope. Working in the 21st Century asks why we show up, or don’t, to the jobs we’ve chosen, and how the upheaval of the past few years has changed how we perceive the work we do. It will be released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Studs Terkel's 1974 classic Working.

Author : Jamie Swift,Elaine Power
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771135481

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The Case for Basic Income by Jamie Swift,Elaine Power Pdf

Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income. Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the market economy and social programs fail? Jamie Swift and Elaine Power scrutinize the politics and the potential behind a radical proposal in a post-pandemic world: that wealth should be built by a society, not individuals. And that we all have an unconditional right to a fair share. In these pages, Swift and Power bring to the forefront the deeply personal stories of Canadians who participated in the 2017–2019 Ontario Basic Income Pilot; examine the essential literature and history behind the movement; and answer basic income’s critics from both the right and left.