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The stories and poetry in "My Three Books: A Life Journey" document Ray Henderson's memories and observations of his life journey in the Mon Valley towns of Braddock and North Braddock. After Ray came out of the military in the 60s, he began creating stories and poems about family, school, community, and work. Stories that he says, "Kept smacking me in the face. All based around the color of my skin." For Ray, what infuses his memories are the unspoken separation lines of racial segregation, especially during the 40s, 50s, and 60s - separation lines that haven't gone away all these years...

In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths:

...the absolutely senseless slaying of a young correctional officer under the guise of racial retribution in a tragic situation unthinkably manipulated for personal gain

... three deaths in the prison homosexual protection dormitory underscoring just how far lonely inmates will go in their search for a little human warmth and caring

... the electrocution of a careless young outlaw devoid of human feeling whose bracelet tattoo had a skull for every victim

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One tried to swim his way out, masquerading in woman's finery that dragged him beneath the raging waters of the Mississippi River. Others tried to rehabilitate their ways out, only to find themselves after all still mired inescapably in the turbulent murky quagmire of Louisiana politics. Yet others tried merciless self-mutilation to rivet the attention of the press and an uncaring public upon brutalities of the system, and this worked, but only briefly.

Louisiana's immense and infamous state penitentiary called Angola held them all. The more they struck out in despair and...

This text presents contemporary accounts on word-, sentence-, and text-processing. It should be of use to experimental psychologists, as well as investigators in cognitive science disciplines such as computer science, and linguistic and educational psychology.

This volume was designed to identify the current limits of progress in the psychology of reading and language processing in an information processing framework. Leaders in their fields of interest, the chapter authors couple current theoretical analyses with new, formally presented experiments. The research -- cutting-edge and sometimes controversial -- reflects the prevailing analysis that language comprehension results in numerous levels of representation, including surface features, lexical properties, linguistic structures, and idea networks underlying a message as well as the situations...