Swag Is Not Enough

Author : Alana D. Wyche,Keith R. Wyche
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781504964111

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Swag Is Not Enough by Alana D. Wyche,Keith R. Wyche Pdf

Welcome to the world of being a "millennial". You are part of the most talked about, written about, and yet least understood generation in modern history! You were able to program a VCR and television remote control before you could speak. You were taught using the latest technology, distance learning, and online classes. Socially, you embraced social media and social networking when most of the adult world couldn't spell Google or Twitter. And yet, you find yourself misunderstood at best, and marginalized at worst. However, the reality is, that millennials possess some of the most innovative, and creative minds in the workplace. Unlike previous generations who adhered to militaristic hierarchies, "me too" group think, and chose to "live to work", you have decided that organizational layers create unproductive barriers, "group think" stifles creativity, and that living to work leads to burnout. In your world, your job is an extension of who you are. Your co-workers are an extension of your social network, and you choose to "work to live" so that you can enjoy all life has to offer! But in reality, you have a real problem. Most of todays leaders are from another time and place. Your bosses are baby-boomers or Gen-Xers (think Baby-boomer wannabes), and in some cases, "Traditionalists" (think Grandma and Grandpa). They can't seem to understand why you act and think how you do? They struggle to see you as equals in decision-making, and can be intimidated by your grasp of technology. But until you are running the organization, you MUST learn how to work with, through and beside them. This book serves to enhance your ability to succeed by exploring common myths and perceptions regarding Millennials. You will see yourselves through the eyes of others, to better understand and ultimately overcome these misperceptions. Additionally, it will force you to look at yourself in the mirror to uncover some of your "blind-spots" and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Written by a Millennial with editorial insights by her Baby-boomer father, the hope is that after reading "Swag Is Not Enough", you will be armed with insights and lessons to take your career to new heights.

Author : Janice Baines,Carmen Tisdale,Susi Long
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807757178

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"We've Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough" by Janice Baines,Carmen Tisdale,Susi Long Pdf

Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will learn about culturally relevant pedagogies as young children learn literacy and a critical stance through music, oral histories, name stories, intergenerational texts, and heritage lessons.

Author : Ralph Richard Banks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101475645

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Is Marriage for White People? by Ralph Richard Banks Pdf

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women. This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other. This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.

Author : Autumn Carpenter
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781589236691

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The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating by Autumn Carpenter Pdf

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of decorated cakes by various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Author : Lydia Odom
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781514439500

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LOVING LIFE THROUGH IT ALL by Lydia Odom Pdf

Loving Life Through It All is a collection of poems broken up into three parts. The first section is entitled “Pain”, which consist of heartbreak, death of love, and a variety of struggles. The second section entitled “Acceptance” is all about learning to accept oneself, others, and the different seasons of life. The final section titled “Joy” is simply about having peace, happiness, and joy through all of the growing pains of life. It’s about having gladness no matter what obstacle is present. Everyone encounters struggles, frustration, identity issues, and heart-ache but life is a journey. There is no way to live without any of those things; therefore, we must learn to enjoy all of the opportunities to show, share, and embrace love and happiness. The poems were written over a course of eight years which shows a growth in itself. The goal for the book is to help mend hearts and build bridges of Faith and Acceptance through connecting with hurt and struggle which all of us have.

Author : Sheryl McCorry,Shirley McCorry
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781741981087

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Diamonds and Dust: A Sheryl McCorry Memoir 1 by Sheryl McCorry,Shirley McCorry Pdf

Sheryl McCorry grew up in the outback carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18 her family moved to Broome, and it was the first time she'd ever used a telephone or seen a television. A year later, only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank, Sheryl locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a love affair that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers. Sheryl became the only woman in a team of stockmen. She soon learned how to run rogue bulls and to outsmart the neighbours in the toughest game of all - mustering cattle. The playing field was a million acres of unfenced, unmarked boundaries. Sheryl went on to become the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations, but her life was not without its share of tragedy. Her story is an epic saga of life in one of the toughest and most beautiful terrains in Australia - a story of hardship, drought, joy and triumph.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2046 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603222

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Gillian Cowlishaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000247114

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Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas by Gillian Cowlishaw Pdf

This lively book brings the reader close to the people from a remote cattle station in far north Australia, where black and white peoples' lives have been intertwined over the span of 80 years. Tracing the humorous, savage and ordinary ways in which race structured intimate and everyday relationships across a great divide, Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations. By investigating specific patterns of interaction on Australia's cultural frontier, Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas illustrates how anthropologists, pastoralists and government officials squabbled about Aborigines as they intruded into their country, controlled aspects of their lives, and dominated the way they were represented in the public realm. The ironic title hints that the difference between 'redneck' pastoralists and 'egghead' anthropologists is not so great as might be imagined. Aborigines were central to the projects of both kinds of whitefellas. Weaving the shifts in government policy and public opinion with accounts of their sometimes ludicrous impact on outback communities, this book brings to life the complexities of living with racial categories. And it asks why increasingly enlightened anti-racist policies seldom seem to have worked as intended, even in this era of self-determination. This thought provoking work will speak not only to anthropologists and those interested in Aboriginal Australia, but to scholars of race more generally, especially in the burgeoning field of whiteness studies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : PURD:32754062024389

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Drugs in Institutions: Formerly institutionalized persons and physicians by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Child care
ISBN : UOM:39015013770485

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Drugs in institutions by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045473688

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Victims of Crime by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Kelly J. Baptist
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593380895

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The Swag Is in the Socks by Kelly J. Baptist Pdf

Xavier Moon is stepping out of the shadows when his great-uncle gives him some outlandish socks and some even stranger requests. A story about heart, confidence, and standing on your own two feet that is perfect for fans of The Season of Styx Malone and The Parker Inheritance. "An excellent read-alike to Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me or Janae Marks’ From the Desk of Zoe Washington.” –Booklist, Starred Review "A warm but authentic picture of a middle schooler figuring out who he is and who he wants to be." –The Bulletin Xavier Moon is not one to steal the show. He’s perfectly content to play video games and sit at his bedroom window watching the neighborhood talk outside. But for Xavier’s twelfth birthday, he receives a pair of funky socks and a challenge from his great-uncle, Frankie Bell, saying it’s time to swag out and speak up. First on the list: get into the legendary Scepter League. Xavier’s grandfather, great-uncle, and father were all invited to join the elite boys’ after-school club that admits only the most suave and confident young men. Xavier has never had the courage to apply before, but his wild socks are getting him some big attention, so maybe it’s time to come out of the shadows and follow in his family's footsteps. Or maybe Xavier will march down a new path altogether.

Author : Cornelius Varley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Drawing instruments
ISBN : BL:A0018368728

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A Treatise on Optical Drawing Instruments by Cornelius Varley Pdf

The treatise describes and illustrates Varley's graphic telescope, a device he patented in 1809. The graphic telescope "combined the portability of the camera obscura with the two-way mirror arrangement of William Hyde Wollaston's camera lucida. Its much improved lens system allowed it to be used for objects or views of greatly varying size and distance" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Author : Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06T19:10:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774643365

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Norah of Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce Pdf

Boarding school is over for the year. Norah is joyfully reunited with her family for the Christmas holidays at Billabong, but a fire destroys the stable and homestead at Billabong. Norah risks her life to find out why...

Author : Martha Shields
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460352755

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The Blacksheep Prince's Bride by Martha Shields Pdf

A devoted member of Edenbourg's royal household, lady-in-waiting Rowena Wilde was determined to obtain answers regarding the king's disappearance—starting by playing nanny to the prime suspect's son. Yet the harder she tried to prove Jake Stanbury's guilt, the more she found herself defending his innocence. But when Jake proposed a marriage of convenience to retain custody of his son, could Rowena accept a temporary union when her heart begged him to give her forever?