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What Can a Young Boy Do When His Family Craters? Irrepressible nine-year-old Duncan Findlay does what he does best-he makes it an adventure. Come along on his journey through 1960s America as he navigates-with little guidance and few limits-that colorful and convulsive era. Santa Cruz is paradise to him and his boys, but one marred by bullies, abusers, and the predators that they must face together-all while temptations from California's dawning New Age beckon. As Duncan pushes the edges of his freedom, his true security lies with his band of stalwart friends, a remarkable woman who acts as a second mother, and a surprising friendship that might be something more. But after tragedy strikes, he crosses lines into new levels of recklessness that flirt with his destruction. Historically authentic, this heartwarming, thought-provoking novel follows a boy growing up fast among the thrills and risks of a rapidly changing world. At times heartbreaking, often charming and funny, and sometimes disturbing, it is rich with intriguing, kind characters but also with the frightening ones that every parent hopes their child will never encounter. It is especially Duncan's coming-of-age story, a soaring, swooping flight taking the ultimate free-range kid toward a life-changing decision.
About the Book When you come from the bottom, there is really nowhere else to go but up. Still, some people love the bottom. It’s grimy down there—no loyalty and no one thinks for themselves. Many of the people who dwell there operate like sheep, following blindly behind patterns and ideals that lead to destruction. They are negative all the time and never show much happiness because of this. They have no urge for change, no motivation, no aspirations of life—only doom and gloom. Author, Takesha, experienced that environment as a child and always knew that it was something strange about her surroundings. There was a purpose in her life, but she was also abandoned at a young age. She was alone in a house full of family battling betrayal, sexual demons, and having no one to turn to. She always searched for a way out but never knew it was within her. With this book—she delivers a bird’s eye view of many hardships that were only meant to destroy her. She knows that she is both blessed and cursed simultaneously but uses her experiences to triumph.
It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. Cockburn caught the disease and was taken to the fever hospital where, alone for the first time in his life, he was kept in isolation. The virus attacks the nerves of the brain and the spinal cord leading to paralysis of the muscles. Patrick could no longer walk. The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world, affecting 50,000 people. This terrible disease always behaved strangely, attacking the middle classes rather than the poor, children rather than adults, and striking fear everywhere.
In this study, 224 ninth graders from two similar Kentucky towns were obtained by means of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. They were divided into various groups and analyzed in relation to a number of background factors and their resulting personality patterns. The emergence of various group patterns in this study demonstrates that the complexity of human personality necessitates complex analytic procedures.
Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows? This well-edited volume of ground-breaking articles explores criminal justice policy in light of recent research on changing patterns of crime and criminal careers. Highlighting the role of conservative social and political theory in giving rise to criminal justice policies, this innovative book focuses on such policies as ‘three strikes (two in the UK) and you’re out’, mandatory sentencing and widespread incarceration of drug offenders. It highlights the costs - in both money and opportunity - of increased prison expansion and explores factors such as: labour market dynamics the rise of a ‘prison industry’ the boost prisons provide to economies of underdeveloped regions the spreading political disenfranchisement of the disadvantaged it has produced. Throughout this book, hard facts and figures are accompanied by the faces and voices of the individuals and families whose lives hang in the balance. This volume, an essential resource for students, policy makers and researchers of criminology, criminal justice, social policy and criminal law, uses a compelling inter-play of theoretical works and powerful empirical research to present vivid portraits of individual life experiences.