Losing Generations

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on High-Risk Youth
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309052344

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Losing Generations by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on High-Risk Youth Pdf

At least 7 million young Americansâ€"fully one-quarter of adolescents 10 to 17 years oldâ€"may be at risk of failing to achieve productive adult lives. They use drugs, engage in unprotected sex, drop out of school, and sometimes commit crimes, effectively closing the door to their own futures. And the costs to society are enormous: school and social services are overwhelmed, and our nation faces the future with a diminished citizenry. This penetrating book argues that the problems of troubled youth cannot be separated from the settings in which those youths liveâ€"settings that have deteriorated significantly in the past two decades. A distinguished panel examines what works and what does not in the effort to support and nurture adolescents and offers models for successful programs. This volume presents an eye-opening look at what millions of the nation's youths confront every day of their lives, addressing: How the decline in economic security for young working parents affects their children's life chances. How dramatic changes in household structure and the possibilities of family and community violence threaten adolescents' development. How the decline of neighborhoods robs children of a safe environment. How adolescents' health needs go unmet in the current system. Losing Generations turns the spotlight on those institutions youths needâ€"the health care system, schools, the criminal justice, and the child welfare and foster home systemsâ€"and how they are functioning. Difficult issues are addressed with study results and insightful analyses: access of poor youths to health insurance coverage, inequities in school funding, how child welfare agencies provide for adolescents in their care, and the high percentage of young black men in the criminal justice system.

Author : J. Arthur Rath
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824829492

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Lost Generations by J. Arthur Rath Pdf

"During the Depression years, J. Arthur Rath spent his early childhood shuttled between relatives and foster parents in Hawai'i and on the mainland while his single mother, Hualani, struggled to make a living. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, his grandparents sent him to the Big Island and Konawaena School, where he heard the Kamehameha Schools boy choir at a school assembly. The performance made a deep impression on Rath, and a year later, in 1944, he entered Kamehameha as an eighth-grade boarder. Thus began Rath's love affair with an institution that he credits with turning his life around, with giving him and other disadvantaged children of native ancestry - Hawai'i's "lost generations" - the confidence and support necessary to make something of themselves. This is the story of that love affair. It is also the story of Rath's recent battle, together with other alumni, for the integrity of his beloved Kamehameha against the school's trustees and their organization, the powerful Bishop Estate." "Intelligent and impressionable, Rath spent an idyllic four years at Kamehameha. In a lively talk-story manner, he reminisces about campus life and his classmates, many of whom became lifelong friends and influential members of the Hawaiian community: Don Ho, Nona Beamer, Oswald Stender, Tom Hugo, William Fernandez. Years later Rath, a successful retired businessman, would call on these same friends to hold Kamehameha's trustees accountable for their mismanagement of Bishop Estate's vast financial holdings and ultimately their failure to carry out founder Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's mandate to educate Hawaiian children. Rath draws on his many personal ties to the school and the estate to provide surprising revelations on the trustees and the "Bishop Estate Scandal," which made headlines daily throughout the mid-1990s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tom Oraphor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Skin
ISBN : 9781434386670

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The Lost Generations of a United World by Tom Oraphor Pdf

Asenath Tannie is an actress, writer, director, producer, filmmaker, author, and owner of her own company. ATG Productions is currently shooting a 30-second commercial for a Doritos contest. The winning commercial will air on Superbowl Sunday. Asenath wrote and stars as Happy Grandma in this Doritos commercial. Asenath LOVES challenges and this is definitely a challenge. Asenath and her husband of 100 years, as she likes to say, live in Orange County, California where they raised four children. Another challenge Asenath has accomplished is that she has submitted her short film, Billy Boy, to several film festivals. Asenath's work is an outpouring of love in print, film, music, and on the Internet. (See Rick's web site: www.RickCGentry.org) Asenath's promise to her son, Rick, is "I will tell the whole world I love you." She intends to keep that promise. As you can see, Asenath loves a challenge. She hopes you do too. "Repeat After Me" will help you overcome many of the challenges of every day living by changing negative thinking to positive action---even if you don't believe it! That's the beautiful thing about these phrases---just repeat them over and over again, and see what happens. If you utilize this handbook every day, it can and will open a new world of exciting opportunities that perhaps you wouldn't have even dared to dream otherwise i.e., your own business, a different career, a promotion, becoming an outstanding parent, being happy, and so on. Wow. What a challenge. I dare you to meet it. Please write or e-mail me your thoughts as you use this daily handbook. I'd love to hear from you. Sincerely, Asenath Tannie

Author : Jean M. Twenge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501152023

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iGen by Jean M. Twenge Pdf

As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Author : Manjit Sachdeva
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483667706

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Lost Generations by Manjit Sachdeva Pdf

Lost Generations is a tragicomic, at times hilarious, saga of a well-off Sikh family forced out of Rawalpindi during the partition of Punjab in 1947. The story follows the family's struggles and partial rehabilitation as they settle in Delhi, attempting to keep up the appearances of their affluent past and preserve their old mores. Around them, however, the world is disintegrating, and eventually, they face death, destitution and an uncertain future once again in 1984. Lost Generations is a story of misogyny, sexism, racism, intolerance, corruption, exploitation, and materialism all innate to Indian society.

Author : Christopher Chima,Ph.D
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462816354

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The Lost Generations by Christopher Chima,Ph.D Pdf

The Lost Generations is a fictional tale of life in America as experienced by a foreigner. Through the eyes of the main character, who is caught between the complexities of his dual culture as he travels back and forth between his home in America and his homeland, this powerful novel explores the important global issues of our time. The Lost Generations is a novel that enlightens readers about what happens on a daily basis, and what life is like in the other parts of the world outside America. . It takes the reader on a journey through the vicious cycle that occurs everyday in the less developed countries. It tells a complete story and allows the audience to become a part of the act, and this is what makes the novel powerful. The narrative voice is mainly third-person omniscient and does not remain that way throughout the novel. It is a new and different voice.

Author : Elizabeth Hand
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156031345

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Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand Pdf

Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in this mesmerizing literary thriller.

Author : David Tremayne
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1844258394

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The Lost Generation by David Tremayne Pdf

The 1970s was a great decade for British racing drivers, but it was also the era in which the nation lost a generation of brilliant young drivers – Roger Williamson, Tony Brise and Tom Pryce – in tragic accidents. All had the potential to be World Champions. With access to their families, friends and race colleagues, David Tremayne tells their full stories in this superb book, now available in paperback. It makes for poignant but uplifting reading.

Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780358561842

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Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen Pdf

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials--the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547385608

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein Pdf

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas. Alice was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner Gertrude Stein. The book starts with Alice's days in San Francisco, before she moved to France, then describes her moving to Paris, meeting Gertrude, and starting their life together. The book had mixed reception, both among critics and Stein's friends, but the success of it was great. Today it is ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Author : Bobby Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786499738

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The Generation Divide by Bobby Duffy Pdf

Author : George Henry Bateson Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bible
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025056354

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Was Israel Ever in Egypt?, Or, A Lost Tradition by George Henry Bateson Wright Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6J7G

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Unity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bobby Duffy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541620308

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The Generation Myth by Bobby Duffy Pdf

Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but an acclaimed social researcher explains why we shouldn't. Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. It makes for good headlines, but is it true? Bobby Duffy has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think. The Generation Myth is a vital rejoinder to alarmist worries about generational warfare and social decline. The kids are all right, it turns out. Their parents are too.

Author : Vern L. Bengtson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199343683

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Families and Faith by Vern L. Bengtson Pdf

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the faith. And it seems, from media portrayals, that this is happening more and more frequently. But is religious change between generations common? How does religion get passed down from one generation to the next? How do some families succeed in passing on their faith while others do not? Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations seeks to answer these questions and many more. For almost four decades, Vern Bengtson and his colleagues have been conducting the largest-ever study of religion and family across generations. Through war and social upheaval, depression and technological revolution, they have followed more than 350 families composed of more than 3,500 individuals whose lives span more than a century--the oldest was born in 1881, the youngest in 1988--to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next. What they found may come as a surprise: despite enormous changes in American society, a child is actually more likely to remain within the fold than leave it, and even the nonreligious are more likely to follow their parents' example than to rebel. And while outside forces do play a role, the crucial factor in whether a child keeps the faith is the presence of a strong fatherly bond. Mixing unprecedented data with gripping interviews and sharp analysis, Families and Faith offers a fascinating exploration of what allows a family to pass on its most deeply-held tradition--its faith.