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Book Synopsis Growing Up to Be Mayor by : Lee P. Brown
Download or read book Growing Up to Be Mayor written by Lee P. Brown and published by Bgi Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing Up To Be Mayor" is the inspiring true story of Dr. Lee P. Brown, the first African American Mayor of Houston. Born to migrant farm workers in rural Oklahoma, Lee's family is forced to leave the Oklahoma dust bowl and move to California where they hope a better future awaits them. At only five, Lee had survived The Great Depression. No stranger to hard work, Lee works along with his whole family picking grapes, cotton, potatoes, melons ... the family must make a living. The opportunity to go to school and learn to read transforms Lee's life. Lee works his way through college and eventually earns four degrees. From a beat cop with the San Jose, California Police Department, Lee is selected to serve as Atlanta's Commissioner of Public Safety. Later he serves as U.S. Drug Czar in President Clinton's Cabinet and then is elected as the first African American Mayor of Houston, Texas. "Growing Up To Be Mayor" not only tells the story of one of our living legends, but also encourages children to accomplish their own American dreams.
Download or read book Mayor Pete written by Rob Sanders and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a first-of-his-kind candidate running for a one-of-a-kind office, in Rob Sanders' inspiring picture book biography, featuring illustrations by Levi Hastings. When Pete Buttigieg announced he was running for president, he became the first openly gay candidate to run for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination and the first millennial ever to pursue the office. But before the nation knew him as “Mayor Pete,” he was a boy growing up in a Rust Belt town, a kid who dreamed of being an astronaut, and a high schooler who wondered about a life of public service. Without a doubt, no one could have imagined who Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, the boy who lived in a two-story house on College Street, would become. Through victories and defeats, and the changes that the seasons bring, the young boy from South Bend grew into a man devoted to helping others. Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg celebrates the life of an American who dared to be the first and who imagined a better world for everyone. A Who Did It First? Book
Download or read book Growing Up Fast written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells the life stories of ... six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were all enrolled in the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ... They shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed postindustrial landscape of Pittsfield."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Growing up Grady by : Joanne Grady Huskey
Download or read book Growing up Grady written by Joanne Grady Huskey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the tales of growing up as the eldest of five children in her large Irish Catholic family, the author shares humorous and joyful moments recollected in her colorful Grady clan. Her narrative recaptures those childhood days of freedom and fun, creativity and simplicity, that many may have lost in our increasingly hurried and hectic lives.
Download or read book Growing Up Brown written by Karen Luther and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a Christian home during the 1970s and 1980s was not always easy. But the Brown family depended on God's grace to overcome racism, low self-esteem, bullies, and an out of wedlock pregnancy. (Christian)
Book Synopsis The Mayor of Jackson Heights by : CARY. SILVERSTEIN
Download or read book The Mayor of Jackson Heights written by CARY. SILVERSTEIN and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientists, and business leaders called it home, playing stickball in its streets and handball in its schoolyards. The roster of alumni is impressive; it includes comedians John Leguizamo and Don Rickles, NASA scientist Dr. Willey Ley, shock jock Howard Stern, actor Mercedes Ruehl, rock musician Gene Simmons of KISS-and me, Cary Silverstein! Join me as I share stories of my youth, my family, and of why growing up in Jackson Heights had such a profound impact on my life and the lives of others.
Book Synopsis Not Since Freddie Were Mayor by : June Wood
Download or read book Not Since Freddie Were Mayor written by June Wood and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Growing Up with Risk by : Thom, Betsy
Download or read book Growing Up with Risk written by Thom, Betsy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. It explores the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk-taking and the need to allow experimentation.
Download or read book Growing Up Yinzer written by Dick Roberts and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Steel City, "Yinzer" is a term of endearment, reserved for the city's most beloved and embraced by locals as a symbol of the grit and determination that Pittsburgh endows anyone from there. The city's undeniable impact on the character and life of those who grew up there has shaped iconic figures of American sports, entertainment and culture. Legends of the gridiron such as Jim Kelly, Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino and Joe Namath forged their football prowess in Western Pennsylvania. Business pioneers including Mark Cuban, Ray Werner and Bill Strickland were ingrained with the value of hard work in the Steel City. Music and movie stars like Jeff Goldblum, George Benson and Billy Gardell found creative inspiration in Pittsburgh that led to new heights. Author Dick Roberts presents profiles, interviews and memories from some of the most famous and adored Pittsburghers.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in Medieval London by : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Download or read book Growing Up in Medieval London written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare felt [:] 'The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'" Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instance that--contrary to the belief of some historians--medieval adults did recognize and pay close attention to the various stages of childhood and adolescence. For instance, manuals on childrearing, such as "Rhodes's Book of Nurture" or "Seager's School of Virtue," clearly reflect the value parents placed in laying the proper groundwork for a child's future. Likewise, wardship cases reveal that in fact London laws granted orphans greater protection than do our own courts. Hanawalt also breaks ground with her innovative narrative style. To bring medieval childhood to life, she creates composite profiles, based on the experiences of real children, which provide a more vivid portrait than otherwise possible of the trials and tribulations of medieval youths at work and at play. We discover through these portraits that the road to adulthood was fraught with danger. We meet Alison the Bastard Heiress, whose guardians married her off to their apprentice in order to gain control of her inheritance. We learn how Joan Rawlyns of Aldenham thwarted an attempt to sell her into prostitution. And we hear the unfortunate story of William Raynold and Thomas Appleford, two mercer's apprentices who found themselves forgotten by their senile master, and abused by his wife. These composite portraits, and many more, enrich our understanding of the many stages of life in the Middle Ages. Written by a leading historian of the Middle Ages, these pages evoke the color and drama of medieval life. Ranging from birth and baptism, to apprenticeship and adulthood, here is a myth-shattering, innovative work that illuminates the nature of childhood in the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Mom for Mayor written by Nancy Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon learning that the city has sold his neighborhood park to developers, fifth-grader Eric Clark determines to help his community by getting his mother elected mayor.
Download or read book Hacerse Mayor written by Susan Meredith and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL
Book Synopsis Growing Up as a Baby Boomer by : John Kenny Crane
Download or read book Growing Up as a Baby Boomer written by John Kenny Crane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Greenway is Crane's favorite hero. In this book he matures from a five-year-old disappointed in his father's ethics to a forty-five-year-old owner of a British inn, The Young Black Horse, in which he is "expected" to stage an annual pigeon race for his "regulars." These stories, some poignant, most hilarious, demonstrate that all of us undergo the same tests in becoming adults--disillusionment, loss of innocence, and summer jobs--learning that the world we are entering is different from the one we expected. Greenway's biggest test comes at 16 when he completely fails at operating a roller coaster.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in an Urbanizing World by : Louise Chawla
Download or read book Growing Up in an Urbanizing World written by Louise Chawla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities.
Book Synopsis The Death of the Grown-Up by : Diana West
Download or read book The Death of the Grown-Up written by Diana West and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here's what she finds: It's difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too "young" to call themselves "mister." Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism. We haven't put away our toys " As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can't say "no," a politically correct population that doesn't know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the "culture wars" in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the "real" culture war of the 21st century--the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.
Book Synopsis Growing up in Penny's Creek by : Bobby St. John
Download or read book Growing up in Penny's Creek written by Bobby St. John and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny's Creek, Connecticut, 1982. Morgan O'Riely is a typical thirteen-year-old boy. Comic books, horror movies, bullies, and girls are just a part of his life. He finds himself caught up in a mystery when the kids of Penny's Creek start to go missing. But when tragedy strikes, Morgan and his friends have to face the true horror of what's happening in their small town.
Book Synopsis Mayor's Message by : Saint Louis (Mo.)
Download or read book Mayor's Message written by Saint Louis (Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of the heads of the various municipal departments.
