High Odyssey
Title | High Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Rose |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | John Muir Trail (Calif.) |
ISBN | 9780944194089 |
Ultimate High
Title | Ultimate High PDF eBook |
Author | Göran Kropp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.
A Hope in the Unseen
Title | A Hope in the Unseen PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Suskind |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2010-08-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307763080 |
The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.
The African-American Odyssey
Title | The African-American Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Darlene Clark Hine |
Publisher | Pearson |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780205947041 |
"Combined volume" includes both volumes 1 and 2.
The High School
Title | The High School PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Webster Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Education, Secondary |
ISBN |
Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey)
Title | Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey) PDF eBook |
Author | Herb Williams |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2014-11-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1312383674 |
Only the Faces Change is a humorous, touching story of teachers, both good and bad, of students searching for truth in education and in their personal lives, and of failed bureaucratic attempts to improve the system. Herb Williams encourages students to speak for themselves through discussions and notes (Dear Herbies) from a coffee can; satirizes directives from principals, counselors, attendance supervisors, and parents; solicits contributions from colleagues (From the Campus Inn); incorporates the latest rumors from one who knows them all (The Ear With an Attitude); and integrates satirical columns from his newspaper days (Fiction and Fact from the Almanac). For over fifteen years, Herb Williams wrote a humor column, titled ?Life and Times, ? published in three different newspapers in Norwalk, Cerritos, and Redlands, California. This is his third book in addition to his travel memoir, North to Alaska with a No-Account Cat and his ?how to? booklet, Easy Writing Across the Curriculum or Anywhere Else.
An Odyssey Reader
Title | An Odyssey Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Ann Draper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature |
ISBN | 9780472071920 |
A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek