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Learning To Lead

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Author : Veronica Terriquez
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2026-03-05

Learning To Lead written by Veronica Terriquez and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-03-05 with Social Science categories.

Children of immigrants make up more than one in four people in the United States under the age of thirty. Amid today’s multipronged attacks on immigrant communities and growing threats to democratic participation, these young people often encounter significant barriers to political participation. Despite these challenges, some children of immigrants and refugees engage in nonpartisan grassroots campaigns, addressing issues such as education, health, environmental justice, immigrant rights, housing, and voting rights. In Learning to Lead, sociologist Veronica Terriquez examines how youth organizing groups facilitate the civic and political engagement of low-income, second-generation immigrant adolescents, enabling them to collectively exercise power alongside their non-immigrant peers and adult allies. Drawing on extensive survey, semi-structured interview, and other data, Terriquez shows that nonprofit youth organizing groups strengthen adolescents’ capacity to address the systemic challenges facing their communities through political engagement. Although these groups vary in the quality of their programming, they generally share a commitment to supporting young people’s healthy development, offer a critical form of civics education, and provide extensive guidance on how to participate in civic life. These groups adapt their programming in response to local demographic and political dynamics. Many adolescents who join grassroots organizing groups face overlapping stresses related to poverty, immigration status, neighborhood violence, and other hardships. In response, youth organizing groups create spaces that support emotional well-being while also encouraging academic success and job-readiness. At the same time, they help young people develop a critical understanding of social inequality, power, and public policy. Through ethnic studies workshops and other activities, youth explore their own identities and learn about the histories and struggles of diverse communities. This education often motivates second-generation immigrant and refugee youth to work in solidarity with their non-immigrant Black and Indigenous peers and deepens their understanding of the historical, economic, and political roots of community problems, as well as potential policy solutions. Unlike many youth-focused interventions, organizing groups also provide sustained, hands-on training in how to collectively exercise their voice in policy debates and government elections, effectively functioning as civic apprenticeships. Staff and experienced members mentor newer participants in basic civic skills such as public speaking, event planning, and community outreach, while also coaching them on strategies for mobilize peers and adult allies to contribute to nonpartisan campaigns. Because of these intensive and formative experiences, adolescents who participate in youth organizing during high school tend to remain highly active in civic life into early adulthood. Terriquez concludes that these groups offer important lessons for schools and other youth-serving institutions seeking to strengthen engagement in a multiracial democracy. Learning to Lead offers a thorough examination of the role of how young people acquire the capacities to become a meaningful political force.

Uniquely His

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Author : Gloria J. Russell
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2025-07-27

Uniquely His written by Gloria J. Russell and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-27 with Self-Help categories.

Gloria has discovered a special place in God where everything needed to live the abundant life Jesus came to provide is available. This revelation began with simple, child-like words, “It’s a circle and a dot!” Since the first night a hunger and thirst for knowing Jesus more has continued to develop. In this new book, Uniquely His, Gloria shares many ways God speaks and how to live in expectation of more to come. It is a book for seekers. Titus 2:14 “(Jesus) Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”

The Palgrave Handbook Of Popular Culture As Philosophy

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Author : Dean A. Kowalski
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-04-30

The Palgrave Handbook Of Popular Culture As Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Social Science categories.

Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature inthe field.

The Daredevils

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Author : Gary Amdahl
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2016-02-01

The Daredevils written by Gary Amdahl and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Fiction categories.

A twelve-year-old boy, middle son in a wealthy, politically and culturally prominent San Francisco family, watches his city disappear in the earthquake and fires of 1906. His father him that nothing has been lost that cannot be swiftly and easily replaced. He quotes Virgil: “Nothing unreal is allowed to survive.” The boy turns this stark Stoic philosophical “consolation” into the radical theater practices of the day, in the course of which he involves himself with radical labor struggles: anarchists, Wobblies, socialists of every stripe. He learns that politics is meta-acting, and he and his girlfriend—a Connecticut mill girl who is on the verge of national recognition as a spokesperson for workers—embark on a speaking tour with a Midwestern anti-railroad, pro-farmer group and take their political, philosophical, and artistic ethos to the farthest limits of the real and the unreal, where they find there is no useful distinction between the two.

A Dictionary Of Confusable Phrases

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Author : Yuri Dolgopolov
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-02-01

A Dictionary Of Confusable Phrases written by Yuri Dolgopolov and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

Blossoms Blood

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Author : Jason Sperb
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-12-01

Blossoms Blood written by Jason Sperb and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Performing Arts categories.

This analysis of the films of P. T. Anderson is "a case study of how even the most self-determined directors are always borne aloft by cultural events" ( Cineaste). From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and its historical context to argue that Anderson's films create new, often ambivalent, narratives of American identity in a media-saturated world. Blossoms and Blood explores Anderson's films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America's changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s. Sperb provides an auteur study with important implications for film history, media studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. He charts major themes in Anderson's work, such as stardom, self-reflexivity, and masculinity and shows how they are indicative of trends in late twentieth-century American culture. One of the first books to focus on Anderson's work, Blossoms and Blood reveals the development of an under-studied filmmaker attuned to the contradictions of a postmodern media culture. "Jason Sperb is not a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. He's something much better—an intelligent critic trying to discern what's valuable and what's not in Anderson's body of cinematic work." ― Milwaukee Express "Sperb has complete mastery of the critical and industrial histories of the films." — Choice

The Waverley Novels

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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871

The Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.

Peninsular Methodist

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Peninsular Methodist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.

Family Welfare Programme In India Year Book

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Family Welfare Programme In India Year Book written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Birth control categories.

The Poetical Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer To Which Are Appended Poems Attributed To Chaucer Edited By Arthur Gilman

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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

The Poetical Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer To Which Are Appended Poems Attributed To Chaucer Edited By Arthur Gilman written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.