College Essays That Made a Difference, 4th Edition includes real-life essays written by applicants to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and more, as well as complete application profiles of over 100 students, including test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and where they got in and where they didn't. College Essays That Made a Difference, 4th Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools: Amherst College Bard College Barnard College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College California Institute of Technology Carleton College Claremont McKenna College Columbia University The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Duke University Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Georgetown University Hamilton College Harvard College Kenyon College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Middlebury College New College of Florida New York University Northwestern University Pomona College Princeton University Reed College Rice University Smith College Stanford University Swarthmore College Tufts University University of California–Los Angeles University of California–San Diego University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania Washington & Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan University Whitman College Williams College Yale University
"Lessons on leadership and teamwork to help develop assertiveness, foster creativity, address conflict, and master emotional intelligence. Author draws on the nonverbal skills and experiential wisdom she teaches in equine-facilitated training. Illustrative examples include leaders such as George Washington and Andrew Jackson"--Provided by publisher.
This volume looks into the ways in which film has contaminated and re-shaped culture(s) and the collective unconscious, at both local and global levels, arguing that our lives have been impacted by the ‘then’ that we keep revisiting, lest we forget. It takes the reader from the Berlin Wall to China, and from the terror of communist political prisons and labour camps to the rosy image promoted by propaganda. A key point throughout the text is its interdisciplinary nature, as it brings together literature and film scholars, directors, sociologists and philosophers, whose overall conclusion is that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation. Structured along four parts which trace a Homeric (or rather Joycean) journey to a home metonymysed by the long-awaited freedom, this book sets out from the gloomiest aspects of totalitarianism in the Romanian, Serbian and Soviet ‘Hades(es)’ of traumatic psychological and physical experiences and of imposed silencing. The second part gathers together case studies of films illustrating more optimistic views of communism as ‘spring’ (in the USSR) or as a ‘golden age’ (in Romania), thus narcotising the communist ‘subjects’ and preventing them from seeing the actual inferno. The third section offers filmic accounts of the aftermaths of communism, engaging the readers in a nostalgic process that revisits, questions, reflects on and remembers communism on a larger, world stage. The coda rounds up the volume (and the journey therein) by crossing genre frontiers to written narratives with a cinematic component.
The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years. It is now updated for the paperback edition.
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2021 School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Books 2021 The Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College STARRED REVIEW! "With compassion, wry humor, and pinpoint accuracy, Parks weaves the multiple challenges facing adolescent girls into a compelling, seamless narrative. Timely, insightful, and highly recommended."—Kirkus Reviews starred review STARRED REVIEW! "A first purchase for middle grade collections as well as book clubs for this age range."—School Library Journal starred review A heartfelt coming-of-age story set in the time of academic pressure, divorce, and the #MeToo movement. Twelve-year-old Lilla Baxter-Willoughby doesn't lie. She's just a little bit...selective. So when Vivi dares Lilla to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates. Because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her. And she doesn't need that. Except maybe she does.
Why doesn't everyone accomplish their goals? Or go after their dreams? What holds some people back? Why are they stuck and unable to take the necessary action? Nine out of ten times, whether they realize it or not, the answer is fear.Outrageous Achievement is the secret to finding and tapping into your limitless potential. The secret to moving through fear and creating new adventures - in every area of your life.As you look to the future, are you ready to shake off the old, deal with the present, and create the new? Outrageous Achievement is filled with stories of triumph and engaging exercises designed to inspire you to create your own blueprint for success.The techniques Leslie Zann shares with you have worked for thousands who've taken her live seminars and online courses. And now, in Outrageous Achievement, they can work just as easilyfor you.ADVANCE PRAISE FOR OUTRAGEOUS ACHIEVEMENT: "A winning mindset will come from an experienced mentor who has developed proven strategies. And that's Leslie Zann, the "Outrageous Achievement" mentor who has coached and led thousands to the reality of living their dreams. Now it's your turn."- DAVID MELTZER, Speaker/Author/Entrepreneur"The message of this powerful book is loud and clear: Stop settling and clinging to what's merely comfortable--a life of Outrageous Achievement is waiting for you! Author Leslie Zann, an experienced and masterful coach, gives simple proven strategies to dissolve your fears and create the breakthroughs you've always wanted. Don't wait a second longer. Buy this book and start creating the life of your dreams!" - CAROL KLINE, #1 NYT bestselling co-author of Conscious Luck, Happy for No Reason, and five books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series."If fear is keeping you from reaching your full potential, Leslie has written the definitive blueprint for success. This is your step-by-step guide to achieve any goal and live any dream. If you are ready to take a leap of greatness - in any area of your life - then Outrageous Achievement is a must read!"- MARGIE ALIPRANDI, Builder of one of the world's biggest Direct Selling teams. 250K members spanning 29 countries. Author of the bestselling, How to Get Absolutely Anything You WantPRAISE FOR AUTHOR LESLIE ZANN"Leslie, seeing you live was a game changer. Your authenticity, passion, energy and ability to speak life into each of us is beyond powerful. I am committed to my new vision and know with conviction that it will come to fruition with time, work and positive energy. You have set me on fire!" ― Annie D."Hi Leslie. I am loving your course. It's so different than any other training I've taken. You not only tell us what to do, but HOW to do it - in simple, straight forward, actionable steps. I am truly gaining invaluable knowledge and skills." ― Lynn A."Leslie, you are a remarkable Coach (and believe me, I've heard a lot of them over the decades). Thank you for being vulnerable and genuine. I just love your SERVICE-DRIVEN, HONEST, AND PASSIONATE approach." ― Becky F."What an experience at your live training today! Thank you, Leslie, for helping me look at my life, my family and my business in a whole new light. I traveled 5 hours to see you, and it was totally worth it!" ― Emily O.
'It’s about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world? Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . . .
Joseph H. Lewis's 'Gun Crazy' is the story of two young lovers who embark on a crime spree. For this book, Kitses researched widely into the film production's history and explored its connection to the crime film tradition and to the dark underside of American society.
Did Ireland produce a more radical and ambitious literature in the straitened circumstances of the first half of the twentieth century than it has managed to do since it began to ‘modernize’ and become more affluent from the 1960s onwards? Has Irish modernism ceded place to a prevailing naturalism that seems gritty and tough-minded, but that is aesthetically conservative and politically self-thwarted? Does the fixation with ‘de Valera’s Ireland’ in recent narrative represent a necessary settling of accounts with a dark, abusive history or is it indicative of a worrying inability on the part of Irish artists and intellectuals to respond to the very different predicaments of the post-Cold War world? These are some of the questions addressed in Outrageous Fortune. Scanning literature, theatre, film and music, Joe Cleary probes the connections between capital, culture and criticism in modern Ireland. He includes readings of James Joyce and the Irish modernists, the naturalists Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern and Edna O’Brien, and comments too on what he terms the ‘neo-naturalism’ of Marina Carr, Patrick McCabe and Martin McDonagh. He concludes with a provocative analysis of the cultural achievement of the Pogues.
The Little Book of Arsenal is a hotshot collection of words of wit and wisdom by and about the managers, players and officials who have passed through the marble halls of Highbury. From Herbert Chapman to the appointment of Freddie Ljungberg as caretaker manager, via the likes of Bertie Mee, George Graham and Arsene Wenger, from one Double to another, and from Ted Drake to Charlie George, Frank McLintock, Liam Brady, Tony Adams, Dennis Bergkamp. Thierry Henry, Jack Wilshere, Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil and Nicolas Pepe, here are more than 170 hot-shot quotations for the avid Gooner. Enjoy the humour and poignancy as The Little Book of Arsenal takes you through the highs and lows of the club's fortunes on the pitch and savour some great moments. As England Rugby International and broadcaster Stuart Barnes says: 'I did not have a choice, but I am so glad I was born an Arsenal supporter.'
