The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

Author: James Weldon Johnson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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"The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children" by James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, William Pickens, Charles W. Chesnutt, William H. Holtzclaw, Augusta Bird, H. Cordelia Ray, W. E. B. DuBois, James E. Shepard, William Henry Sheppard, Ruth Anna Fisher, Lillian B. Witten, Jessie Fauset. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.


Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

Author: Jennifer M. Morton

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0691216932

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"Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society"--Dust jacket.


GOD End-Time Updates Ancient Alien History

GOD End-Time Updates Ancient Alien History

Author: Anthony A Eddy

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2019-06-09

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 195001553X

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“I, The Lord Jesus, speak to the inquisitive at large, speak to My people seeking answers in the truth. Bless the recipients of Grace with The Mantle of The Truth, with access to the thoroughfares implicit in a journey.” “This book brings to the attention of the majority of man – That of which he was previously unaware, breaks open the vaults of heaven, breaks open the mysteries of God, breaks open the relating of the guests. Discloses an unevenness of knowledge, Discloses a history suffering from ignorance by the many, Suffering from secrecy by the few. is destined to travel across the lands and seas of both man and God, is destined to open eyes in both fear and wonder, is destined to announce and to proclaim, leads to a discovery, leads to a confirmation, leads to the ongoing intent of God.” The validation of This Book reaches the zenith of its apex: when the original species of strangers are recognized, as the cross breeders with the humans – resulting in the producing of the Neandertals. Determines the pilots of the incoming flying laboratories, the leaders of the first migrations from the star of dominance, the investigators enabling the eventual cross-breeding, in further interbreeding of the day: long readied to receive a leapfrog in capability of intellect; which is yet to be achieved within the presented human race of man.


Algorithms and Computation

Algorithms and Computation

Author: Toshihide Ibaraki

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-11-24

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 3540245871

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This volume contains the proceedings of the 14th Annual International S- posium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2003), held in Kyoto, Japan, 15–17 December 2003. In the past, it was held in Tokyo (1990), Taipei (1991), Nagoya (1992), Hong Kong (1993), Beijing (1994), Cairns (1995), Osaka (1996), Singapore (1997), Taejon (1998), Chennai (1999), Taipei (2000), Christchurch (2001), and Vancouver (2002). ISAACisanannualinternationalsymposiumthatcoverstheverywiderange of topics in algorithms and computation. The main purpose of the symposium is to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and the theory of computation where they can exchange ideas in this active research community. In response to our call for papers, we received unexpectedly many subm- sions, 207 papers. The task of selecting the papers in this volume was done by our program committee and referees. After a thorough review process, the committee selected 73 papers. The selection was done on the basis of originality and relevance to the ?eld of algorithms and computation. We hope all accepted papers will eventally appear in scienti?c journals in more polished forms. The best paper award was given for “On the Geometric Dilation of Finite Point Sets” to Annette Ebbers-Baumann, Ansgar Grune ̈ and Rolf Klein. Two eminent invited speakers, Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao of Princeton University and Prof. Takao Nishizeki of Tohoku University, contributed to this proceedings.


Clitophon's Challenge

Clitophon's Challenge

Author: Hugh H. Benson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0199324832

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The end of Plato's 'Clitophon' can be seen to raise something like the following challenge: How is one to acquire (learn) the knowledge Socrates has so persuasively shown to be essential to virtue and apparently absent from us all. 'Clitophon's Challenge' explores Plato's response to this challenge from the 'Apology', 'Laches', 'Euthyphro', and 'Protagoras' to the 'Meno', 'Phaedo', and 'Republic'.


Student Workbook for the Self-Confrontation Bible Study

Student Workbook for the Self-Confrontation Bible Study

Author: BCF Biblical Counseling Foundation

Publisher: Biblical Counseling Foundation

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1605360864

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The Student Workbook is designed to lead you through a personal life-application study of God’s Word, using the Self-Confrontation manual as a reference. The Workbook leads you through key Scripture passages and points you to relevant portions of the Self-Confrontation manual. It can be used: • for your own personal study • in a one-on-one discipleship format, or • in a small group setting. The lessons have blank portions to complete, based on passages from the Bible. This is part of what you might call your written homework. The Self-Confrontation Bible Study is a great way for you to spend daily time in God’s Word, with the emphasis on your own walk with the Lord and your relationships with others. These principles are timeless and cultureless; and they will change your life, when applied with God’s enabling power.


Towards a Polemical Ethics

Towards a Polemical Ethics

Author: Gregory Fried

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-07

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1786610027

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Martin Heidegger held Plato responsible for inaugurating the slow slide of the West into nihilism and the apocalyptic crisis of modernity. In this book, Gregory Fried defends Plato against Heidegger’s critiques. While taking seriously Heidegger’s analysis of human finitude and historicity, Fried argues that Heidegger neglects the transcending ideals that necessarily guide human life as situated in time and place. That neglect results in Heidegger’s disastrous politics, unhinged from a practical reason grounded in the philosophical search from a truth that transcends historical contingency. Thinking both with and against Heidegger, Fried shows how Plato’s skeptical idealism provides an ethics that captures both the situatedness of finite human existence and the need for transcendent ideals. The result is a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life that Fried calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons. The contradiction between the founding ideals of the United States and its actual history of racism and slavery provides an occasion to discuss polemical ethics in practice.