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Like all teens, African American teens find themselves wondering what they should or should not be doing and how they should behave toward each other – only they often have no male role model in the home and negative models, like gang-banger, on the street. As they struggle to build their characters, they receive feedback from multiple sources, causing confusion. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT offers a guide through the fog of adolescence by providing a personal training aid in ethics – values – especially tailored for Black teens. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT holds that our spirits, which protect and sustain us, direct and unify our thoughts, efforts, and actions.Author Dr. William L. Conwill helps Black teens prepare for adulthood in the family, the community, and the world by developing their characters. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT builds upon African American cultural heritage, which is all too often absent from Black teens' experience. The principles presented in TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT provide directives or instructions on living, as well as a defense against destructive influences. like drugs and violence. These principles are represented throughout the text by Adinkra symbols, along with a martial-arts self-defense interpretation for each principle, which teens discuss with an adult facilitator..Drawing on brain science, transpersonal psychology, and mainstream psychiatry, as well as ancient traditions, TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT guides Black teens in conducting a personal and conscious examination of the traditional principles that enable us to survive, create, and nurture life.Keeping teens from heading down the wrong road is am increasing challenge. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT is a guide for young, black teensto explore their personal values or ethics through the use of symbols and values from West African culture to help build character. TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT prepares teens for obstacles they will met with in life, providing values and behaviors for coping with challenging life experiences.In light of recent events in Ferguson, Baltimore, and elsewhere, many black teens find themselves at a crossroads: Who are they today, and who do they want to be in the future? TRAINING BLACK SPIRIT is a guide for teens dealing with these difficult challenges.As a psychologist Dr. Conwill has worked extensively with teens in various settings, helping them their challenges, providing ethical principles to guide them through.

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This exceptionally well-researched book's intention is to reveal what is really happening in our society and to spur people into action to turn this shameful and complex problem around so that abuse stops and healing can begin. It should be a compulsory handbook for all whose work involves children, especially in the legal system, all human services, schools, pre-schools and foster care. It covers all aspects of child abuse and neglect and presents recent case studies of acts of abuse and the ways they have been dealt with in recent times. It is books such as this that 'get the message out there' so that something is done in this supposedly enlightened age.

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"The poetry of Cruz's writing is what those who love his work cite most often about his style, and [i]Sotto Voce has that. Yet it also contains passages that are realistic, whimsical, sensual and heartbreaking. Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist."—[i]The Miami HeraldAriel Strauss, a Jewish Cuban man, strives to explore his cultural history when he encounters Bemadette Kahn, an older woman and famed novelist who seeks to relive hers. Cruz's passionate romantic drama takes place in a dreamscape, somewhere between history and memory, present and past. [i]Sotto Voce is a work of dramatic poetry and an imaginative exploration of nostalgia and the ensuing heartbreak it comes with.[b]Nilo Cruz was the first Latino playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play [i]Anna in the Tropics. His other plays include [i]Night Train to Bolina, [i]Dancing on her Knees, [i]A Park in Our House, [i]Two Sisters and a Piano, [i]The Color of Desire, Hurricane, A Bicycle Country, [i]Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, [i]Lorca in a Green Dress, [i]Beauty of the Father, and translations of Lorca's [i]Doña Rosita the Spinster and [i]The House of Bernarda Alba. He is the third recipient of the Greenfield Prize, a $30,000 grant to produce new work.

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Общенациональная ежедневная газета, которая пользуется заслуженным доверием и уважением читателей. Круг интересов газеты – политика, экономика, культура и спорт, общественная жизнь и будни армии, городские новости и светская хроника. В каждом номере публикуются эксклюзивные репортажи, аналитика и комментарии высокопрофессиональных журналистов.

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"[Suzan-Lori Parks'] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."—Time «An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh.»—August Wilson Named one of the «100 Innovators for the Next New Wave» by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks is a truly original voice of the American theater. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur «Genius» Award, Parks is renowned for her groundbreaking language, theatricality, and an aesthetic that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Her first full-length play since her award-winning Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace is a scorching three-person drama in which a young man returns home to south Texas to confront his father, unearthing deep-seated passions and ambition. The play premiered in spring 2010 at the Public Theater, where Parks is in the midst of a three-year residency as the first recipient of the theater's master writer chair. Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and novelist. Her plays include Topdog/Underdog (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (OBIE Award winner) and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play).

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• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production of Playwrights Horizons’ season.• O’Hara is also a director, and has directed all three productions of Bootycandy so far.• Play is structured as a collection of short sketches, which has earned it comparisons to George C. Wolfe’s play The Colored Museum (1986).• Play is about the experience of growing up gay and black. Should appeal to readers interested in African American content, LGBT content, and especially those interested in African American LGBT content. • O'Hara's est-known previous play is Insurrection: Holding History, which premiered at The Public Theater in 1996. • O'Hara has worked at theaters all over the country as a director. Directed the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays at McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) and The Public Theater. He won a 2006 Obie Award for directing In the Continuum by Danai Gurira at Primary Stages, Off-Broadway.

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