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Hot Issues, Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Put-downs
Did you know that there are kids out there who don t even want to get out of bed in the morning because they know what going to school means for them? ·being teased and taunted ... ·being excluded and rejected ... ·being afraid that you re going to be assaulted and possibly hurt... ·Sometimes it can even mean that you just can t hang in there any longer, so you give up and take your own life. If you are one of the cool kids at school, this book is for you. But if you re not one of the cool kids, this book is especially for you. Emerson Elementary isn t a real school, but it could be your elementary school. And the students at Emerson aren t real kids, but the problems they face are real, and so are the choices they make. The Golden Rule is an old rule, but it's still a good rule to live by, and after reading this book, you may just possibly become a kinder, more compassionate human being, someone who treats others the way you want them to treat you. So come along and join the students at Emerson Elementary and help them make some cool choices!.
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Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
Many people spend their lives searching for their true calling, the one thing at which they excel and which will catapult them to fame and fortune For Dan Kennedy, author of the darkly comic memoir Loser Goes First, that talent is decidedly not rock and roll. Kennedy details a life spent pining for the glory of rock stardom as a junior high student, an Austin, Texas, open-mic failure, and at various grim stops along the way as he shoots for the big time without the burden of talent or the tedium of learning to play an instrument. Kennedy's talent is also not acting, although he lands a gig as an extra in Sleepless in Seattle that leads, much to his chagrin, to nothing at all. Even his scrupulously cultivated talent of being an indie scenester is torpedoed when he willingly accepts an audition to be an MTV VJ, only to have the tryout be an unmitigated disaster. Finally, Kennedy discovers a pair of latent abilities. He finds, after he's into his thirties, that he has a knack for advertising copywriting that sets him on the path to his first financial success almost accidentally. And in writing Loser Goes First, he reveals a talent for relating his own dumb moves and embarrassing fiascoes with an honesty and wit that is vividly entertaining. Loser Goes First approaches narrative structure with the same indecisive distracted quality that Kennedy used in his actual life and the result is a chronicle of Kennedy's first 33 years peppered generously with film treatments, bullet point lists, imagined dialogue, and other snippets that seem transcribed from a very clever notebook. While such meandering could be perceived as too self-consciously quirky, it matches the story and keeps the humor crisp. --John Moe.
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Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict (Contemporary Psychology)
When the statue of Saddam Hussein fell and Iraqis danced on the body, hitting it with their shoes, there was joy. Moments later, when an American soldier climbed the statue to place an American flag on the face, there was a national gasp, a moment of humiliation for the Iraqis. Americans had claimed to be liberating them, but the placing of the American flag was a sign of conquest. The flag was quickly removed and replaced with an Iraqi flag, but those tense moments were a brief example of the power and potentially far-reaching, volatile effects of humiliating acts, even when unintentional. In this fascianting book, Dr. Linder examines and explains, across history and nations, how this little-understood, often-overlooked emotion sparks outrage, uprisings, conflict and war. With the insights of a seasoned psychologist and peace scholar, the analytical skill of a linguist who speaks seven languages, and the scholarship of a Columbia University professor, Lindner explains which words and actions can humiliate, how the victim perceives those words and actions, what the consequences have been, and how individuals and organizations can work to avoid instances in the future. From acts of humiliation in Nazi Germany to intentional humiliations such as those at Abu Graib, from events during the bloodbaths in Rwanda and Somalia, to precursors to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, Lindner offers vivid examples to explain how humiliation can be at the core of international conflict..
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Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers, and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment, and Humiliation
Written with clarity and passion, Preventing Hazing uncovers the deep roots of hazing, how and why it permeates schools, colleges, and communities, and what parents, teachers, and coaches can do to prevent it. The author shows how to recognize the warning signs, what to do if a student has been involved in a hazing (either as a victim, bystander, or perpetrator), how to deal with the moral, legal, and emotional aspects of hazing, and, ultimately, how to heal and move forward both as an individual and a community..
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Humiliation (A Boner Book)
Here is another erotic journey of fantasy, enchantment and even debasement by author Christopher Trevor. He has once again tapped into our minds and deepest fantasies. He has again dared us to explore our erotic dreams and provocative side. He has again asked us to open our minds and hearts to every possibility and our inmost feelings. And when we look at things that Mr. Trevor presents to us we need to do so with an open mind. Christopher Trevor has successfully done that with this latest and new collection of tales of Humiliation. Within these pages you'll find a riveting collection of humiliating tales as seen through the eyes of erotic author Christopher Trevor. From a bigoted cop who stumbles upon a sexually charged situation only to have the tables turned on him, resulting in his utter degradation, to a couple of blokes who test the limits of disgrace, discovering that there very well may be no end in sight. Humiliation is an exhilarating, shameful, thoroughly enjoyable ride..
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The Abduction and Training of Little Miss Molly (Detention Room One)
After nearly flunking out of her first year of college Molly's parents ship her off to a very strict ivy league boarding university, Falcons Layer. Molly is a selfproclaimedting nympho. On her way to the university she is hell bent on getting laid. She meets another girl who is more of a sexual deviant then Molly. Molly is introduced into the world of BDSM. But first she must be punished for the sins of her past. Her punishment includes extremely hard spankings, bondage and humiliation..
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I Know You're Out There: Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals
Love lost, found, and kicked around “It might be my imagination, but it seems like most people in the building tend to steer clear of me. I’m the one who gets the weird phone calls, the strange visitors, and disturbing mail.” “My last great love affair didn’t work out—many don’t, but maybe the next one might, and if not, maybe the one after that. There may not be someone for everyone; there may not be a God in heaven, or peace on earth either. But that doesn’t mean you just sit around at home, doing nothing ”.
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