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Imagine being thrust into a world where everything you knew as a child was now unfamiliar. The working crew on a Great Lakes iron core freighter is now your daily connection to earning enough money to go the college. As the events progress, the vessel, which is your home and job, becomes unstable and eventually not seaworthy. The crew is dysfunctional, and the dynamics of interactions of the captain's family throw all caution to the wind. The history...
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This book will likely irritate every reader at some point. One chapter is so bold it intones the good of a mother who kills her children. The chapter does not say the murderous mother was a good woman, or that she did a good thing; it doesn't say that her actions should be without penalty or consequence. The chapter suggests, basically, in a metaphoric and anecdotal ending, that the mother loves the ones she killed. PsychoBabbleJabble is full of these...
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The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptions of school administrators, teachers, and counselors from schools within the United States school districts regarding the most frequent internal and external factors affecting student truancy and effective intervention strategies to decrease truancy.
Participants included administrators, teachers, and counselors from the United States school districts. An eighteen-statement Likert-scale survey...
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In a fictional, dark, avenging, and foreboding kind of way, this book could remind one of the Batman series of comics. Except, the caped crusader responded to situations that needed his attention when summoned by the commissioner of police, and this book leans more to the preemptive and could be perceived as a call to action when directed to an issue by an individual or collective conscience. Both perspectives are routes to a corrective activity that...
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En su libro Prisión o esclavitud mental del Siglo XXI, Carlos Díaz Okrassa, nos proporciona una variedad de información sobre cómo actúa la mente de los seres humanos ante diferentes situaciones que se le plantean. Esto se da y se ha dado a través de los tiempos, pero recientemente ha alcanzado su mayor influencia dentro de las sociedades.
Carlos nos lleva de la mano en un recorrido por la mente, la conciencia, el ego y todo lo relacionado...
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The Commonsense Muslim: Treatises on Islamic Justice, Muslim Unity, and the State of Islamic Affairs in the West postulates the rise and fall of human civilizations, which occurs when Islamic monotheism is present or absent. A society's level of morality predicts the cycles of human advancement or decline. When human nature and the prophetic systems align or misalign, civilizations rise and fall. The impetus for this collection of essays is to draw...
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Purpose and Intention
These daily reminders were created for the purpose and intention of
providing participants with concrete lessons about abstract concepts;
providing vocabulary development through high-level thinking skills;
enhancing a positive learning environment;
teaching accountability for one's thoughts, behaviors, and attitudes;
encouraging and motivating participants to be successful;
providing participants...
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