· 2018
A small book of poetry for human beings to devour. Written by Jessica O'Brien.
· 2022
Poems of Grief, Loss, and The Search for Healing…Now That You Are Gone from This World Readers who love poetry collections will want to immerse in the delicate variety of poems contained in this new compilation “Now That You Are Gone from This World”. With engaging and heartwarming poetry that will keep you turning pages, this collection brings an emotionally intense, and yet fascinating sense of healing, through the loving and fond memories inside these pages. Here’s a short list of the poems you’ll find: See You. The Weeping Willow. July 7 The Amber Line The Silent Hills of Memory And more! Take the journey alongside an eclectic group of poets as they help you acknowledge, understand, and accept the grieving process at the very high spiritual and emotional level that only poetry can achieve. Find the support and hope you need for your soul during those painful moments by the hand of the poetic words of people who understand.
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· 2006
This study included over 1600 students and 90 teachers from three traditional high schools, one traditional middle school and two alternative educational settings within a Midwestern school district with a total enrollment of roughly 20,000 students. Nearly half of the teachers in the study received a strengths-based intervention, a Gallup Seminar called Strengths Spotlight, focused on giving teachers the resources necessary to help students understand, apply and grow in their areas of greatest potential, their strengths. Student and teacher strengths were determined by the Clifton StrengthsFinder, an online assessment based on over 30 years of research on what makes people successful. Pre and post engagement surveys were administered to both teachers and students and responses were collected to analyze the impact of the strengths-based intervention. Students in the two alternative educational settings, who had the opportunity to learn about their own strengths and the strengths of others, had more positive perceptions about the school environment. Overall satisfaction, overall engagement, feeling safe, feeling respected, feeling that someone encouraged their development, and feeling like their opinions counted are just a few of the survey items that had meaningful growth from time one to time two within the two alternative educational groups that received strengths-based development. The engagement post survey responses of teachers in this study were compared to educational services employees within the employee engagement database of a major consulting organization. Teacher engagement is discussed as the precursor to student engagement. This study shows that sharing strengths among classmates may contribute to the overall feeling of being engaged. The students and teachers in these groups were paying attention to the uniqueness of each person and the positive potential that was within each individual. A focus on the positive aspects of these students was being celebrated and it contributed to their feeling more engaged at school.
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· 2007
St. Louis's public high schools may have been built to contain and control youth, but the students had other ideas. Many scholars have attempted to locate the beginning of the modern era and some have even suggested that high school students played an important role. By looking at documents relating to St. Louis's public high schools such as high school newspapers, yearbooks, scrapbooks and girl graduate books, memoirs of alumni, and school board reports one can see that high school students formed their own communities and explored many modern ideas. High school newspapers became a forum for youth to explore issues such as smoking, provocative dancing, and the use of make-up which plague "modern" youth. This paper traces the emergence of an independent peer-centered youth culture which revolved around the turn of the century high school.
· 2018
I take the third person and kill him with my hands. I drape myself out to dry like the freshly washed.
· 2022
A collection of thoughts that may or may not be of interest to you
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