The purpose is to lay the foundation for making ourselves aware of the needs and concerns of these individuals. As Christians we must face the fact that aside from seeing and hearing about these individuals, we must do whatever we can to aide them in turning their lives around. We must be willing to meet these individuals in all the areas of their lives, for instance, emotional, intellectual, physical and most importantly spiritually. There are many obstacles that are presented to these troubled individuals on a daily basis. We as Christian soldiers must be willing to step in and fill the void. In addition to God, we must inform them that there is someone and somewhere else they can go to gain the support and strength needed to survive.

Black English dialect has long been rooted in the socio-historical experience of many African Americans. When discussing the most appropriate means of promoting the success of those who speak Black English, educators essentially focus on African American learners because the dialect is most commonly associated with this ethnic group. While some may emphasize the importance of recognizing and respecting dialect differences, others place emphasis on the stigma often associated with Black English usage in mainstream society. Regardless of how one characterizes Black English, it is a dialect on which many African American students rely during their daily interactions with mainstream speakers in society. Overcoming Language Barriers lays the foundation for readers who are genuinely concerned about understanding fundamental Black English concepts and promoting the success of those who speak the dialect. In this practical resource book, Dr. Jones “thinks outside the box” by including pertinent topics such as brain-based learning in addition to focusing on dialect differences. She shares insightful data from her English language arts research study as well as practical strategies to be utilized in mainstream classrooms. The study highlights examples of Black English features and feedback from English language arts teachers across the United States regarding their perceptions of Black English usage in their classrooms. This publication is ideal for both beginning and veteran educators and researchers seeking to effect meaningful change for linguistically different students.

Black English dialect has long been rooted in the socio-historical experience of many African Americans. When discussing the most appropriate means of promoting the success of those who speak Black English, educators essentially focus on African American learners because the dialect is most commonly associated with this ethnic group. While some may emphasize the importance of recognizing and respecting dialect differences, others place emphasis on the stigma often associated with Black English usage in mainstream society. Regardless of how one characterizes Black English, it is a dialect on which many African American students rely during their daily interactions with mainstream speakers in society. Overcoming Language Barriers lays the foundation for readers who are genuinely concerned about understanding fundamental Black English concepts and promoting the success of those who speak the dialect. In this practical resource book, Dr. Jones “thinks outside the box” by including pertinent topics such as brain-based learning in addition to focusing on dialect differences. She shares insightful data from her English language arts research study as well as practical strategies to be utilized in mainstream classrooms. The study highlights examples of Black English features and feedback from English language arts teachers across the United States regarding their perceptions of Black English usage in their classrooms. This publication is ideal for both beginning and veteran educators and researchers seeking to effect meaningful change for linguistically different students.

A war is about to happen. A Chicago crime boss is murdered and left dead on the streets of Miami—and $1 million is missing. For Bam, this wealthy misfortune has turned the game of “Finders Keepers” into “Losers Die” when the Italian cartel comes for the ones responsible and all that they love.

To remain alive and get his son back, he must call on his friends, an assorted bunch of characters that includes beautiful twin assassins who will blow your mind—and blow you away.

Bang! is a high-octane thrill ride through the streets of Miami and Chicago where old world tradition meets new street domination. Two men scramble to stay alive while searching for answers to why the Italian mob wants them dead. Locked and loaded, they stay one step ahead of Chicago’s finest mob families and watch them fall one by one, sending a chilling message to the masters. Miami is more than just hot beaches and suntans; it’s filled with savage-hearted niggas and beautiful women with semiautomatic weapons—and they’re all ready to bang!

This book is borne out of the distress of a people seeking a place to belong in the world; a people wholly or partially ignorant of their dynamic history in the world and, more crucially, within the pages of the Bible (being a 'highly churched' people). This ignorance, or lack of critical knowledge, has resulted in a massive batch of psychological, mental, emotional, spiritual and even physical dysfunctions and psychoses--to the extent that they have become their own worst enemy, washed up upon the shores of this 21st Century. Not knowing the true history of where they've been (historically), they are emotionally and psychologically 'blinded' as to where they are headed (historically/spiritually). Much like the passengers aboard the R.M.S. Titanic following the shipwreck, they appear stunned and dazed--floating upon the waters (of unconsciousness)--awaiting an 'absolution' that, for them, never seems to come. The writing of this book is in the hopes of restoring (or creating) some semblance of understanding the underlying truth of the matter which has been strategically and covertly hidden beneath centuries of misconceptions, mistranslations, and outright lies, in the act of destroying or wiping out of existence the biblical history of the original people of the Bible with whom history began--resulting in a 'stolen birthright', shrouded in the 'mysteries' of the Bible. This book is written in the hopes that if this "birthright" can be recovered and restored, this dynamic people can once again learn of their historical and biblical greatness, restore their loyalty--not to the STATE--in any wise--but to the Universal Sovereign LORD, and seek Its greater, superior will--they can become whole again--in body, mind and spirit.

A war is about to happen. A Chicago crime boss is murdered and left dead on the streets of Miami—and $1 million is missing. For Bam, this wealthy misfortune has turned the game of “Finders Keepers” into “Losers Die” when the Italian cartel comes for the ones responsible and all that they love.

To remain alive and get his son back, he must call on his friends, an assorted bunch of characters that includes beautiful twin assassins who will blow your mind—and blow you away.

Bang! is a high-octane thrill ride through the streets of Miami and Chicago where old world tradition meets new street domination. Two men scramble to stay alive while searching for answers to why the Italian mob wants them dead. Locked and loaded, they stay one step ahead of Chicago’s finest mob families and watch them fall one by one, sending a chilling message to the masters. Miami is more than just hot beaches and suntans; it’s filled with savage-hearted niggas and beautiful women with semiautomatic weapons—and they’re all ready to bang!

This book is about a journey with the Center for Strategic Alliances in Education for School and District Improvement with stakeholders in a school targeted for school improvement. The first chapter puts into context the notion of school, its purpose and the incumbent variables of values, attitudes, organizational and leadership behaviors and instructional practices. Throughout the book, the authors look at three contextual boundaries: (1) historical, (2) the lens of former students and their perceptions of the presence or absence of those variables and (3) a comparison of labeled schools and the views and perceptions of stakeholders with regard to quality, equity and adequacy. This is a compelling journey which utilizes quantitative and qualitative data to take a critical look at the processes involved and the strategies used in America’s journey in the quest for excellence. The authors’ story is one of the pursuits of innovation, reinvention, equity, excellence and culturally relevant education experiences that inspire and reframe the discussion about “getting to excellence”. The book is replete with illustrations of weaknesses hidden in abstract policies, institutional persistence, and culturally void programs, methodologies and practices. It advocates a methodology for arriving at well-conceived processes for achieving acceptance and academic excellence through collaboration among those to whom education is important - the children and the communities where they live.

A war is about to happen. A Chicago crime boss is murdered and left dead on the streets of Miami—and $1 million is missing. For Bam, this wealthy misfortune has turned the game of “Finders Keepers” into “Losers Die” when the Italian cartel comes for the ones responsible and all that they love.

To remain alive and get his son back, he must call on his friends, an assorted bunch of characters that includes beautiful twin assassins who will blow your mind—and blow you away.

Bang! is a high-octane thrill ride through the streets of Miami and Chicago where old world tradition meets new street domination. Two men scramble to stay alive while searching for answers to why the Italian mob wants them dead. Locked and loaded, they stay one step ahead of Chicago’s finest mob families and watch them fall one by one, sending a chilling message to the masters. Miami is more than just hot beaches and suntans; it’s filled with savage-hearted niggas and beautiful women with semiautomatic weapons—and they’re all ready to bang!

This book is borne out of the distress of a people seeking a place to belong in the world; a people wholly or partially ignorant of their dynamic history in the world and, more crucially, within the pages of the Bible (being a 'highly churched' people). This ignorance, or lack of critical knowledge, has resulted in a massive batch of psychological, mental, emotional, spiritual and even physical dysfunctions and psychoses--to the extent that they have become their own worst enemy, washed up upon the shores of this 21st Century. Not knowing the true history of where they've been (historically), they are emotionally and psychologically 'blinded' as to where they are headed (historically/spiritually). Much like the passengers aboard the R.M.S. Titanic following the shipwreck, they appear stunned and dazed--floating upon the waters (of unconsciousness)--awaiting an 'absolution' that, for them, never seems to come. The writing of this book is in the hopes of restoring (or creating) some semblance of understanding the underlying truth of the matter which has been strategically and covertly hidden beneath centuries of misconceptions, mistranslations, and outright lies, in the act of destroying or wiping out of existence the biblical history of the original people of the Bible with whom history began--resulting in a 'stolen birthright', shrouded in the 'mysteries' of the Bible. This book is written in the hopes that if this "birthright" can be recovered and restored, this dynamic people can once again learn of their historical and biblical greatness, restore their loyalty--not to the STATE--in any wise--but to the Universal Sovereign LORD, and seek Its greater, superior will--they can become whole again--in body, mind and spirit.

This book is borne out of the distress of a people seeking a place to belong in the world; a people wholly or partially ignorant of their dynamic history in the world and, more crucially, within the pages of the Bible (being a 'highly churched' people). This ignorance, or lack of critical knowledge, has resulted in a massive batch of psychological, mental, emotional, spiritual and even physical dysfunctions and psychoses--to the extent that they have become their own worst enemy, washed up upon the shores of this 21st Century. Not knowing the true history of where they've been (historically), they are emotionally and psychologically 'blinded' as to where they are headed (historically/spiritually). Much like the passengers aboard the R.M.S. Titanic following the shipwreck, they appear stunned and dazed--floating upon the waters (of unconsciousness)--awaiting an 'absolution' that, for them, never seems to come. The writing of this book is in the hopes of restoring (or creating) some semblance of understanding the underlying truth of the matter which has been strategically and covertly hidden beneath centuries of misconceptions, mistranslations, and outright lies, in the act of destroying or wiping out of existence the biblical history of the original people of the Bible with whom history began--resulting in a 'stolen birthright', shrouded in the 'mysteries' of the Bible. This book is written in the hopes that if this "birthright" can be recovered and restored, this dynamic people can once again learn of their historical and biblical greatness, restore their loyalty--not to the STATE--in any wise--but to the Universal Sovereign LORD, and seek Its greater, superior will--they can become whole again--in body, mind and spirit.

Simeon and Sula’s First Day of School shares the excitement of two children who are attending school for the first time in Tanzania Africa. Their day begins before the sun comes up. They must fetch water from a distant river, find food for their animals and tend to their family needs before they even get their school uniforms on. They must walk many miles to school in African heat and arrive just as the bell rings to greet their headmaster. Learn why sitting on rocks and sharing pencils in the classroom is typical for both Simeon and Sula. Join them as they meet new friends and experience learning during their first day of school.

The book evaluates the unrelenting waves of ethno-religious and political conflicts with regards to the danger posed to the emerging democratic process in Nigeria by exploring the prevalence of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria as an upshot of predisposed confliction of colonialism, heightened by military authoritarianism and consolidated by the contradictions entrenched in the Nigerian federalism. It is against the ambience of extreme ethnic agitations and hostilities in the recent times, that the initiative of this book is predicated on spotlighting conflicts in Nigeria and Africa by extension whilst accentuating the escalation of violence amid implication for national security and the country’s corporate existence.

Simeon and Sula’s First Day of School shares the excitement of two children who are attending school for the first time in Tanzania Africa. Their day begins before the sun comes up. They must fetch water from a distant river, find food for their animals and tend to their family needs before they even get their school uniforms on. They must walk many miles to school in African heat and arrive just as the bell rings to greet their headmaster. Learn why sitting on rocks and sharing pencils in the classroom is typical for both Simeon and Sula. Join them as they meet new friends and experience learning during their first day of school.

The book evaluates the unrelenting waves of ethno-religious and political conflicts with regards to the danger posed to the emerging democratic process in Nigeria by exploring the prevalence of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria as an upshot of predisposed confliction of colonialism, heightened by military authoritarianism and consolidated by the contradictions entrenched in the Nigerian federalism. It is against the ambience of extreme ethnic agitations and hostilities in the recent times, that the initiative of this book is predicated on spotlighting conflicts in Nigeria and Africa by extension whilst accentuating the escalation of violence amid implication for national security and the country’s corporate existence.

Jamantha Williams Watson takes us inside the lives of several individuals struggling to find their places in a world where fairness, morality and civility do not always apply. From Slippery Slopes to Locked Out Watson's characters live in a world where their dreams often supersede their realm of reality; a world where things are not always as they seem. Though Watson's style is subtle and sophisticated it is also jarring, leaving the reader on the edge of their seat. In Moonlight on a Weathered Path: Selected Readings for Dramatic Interpretation, we experience Watson's stories and live with her characters even after the last page is turned.