alternatives to incarceration Book REview | Don’t Shoot the Dog! | The New Art of Teaching and Training | | Teresa Fuller | 5/11/2010 | Don’t Shoot the Dog! Provides a wonderful explanation and description of proper methods and laws around shaping undesirable behavior as an alternative to punitive discipline, be whether it is a student, child or animal these methods will apply. I am studying juvenile incarceration and alternatives to detention, this subject has opened my eyes to many
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us about a book you read in the last year that had a big impact on you, and why. I recently read “Thinking in pictures” by Temple Grandin. This book is a successful story of how autism turned out to be an advantage for one girl, the author of the book. This book also talks about the author’s mother who set a great example to other parents of children diagnosed with autism and gives an approach that is not very common on how to deal with this condition. I purposely chose to read this book because it
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priorities in there world. In Fahrenheit 451 firefighters jobs are to burn every book in the town, because they think books are dangerous to the community. “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin. Rule 1. Answer the alarm quickly 2. Start the fire swiftly 3. Burn everything 4. Report back to firehouse 5. Stand alert for other alarms” (Bradbury 32). In a Modern day Society, Firefighters job is too attend to calls when something like a house or
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accomplishments mentioned above the reason why she is most known is her famous book Nickel and Dimed. In the book the author dives into the various consequences of income inequality: in order to do this she choses a job in which she is paid the minimum wage, then she tries to survive an entire month with the money she is paid, however, if she does not receive enough money she moves onto the next job in a different location. Furthermore the book tries to demonstrate one of the most popular theories when talking
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Stephanie Collado Professor Gronsky ENG 103 Book smart or Street smart From when we were little kids to grown adults it is put in our heads that education is the most important experience to have in our life. It lets you be able to achieve any dreams and goals that you want. On the other hand there are people who are successful without school education and succeeded in receiving their careers with talent and hard work. This is what people call street smarts, things
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little engine that knew no rest", proving that Lincoln portrayed leadership to everyone who knew him (Freidel and Sidey, 2006). Lincoln’s vast array of leadership qualities are demonstrated in the book “Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times” by Donald T. Phillips. The purpose of this book is not only to teach leadership, but to demonstrate it. According to Phillips, “the life of Abraham Lincoln, especially his presidency, demonstrated that he possessed all of the great leadership
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Genesis The basic genre of the book of Genesis is, for the most part, narrative. There are many key themes and events in Genesis, and quite a few of the most popular Bible stories come from this first book of the Old Testament: God’s creation of everything we have come to know as existence, sin (of Adam & Eve, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, etc.), God’s promises (of love, acceptance, and forgiveness), Joseph’s coat of many colors, and plenty more. After God’s creation of existence
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Ehrenreich investigates this struggle in her book, Nickel and Dimed. Working low-wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota as an undercover journalist, Ehrenreich gives a lively and interesting account of a low-wage worker’s life. She used first hand experiences, the lives of her co-workers, and added in facts (as footnotes). The research she did for this book was extensive. She collected the data and materials like a scientist and carefully compiled a book that shows the reader the unflattering realities
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rules include: * Each book is described by a unique ISBN, year of publication, sales price, and number of pages. * Each author is described by a unique name and phone number. * Each book is written by at least one authors. Because there can possibly be multiple authors for a book, this relationship is described by an attribute role; values are primary-author, editor, etc. * Ms. Contract maintains author information even if they have not authored any book as yet. * Each publishing
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There are numerous books that depict the lives of wage-earning women in Canada; however works on self-employed women are uncommon. The Business of Women- Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1951, was written by Melanie Buddle in 2010, under UBC Press. In The Business of Women, Buddle attempts to highlight the key features of entrepreneurial women in the 1900’s in Western Canada, exploring how and why women entered the business world. In this book, Buddle examines case
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