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Book Synopsis Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State by : Charleen Chiong
Download or read book Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State written by Charleen Chiong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Singapore’s education system from an equity perspective, Chiong’s book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore. The performance of Singaporean students on international education benchmarking tests has been widely recognised. Relatively less known is how socio-economically disadvantaged families negotiate Singapore’s highly competitive, stratifying and meritocratic system. Yet, families’ perspectives can provide crucial insight in understanding how policy is ‘lived’ and experienced, and its effects on people’s lives. Drawing on 72 interviews with 12 families, this book traces the development of surprisingly close, collaborative relations between the state, schools and families on Singapore’s socio-economic margins. It demonstrates that in the 'strong' state of Singapore, families’ dependency on schools and the state facilitates the internalisation of individual and familial responsibility for future success. However, these very processes can injure, and perpetuate inequality. The analysis presented in this book has relevance in other contexts, in times where advanced capitalist states face growing inequalities and challenging relationships between institutional authority and the wider populace. As socio-economic and educational inequalities widen, this book asks timely questions and provides recommendations on what a more equitable state-citizen compact might look like. The book will appeal to researchers and students who are interested in the fields of the sociology and politics of education, social policy, and Asian culture and society.
Book Synopsis What Noise Against the Cane by : Desiree C. Bailey
Download or read book What Noise Against the Cane written by Desiree C. Bailey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.” —Carl Phillips, from the Foreword The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”
Download or read book Liminal Spaces written by Alex Ramon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry collections, are also examined. Intertextual links between Shields’s work and that of a range of other writers including Phillip Larkin, Iris Murdoch, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood are identified and explored, and the study also draws extensively on manuscript materials which give an insight into Shields’s working methods and extend debate about her experiments with narrative perspective and genre-mixing.
Book Synopsis The Twentieth Century Collection by : Cheryl Ann Costa
Download or read book The Twentieth Century Collection written by Cheryl Ann Costa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Crystal City a newborn princess is cursed to grow up in the body of young prince! Meanwhile in Valhalla, Gadzooks a warrior demigod is banished by Odin until he inspires a young mortal artist! Lucy wants her husband Frank to see a Psychiatrist because he's always talking to four ghosts. Ammiel who was born with both genders, wants to join a monastery or a convent but they won't take him-her. While over at the Medical center, comatose Barbara has a problem, somebody named Diane is in Barbara's body. Two floors up, Charlene who's suffering from amnesia, now remembers that she is a world-class aircraft pilot, only problem is she can't fly! Just down the street, two mischievous teenagers are seeking a love spell from an elderly witch. These are the teasers for a collection of off beat one-act plays by playwright Cheryl Ann Costa; that have charmed audiences in the Washington, DC metropolitan area since 1993. These are extra ordinary stories told in the finest tradition of quirky story telling. If you are a fan of The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Amazing Stories, then The Twentieth Century Collection is for you.
Book Synopsis The Final Mission: Spooky 8 by : Bob King
Download or read book The Final Mission: Spooky 8 written by Bob King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After serving with the Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, Bob King was part of a covert U.S. team sent to Columbia to set up surveillance equipment. Now, King goes public to tell about the deadly ambush that followed and the secrets he says the U.S. government has desperately tried to bury. Martin's Press.
Download or read book The Curve written by Ned Bibb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging couple,Tom and Tinkerbell, who operate a country general store, befriend Josh Adams, a young man struggling to survive in the post-depression, rural South. Josh discovers a mysterious curve-a hairpin turn in a road that seems to lead to nowhere in the middle of the woods. Despite being warned that the "curve" is cursed and inhabited by a ghost, Josh becomes enchanted by the curve and decides to build his home there. Josh endures hunger, a life-threatening blizzard, dangerous moonshiners, and a stint in the Navy during World War II, before finally settling down and getting married. But, it is left to his daughter,Molly Adams, to eventually solve the mystery of The Curve.
Book Synopsis Casebook: The Life and Times of a Health Visitor by : A. M. Houston
Download or read book Casebook: The Life and Times of a Health Visitor written by A. M. Houston and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone experiences struggles and challenges at some point in life. In the UK, if you have children under five years of age, you have the opportunity of support from a highly trained health professional called a health visitor. This often-misunderstood postgraduate role involves helping families to improve their health while navigating the hurdles of life. The emotional mountain of daily struggles can seem overwhelming for young families. The health visiting service offers a metaphorical hand to hold alongside practical help and advice enabling parents to climb life’s occasionally difficult and often emotional mountains. To regard health as something that can be created, maintained, and improved is the mission of the health visiting service. Prevention of ill-health has always been seen as imperative. The health visitor encourages families towards this goal by offering support for their family health needs. Through case study this book offers insight into how the health visitor manages to create health and prevent ill-health with some surprising results. Managing the steppingstones to good health and avoiding the pitfalls of poor mental health can often seem impossible for new or even experienced parents. Accepting the helping hand of the health visiting service has the power to deliver a positive and quite profound effect. This book lifts the veil on the largely hidden work of this unsung, health professional. In this book you will find that the role of the health visitor is so much more complex than their famed job of ‘just weighing babies.’
Download or read book Extended Stay written by Juan Martinez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable—those with something to hide. After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new life in the desert, earning a promotion to management along with an irresistible offer to stay at the hotel rent-free. But as beloved photographs go missing, cockroaches seep from the walls, and grotesque strangers wander the corridors, the promise of the Alicia decays into nightmare. Alvaro discovers that the hotel is a small appendage of an enormous creature that feeds on guests and their secrets, one that will eventually bring him face-to-face with the memories he most wants to outrun. Alvaro, Carmen, and their friends decide to cooperate with the creature rather than fight it. But in their efforts to appease it, do they sacrifice too much of themselves? Haunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.
Book Synopsis Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic by : Brenda Beckman-Long
Download or read book Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic written by Brenda Beckman-Long and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured. In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project through the study of Shields’ extensive oeuvre, including her fiction and criticism. Beckman-Long brings depth to her analysis through close readings of six novels, including the award-winning The Stone Diaries. Elliptical, open-ended, and concerned with women writing about women, these novels reveal Shields’ critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the long tradition of women’s life writing. Beckman-Long’s original archival research attests to Shields’ preoccupation with the changing efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing. A much needed reappraisal of Shields’s innovative work, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.
Download or read book Paradise Mine written by Charles Bright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a methane gas explosion kills 151 coal miners in a small Illinois town, the residents find themselves splashed across the front page of every newspaper in the country. Three days after the fatal explosion, three miners are still missing and rescue efforts are underway amid the turmoil of reports of a failed Federal Safety Inspection, rumors of possible cover-ups and Communist espionage, and visits from heavy-hitting politicians, union labor leaders, government agents, and newspaper reporters. An award-winner in the Writer's Digest International Play Competition, the action in this two-act play captures a microcosm of small-town intrigues, lives, and loves while dealing with the problem of mine safety issues which still plague the country today. Note: This fictional play is based on the Centralia and West Frankfort, Illinois coal mine disasters in the mid 20th century which hit the headlines again with the mining disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia in April, 2010. Some things never seem to change...
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Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Binding Theory written by Daniel Büring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis UNCERTAINTY CONFUSION AND NONSENSE by : Dale Grant
Download or read book UNCERTAINTY CONFUSION AND NONSENSE written by Dale Grant and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Grant is semi-retired with a little time on his hands. He has shared some of his thoughts in regard to issues that are both universal and current in ways that are sometimes humorous, sometimes satirical and always amusing. His vehicle for accomplishing this is a work of fiction in which the main character is a burglar named Nester Lincoln. Nester is a Harvard student who intends to apply to medical school. The reason that Nester wants to become a doctor is because he is sure that as a doctor it will be easier for him to steal from people than it is by committing burglaries. Nester believes in no one, confides in no one and trusts no one. He has little respect for anything. He thinks that if he is careful and relies on no one he will always be successful. As the story proceeds, however, Nester becomes the target not only of law enforcement, but of a powerful element of organized crime; and possibly one of his college roommates. Why the roommate? Because Nester is sleeping with his mother. Uncertainty abounds as a result of the confusion that occurs and the nonsense that is interspersed throughout during the interactions among the numerous interesting characters who appear in the story.
Book Synopsis Sewing Sculpture by : Charleen Kinser
Download or read book Sewing Sculpture written by Charleen Kinser and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rogue's Road to Retirement by : George S. K. Rider
Download or read book The Rogue's Road to Retirement written by George S. K. Rider and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George S. K. Rider’s The Rogue’s Road to Retirement takes a unique approach to growing old—don’t do it! After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time, he gets in touch with his creative side—an unusual direction indeed, since he spent seventy years of his life as a college athlete turned Navy officer turned Wall Street trader and weekend jock. Told through a series of uproariously humorous and sometimes poignant adventures, The Rogue’s Road to Retirement is about getting back in touch with your inner rascal and getting off your duff (George ends up in an MTV video, a Pepsi ad doing the polka, and Sports Illustrated)! Rider’s adventures and stories reflect on finding a new passion in retirement by: being kind to your kids (after all, you need them to do the lawn work now); discovering the joys of guilt-tripping your grandchildren into hanging out with you; struggling with the age-old dilemma—take another nap or go to the gym; driving your spouse nuts now that you’re both home 24/7; barhopping (or barhobbling) after sixty-five; savoring the sweet memories of friends and loves ones now gone; and much more. The Rogue’s Road to Retirement is about the rebels, raconteurs, and roués who refuse to grow old gracefully, who want to grow old the way they grew up—raising hell, having fun, and giving their kids and grandkids a run for their money.
Book Synopsis Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues by : Ronald Sukenick
Download or read book Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues written by Ronald Sukenick and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an island composed of fragments from an international postindustrial culture, a group of contemporary exiles, all underemployed or misemployed, wander aimlessly from bar to bar and lover to lover while endlessly discussing their shattered lives.
Download or read book Fish in Exile written by Vi Khi Nao and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Vi Khi Nao: "Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." —Carole Maso How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. Vi's work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her novel, Fish In Exile, will make its first appearance in Fall 2016 from Coffee House Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University.
