What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9780226480954
ISBN-13 : 022648095X
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? by : Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, “Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?” The question, said Ramirez, changed his life because “it was the first time anyone had asked me that.” Realizing that his opinion had value set him on a course that led to his becoming a distinguished professor. That, says Harpham, was the midcentury promise of American education, the deep current of commitment and aspiration that undergirded the educational system that was built in the postwar years, and is under extended assault today. The United States was founded, he argues, on the idea that interpreting its foundational documents was the highest calling of opinion, and for a brief moment at midcentury, the country turned to English teachers as the people best positioned to train students to thrive as interpreters—which is to say as citizens of a democracy. Tracing the roots of that belief in the humanities through American history, Harpham builds a strong case that, even in very different contemporary circumstances, the emphasis on social and cultural knowledge that animated the midcentury university is a resource that we can, and should, draw on today.

Farm Worker Occupational Safety and Health

Farm Worker Occupational Safety and Health
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105045248676
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Farm Worker Occupational Safety and Health by : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor

Project Independence

Project Independence
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 730
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015084840175
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Project Independence by : United States. Federal Energy Administration

Altar Call

Altar Call
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Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0736915907
ISBN-13 : 9780736915908
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Altar Call by : Hope Lyda

In this fun and clever sequel to "Hip to Be Square," heroine Mari Hamilton discovers how a wedding, even someone else's, can turn rational women into irrational creatures.

How to Think like Shakespeare

How to Think like Shakespeare
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780691201580
ISBN-13 : 0691201587
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Think like Shakespeare by : Scott Newstok

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demonstrates what we’ve lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it. In fourteen brief chapters that draw from Shakespeare’s world and works, and from other writers past and present, Scott Newstok distills enduring practices that can make learning more creative and pleasurable. Challenging a host of today's questionable notions about education, Newstok shows how mental play emerges through work, creativity through imitation, autonomy through tradition, innovation through constraint, and freedom through discipline. It was these practices, and a conversation with the past—not a fruitless obsession with assessment—that nurtured a mind like Shakespeare's. And while few of us can hope to approach the genius of the Bard, we can all learn from the exercises that shaped him. Written in a friendly, conversational tone and brimming with insights, How to Think like Shakespeare enacts the thrill of thinking on every page, reviving timeless—and timely—ways to stretch your mind and hone your words.

Cable Television Regulation

Cable Television Regulation
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 742
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ISBN-10 : SRLF:AA0006557367
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Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Cable Television Regulation by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance

Take the Reins

Take the Reins
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781439153406
ISBN-13 : 143915340X
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Take the Reins by : Jessica Burkhart

When Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, arrive on the campus of the elite Canterwood Crest Academy, Sasha knows that she's in trouble. She's not exactly welcomed with open arms. One group of girls in particular is used to being the best, the brightest, and the prettiest on the team, and when Sasha shows her skills in the arena, the girls' claws come out. Sasha is determined to prove that she belongs at Canterwood. Will she rise to the occasion and make the advanced riding team by the end of her first semester? Or will the pressure send Sasha packing?

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1975

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1975
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Total Pages : 1022
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D03440399U
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Rating : 4/5 (9U Downloads)

Synopsis Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1975 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies