She Came of Decent People
Author: Olga Pyne Clarke
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780413602602
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Decent People
Author: De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2023-01-17
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1635575338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “propulsive” (L.A. Times), “intriguing” (Wall Street Journal) story of a black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the dark secrets the killings reveal. In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills-on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line-are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The crime is the first reported murder in the area in decades, but the white authorities don't seem to have any interest in solving the case. Fortunately, one person is determined to do more than talk. Miss Josephine Wright has just moved back to West Mills from New York City to retire and marry a childhood sweetheart, Olympus “Lymp” Seymore. When she discovers that the murder victims are Lymp's half-siblings, and that Lymp is one of West Mills's leading suspects, she sets out to prove his innocence. But as Jo interviews those closest to the Harmons' deaths, she discovers more secrets than she'd ever imagined, and a host of cover-ups-ranging from medical misuse to illicit affairs-that could upend the reputations of many. Propulsive and thought-provoking, Decent People is a brilliant novel about shame, race, money, homophobia, and the reckoning required to heal a fractured community.
Decent People
Author: Donella Dunlop
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2010-11-18
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1426946619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe scene is an Ottawa Valley village. The tale flashes between the hungry thirties, the Second World War, and the tentative fifties and early sixties. In "Decent People" the Protestants hate the Catholics and the Catholics hate the Protestants and almost everyone hates the Algonkins and, of course, everyone detests the soldiers from Petawawa. Yes, this situation existed. Exists in some cases? Still? Anna Dunkeld appeared in the Valley on the hottest day in Canadian history, hatched in a nest of decent people. But can this stubborn, open hearted, strangley rapt child, who lives in a world of stories with herself as hero and the rest of the village as cast of characters, survive the discovery that not everyone is good, not everyone in her beloved village, in her beloved Valley, even in her own family is decent? Even the most wonderful story of all, her Catholic religion, falls from grace. Since everyone knows that endings are scarcely ever happy, this story ends with a happy beginning. Yes, they exist. Still.
Decent People
Author: Norman S. Care
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-10-11
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0742576434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Norman S. Care addresses the question of what it is to be a good or decent person. His discussion is centered on motivation issues, rather than on the content of moral principles or the imperatives of ethical theory. He argues that decent people are constrained by moral-emotional nature to take certain things seriously, and this is part of what it means to have a moral life. The background of the discussion is the world around us. 'The world is no extension of the affluence that shields a few of us; it is instead a sea of pain and despair, with only small and sometimes temporary islands of stability and prosperity.'
Motel of the Mysteries
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1979-10-11
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 0547770723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
Decent People, Decent Company
Author: Robert L. Turknett
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0891062890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBring character back to the workplace. Inspiring people who lead with integrity move things forward, garner commitment from others, and are willing to ask the tough questions when necessary. These are the real leaders who generate and sustain cultures of character in organizations. Decent People, Decent Company now puts the power to develop the core qualities of leadership character into the hands of anyone dedicated to bringing integrity, respect, and personal responsibility back to the workplace - regardless of their place in the organization. Drawing on more than 25 years experience working with hundreds of CEO, managers, and teams, this innovative husband and wife team provide both the inspiration and the tools to help people move from asking "Why don't they?" to asking "What can I?" With their original and dynamic Leadership Character Model, the Turknetts have captured the essence of what it takes to revitalize attitudes and behavior, unleash leadership integrity, and reinvigorate organizations. Decent People, Decent Company identifies the eight essential traits of leadership character: empathy, emotional mastery, lack of blame, humility, accountability, courage, self-confidence, and focus on the whole. In chapters that focus on each quality individually, dozens of leaders, in their own words, bring to life the struggles and triumphs of developing the behaviours of character and ethical leadership required to bring out the best in everyone.
Good People Everywhere
Author: Lynea Gillen
Publisher: Three Pebble Press
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979928987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story about different ways people are being good and nice. Teaches that even doing the smallest things can mean you care.
How to be a good person: for Children
Author: Ephraim Unuigbe
Publisher: Ephraim Unuigbe
Published: 2022-12-26
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book "How to be a good person for Children" is a guide for children on the importance of being a good person and how to put these values into action. It covers topics such as treating others with kindness and respect, helping others when you can, being honest and trustworthy, being responsible and respectful, being patient and understanding, practicing forgiveness, and showing gratitude. Each chapter of the book focuses on one of these values and provides practical examples and stories to illustrate how these values can be put into practice in everyday life. The book also includes activities and exercises to help children learn and internalize these values, and to encourage them to put them into action in their own lives. The goal of the book is to help children develop good character and become responsible and compassionate members of their communities. By learning and practicing these values, children can improve their relationships with others, cultivate happiness and joy in their own lives, and make a positive difference in the world around them.
Good White People
Author: Shannon Sullivan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-05-08
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1438451709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2016 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as "white middle-class goodness," an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one's lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness—especially in the context of white childrearing—and the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.
Good Practice in Counselling People who Have Been Abused
Author: Zetta Bear
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781853024245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy addressing the issues of physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse and neglect experienced in childhood or adulthood, this book aims to provide the reader with a theoretical understanding of people who have been abused, and a range of practical approaches to counselling them.
