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Ever wonder why the moon is up there so high? Ifyou can talk to him, what would you say? Wouldyou ask him to come down and play? Where doyou think he goes when the night is gone?Anna Casamento Arrigo captures a child'smusings with the stellar entity we call the moonhere in Mr. Moon, Mr. Moon.

Imagine knowing a lot about liquid toxic poison that goes into our landfillshow it's created, how we make it, what it's doing to our city, country, worldand not being able to do anything about it because we don't have the simple systems in place to allow us to stop killing ourselves, or the air, water, and seas. Or because we are too lazy to stop for a minute and think about what it is that we are throwing away: our world. Join our revolution against global warming and creating garbage, eliminating toxic liquids with changing just one bad habit: the mixing of liquids with our trash (i.e., creating garbage). 57

How come my students come to me so far behind? Why are parents so angry? How come my students are so unmotivated to learn? Where in the heck are all the teachers going? These are questions that many school administrators, teachers, policy makers, and community stakeholders ask when speaking about education. This book attempts to shed light on these questions and help people understand the state of America's education system. This book is for parents, school administrators, policy makers, and community stakeholders and it is geared toward helping them understand why it is so important to support those working in the trenches to help make our communities better.

When old habits die...so do we. Those who live by causing pain and anguish to others are destined to die ugly. These are the words that drivesix friends in different directions in life. Nine years later, an anniversary of sorts brings a few of them back into the frying pan. The question is...who invited murder? Now old debts need to be settled, old lovers are showing nolove, past friends have turned enemies, and old shooters don't miss. They say we can always go home. The question is...should we?

My latest book, Amongst Giants Revealed, is a more personal approach to my worldviews with regard to politics, religion, and to the polar forces in life. I also included some rants within my works, which includes a twelve-day diary in August and a nine-day tangent in November. In Part 3 of my new book, I added the poems I had left out of the first book I had published in July of 2017, Through My Eyes Frame by Frame. In addition, I have many poems within that are written as gifts to friends, and also, I included a couple of personal letters written in poetic fashion to the person I admire and love most in my life. It took me six months to write Part 1 of the book, and I spent countless days and nights pouring out my soul as best I could! I take a lot of pride in what I've accomplished in the past couple of years and hope you get just as much out of my personal experiences I have had in writing about them. I have taken a different approach in writing this book and have changed and adapted to a different style of writing in many of my works. I've definitely matured throughout this whole process and have learned much about my own life and will stop at nothing to spill my innermost feelings about many topic matters. These poems consist of personal experiences that all of my readers can definitely relate to and can become fully engrossed and engaged in the topic matters. Hopefully, the material you're about to read can be therapeutic and eye-opening to what is really going on in the world we live in today.

STUDENT WORKBOOK*Crosswords*Drawing Exercises*Essay Planning Page*Essay Writing Page*Poetry Reading*Review Activities*Short Response Writing*Vocabulary*Word Search

Every child, at one time or another, has imagined being this creature or that. Of All That I Could Be! enables a child to pretend what life might be like as something else's. But, in the end, the message is clear, there is nothing more worthwhile than being ME!

Thoughtful Pauses is a way of communicating some of the author's political and philosophical thoughts discerned throughout the years about society, government and the law. It may be that democracy is the most saleable of all the forms of government; yet, it is the one that comes with much need for care by the people as its appeal for acceptance can lull the populous to sleep. To borrow a paraphrase from Abraham Lincoln, ''Government for the people' can only be insured through the active vigilance and participation of 'government of and by the people.' Here then we have the law as one of our guarantees for justice, peace and tranquility in society. The often-repeated phrase, 'Government of law and not of men' can mislead as the words appear clear, but in truth, government of law is merely government organized and determined by men or the people. To quote from lines in the last section of Thoughtful Pauses, 'No law, no matter equitably written, will secure justice when implemented by dishonest men.' No law, no matter how poorly written, will deter justice when guarded by men of good will.' What, therefore, speaks also to the make-up of a nation is its culture. It defines its strengths and weaknesses. Changes that occur through outside sources and from other cultures pose more risks and instability than from changes within. Much coverage also is given to the press or media in the last section of this book. The author has seen the power of the new technology in the broad coverage of communication, which has been a windfall for big media monetarily; but more importantly, a powerful weapon to influence a nation's thinking and, therefore, its actions. This is not to be underestimated, especially among a misinformedor ill-informed public. There is enough, hopefully, in this book to ponder; and the author writes it to wet the interest of its readers to better view their nation, its culture, and governing systems more closely. Any of us can find an excuse to preach or criticize. That said, much of this book deals with our fallacies as human beings and, yes, all of us come with them. The author very much is and has been a willing participant in the likes of an unjust war as well as more than his fair share of life's regrets. And, no, the devil did not make him do it.

A liberal Catholic Yankee city boy living in an ultraconservative back-country Georgia Baptist fundamentalist environment, Jim Hite could have been a disgruntled curmudgeon. He was not. There was never an optimist who had the outlook he had. And he shared it with everyone he came in contact with. In his multicareer life, he touched people from many backgrounds different from his own. His time in the mega high school (Central Catholic in Toledo), his seminary life in Cincinnati, and his short time in the priesthood in Detroit and in South Georgia prepared him for handling unexpected relationshipsone of which led to a marriage. Following that, fitting in became a career of its own. But it was in his second marriage that he dared to branch out, taking on challenges that he had unwittingly put on hold for the duration of the first. Jim and Joyce finished their teaching careers and embarked on a life which could not be contained in one town, one state, or even one country. They chased after goals they had thought they could never achieve, and then realized it was the chase that was more important than the finish line. They learned that divergent personalities could merge successfully and often compared their relationship to a rubber band which, though stretched, would always return to its original shape. And after Jim's death, Joyce thought all his friends should know how that relationship had evolved.

This book is about racism and abuse in the criminal justice penal system in Connecticut. The story line is about abusive and racist treatment against one African American man who was incarcerated for crimes that he committed in society. This man suffered from a medical condition that caused him to suffer with blackouts and it was during these incidents that this man was assaulted and abused. In spite of starting a letter-writing campaign to seek assistance, this man was unable to obtain any type of legal assistance for the crimes being committed against him by prison guards who are now called police. These crimes were committed over a ten-year period (1992-2010). This inmate suffered from grand mal seizures which contributed to him having blackouts. (Grand mal seizures are caused by abnormal electrical activity throughout the brain. Most of the time grand mal seizures are caused by epilepsy). This man was assaulted by state correctional staff during these episodes and then would be given trumped up charges (i.e. assault on a correctional officer) to justify the abuses he suffered by staff. He was once informed by another inmate that, in his opinion, they were really trying to kill him. This happened in one of the most racist prisons in Connecticut, which is Cheshire Correctional Institution. This man would wake up with black eyes, busted lips, and missing teeth. One time he woke up in the medical unit with the whole right side of his face swollen and his eye swollen shut. He thought it was from the seizures or blackouts only to find out that he was being assaulted by the correction officers. In another incident, he was incarcerated in Bridgeport Community Correctional Institute. While being processed, he informed the medical staff that he needed to ensure that they understood the importance of giving him his seizure medication. This man informed the nurse that if he did not have this medication he would have a seizure. Well, even though he stressed the importance of having his medications, the medications were stopped and he suffered a grand mal seizure and woke up with eighteen stitches in his head. The goal of this book is to bring to the forefront the neglect and abuses that inmates suffer while supposedly being rehabilitated in the correctional system.

This is an instructional manual covering the fundamentals of the golf swing, the short game, putting, and routine development. The mental game; right brain versus left brain thinking, creating a feeling storehouse, concentration in its purest form, temperament and a historical look at the greats and not so greats of the game-circa 1920 to the Tiger Woods era. Included are the individuals who influenced my development as a golfer, a caddie's view from inside the ropes, and a look at the world of golf from the inside out.

Prepare yourself for this unstabilized journey as we travel not only from the grimy terrain of Illinois to the rugged streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota, but also the dysfunctional mind of book writings newest icon. In this chilling thrill, you will welcomingly witness love, loyalty, deceit, deception, hate, and sexual bliss all in one film like tale. Lonnie Le're is one of many youth who endure the everyday struggles of growing up black in the ghetto. But Lonnie was blessed with the gift of gab that very few possess. The gift of a powerful following, manipulation, forceful revenge, sexual satisfying, dominant presence, and a hustle that could match history's greatest dealers. Lonnie has found his calling, and it involves taking care of his family by any means necessary and balling insane. Will the heartless kingpin with a passion of breaking men's pride and breaking women's hearts find the love of his life to humble him or will the starving streets of the monstrous Midwest and it's shifty wind like ways eat the young boy and his crew alive. You don't want to miss a single sentence in this detailed drama, so prepare to remain sunk in your seats from cover to cover. Keep your nerves intact and your hormones in check as Lonnie's coaster-like life takes its course.

Martin Merianos' career in freelance photography began in high school where he studied underwater, portrait, and commercial photography. He was also a scuba diving enthusiast. After graduating from high school, the author enjoyed doing wildlife photography in his spare time. Eventually this turned into several appointments as a professional freelance photographer. The author's inspiration for this book was the television show Good Eats hosted by Alton Brown on the Food Network. He enjoyed the show because the host brought food and humor together.