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Quicklet on John Knowles' A Separate Peace (CliffNotes-like Book Summary and Analysis)

Author : Anna Wood
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
ISBN 13 : 1614646791
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Quicklet on John Knowles' A Separate Peace (CliffNotes-like Book Summary and Analysis) by : Anna Wood

Download or read book Quicklet on John Knowles' A Separate Peace (CliffNotes-like Book Summary and Analysis) written by Anna Wood and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Is it possible to be at peace while your country is at war? Today, the answer to that question often seems to be a decisive yes; while the United States is entangled in military conflicts in numerous far-away countries, the average American citizen is able to lead a largely untouched life. Except perhaps for the price of gas at the pump, itself more an economic than political ramification, we face few harsh reminders about the wars that are being fought in our name. This was not always the case. When John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace, sat down to write a novel inspired by his experiences as a high school student during World War II, he was reflecting on an era that demanded far more sacrifices from the average U.S. citizen. In addition to the food and fuel shortages that affected even the upper-class rungs of society that Knowles was part of, people were also forced to live with the war as an enormous psychological specter that was nearly impossible to ignore. Because of the novel’s frank and emotional portrayal of the way in which youths experienced World War II, A Separate Peace is considered a classic of modern American literature and is a staple of high school curriculums, still appearing regularly on bestseller lists, such as the January 23-29 2012 list in the Boston Globe. According to the Los Angeles Times, Knowles felt incredibly validated by the book’s popularity, explaining, “What touches me most, what pleases me most, is that people who are far removed from the world of prep schools love it.” The world depicted in the pages of this novel is based largely on the one Knowles himself knew as a teenager in the early 1940s. Devon, the fictional school attended by the books’ characters, is modeled closely after Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite college preparatory school in New Hampshire, where Knowles himself studied. Many of the historical details of the book—such as the apple harvesting, the shoveling work at the railroad, the absence of senior faculty, and the disappearance of maids from the campus—are ones Knowles experienced directly as a student. Howard T. Easton, a former instructor at Exeter, published a reflection about the school’s culture during the war in The Exonian, in which he recalls, “We all had to adapt to unusual circumstances, some of them quite trying.” In addition to being a faithful rendition of a particular historical time and place, A Separate Peace also offers readers a timeless depiction of friendship, the struggles of adolescence and the loss of innocence. Just as the main characters are unable to hide from the war, they are also unable to forestall the onset of adulthood, a transition that marks the end of the carefree, naïve happiness they knew as boys during the summer session. Each character grapples with these changes in his own way, but in the end, none of them is left unchanged.k EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Fifteen years after graduating from the Devon School, a college preparatory school for wealthy young boys, Gene Forrester returns to campus for the first time. There are two places in particular he aims to visit: a marble staircase in one of the school’s halls and a certain tree on the edge of the Devon River. Upon reaching the staircase in question, he notes with some foreboding that they appear to be particularly hard stairs, as generations of boys’ boots have barely made any indentation on the steps. Trudging through the rain across the muddy campus, Gene struggles to pick out the tree he’s in search of. When he does identify the tree, he notes with some relief that it seems smaller and less intimidating than he remembered. ...buy the book to continue reading!

Culture Across the Curriculum

Author : Kenneth Dwight Keith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189977
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Culture Across the Curriculum written by Kenneth Dwight Keith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides background content and teaching ideas to support the integration of culture in a wide range of psychology courses.

Collective Memory Work

Author : Corey W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315298694
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Collective Memory Work written by Corey W. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly mundane events of daily life create a complex knowledge base of lived experience to be explored. But how does one research common experiences and account for context, culture, and identity? A dilemma arises because experience is not just embedded in events, but also in the socially constructed meanings associated with those events. This book details the philosophical underpinnings, design features and implementation strategies of Collective Memory Work – a methodology frequently employed by social justice activists/scholars. Collective Memory Work can provide scholars with unique and nuanced ways to solve problems for and with their participants. Most importantly, the chapters also detail projects and social justice in action, analysing their participants’ real stories and experiences: projects that focus on LGBTQ youth, #blacklivesmatter activists, white faculty working at historically Black colleges and universities, men’s media consumption and much more. Written in an engaging and accessible style, readers will come to understand the potential of their own qualitative research using Collective Memory Work.

Paragogy

Author : Joseph Corneli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985572204
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Paragogy written by Joseph Corneli and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communities of Practice

Author : Jason Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136234624
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Communities of Practice written by Jason Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development. This book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among: newcomers and ‘old timers’ male and female workers the low skilled and the high skilled professionals and managers adults and adolescents. Drawing on international empirical studies and adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book is useful reading for all students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in work, employment, labour markets, learning, training or education.

American Subcultures

Author : Eric Rawson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319485669
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book American Subcultures written by Eric Rawson and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Subcultures explores cultural identities and marginalized groups to teach you more about their various interactions and experiences while keeping a low price.

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Author : Kenneth D. Keith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351796
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Psychology written by Kenneth D. Keith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications. • Includes contributions from an experienced, international team of researchers and teachers • Brings together new perspectives and research findings with established psychological principles • Organized around key issues of contemporary cross-cultural psychology, including ethnocentrism, diversity, gender and sexuality and their role in research methods • Argues for the importance of culture as an integral component in the teaching of psychology

Philosophies of Place

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082487658X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Philosophies of Place written by Peter D. Hershock and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence—physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual—places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about the primacy of absolute space and time that evolved along with the progressive dominance of the scientific imagination and modern imaginations of the universal. The recent reappearance of place in Western philosophy represents a turn away from abstract and a priori reasoning and back toward phenomenal experience and the primacy of embodied and emplaced intelligence. Places are enacted through the sustainably shared practices of mutually-responsive and mutually-vulnerable agents and are as numerous in kind as we are divergent in the patterns of values and intentions. The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life. The conversation of place that results explores the meaning of intercultural philosophy, the critical interplay of place and personal identity, the meaning of appropriate emplacement, the shared place of politics and religion, and the nature of the emotionally emplaced body.

Quicklet on Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me (CliffNotes-like Book Summary & Analysis)

Author : Paul Kraly
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
ISBN 13 : 1614646686
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Quicklet on Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me (CliffNotes-like Book Summary & Analysis) by : Paul Kraly

Download or read book Quicklet on Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me (CliffNotes-like Book Summary & Analysis) written by Paul Kraly and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK I should be grateful that I had a ringside seat to the monstrous scenario Ted Bundy acted out as...the “glamour boy of homicide”... I am not grateful. I would rather I’d never had a book of my own, much less twenty-nine and that Ted’s victims had lived...If only I had the power to make none of it real.” (The Stranger Beside Me xii-xiii) The Stranger Beside Me is at once an autobiographical book and a true crime expose. Published originally in 1980, nine years before Ted Bundy’s execution, it has been revised and updated in 1986, 1989, 2000 and in 2008-9 to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Bundy’s execution. The Stranger Beside Me was the book that began Ann Rule’s successful career as a true crime writer. What makes the 20th anniversary reissue of the book so intriguing is that Ann Rule has returned to this seminal book, adding chapters and insight into her odd relationship with one of the United States’ worst serial killers, Theodore Robert Bundy or “Ted” as she calls him. While sitting next to Ted as they worked the phones on the night shift of a crisis center, Ann never had a clue about his disturbing double-life. What also makes The Stranger Beside Me so intriguing is that while Ted is rampaging through his murders, Ann’s career is growing as well. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Meanwhile Bundy was getting references for law school from his Republican buddies and was about to leave Washington for Utah. Commentary These chapters are pivotal to the Bundy saga. Rule explains in exhausting detail, with names and dates, what was occurring in Washington at this time. From the task force to the witness statements, a clear picture of the killer and his victimology was beginning to emerge. In 1974, computers were not as accessible as they are now, so much of the comparison was done on hard copy and through manual labor. This delayed results and enabled Bundy to act with impunity throughout the state, despite his name being sent to the authorities by Rule and even his girlfriend. By all appearances, Bundy was a smart law student with a bright future ahead of him. Even after he was apprehended, there was a kind of cult of Bundy that claimed his innocence. Even People Magazine raised doubts about his culpability and bought into the feeding frenzy that his trials became. These chapters begin to consolidate the evidence and reveal Rule’s interactions with police, and yet continue her willful blindness to the problem that was Bundy. Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Commentary Summary Chapter 12 begins with a recap of the four “Teds” considered suspects worthy of investigation. Since there were artist renderings of the suspect from Lake Sammamish, several respected persons seemed to recognize Bundy as matching the drawing. This included his girlfriend “Meg Anders” (real name: Elizabeth Koepfler) who not only recognized the drawing, but knew of plaster of paris in her medicine cabinet and that her VW was used by her fiance Ted Bundy. She confided her fears to a friend and was encouraged to report Ted to the authorities. She was wracked with guilt over doing this and not letting Ted know. While Meg was anguished over reporting her boyfriend (now a Utah law student) to the police, bodies were being found in the mountains throughout the late summer and early fall of 1974. Ted was settled in Utah, but traveled back to Seattle to finish some business and try to assure Meg of his affection, although not marriage. As he once told Ann Rule (much later after he was arrested): “Why should I want to attack women? I had all the female companionship I wanted. I must have slept with half a dozen women that first year in Utah and all of them went to bed with me willingly... ...buy the book to continue reading!

Quicklet on Jon Krakauer's Three Cups of Deceit (CliffsNotes-like Book Summary)

Author : Tyler Lacoma
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
ISBN 13 : 1614648573
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Quicklet on Jon Krakauer's Three Cups of Deceit (CliffsNotes-like Book Summary) written by Tyler Lacoma and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Like so many others, I remember reading Greg Mortenson’s revolutionary Three Cups of Tea for a college class. The book was an instant hit, both in the media and in my own mind. No one could resist its tale of compassion, adventure, and triumph, set in the exotic Far-Middle East but offering an uplifting tale in sharp contrast to news about war and conflict. Greg Mortenson himself appealed to me greatly. Who could not like a mountain-climbing humanitarian who escaped near-death to fall in love, all while creating a series of schools throughout impoverished Afghanistan and Pakistan? It was movie magic... And then it really was movie magic. Three Cups of Deceit pulled back the veil on Three Cups of Tea, revealing the lies, fabrications, and dishonesty Mortenson appears to have used when creating his adventure tale. What Three Cups of Deceit offers is a mixture of both argument and evidence. It does not come across as a separate story, but as a painful analysis of Tea and the sequel Stones into Schools. MEET THE AUTHOR Tyler Lacoma writes on business, environmental, and fitness topics, but squeezes in some time for fiction, too. He graduated from George Fox University and lives in beautiful Oregon, where he fills spaces between writing with outdoor fun, loud music, and time with family and friends. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK The text goes on to reveal how such actions damaged the causes the CAI has tried to advance and how the organization is not as successful as Mortenson would like its supporters to believe. Krakauer also takes time to analyze Mortenson’s own mistakes, financial sloppiness, and possible motives for fictionalizing what could have been an honest account of conditions in the Himalayas. The reason, according to Deceit, is only, “To inflate the myth of Greg Mortenson.” Krakauer divides his text into three different sections, eschewing chapters for a more organic flow. At less than 80 pages long, the bulk of the book does not require frequent headings to stay readable. The first section section, titled The Creation Myth, examines the account Greg Mortenson gives in Three Cups of Tea when he first came across Haji Ali and the village of Korphe, where he was inspired to build the first school. Krakauer frequently moves back and forth between his own exposition and quotes from Tea and other pieces written by or about Mortenson to highlight the differences in fact... Buy a copy to keep reading!

Quicklet on Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (CliffNotes-like Book Summary)

Author : Megan Yarnall
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
ISBN 13 : 1614649820
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Quicklet on Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (CliffNotes-like Book Summary) written by Megan Yarnall and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK It’s rare that one can take a year or so away from family, friends, and work to travel the globe. It’s even more rare that someone can write an eloquent book that documents every minute of that travel, the glamorous moments and the scary moments, and make you feel like you were along for the ride. In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert does just that, sharing herself with the world just as the world has shared itself with her. Elizabeth – or Liz, by which she goes – has taken millions of readers along on her journey across Italy, India and Indonesia. She delves first into Italian culture and shows readers what it’s like to learn a language by yourself in a foreign country. She writes about the joy of making friends, the pain of staying abstinent, and the delicious decision to eat as much as possible with a comic humor that shows kindness to herself and readers struggling with similar issues: divorce, heartbreak, and loss. Across India and Indonesia, Liz continues showing her readers the possibilities of what can come when we forgive others and treat ourselves with love. MEET THE AUTHOR Megan Yarnall is a publicist and writer from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She studied English, creative writing, and Italian at Dickinson College, and wrote her thesis on the connections between humans, their bodies, and language. She graduated in 2010 after spending four years organizing all of her college’s concerts. Megan has lived abroad in Italy and loves studying foreign language, linguistics, and writing. She’s also spent some time working for an environmental company and writing about all things green. In her spare time she horseback rides, rock climbs, and travels. Megan also likes hiking through Acadia National Park, warm weather, photography, and doing her own DIY projects. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Eat, Pray, Love has been touted as a guide for living well for women across the world. After the book quickly became an international bestseller, Liz was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world in 2008. Eat Pray Love is especially popular among women, since it follows Liz’s experience as a woman exploring foreign countries and recovering from divorce and heartbreak. Many readers saw themselves in Liz and realized that the problems they were dealing were not singular. The book was published around the time when practices such as yoga and meditation were becoming household words, and Liz’s experience also served to prove their worth and practicality for a calming, healing lifestyle. Readers also got a taste of pure pleasure as Liz traveled the globe. In Italy she was able to soak herself in delicious, rich food and a delicious, rich language. In India, Liz focused on healing herself, with no distractions to interrupt her thoughts. And in Indonesia, Liz enjoyed the beautiful weather, exercise, and a small house to herself. Buy a copy to keep reading!