The View From The Grass Roots Another Look

Author : Gregory J. Rummo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781414116723

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The View from the Grass Roots - Another Look by Gregory J. Rummo Pdf

"Confidently recommended reading, The View from the Grass Roots is filled from cover to cover with keen insights, profound thoughts, and a deep and diverse understanding of the human condition." -Midwest Book Review "[Rummo is] uniquely qualified . . . It is clear from the quality of his writing that he has been at this for quite a while. Plenty of exercise for the mind and soul." -Willard Samuel, Adjunct Scholar at Frontiers of Freedom "Greg Rummo is a great writer and a great human being, facts that shine like precious stones in his prolific output. I have trouble not hating him for his talent and energy." -Joe Klock, Sr., Author and Syndicated Columnist "Greg Rummo is one of my heroes. His book masterfully gives a cohesive view of liberal politics and biased media and the impact they have on the American culture. And he does it with engaging evidence." -Thomas Ciesielka, TC Public Relations "By approaching the latest public issues from the angle of religion, informed by Christianity, Gregory Rummo offers an attractive corrective to the assumptions often underlying coverage of stories in mainstream print media. His unashamed point of view can be infuriating . . . for example, to state his case, he often sets up so-called liberals as targets, then dismantles them by his arguments; it is a facile device. But there is much merit to what he says. And he is never mean. Which is high praise indeed." -Charles Saydah, Letters to the Editor, The Record

Author : Dawn Colclasure
Publisher : Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619502611

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Burning the Midnight Oil Revisited by Dawn Colclasure Pdf

Writing from home can be a challenge when you’ve got one or more kids tugging at your sleeve for attention. There are days it seems like you can’t get ANY writing done, and looming deadlines mean sleepless nights and frazzled nerves. Take heart: Writing parents who have figured out this writing parent thing share their stories and the lessons they’ve learned in trying to find balance between writing and parenting. If you’re a freelance writer, commercial writer, author or journalist trying to figure out how to keep your writing career going strong and be a capable parent at the same time, check out Burning the Midnight Oil Revisited to get some tips and techniques on how to make it happen for you!

Author : Jan Blommaert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134092444

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Grassroots Literacy by Jan Blommaert Pdf

What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between ‘grassroots’ literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and ‘elite’ literacies. Displaced from their original context to elite literacy environments in the form of letters, police declarations and pieces of creative writing, ‘grassroots’ literacies are unsurprisingly easily disqualified, either as ‘bad’ forms of literacy, or as messages that fail to be understood. Through close analysis of two unique, handwritten documents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan Blommaert considers how ‘grassroots’ literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments of the developed world. In examining these documents produced by socially and economically marginalized writers Blommaert demonstrates how literacy environments should be understood as relatively autonomous systems. Grassroots Literacy will be key reading for students of language and literacy studies as well as an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in understanding the implications of globalization on local literacy practices.

Author : K. Farnsworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230114661

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Grassroots School Reform by K. Farnsworth Pdf

This book walks community activists through the rationale for assuming local responsibility for academic performance, outlines steps needed to drive that change, and suggests curricular direction and school policy requirements.

Author : Hung-yok Ip
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793622358

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Grassroots Activism of Ancient China by Hung-yok Ip Pdf

This book examines Mohism as a movement in early China, focusing on the Mohists’ pursuit of power. Fashioning themselves as grassroots activists, the Mohists hoped to impact the elite by gaining entry in its community and influencing it from within. To create a less violent world, they deployed strategies of persuasion and negotiation but did not discard counterviolence in their dealings with the ruling class. In executing their activism, the Mohists produced knowledge that allowed them to hone their nonviolent strategies as well as to mount armed resistance to aggression. In addition, the Mohists paid significant attention to the issue of personhood, constructing a self-cultivation tradition unsparing in its demands for overcoming human conditions that would impede their performance as activists. This book situates Mohism in the history of nonviolent activism, and in that of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Author : Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015039918621

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Black Religion After the Million Man March by Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher Pdf

The Million Man March in Washington, D.C. remains a major landmark in the journey of the African-American community. Attended by controversy, it fired the imagination of African-American males throughout the country. Black Religion after the Million Man March brings together a range of Black theologians -- men and women -- to assess the spiritual and theological issues posed by this event and, of greater importance, its implications for the future. Essays in the first part wrestle with conflicting reactions to the March itself -- including sharply critical perspectives. The second part addresses the theme of "manhood". The third part considers the themes of responsibility, atonement, restoration, reconciliation, and renewal. Together, these essays provide a challenging agenda for Christians committed to African-American liberation.

Author : Randal S. Beeman,James A. Pritchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050466468

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A Green and Permanent Land by Randal S. Beeman,James A. Pritchard Pdf

Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twentieth-century America, showing how ecological thought has challenged and changed agricultural theory, practice, and policy from the 1930s to the present. It introduces us to the people and institutions who forged alternatives to industrialized agriculture through a deep concern for the enduring fertility of the soil, a passionate commitment to human health, and a strong advocacy of economic justice for farmers. Randal Beeman and James Pritchard show that agricultural issues were central to the rise of the environmental movement in the United States. As family farms failed during the Depression, a new kind of agriculture was championed based on the holistic approach taught by the emerging science of ecology. Ecology influenced the "permanent agriculture" movement that advocated such radical concepts as long-term land use planning, comprehensive soil conservation, and organic farming. Then in the 1970s, "sustainable agriculture" combined many of these ideas with new concerns about misguided technology and an over-consumptive culture to preach a more sensible approach to farming. In chronicling the overlooked history of alternative agriculture, A Green and Permanent Land records the significant contributions of individuals like Rex Tugwell, Hugh Bennett, Louis Bromfield, Edward Faulkner, Russell and Kate Lord, Scott and Helen Nearing, Robert Rodale, Wes Jackson, and groups like Friends of the Land and the Practical Farmers of Iowa. And by demonstrating how agriculture also remains central to the public interest—especially in the face of climatic crises, genetically altered crops, and questionable uses of pesticides—this book puts these issues in historical perspective and offers readers considerable food for thought.

Author : Richard F. Fenno Jr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807860638

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Congress at the Grassroots by Richard F. Fenno Jr. Pdf

However much politicians are demeaned and denounced in modern American society, our democracy could not work without them. For this reason, says Richard Fenno, their activities warrant our attention. In his pioneering book, Home Style, Fenno demonstrated that a close look at politicians at work in their districts can tell us a great deal about the process of representation. Here, Fenno employs a similarly revealing grassroots approach to explore how patterns of representation have changed in recent decades. Fenno focuses on two members of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented the same west-central Georgia district at different times: Jack Flynt, who served from the 1950s to the 1970s, and Mac Collins, who has held the seat in the 1990s. His on-the-scene observation of their differing representational styles--Flynt focuses on people, Collins on policy--reveals the ways in which social and demographic changes inspire shifts in representational strategies. More than a study of representational change in one district, Congress at the Grassroots also helps illuminate the larger subject of political change in the South and in the nation as a whole.

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476709536

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Grass Roots by Stuart Woods Pdf

From bestselling author Stuart Woods, a legal thriller featuring attorney Will Lee who travels South to return to his Georgia roots—and gets involved in a political firestorm that could make or break his career. Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. A prominent lawyer, he has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies...and to argue an explosively controversial case that could seriously damage his political career. For Delano is a town with a dark secret—a smoldering hotbed of racial hatred and moral outrage, held in the thrall of a sinister white-supremacist group called The Elect...a breeding ground for violent, evil forces that will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. At first, Will Lee was running for the Senate. But now he is running for his life.

Author : Jack Barbash
Publisher : New York : Harper [1961]
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Labor union locals
ISBN : UOM:39015030424298

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Labor's Grass Roots by Jack Barbash Pdf

Author : Hasan Mohamed Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Community development
ISBN : WISC:89011554938

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Leadership Factors Associated with the Effective Functioning of the Malysian Grass-roots Development Machinery (Village Development and Security Committee) in Peninsular Malaysia by Hasan Mohamed Ali Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Family Practice
ISBN : CHI:61534649

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The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Moore,Fielding M. McGehee
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038660606

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The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown by Rebecca Moore,Fielding M. McGehee Pdf

A collection of fifteen essays by persons who were touched in some way by the mass deaths in Guyana. The volume includes reflections by former Peoples Temple members, insights by psychologists and counsellors, and confessions by relatives vividly reveal what happened to individuals in the decade following November 18, 1978.

Author : Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451903

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Grassroots Memorials by Peter Jan Margry,Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Pdf

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Radio
ISBN : MINN:31951002801214H

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Radio Times by Anonim Pdf