Education

Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor

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Book, Styne, Marlys Marshall
Date: 
May 2006
Volume: 
1st ed
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Retired seven years, widowed six years, childless, seventy-three years old, depressed, the author set out to find contentment through reflection and writing. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor is a series of personal essays recounting that quest and some of the experiences that came before it. Ms. Styne advocates writing for everyone, and hopes to encourage people of all ages, especially her fellow senior citizens, to write.
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eng
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0-7414-3208-0

Expressions from Englewood

Catalog Number: 
b.34
Date: 
2006
Volume: 
Vol. 1
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<p>A collection of essays, poetry, and fiction from the Englewood community, compiled by a professor at Kennedy King College, and including the work of college students, high school students, and other community members.&nbsp;</p>ontributors continued: Gary Henry aka Zashura, Bridgett Vaughn, Barbara Floyd, Derrick English, Brian Bolden, Terry Clark, Jacquie Hood Martin, Ilyas Qawishabazz, Christopher Marchman, Arlicia Corley, Pavla Binkins, Sharon Williams, Haki Madhubuti, Desmond McFarlane, Julienne Thomas, Abe Mendez<br /> <br /> Keywords continued: Dr. Wayne D. Watson, Chrsitianity, City Colleges of Chicago, Murder, Million Man March, Poverty, Responsibility, Friendship, Burr Oak Cemetary, Lake Michigan, Native American,
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eng
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0-9788384-0-8

Sounds Like a Real Poem: Writing By The Dramagirls

Catalog Number: 
z.69
Date: 
2005
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The Redmoon Dramagirls use art and performance to celebrate middle school girls. We believe that performing powerful actions (such as stitlt-walking, drumming, and acting) creates powerful girls. Through supportive relationships, safe environments, challenging training, and public performance, the proram offers a safe environment for girls to investigate and create original works of theater that express the truth of their lives.<br />
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eng
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Youth Truth

Catalog Number: 
z.62.2
Date: 
Summer 2006
Volume: 
Vol 7, No. 2
Abstract: 
The official zine of Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions. Features on: The DOPA Act, designed to protect children in libraries and schools from predators by restricting access to social networking sites; objections to BusRadio in Massachusettes based on the idea that kids can't filter advertising and how that insults their intelligence; book reviews on the misuse of the term Children's Rights to refer to only custody battles, and on an argument to provide government assistance to all parents as compensation for shaping society. Also includes national news links.<br />
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eng
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1527-4489
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Youth Truth

Catalog Number: 
z.62.1
Date: 
Fall 2006
Volume: 
Vol 7, No. 3
Abstract: 
The Officiial Zine of Americans for a Society Free From Age Restrictions. Features on: Spinning the results of studies in empathy in teens vs. adults to appear that teens are selfish and uncaring, the dangers of school vouchers,a youth-run youth advocacy group, as well as books reviews on children in medical research and corporal punishment. Contains links to news events of interest to youth rights activists.
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eng
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1527-4489

The Urban Poems

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book,Hernández, Jorge
Date: 
2004
Volume: 
1st ed
Abstract: 
David's new book brings together city poems from many sources, including folders on David's desk. John provides a generous introduction, and the illustrations combine the murals and paintings of Gamaliel Ramirez with photos of other art works and urban icons by Wayne Allen Jones, designer and typesetter of the book. This set brings together the poems that were the basis for the 1991 radio show in which John and David exchanged poems fueling the debate and ironic views of the dialectic between Chicago and its suburbs.
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English
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Abstract borrowed from Fractal Edge.
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1933126043

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