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> Most non-New Yorkers fail to realize that underneath this protective layer are elements of patience, tolerance and respect. If everyone cooperates, we all win. If you push somebody off the subway or dart to grab that last can of peas, you're subject to judgment by a jury of thousands. The theory of cooperative living keeps the city well oiled. There's always a trap door to dodge, but it's possible that one person per day may extend some act of kindness. It requires being alert enough to spot it, since everyone's conditioned to hide inside their shell. But when it does happen, you feel a little more visible and a lot less cynical.
Conceived in violence and strife, the greatest nation to ever develop in human history was born July 4, 1776. The United States of America was a bastion of individual freedom, enclosed in the framework of a constitutional republic. It endured for more than a century through trials and errors, but then the enemies of liberty began to chip away at the grand edifice of the republic. Progressive, left-leaning liberalism started to rear its ugly head and make demands. Many of these were held in check, but some slipped through to plant the seeds of dissent in the fabric of the nation. Those seeds took root in the 1960s and have borne rotten fruit ever since. This is a guide for the modern constitutional conservative with common sense. It explains what has gone wrong in the republic and why. It also offers encouragement to those who would take back the mantle of 1776 and reshape the political landscape. The Declaration of Independence tells us that whenever any government becomes destructive that it is the right of the people to abolish it and start anew.
This picture book was written to shine a spotlight on how beautiful it is to have a biracial identity. Often, children who look different get asked unexpected questions about their ancestry. The character in this book, which is filled with colorful illustrations and cheerful rhymes, embraces his identity. He also learns a valuable lesson about who he is and learns how to answer the question, "What are you?" His initial reaction is "What does it matter?"-but he can't stop thinking about the question when he gets home. Then, everything becomes clearer when he has a dream about coffee and cream, which was like an answer to a riddle. This book can be used to spark a conversation about defining and recognizing racial differences. Such a talk may not be easy, but it can help children better understand their biracial heritage. Parents and young people will love reading this book over and over again!
Have you ever known a child who loves to try new things, but nothing holds her interest for very long? Meet eight year old Caroline. She is a typical fun loving girl who is given many opportunities to develop a passion. After numerous trials and errors, to the consternation of her parents, she finally finds that one thing that makes her heart sing. Follow Caroline's whimsical journey through fun, frustration, and finally, joy.
It is 1852 as approximately fifty slaves work a one-hundred-acre cotton plantation in Carolina County, Virginia. Little Emeline, one of five slaves residing in the big house on the Berkley plantation, has been gifted with buttercream-colored skin, beauty, and innocence. Ten years later, Emeline is one of the privileged who has been assigned to complete arduous tasks around the house. Despite what she sees and hears, she has learned to keep her head down and stay out of white folks' way. Her husband, George, is Master Berkley's valet and driver, who understands what life is like for the other slaves who are beaten, sold, and cannot read or write. George wants nothing more than to escape their life of bondage. Emeline, on the other hand, is terrified of what might await them on the other side. Two years later, George runs off and joins the Union Army, leaving Emeline behind to wonder whether he is alive or dead. But what she does not know is that the taste of freedom is closer than she thinks. In this compelling historical tale, two privileged slaves toiling on a Virginia cotton plantation embark on a journey toward freedom, instigating a generational curse that transforms the future.
German brothers Heinz and Klaus want to give their parents something special for their anniversary. They find an incredible six-day guided travel tour of New York City and surprise their mom and dad with this once in a lifetime gift, never knowing tragedy is about to strike. While on vacation, Heinz and Klaus's parents die in a terrible explosion. With their deaths comes new information about their family history. How will the boys reconcile what they learn with how they saw their parents? The brothers consider their ancestry and long for the perceived idealism of Nazi Germany, where power and destruction were ways of life and secrets were preserved and passed to the next generation. They have the knowledge to do the unimaginable: destroy a great American city and kill millions of people. This is a now a battle of morality as a need for vengeance takes control of once sensible men, destroyed by grief.
Up to 1939, when Poland came under German domination, it was the center of the European Jewish world, filled with a large Jewish population that had lived on Polish soil for over nine centuries, and developed a vibrant self-sustaining social and religious community culture. During the German occupation of World War II, close to 3 million Polish Jews were exterminated. Poland was where the Nazis established most of their ghettos and all death camps. It was where the railroad tracks converged, bringing hundreds of thousand Jews from the remotest corners of Europe to feed the Nazi death machine. Thousands of Poles risked their lives to save Jews by mostly sheltering them, while most others were passive onlookers, fearful for their lives to get involved, and too many others collaborated with the hated enemy in eliminating Jews. Mordecai Paldiel, a historian of the Holocaust, examines the important role Jews played in Poland in the years before Germans occupied the country. He also examines the antisemitism that existed in Poland before the Nazis arrived. Just as important, he highlights the various responses of Poles as witnesses of the German extermination of Jews, including the thousands who, in spite of the dangers to themselves, did their utmost to save Jews from the German-orchestrated Holocaust.
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