Tales of Student Life

Tales of Student Life

Author: Hermann Hesse

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9780374272487

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Fictional accounts of German student life in three different historical periods center on the relationships among young men and attempts to reconcile the spiritual and the secular


Mi Voz, Mi Vida

Mi Voz, Mi Vida

Author: Andrew C. Garrod

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0801463793

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Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds—they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context—Dartmouth College—often very different from their childhood ones.


Rethinking Campus Life

Rethinking Campus Life

Author: Christine A. Ogren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3319756141

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This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions. The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life. Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built.


It's Not about the Apple!

It's Not about the Apple!

Author: Veronika Martenova Charles

Publisher: Tundra Books

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0887769551

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Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It's Not About the Hunter!, Beauty and the Beast in It's Not About the Rose!, Snow White in It's Not About the Apple!, Cinderella in It's Not About the Pumpkin!, and Hansel and Gretel in It's Not About the Crumbs! As one friend starts, the others are reminded of versions they know so each volume has three stories within one framework. The stories come from around the world, and Veronika Martenova Charles provides a note at the end of each book to describe the origins. Easy-To-Read Wonder Tales is a great first step in developing a lifelong love of reading, and it makes a fine companion to Veronika Martenova Charles's series, Easy-To-Read Spooky Tales.


Piled Higher and Deeper

Piled Higher and Deeper

Author: Simon J. Bronner

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Describes college customs, beliefs, jargon, traditions, legends, jokes, pranks, and games.


Student Life

Student Life

Author: Aayush Verma

Publisher: Youth India

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9788193378304

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The novel talks about the group of students who are best friends.They often come across some of the problems which everyone has to deal in life.But one thing is not common and that is the way they sort it out together.They still enjoy their life in spite of the problems they have to deal with time to time.However, these friends also have more pleasures in their life= fun, love, happiness, adventure, friendship, mystery and more.There are a lot of things in this which we need to know the


The Truth about Stories

The Truth about Stories

Author: Thomas King

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0887846963

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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.


The School Story

The School Story

Author: David Aitchison

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1496837665

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The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults. David Aitchison looks at serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Faiza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala. He also responds to stories that take young people as their primary subjects in such novels as Sapphire’s Push and films including Battle Royale and Cooties. Though ranging widely in their accounts of young life, such stories betray a mounting sense of crisis in education around the world, especially in terms of equity (the extent to which students from diverse backgrounds have fair chances of receiving quality education) and empowerment (the extent to which diverse students are encouraged to gain strength, confidence, and selfhood as learners). Drawing particular attention to the influence of neoliberal initiatives on school experience, this book considers what it means when learning and success are measured more and more by entrepreneurship, competitive individualism, and marketplace gains. Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.


A Hero Like You

A Hero Like You

Author: Nikki Rogers

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-10

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780648723233

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A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"


Schoolmates: Tales of Life After Campus

Schoolmates: Tales of Life After Campus

Author: Alphaeus Khisa

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-21

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9781521556979

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When university or college students are about to clear school life and head into the world, most of them are usually faced with the fear of the unknown. This story shows you what life after campus can be like in this era where unemployment is on the rise. It resolves around the lives of Mark, Wendy, Pete, Geneva, Nancy and Wesley. Apart of employment, this story also tackles the personal relationships of these ladies and gentlemen and the tribulations that they are faced with both when in school and in the world.