![]() ![]() In Rosewood, fantasies about reversing fate are as common as girls receiving Tiffany heart pendants for their thirteenth birthdays. You could be jet-setting around the Mediterranean instead of sitting in geography class, trying to find it on a map. Or maybe you’d be playing goalie for the women’s national soccer team by now, with a Nike modeling contract and a beach house in Nice. If only you hadn’t made those bad choices, maybe your ex-BFF would have given you that extra front-row ticket to Marc Jacobs’s fashion show. And back in ninth grade, you would never have skipped soccer practice to hit the beach if you’d known Coach would bench you for the rest of the season. Ever wish you could go back in time and undo your mistakes? If only you hadn’t drawn that clown face on the Bratz doll your best friend got for her eighth birthday, she wouldn’t have dropped you for the new girl from Boston. ![]()
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![]() In this part, I focus on four topics: motivation and its role in learning, EFL students and motivation, reasons why students become unmotivated, and ways how to motivate the unmotivated students. ![]() ![]() The second part is my literature review in which I reviewed ten articles. In this part, I also mention my comments and views in which I suggest teaching different subjects through their practical ways instead of theories. In the part of teaching philosophy, I reflect the influences of most of those subjects on my teaching style and illustrate the application of those experiences and knowledge in my future teaching. This project consists of four parts: 1) my statement of teaching philosophy, 2) a literature review on the effects of motivation on EFL students’ learning, 3) my professional development plan for three years, and 4) appendices containing the final projects of three courses. ![]() ![]() This capstone project illustrates my complete understanding regarding most of my studies during two years of my graduate studies in TESOL program. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wandering down through an abandoned orchard one night, he is suddenly arrested by the sound of beautiful music being played on the violin. ![]() Eric Gordon is a fresh university graduate intent on joining his father in the family business - but not before he spends a few weeks on Prince Edward Island, substitute teaching in place of a friend who is taken ill. It is a sweet love story, unusual in the Montgomery canon in that its protagonist is a man rather than a girl or a woman - actually, of the twenty, it is the only one set up this way (although I believe a few of her short stories take a male point of view). Now I have just finished LMM number twenty, Kilmeny of the Orchard. Over the summer of 2017 I read as many of Montgomery’s books as I could easily get my hands on - which ended up being nineteen of them - as well as a biography. ![]() What a delight it was to me to realise that when you move to an author’s home country, you can find more of their books - and so here begins a mini-resumption of my Lucy Maud Montgomery reading project (the first six posts of which are linked here). ![]() ![]() Mac's quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shapeshifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil that it corrupts anyone who touches it. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. And now MacKayla knows that her sister's killer is close. When MacKayla Lane receives a page torn from her dead sister's journal, she is stunned by Alina's desperate words. ![]() ![]() Recommended by Charlaine Harris, author of the series that inspired HBO's hit series TRUE BLOOD, this new #1 Bestselling series will take readers by storm! He calls me his Queen of the Night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It belongs in the library of anyone interested in African-American history and the life of one of the country's most courageous and influential champions of civil rights. At age 16 he was returned to the plantation later he. The son of a slave mother and a white father, he was sent to work as a house servant in Baltimore, where he learned to read. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins - since few slaves of that period could write - the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive and vivid descriptions and storytelling power. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born February 1818, Tuckahoe, Md., U.S.died Feb. In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. He fled to England after his published autobiography brought him. Frederick Douglass addressing an audience in London in 1846. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people. The Douglasses made a commitment to eradicating the evil of slavery. ![]() ![]() Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Traveling, dreaming, movies, music, and other books. I don’t “have a genre” any more than I “have a mood.” My genres change from story to story, or at best, they combine several.įrom looking closely at the world and people around me, noticing patterns, feeling desires, sensing mysteries. ![]() I started right away, wrote a 1000 page epic fantasy novel, tried and failed to get it published, and went right on to the next, which was a mostly realistic story set in the town I lived in. I was 14 when I realized that there was no reason I couldn’t write books just like all the books I loved reading. Q: When did you decide to become a writer? What’s your genre? You can follow the author here: Facebook, Amazon, Goodreads, Website. ![]() Dragon Soul Press had the great honor of interviewing Isaac Marion, author of the Warm Bodiesseries, during the anticipation of the release for the fourth book this past November. ![]() ![]() ![]() Check out my latest release Seducing the Demon Huntress from Carina Press, June 3rd. To get her back, Kerilyn will have to risk abandoning her defenses and trust Arawn completely. Currently I am focused on writing paranormal romances. Though Kerilyn tries to resist her forbidden attraction to him, he vows to win her by dawn and draws her into a sensual dream world that tempts her to drop her barriers and indulge in his touch.But Kerilyn still believes Arawn is her enemy-especially when his brother, the Lord of the Demons, kidnaps her niece. But one spirit is waiting for her right outside her gate: Arawn, Lord of the Spirits.Arawn has visited her every year, determined to seduce her. ![]() Alone on Halloween, the one night spirits and demons escape the Netherworld to wreak havoc on the mortal world, Kerilyn tries to stay safe at home, protected by spells and weapons. Seducing the Demon Huntress by Victoria Davies 4.7 (3) eBook (Original) 1.99 Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. ![]() Auto Mileage Log BookSpeedy Publishing LLC, Demons Daughter: A Cursed Novel (Volume 1)Ms Amy. Kerilyn is nearly the last of her demon-hunter family, her parents and siblings killed by the creatures they resolved to destroy. A Sacred Place: Memoir of a Female HunterSherrie Gant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Too often, he finds midlevel managers at fault. In Doom, Niall Ferguson roams the world, history and even science fiction to examine disasters. “All disasters are at some level man-made political disasters, even if they originate with new pathogens.“ Discuss. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks on Power from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018). ![]() Ferguson is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service as well as other honors. Civilization was also made into a documentary series. Other titles include Civilization: The West and the Rest, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die and High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg.įerguson's six-part PBS television series, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," based on his best-seller, won an International Emmy for best documentary in 2009. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. The author of 15 books, Ferguson is writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which-Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist-was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and current senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. ![]() Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A. ![]() ![]() Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. ![]() She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Books ![]() Summary: This time following the feisty and ruthless Red, the sequel to The Thirteen Treasures is gripping and the description is practically perfect, but the blurb gives away more than half the book and its predictability lets it down. ![]() ![]() But now a new kind of political prisoner appeared, the person convicted of an ordinary crime, who, in prison, became awakened politically”. In A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn comments that, “there had always been political prisoners-people sent to jail for belonging to radical movements, for opposing war. ![]() Jackson’s political radicalization and activism did not occur until he was imprisoned, which was not uncommon. system at the height of the global liberation movements of the era, which couldn’t help but bleed into the rapidly expanding U.S. Jackson would experience the racist injustice of the U.S. Outrageously, Jackson was sentenced to one year to life, despite assurances from his attorney of a favorable deal if he plead guilty. In 1961, a young Jackson convicted of armed robbery for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas station. ![]() This article accompanies our Liberation School study guide for George L. ![]() |